Our Grizzled Paddler
Corey Mohan completed his uphill paddle on the St. Croix River late on Wednesday, May 18th. He’s hanging around in Solon Springs in order to meet some true and hearty friends who will help him run the portage to the beginning of the Brule. They will have time for stories and libations and then it’s a downhill push to the Great Inland Sea.
Here are photos from this last week of paddling on the St. Croix River. Corey recommends the experience to all, but he knows which direction he’d do it in next time, for sure.
Corey at Mile 125.5, about last Saturday.
The Spring Ephemerals have been stunning.
Trillium
One of the many sets (?- why are they called sets) of rapids Corey strolled up with his little water pony.
Mike L., travelling in the opposite direction and doing a one man clean-up of the river as he goes.
Drying out feet and tent
Gordon Dam at the end of the St. Croix Flowage
Homemade apple pie, a gift from Jim and Lois Chandler
Pad2Mad, a real funghi
Thanks for listening, and be sure to join us on the gravity-assisted run to Lake Superior. (That’s unless a boulder leaps in front of your canoe.)
Jingles, for Corey
Paddlin' Madeline 