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05/05/2024

It’s the 20th anniversary since “Idaho’s Salmon River: A River Runner’s Guide to the River of No Return” was first published! (Waterproof map and guide for the Main Salmon River). It is now 25% larger and printed on more sustainable paper. As always it is printed in the USA.

For the last twenty years I’ve poured everything I can into making this the best guidebook I can, fine tuning it with each updated edition.

This week I’ve delivered boxes of the Twentieth Anniversary 3rd Editions to Utah Whitewater Gear in Salt Lake City, to Blackadar Boating (Salmon, Idaho), The Village at North Fork (North Fork, Idaho), and to the Buckskin Bill Museum on the river. Don’t leave for your trip without one!

You can also order them online at NRS and at Cascade River Gear. And they are available at many other river shops throughout the western states.

The webpage for the book is www.blackcanyonguides.com

See you downstream!

09/11/2022

Here's a great boat story:

Before inflatable rafts, before the Grand Canyon dories, and before Flaming Gorge Dam, was the Cataract Boat. "Face Your Danger" uncovers a family's story of...

07/11/2022

People often ask what I pack on multi-day river trips, so here you are....

A general packing video for multi-day river trips in the summer.

05/07/2022

(Photograph courtesy of Raymond Skiles) It's a life-giving stream in a desert land, that for millennia has sustained human communities and creatures found n