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“The upper valley is a rugged, wild region, a lonely and beautiful one, a land of brooks and creeks and rivers. The Totogatic and Namekagon, the Yellow and the Clam, the Kettle and the Snake, all once busy lumbering streams, today join the main channel to become true water [...]
Last week: River of all my years (steps 1-7)
Step 8: Ascend.
Friday afternoon we drive north out of the city for an hour and then east from Hinckley along rolling hills with state park on the south side of the road, rocky cattle pastures or fallow fields on the north side, small creeks and rivers [...]
“The river is magnificent. It’s a spiritual experience.”
- Former Vice President Walter Mondale on the St. Croix River
The river of all my years. The river I have paddled and swam and fished and waded and skinny-dipped and pondered from beside a campfire. Rocky and muddy and sandy.
Where my hometown sits on its banks the rivers [...]
The City Pages‘ “Best of the Twin Cities” issue which came out last week mingled a fantastic description of my favorite stretch of the St. Croix River amidst its usual witty reviews of Thai restaurants and eyebrow waxers:
BEST FISHING HOLE (EXURBAN)
Winner: St. Croix River
The hell if we’re going to tell you our favorite spot, but [...]
Sleepy and I paddled my favorite stretch of the St. Croix River yesterday, from Osceola to Log House Landing (near Copas just north of William O’ Brien).
We put in about 11:00 under partly cloudy skies. The forecast was calling for showers and maybe thunderstorms later in the afternoon, but it sure didn’t seem possible at [...]
The National Park Service recently presented several options for managing camping on the St. Croix River between St. Croix Falls and Stillwater. This is the second in a series examing that proposal.
I’ll be the first to admit that it’s very hard for me to objectively judge the camping management alternatives presented by the Park Service. [...]
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