Ep. 543: Paddling 2,300 Miles Down the Mighty Mississippi Revisited - Will Collins
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Originally Published November 9, 2017
Will Collins, the BuffaloRoamer, dreamed of paddling the full length of the Mississippi River in a canoe from its origin in Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Will was kind enough to join Curt in the middle of his journey to give us the scoop on how it's gone so far.
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| 0:00.0 | Instead of facing head on into the wave and going over it, I try to take it from the stern and got |
| 0:07.7 | caught almost sideways. There was definitely a split second there that I thought I was going over. |
| 0:12.4 | Luckily, I was able to keep her upright and took on a little bit of water. |
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| 1:09.7 | Paddling the Mississippi River has always been kind of one of those things I've always wanted to do. |
| 1:11.4 | You know, those kind of like, if ever want to do a big, big trip, the Mississippi would be awesome. Well, today we are going, |
| 1:17.4 | you know, it's a revisited episode, of course, and Kurt hosted this one back in November of 2017. |
| 1:24.0 | He interviewed Will Collins while he was on his trip. |
| 1:28.4 | We've been doing a lot of on-trip interviews lately, and I think it's awesome just to hear from people in the middle of the adventure. |
| 1:36.9 | What is it really like? |
| 1:38.0 | How do you feel right now? |
| 1:40.2 | Last week we had Jeremiah Fuse. |
| 1:41.9 | He's right in the middle of doing the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:44.9 | And actually over the weekend, I got to go see one of our biggest adventure sports podcast fans. |
| 1:51.3 | And I believe the first patron, William Cairns, he's doing the Tour Divide. |
| 1:56.3 | And we got to catch him. |
| 1:57.6 | Me and my buddy went and saw him in Sargent's Colorado, about almost 2,000 miles into |
| 2:03.5 | the Tour Divide. |
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