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Downriver Chapter 11: Vision Quest?

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10/06/2011

Sometimes an experience will bring up memories that have lain dormant for years. Maybe it was of something that didn’t seem particularly important at the time it was happening. Possibly the new experience is like a key word on a computer that opens up an apparently unrelated, or unsuspected file.
Or maybe that first memory wasn’t complete, without something to trigger it.

Downriver: Prescott, Wisconsin Chapter 9

08/25/2011

The beauty of the morning seemed to be an apology for the storm the night before. As I leafed through my journal, looking for dampness, I had to smile at the previous day’s entry. It would have to be extensively re-written!

Downriver: Little Falls to the Twin Cities Chapter 8

08/02/2011

Once you get through the lock at St.Paul, the Mississippi changes character and becomes a commercial river.

Downriver: Chapter 7 Bill Byers the Logger

07/14/2011

From Cass Lake to Grand Rapids, Mike and I paddled through the land of Paul Bunyon, the legendary logger, on the river that was the highway of the Minnesota timber industry until the 1940s. The world’s largest animated man, according to theme park hype, is this display of Paul Bunyon in Brainerd. Local legends are part of the…

Downriver: Cass Lake and the Ricers Chapter 6

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07/08/2011

The Chippewa Indians have always thought the wild rice beds are a gift from God. Today, wild rice is still important to the Indian people.

Downriver: Chapter 3 Lake Itasca to Bemidgi

06/17/2011

Lake Itasca to Bemidgi We started paddling the next morning from Wanagan through a canoeist’s paradise. The Upper Mississippi is a canoeist’s paradise! (traveltips.usatoday.com photo) The scenery ranged from pine forests that infused the air with a sweet, pine woods smell, to marshes full of cattails with stalks higher than our heads. The wetlands were full of waterfowl. It seemed…

Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Voyage, Chapter 2

06/11/2011

Leon’s 1980 end-to-end voyage of the Mississippi River gets started at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

Downriver: A Mississippi River Canoe Journey

06/07/2011

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to travel the Mississippi River like Huckleberry Finn did. In 1980, I canoed from the Mississippi’s headwaters at Lake Itasca, MN to the Gulf of Mexico. This is the story of that journey.

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10/06/2010

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I still use the 15-foot canoe that carried me all the way to the gulf.

About Leon Pantenburg

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12/19/2009

Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist. As a newspaperman for four decades, covering search and rescue, sheriffs’ departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense may have changed the outcome. Leon now teaches common sense survival techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters.