Page 94 - "Mississippi in the 1st Person" - Michael James Stone (Demo/Free)

Without a picture and an accurate description, it is almost impossible to describe the condi-

tions of the upper Mississippi Creek and Marsh. It really is not a river that people expect as

being the Mississippi River till after much farther on when the River Flow stays much higher
than this shown here.

May 4th 2016 and not only is this not deep, but the seeming land and barren trees next to

the “creek” are ….. actually wetlands and marsh that if you walk out there, you will sink.
Many “patches” of “higher” mud ….make up any real elevation you see. And the river cer-
tainly will rise higher than seen here pre-rainy season

Lots of hunters, fishermen, and general outdoors men are familiar

with the way this looks, and certainly I had Provo Bay on Utah Lake
to prepare me in some ways for this……..but nothing warned me
how deep and how unreliable the ground really is. Even the river

bed could in places become “sinks” with no idea if it would sink
feet or yards or worse.

My journal records many instances of what I called “muk and yuk”

because if it had been just mud, I could deal with that. But Minneso-
ta and the Mississippi River basin have features unique to itself.

The Creek here in the pic goes from 2 feet to about an inch in depth
before the bend. By spring this would beautiful, green and full.