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2014 Mississippi River Trips Meet the travelers and experience their trips down the Mississippi. Please let us know of any additions to this list, or if you know of any inaccuracies. A big thank-you to John Sullivan for information he gathered on the Facebook page Mississippi River Paddlers. Also see our River Trips page on this site. |
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Who |
Home |
Details |
Boat info |
Cause |
Start |
date start |
Finish |
date end (2014) |
blog, website or social media |
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John Pritchard |
UK | Mississippi Million | victorian skiff | Right to Play | Itasca | Aug 2 | New Orleans | Oct 25 | Mississippi Million |
Eddy Harris |
Mississippi Solo Redux | canoe | documentary | Itasca | Aug 25 | New Orleans | end of Nov. | The Mythical Mississippi | |
Thorin Loeks |
Yukon Ukraine |
Teen Journey | Itasca | Jun 1 | Gulf | Sept 17 | 2,300 Miles Downstream: a search for happiness | ||
Jordan Hanssen |
Adventure: Mississippi River 2014 | rowboats | Oar Northwest | Itasca | Sep 2 | Gulf | Nov 25 | Adventure: Mississippi River 2014>>Oar Northwest | |
Anders Carlson |
Dubuque | aluminum canoe | Itasca | May 14 | Gulf | Jul 25 | Picture Me in a Boat on a River (Carlson) 2,500 Miles of Summer (Karvonen) |
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Conor Emser |
Paddle Home | kayaks | Habitat for Humanity | Itasca | May 20 | New Orleans | Jul 12 | Paddle Home | |
Rob Warner |
Itasca | Sep 8 | Mile 0 | Nov 8 | |||||
Rich Brand |
Children's hospital in Colorado | Itasca | June 3 | Gulf | Sep 28 | Captured Heartbeats | |||
Jon Thole |
Itasca | Jun 20 | Gulf | Aug 17 | Jon Thole on Facebook | ||||
Alanna Mays |
Itasca | Jun 13 | Vicksburg | Aug 31 | |||||
Cameron Smith |
Itasca | Jun 30 | Lake Pontchatrain | Nov 5 | |||||
Johnny Rebel |
Crazy Critters | Itasca | Aug 5 | Luling, La. | Dec 1 | Those Crazy Critters | |||
Kevin Berrigan |
Two-and -a-half beards |
Itasca | July 9 | Gulf | Sep 20 | Facebook: Two and a half beards: Deaf Kayakers on the Mississippi | |||
Rob Binger |
Minneapolis; Colorado |
with Skully, a Neapolitan mastiff |
solar-powered homemade barrel raft | Stillwater, Minn. | July 14 | Gulf | Sept. 9 | The Barrel Raft Boys | |
Nic Doucette |
Jefferson, Wis.; Texas |
PBS Journey Downstream | injured veterans through the Semper Fi fund | Itasca | May 31 | Gulf | Aug 9 | Mississippi River Trip 2014 PBS Journey Downstream |
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James Welborn |
Webb, Mo. | canoe | Itasca | May 25 | Gulf | Sept. 9 | Facebook: Welborn's Mississippi Solo | ||
Shane Westen |
Emden, Ill. | doing the river in stretches | solo kayak | Itasca | Jul 4 | ||||
Ellen McDonah |
Galesville, Wis. | kayak | artistic inspiration | Itasca | May 25 | Gulf | Sept. 8 | Facebook: Ellen McDonah | |
Abe and Nate Dicks |
Brooklyn Park, Minn. | Old Man River Trip | Grand Rapids Minn. | Apr 14 | New Orleans | Jun 6 | Facebook: Old Man River Trip | ||
Joshua Ploetz |
Minnesota | Paddle Off the War | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder awareness | Itasca | May 19 | Gulf | Jul 28 | Facebook: Paddle Off the War | |
Graham Jordison |
Itasca | Jul 14 | New Orleans | Sep 14 | |||||
Ewaut van Wassenhove |
Itasca | Aug 4 | New Orleans | ||||||
Aleks Tweeter Nelson |
Duluth |
Bemidji | May 17 | Gulf | Jul 28 | Facebook: Aleks Tweeter Nelson | |||
Gary and Linda De Kock |
Grand Rapids, Mich. | Water For People | Itasca | Jul 19 | Mile 0 | Sept 26 | Facebook: Mississippi River Voyage | ||
Ken Robertshaw |
Halifax, UK | Mississippi Challenge 2014 | kayak | Theodora Children's Trust, UK | Itasca | Aug. 7 | Mile 0 | Oct 4 | Mississippi Challenge Facebook: Mississippi Challenge 2014 |
Jonathan Berg |
Itasca | Aug 7 | New Orleans | Oct 30 | |||||
Amy Lauterbach |
Souris River Quetico 17 canoe | Itasca | Aug 12 | Gulf | Oct 8 | ||||
Jim Beck |
Itasca | Aug 15 | Gulf | Nov 6 | |||||
Tim Muhich |
Michigan | attempt to break speed record | Itasca | May 10 | Natchez | May 29 | Facebook: 2014 Mississippi River Challenge | ||
Maggi Crotty |
Itasca | Sept 21 | Mile 0 | ||||||
Grace Kluesner |
solo canoe | Itasca | Aug 17 | Gulf | Nov 26 | ||||
Jason Lape |
Itasca | Aug 23 | Gulf | Nov 13 | Facebook page - Noble Stevenson Jennette IV | ||||
Jared McCallum and Scout |
Sept 1 | Baton Rouge | Oct 30 | ||||||
Steve (Steamer) Arsenault |
Gardner, Mass. | Lake Bemidji | Sept 3 | Gulf | Nov 18 | ||||
Adrienne Brown |
Ashland, Wis. St. Paul |
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Itasca | Sept 8 | Gulf via Atchafalaya | Nov 18 | Newspaper story: Canoeist rolls with Mississippi punches | ||
Kyle Harms |
LeClaire, Iowa | out for about two weeks due to flooding |
Itasca | May 23 | New Orleans | Oct 2 | Facebook: Kyle Harms | ||
Max Oak Kaprov |
paddled in two years | Bemidji | (2013) | Gulf via Atchafalaya | Nov 18 | Facebook: Max On The Mississippi | |||
Adam Larson |
Andover, Minn. | paddled in two years | kayak | Wabasha, Minn. | Sept 16 | Gulf | Nov 15 | Newspaper story about Adam completing his trip Paddle to the Gulf of Mexico |
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Steve Slater |
Anoka | Sept 10 | Facebook: Paddling for Dollars, Slater's Mississippi River Canoe Page | ||||||
Colin Jungwirth |
Madison, Wis. | Wisconsin River Stevens Point | July 4 | ||||||
Bill Nedderman |
paddled Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan, then up the Fox to the Wisconsin River, then down the Mississippi to the Gulf and on to Texas (Dec. 20) | Duluth, Minn. |
May 28 | Gulf | Nov 6 | ||||
Nick Ciazza |
paddled Missouri and Mississippi, starting in Montana | Montana | June 5 | Gulf | Nov 14 | Blackwater Drifters | |||
Tyler Zirk and Cody Sommers |
Minneapolis | June 16 | Venice, La. | Aug 16 | |||||
Kary & Kris Johnson |
near Hayward, Wis. | July 28 | New Orleans | Sept 26 | |||||
Ilan Levine |
above Prairie du Chien | New Orleans | Aug. 8 | ||||||
Zachary Taylor Smith |
near La Crosse | Jul 14 | Gulf | Sept 25 | |||||
Matt Hanks |
Dallas | paddled to Gulf via Atchafalaya, (Nov. 6), then Gulf Intracoastal and Trinity R. to Dallas (Dec. 20) |
Minneapolis | Aug 24 | Gulf | Nov 6 | Facebook: Matt Hanks | ||
Kevin Brady |
UK | Itasca | (2013) | Gulf | Feb. 8 | ||||
Keith Lynch |
Dallas | Reached Mississippi on Sept 13 at St. Louis, paddled up Red River Aug 6 for 700 miles. |
Twin Bridges, Montana | Jun 3 | Dallas | Nov 29 | Canoe Voyage Dallas News story |
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Jake Andersen |
paddled in two years | Des Moines River | (2013) | Gulf | June 24 | ||||
John Colbert |
took year off for shoulder surgery | Zumbro River (Minn.) to Mississippi | May 3, 2013 | Gulf | Oct 18, 2014 | ||||
