Winnipeg-to-New Orleans Paddlers Forced to Change Plans
18 Nov
Nick Turnbull and Murray Jowett, two University of Winnipeg students who were attempting to canoe from Winnipeg to New Orleans this fall, have changed their plans due to an accident last week.
The pair had their canoe swamped by high winds and waves on the Mississippi River near Muscatine, Iowa. The duo lost much of their gear in the accident and needed to be rescued from an island in the river, Fargo, North Dakota’s KFGO radio reports HERE.
Turnbull and Jowett are now heading to the Big Easy on foot and by bus.
The Winnipeg Free Press talked to the pair, HERE, when they reached Fargo in October. At that time, the students were about to amend their plan to paddle up the Red River and down the Minnesota River to reach the Mississippi, by motoring to St. Cloud to rendezvous with the Mississippi there.
Low water on the upper Red and upper Minnesota prompted that change of plans.
