Northland Outdoors' Chad Koel speaks with paddlers Anne Sherve-Ose of Williams, Iowa, Deb Knutson of Owatonna, Minnesota, and Deb White of Rosemount, Minnesota.

The three women met in the 1970s as students at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and paddled from the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico over 13 years beginning in 2004.

They discuss their trips, meeting people along the way and what they've learned from their travels.