By Susan Becker
Packing for a six-day Middle Fork of the Salmon River trip is a little different from packing for a typical camping or beach vacation. You’re headed into a remote, roadless wilderness—the Frank Church–River of No Return—on a free-flowing, 104-mile Wild & Scenic river managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The good news: with Middle Fork … Continued
By Susan Becker
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is one of America’s original Wild & Scenic Rivers, flowing 100+ free‑flowing miles through Idaho’s Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness with continuous Class III–IV+ whitewater. Every season on this river is special, but June “high‑water” trips are a category of their own. When late‑spring snowmelt hits, the … Continued
By Susan Becker
If you’re looking at a Middle Fork of the Salmon trip, one decision shapes everything else: When should we go? Because the Middle Fork is a wild, undammed, snowmelt‑fed river, it behaves very differently from early June through September—big, surging high water in early summer, warm and playful in mid‑season, low and clear with world‑class … Continued
