Page 57 - "Mississippi in the 1st Person" - Michael James Stone (Demo/Free)

THE RESTART

The Mississippi River doesn’t promise you anything except that what ever your expecting, it

will likely be changed once you start on the River sooner or later.

This “Missy Creek” was not anything I expected. I should have known better seeing the previ-
ous years pics and stories. But you know……..when your planning you see with rose colored

glasses.

Looking back now I am shocked by how much of the marsh stages I had right here in Utah.

Finding deeper water just after the bridge was a de-

light to my eyes and music to my ears…….well may-
be…...but anything was better than the discouragement
I had at the headwaters. I so expected to paddle over

the rock dam, don’t know why it bothered me but I lost
that let down once I paddled on Lake Itasca.

Finding the deeper water , my nect task was to find a

put in where I could actually put in the kayaks. I was
to discover there is a unspoken reason they call it Big
Muddy.

The Night too had been cold and waking I layered up
and loaded up as the Sun again made its way into the
sky reminding us Spring may be coming but it was not

here yet. No warmth off the brightness.

There was some green. Grass on the sides of highways
were green but everywhere on the river the only trees

with leaves were evergreen and they seemed to always
stand far away as distant observers.

The naked flora I could tell would be powerful and

beautiful but also block the horizons once leaves grew
own them. For now I could see the river as flat open

space with not a mountain in sight and the only eleva-
tion were trees, evergreen trees.