My son is working with another fellow to write a river guide for a stretch of the Salmon River in Idaho between Stanley and North Fork. Today they ran the upper portion which includes some kick-ass class 4 water. In the pic below he's on the right side of the bow of the raft, just dropping into the Sunbeam Dam rapid.
Here's an unrelated video of that particular rapid filmed some years ago. A pretty straightforward run, but a hairy drop none the less. The actual drop is in the second half of the video.

Sunbeam Dam Rapid, Upper Salmon River - YouTube

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Seriously cool! That's something I'd like to try my hand at. Ever done it on the Salt? There's supposed to be some decent water in the upper reaches in spring.

- Peter.

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I've been running the Salt for many years and yes, there are some killer runs there, approaching class 3 and 4 during runoff. I helped about 20 years ago with the recovery of a guy who died during spring runoff. Head injury, no helmet. My kid has been kayaking since he was big enough to hold a paddle and is far more serious than his old man. I never cared much for kayaking, preferring to stay closer to the beer cooler on the support raft.

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That's pretty badass, looks like a lot of fun.

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I've never tried white water rafting but it does look like fun. A friend of mine has a daughter who spent several years as a rafting guide in Idaho.

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I've done a couple of rivers in CA and CO, including the rather well-known Brown's Canyon on the Arkansas river in the latter.

That was a nice bit you posted; my favorite part was the lone passenger in the last raft. All they're doing is sitting there, the guide is doing it all, but boy, after they clear that drop, there goes the fist pump.

Wheeee!

Sign me up!

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