An 80 Mile Rafting Adventure in the Northern Rockies | Salmon River, Idaho

[@timgunderson3571]

Really nice video man. I have been guiding on the Main Salmon and Middle Fork for 32 years. I began my guiding and boating career on the Main in 1990. Met my wife on a Main Salmon trip in 1994. We got married at China Bar Lodge (on river left about a mile or two below Whiplash Rapid) in 1995. Still happily married too! This river has a special place in my heart since it is where I began and where I fell in love. You did justice to the Main Salmon and I'd take your lines anytime. Love the music too. Many boating videos are ruined by loud, overpowering music. Yours was perfect. The part where you talk about your appreciation for the Main touched me. I like it when people "get" the entire package of a river trip. The stories that river could tell.

[@ivangabrieldesign]

The salmon river is absolutely amazing. I was only able to film there once, and I cannot wait to go back.

[@gabrielclark6170]

Cool video! I’ve done that stretch 7 times and loved every second of it. I also have an RMR.

[@Rogue-Drone]

We love ❤ our RMR Storm. So amazing.

[@n8dawgjs]

Excellent work on the video. I have watched countless rafting videos over the years and this one got me more stoked to go rafting than any others.

[@gordondahle7844]

I was born in Salmon. I sure miss being there. In 1956 the year I was born my dad built his first jet boat. I spent my childhood going up and down the Salmon in my dad’s jet boats. They had big V-8 engines with no mufflers. They were loud, fast, and fun! He got 2 U.S. Patents on his pump designs and I have lots of fond memories. I still have his last 24 foot long jet boat. When I retire I plan on getting it running again. Rafting the river is fun, but I prefer a jet boat that has a few hundred horsepower!🤗

[@AUnit2010]

Went rafting on that river a little over 20 years ago. We had to be evacuated because a forrest fire started while we were rafting it. It started with a little smoke in the sky on the left side of the river headed downstream. About 2 or 3 hours after we noticed the smoke, the entire sky had vanished behind smoke. You could see the orange glow of the fire reflecting off the smoke just over the hill sides. When we finally got to a place where could pull off, the fire was sucking air out of the river canyon/valley and pushing us back up river. It was insane. Hell of and experience but insane. The fire end up making it all the way to the east fork river near our place in Sula. Fortunately, the fire gave out about 3 or 4 miles from our place.

[@margins5793]

just off that run, crystal clear skies, green grass and spring flowers ...Delicious

[@TheSteepness]

awesome otter sighting!!

[@NickedOff]

Beautiful countryside. Thanks for taking us along! I started laughing out loud when you slammed into Kate and started going backwards on the first Class IV XD Fun times

[@sovereignfalcon1119]

Great video & calling them all out, Brother!

[@JasonMurdoch-uo7om]

I thought the salmon was suppose to be gnarly. This looks chill.

[@ulical]

Can't thank you enough for making this video. I'm doing this exact same trip starting next week and your video allayed some of the fears I had about rafting the Salmon River. I'm doing it on a small raft and hope we have as much fun as you all did.

[@michaelcahn]

Enjoyed your story telling style. Very nice video! Thanks for bringing us along 🙏

[@delriv5238]

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. W

[@sacjusticeforyou]

Beautifully done!!!

[@davidcrane8932]

Excellent video of what looked like a great trip!

[@JustinDaining]

Good stuff, buds. Loved watching this after my trip earlier this year. Lucky to know this place.

[@user-fw6vu3kz6l]

Well done!and well. Planned

[@Steveleanr]

Awesome! We are doing this trip next month!! Should be great!!

[@chadstevens3861]

excellent work on your video. I really enjoyed watching it, I have had the chance to be on that water and it is truly amazing.

[@steezjenkins]

This is one of the best rafting trips on the tube! Thanks for putting it together. Awesome start and was bummed when it when it finished. Cheers!

[@brianarthur1252]

excellent video. For the record, I have never figured out why anybody runs the upper part of Elkhorn anywhere but river left. That rock has swollowed a lot of boats.

[@christinegentrynelson]

Awesome video!! Had fun watching, I just went on my first ever rafting trip on the Deschutes here in Oregon a few days ago.

[@leahlinden184]

Great video!

[@kevinhill242]

this was an awesome video! Looked like a blast!!!

[@RebeccaBaltich]

Very nicely done video. Enjoyed a lot.

[@glorifyhymn]

Nice Video. Well Done!

[@josh-mc3bi]

i gave you the 100th thumbs up. damn shame you don't have 100,000 subs. yall are for real. my dude, you have to be reading off something: here in GA i paddle rivers with 10 rapids and I still can't remember the names and lines. you remembering that the forest service dynamited something during the 50s or whatever is wild to me.

[@chriskayakq-ster7264]

Beautiful scenery on your river trip! I own a Tom Love Shredder from 2004 your raft in all its orange looks very similar except mine is black. Looks like fun was had by all sure is pretty canyons!

[@steve6631]

Great video..thanks for posting!

[@westernsoutherner1]

Great video man we ran it in 2021 too- it was super smokey then rained like hell on the 2nd to last day with a bluebird last day. I just got off the Owyhee last weekend. My buddy has a RMR phatcat and he put a frame on it and took it on a Middle Fork trip with us last year. Main Salmon is one of my favorites Im getting a hankering to get out there late summer.

[@atsukiokabe9788]

This is awesome and so inspiring!! Wish we had rivers as long and huge without dams as this one in Japan Thanks for sharing the masterpiece!

[@xmilchellexdelarosa3042]

I Subscribe To Your Channel Because Of Your Adventure

[@TaraMCali]

We took my son on that river when he was 7yrs old in 2003. He loved it. It was an amazing trip. He’s been lucky to be able to do that two more times with his dad since then. Thanks for the great video. I’ve almost forgot what it was like. We went on to do the Grand Canyon in 2007. That was a one time trip for me! HUGE!

[@middleofwherever7157]

I’ve done so much backpacking in the Grand Canyon but have never rafted it. That’s the river trip we want to do more than any other.

[@patrickknight2888]

Great video bro, excellent narrative,, what month and level was it?? My cuzz coming out this summer,, we doing it!!

[@RiverBorne]

Thanks for saving a Streamtech Steelhead!

[@sandyradsek2058]

Great video, What time of year was this float and what was the CFS?

[@aaronsety839]

I just came across this video. Nicely done! I would boat with you guys anytime. Your appreciatian of the river , the history, the respect for your own safety and still cook awesome meals, it's noticaeable. Hit me up anytime you want to go again or try for a mfs caneclation. I am local and boat both main and middle most years. Cheers, and thank you for sharing, it made my night! ps, pretty sure I was on the main at the same time as you. I finished a middle and just turned the corner solo. I ran into friends, stream tech!, and passed them quickly. I heard they wrapped at elkhorn. Was the boat owner named Ben? DId they have a older dog with them? Just curious. He is a friend of mine.

[@laurenjohnson2577]

Was that Bob Hawkin's on the rock freeing his raft....he is from Fairbanks , Alaska. ? ?

[@TacomaJack09]

Great video guys! What CFS was the river running??

[@shanewinget9125]

Hey sweet video. Was this filmed in September? Sorry if it already says in the comments if it is. My girlfriend and I were looking to R2 it in the fall

[@bibilopez849]

Why did you guys stop making videos… I’ve watched them all lol 😊

[@middleofwherever7157]

Some day in the near future we will be posting again!

[@1carve2]

Great video. I went on my first river trip ever in '89 out here. That trip changed the arc of my life. Spring run at 24K cfs and HOT! Slept on the sand for a week with no tent. Twas glorious. I ended up getting into guiding to spend more time on the river. Now you gotta check out the Middle Fork.

[@middleofwherever7157]

24k would be awesome! Might need a bigger boat for that lol. The middle fork is definitely on our list. This year we’re planning on the San Juan and the Snake River.

[@1carve2]

Wave trains for days at that flow. Hells Canyon on the Snake? Lots of wave trains out there too.

[@frederickgoodman773]

Nice video. Time of year? Flow?

[@alienkid3882]

Great vid. What flow did you run it at?

[@dylanmeyer4303]

Awesome video. What section of the river is this? Did you have to put on the lottery for it?

[@dannywildmon3712]

Fun video to watch! I went backpacking in the Frank Church Wilderness a few years back. It was a beautiful place. Take my advice and you won't regret it when you get older. You don't have to finish all the liquor by the end of the trip. Also, did you get to camp at the hot springs?

[@kurtisschaaf369]

Nice video, I'd love to know what the water level was during your filming, the character of those rapids changes so much based on the amount of water. Thanks

[@barnyardbrio7597]

so jealous

[@journeymanMT]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing that! Getting ready to go mid June, and your selection does a great job of showing scenery in addition to all the rapids! Good to know that people like you will help out if things go awry, too! Label above says March 1 2021, but judging from the smoke I'm guessing late July or August?

[@middleofwherever7157]

Thank you! This trip was the end of September 2020. Good luck with your trip!

[@mikehoran9484]

Love the green RMR! That a 13 foot? 12?

[@jshappart]

Elkhorn is only a class IV at low water if you are stumbling drunk rowing a stream tech fishing rig apparently :)

[@adamvolwiler7336]

Loads of cash for a fancy boat doesn't seem to buy you the necessary skills.

[@big1dog23]

S Fk kicks ass.

[@dennypistoll507]

What time of year did you run this. In the summer or before permit season? Denny

[@schreadersautorepairllc.6202]

Hi, I have been through all of the Montana rivers looking for a new run. Can you give me some Intel? Best times to go, Sun, versus rain. Thank you

[@morganpennings3561]

Looked like it was a great trip! Those 2s are so inconsistent but your lines were stellar by the end, WELL DONE!!

[@debbiejohnson425]

How did you get permits for both MF and Main? Great video thanks

[@1carve2]

This was all on the Main Salmon. The view at the wooden bench is looking upstream at the Middle Fork Salmon coming in.

[@middleofwherever7157]

We didn’t do the middle. Just the main. There was a group on the river that we met that got insanely lucky with their permits and were able to combine the two. There was a guy on mountainbuzz that had a permit for the main and a permit for the middle for the following week. He apparently kayaked the main, took a bush plane from Riggins to the put in on the Middle, then finished at Corn Creek boat ramp, where he parked his car. That would be an awesome way to do it so you don’t have to mess with a shuttle.

[@debbiejohnson425]

@@middleofwherever7157 wow, that's great. Both the MF and the Main are great. Thanks for sharing the video

[@mts982]

why no vids in a year????

[@caseturner4322]

Sweet! Well done. How can I find the soundtrack? Spotify playlist?

[@middleofwherever7157]

Thanks! All of the music we used is from epidemicsound.com

[@ginarainey4138]

What is the firebowl?

[@robertblaine5012]

How is the music in your videos so consistently good?

[@RandomRetallingsofRiggins]

0:10 is that disappointment creek