Aunt Judy wrote:
map maker wrote:
maybe bypass the rockys completely? they end at the top of new mexico so maybe it would be possible to go along the border? the rio grande starts going up in el paso though so would have to find a river through a desert which is not easy.
Malmo didn't think about this very long. If you go the opposite way, you are going downstream in the Rocky Mountains. Emphasis on DOWN and STREAM.
Mountains have two sides you dope. You go up one side and down the other.
already went over this. you can't climb a 108 foot waterfall that leads to yellowstone lake. maybe you can go from west to east instead of east to west?
Good luck navigating.
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Lewis and Clark almost did it.
Read John Cheever's story "The Swimmer."
alanson wrote:
Lewis and Clark almost did it.
bruh i already said that and LetsRun took it down haha
You can do Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay via Mississippi, Minnesota, a very short portage (<1mile) between big stone and lake traverse to red river up to Winnipeg and lake Winnipeg and then the Nelson river to Hudson Bay.
ess654321 wrote:
You can do Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay via Mississippi, Minnesota, a very short portage (<1mile) between big stone and lake traverse to red river up to Winnipeg and lake Winnipeg and then the Nelson river to Hudson Bay.
Uhm, those both dump into the Atlantic.
Try again.
The issue isn't the continental divide requiring you to go uphill in the sense that a motor boat could get you uphill where the river is continuous and navigable. The issue is whether there is a continuous water path at all.
So, a lake along the Continental Divide could have rivers or creeks heading down from it both east and west, meaning that it is possible in theory with a motor to get you uphill to it, but there may not be any actually navigable, continuous set of waterways.
A. Moran wrote:
oarsman wrote:
I'm talking ocean to ocean. If not, how far inland could you get?
Alright....
Are you talking Lengthwise or Widthwise?? Length is top to bottom and width is East to West coast. Get back on that high school remote learning feed and figure it out.
Took a while for someone to point out ocean to ocean is width wise.
A. Moran wrote:
oarsman wrote:
I'm talking ocean to ocean. If not, how far inland could you get?
Alright....
Are you talking Lengthwise or Widthwise?? Length is top to bottom and width is East to West coast. Get back on that high school remote learning feed and figure it out.
According to the Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary, length means "the longer or longest dimension of an object." So the length of a rectangle is the longest side whether it is vertical or horizontal.
So lengthwise for the us is east to west
Check out the Expedition of the Louisiana Purchase under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark. That should give you your answer.
Don'tKnowMuchAboutGeography wrote:
ess654321 wrote:
You can do Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay via Mississippi, Minnesota, a very short portage (<1mile) between big stone and lake traverse to red river up to Winnipeg and lake Winnipeg and then the Nelson river to Hudson Bay.
Uhm, those both dump into the Atlantic.
Try again.
Hudson Bay is an marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean
map maker wrote:
i just made a route that should be do-able in a canoe (because of some very small creeks).
the obvious way to start from the east is to get into the great lakes. the main inlet for them is the st. lawrence river, but since the start of it at the atlantic ocean is in canada, that is cheating. instead i went to nyc and went up to albany via the hudson. once you get up to albany you can head west on man made canals directly to lake ontario. however, once you get into lake ontario you are on the bottom of the niagara falls so i backtracked and found another way. in pheonix, NY, the oswego river splits at the "three rivers point" with the north one going to the lake and the south one becoming the seneca river. if we keep following that river, through cross lake and just north of black lake (in Montezuma. NY) we can get to Rochester, NY. once we get there we can follow the same path and cross the genesee river perpendicularly (even though the river on the other side is genesee river on google maps too?). we can then follow that river (past brockport, NY) to the mouth of that river in Tonawanda, NY just 11 miles upstream of niagara falls. once we get there we can follow originally planed route through lake erie - to lake hudson and then i chose to go into lake michigan instead of lake superior so i can get into chicago. once we are in chicago we can go through the "illinois and michigan canal" which gets us to the illinois river. that river will then get us to the mississipi river just north of st louis (38.968823, - 90.468578). once were in the mississippi river i go down 20ish miles and go up the missouri river. i follow it to kansas city and then keep going north (i was orginially going to switch to the platte river in kansas city and go west but i found that it turns into a mess of 10-20 different creeks in northern colorado so that one is useless.). so i follow the missouri river, up through lake sakakawea and continued following it until i took a gamble at 47.978563, -103.984491 going south on the yellowstone river since i traced the missouri farther up and was getting a little scared of me ending up in canada. so i follow the yellowstone past Myers, Montana and Emigrant, Montana. i tried to get into yellowstone lake but the upper falls of yellowstone lake screwed me over (look up google images). so i went back a few miles and tried lamar river but that leads to a dead end father east in the mountains. i found that Gardiner, Montana had the mouth of gardiner river so i went all the way back up north and then went down gardiner river (ended in dead ends). turns out the yellowstone river is only feasible if you can climb a 108 foot waterfall just north of yellowstone lake. so i went all the way back to the missouri river and kept following it evenutally going through canyon ferry lake and ennis lake (missouri river turns into madison river at missouri headwaters state park). via the madison river i can get into earthquake lake and then hebgen lake. i tried to get into henrys lake in idaho but there were mountains blocking all the creeks i tried so i had to keep following the madison south east. at national park mountain i turned south into firehole river passing old faithful. the farthest i ever got with firehole river was madison lake just west of shoshone lake which is just west of yellowstone lake.
im gonna look back and update if i find something else
Amazing post but can we get the summary. How short did you end up?
Runner10287 wrote:
Good luck navigating.
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The question isn't whether Gilligan can do it. He probably drained those creeks somehow, if he even found the right spot at all.
rojo wrote:
Amazing post but can we get the summary. How short did you end up?
it was around 640 miles to the closest point on the west coast. the problem is the rockys are so wide that you get caught up in very small pockets of rivers then then dry up when there's vast amounts of water on the other sides of the adjacent mountains
oarsman wrote:
I'm talking ocean to ocean. If not, how far inland could you get?
Finally a thread on letsrun I get excited about!
mule named Sal wrote:
You could get from the East coast to New Orleans via the Great Lakes and Mississippi River.
On the west coast, there are waterways that connect Colorado to California. But I don’t think you take take a boat on them.
We if you go by USCG classifications, them a stand up paddle board is a boat. Get an inflatable one with a folding paddle and it might be doable with a few obligatory land drags or whatever they are called over rough terrain or along dams.
Apparently everyone discussing the Colorado has never been to the Glen Canyon Dam or Hoover Dam.
