Thru-Paddling the Mississippi River with Cory Maria Dack

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Cory Maria Dack is an outdoor adventure guide and she recently completed a thru-paddle of the entire Mississippi River. It took her 134 days to canoe from the headwaters of the river in Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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0:00.0	The Mississippi River, verse and foremost, is sacred.
0:09.9	She is sacred and she is powerful.
0:13.6	And the Mississippi River is not a thing that you conquer, it is a living, thriving being
0:21.0	that you ask for safe passage and hope that it grants you.
0:28.3	Hurry Maria Dach doesn't think of rivers, mountains or oceans as obstacles to be overcome.
0:33.9	Her perspective is different from how we often think about outdoor adventuring.
0:38.1	When we talk about sports like running or mountaineering, we frequently use words such
0:42.4	as tackle or conquer, as if these natural elements are something to be battled.
0:47.2	It's true that struggling through adversity can lead to feelings of triumph and satisfaction.
0:52.7	But quarry's take is that we ask nature for permission, for good conditions, and for
0:57.5	safety as we adventure outside.
1:03.0	quarry is an outdoor adventure guide and she recently completed a through paddle of the
1:07.2	entire Mississippi River.
1:09.6	It took her 134 days to canoe from the headwaters of the river in Minnesota, all the way to the
1:14.7	Gulf of Mexico.
1:15.7	At the end, she didn't necessarily feel a sense of victory.
1:19.8	Instead, she felt joy and gratitude for her new relationship with the river and the
1:24.6	people she met along the way.
1:28.1	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an R.I. co-op studios production.
1:39.1	quarry Maria Dach welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:43.3	Hello, hello, I'm really excited to be here.
1:46.3	I like that you said you're a three-name person.
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