Bruce Nelson has been paddling up the river for a few months from St. Louis. He is now in Montana.
Great daily blog and photos of his journey is well worth following
http://bucktrack.com/lewis-and-clark-trail/fellow-missouri-paddlers/
Bruce made it all the way to the Pacific. He paddled from Yankton SD to Three Forks, Montana, with a lot of lining upstream above Fort Peck Reservoir. He hiked from Three Forks to Kamiah, Idaho, and then paddled to the Pacific.
nice blog, thanks for sharing
I don’t get the attraction of going upstream unless it gets me another downstream drainage. I am currently reading “Undaunted Courage” by Ambrose and the Expedition has just left winter with the Mandans.
I met a guy in Denver Jerry Nyre who the first to paddle up the Colorado River to Moab from the Confluence with the Green in Utah. Most people take a jet boat. Jerry explained to me the art of eddy hopping. Not for the faint of heart.