Sunday, July 04, 2004
Mississippi Headwaters, Bemidji, MN
Sara, Bella, and I spent the July 4th weekend at her Aunt Pat and Uncle Monte's house near Bemidji, Minnesota. On the way home I convinced Sara to stop at the Mississippi headwaters state park. While it's silly to label a single stream as the headwaters (especially since it drains from a lake which is fed by streams itself), it was fun to wade in the narrow stream channel of a river that reaches magnificent size. The floods of 1993 were instrumental in developing my interest in hydrology and geology, and I've always been fascinated by the river. Sadly we've learned little from the 1993 floods, as floodplain development has, if anything, increased in the St Louis area since the floods. Anyway, it was fun to dip my toes into the 'headwaters'!
