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Trip Season: September Late Season

Packing Lists for a Middle Fork Rafting Trip

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

Best Time to Raft the Middle Fork (Month‑by‑Month Guide)

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

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