Top 10 Walks & Hiking Tours - Travel - National Geographic

Top 10 Walks & Hiking Tours - Travel - National Geographic

This is a great article with lots of information that is relevant to modern day life.  You can see that there was a lot of great information that can be introduced to people that are not as easily taught these day.  To be unplugged in the modern world and reconnected in the wilderness on a rafting trip is the best way to experience oneself and the natural world.  For more information go to www.idahorivers.com

Middle Fork River Expeditions, INC. 2013 Season

The Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho is the premier wilderness rafting trip in the US. It flows 100 miles of Wild and Scenic free-flowing river through the largest roadless wilderness area in the US thru a canyon that is deeper than the Grand Canyon. It has natural hot springs throughout the canyon, blue ribbon trout fishing, and more than 400 rapids grade I-III (IV in June). The Middle Fork of the Salmon is unspoiled, remote and roadless so you can be sure you will “get away from it all”. Simply put, it is the best river run in the West and perhaps the world. Middle Fork River Expeditions, licensed and bonded outfitter, has run safe and well-managed river trips on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho for more than 3 decades. Trips are 4 or 6 days of exciting river rafting, wilderness camping, fine fishing, and adventure travel. Our equipment is specially designed for wilderness whitewater rafting, and offers mild and wild boat choices (oar boats, paddle boats, fly fishing drift boats, inflatable kayaks and stand up paddle surf boards!). Our river guides are seasoned professionals, licensed by the state of Idaho and First Aid and Swiftwater Rescue Certified. They are expert river runners, magnificent cooks, great storytellers, and knowledgeable, helpful outdoorsmen. Join Middle Fork River Expeditions for a magical wilderness river vacation this summer! www.idahorivers.com

Happy New Year

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year to all you river rats that came out to Stanley this past summer!

May your new year be full of joy and happiness.

Yours for rivers,

James Ellsworth, owner
Middle Fork River Expeditions
www.idahorivers.com

2008 season

Wow, what a great season on the Middle Fork!

We had record lasting water and great water flows.

Lots of folks loved the trips and loved the experience.

Our Green program really took off and we receycled everything from the river, even the food waste was given to pigs at the end of the trip!

We supported Idaho Rivers United, giving each household a year membership to this great organization bringing back Salmon to the Salmon.

But most importantly we had some incredible music, fun jokes, fun loving rapids and incredible people join us this summer.

Thanks to everyone that joined us this summer and we hope we see you next summer.

Yours for rivers,

James Ellsworth
www.idahorivers.com
Middle Fork River Expeditions
800-801-5146

50% Child Discounts

Middle Fork River Expeditions has just released a reductions in pricing for all kids 11 and under for all Middle Fork of the Salmon River trips.

We hope to see you on the river this summer, and want it make it that much easier for you to come join the fun!

Yours for rivers, James Ellsworth

Middle Fork River Expeditions

www.idahorivers.com

800-801-5146

The river is the BEST

Come with us on the "River of No Return". We'll spend a week rafting down the Salmon, through one of the deepest canyons in America. No telephones, no traffic. We'll float through pools so quiet you can only hear the canyon wrens. We'll run some of the biggest whitewater in the northwest. We'll camp on sandbars and watch bighorn sheep come down to drink. We’ll watch a trout rise to the fly. In the evening we'll have a drink while the fire burns down just right for steaks, and biscuits bake in the Dutch oven. We'll watch the campfire die beneath the pines and listen to the "River of No Return".

Log Jams in the past and future

Those of you who follow events on the rivers will remember the log jam at Pistol Creek rapid on the Middle Fork the summer of 06. The jam briefly re-formed last May, during what little high water we had, then broke out naturally before there was much traffic on the river. Upstream at the mouth of Lake Creek, the source of the logs that jammed, there was a problem throughout the summer with the new rapid, bank cutting and channel changing, and logs in the river. It was a nasty spot, and a particular concern for sweep boats. It will no doubt look different next spring after high water.
You will also be aware of the fires on the Middle Fork and Main Salmon last summer, and that the rivers were closed in August. I have not yet been on the upper Middle Fork after the fire season, but have heard concerns that there may be log problems next summer. I have been on the middle and lower sections, and, while we will see evidence of the fires, much of the area that was burned will be green with grass next spring. In October, after the fall rains started, there already was a little green grass coming up. I have not yet been on the Main Salmon, but suspect things will be similar--the grass and shrubs will bounce back, and there will be some sections where dead trees will be obvious.
Over the last few years, after the fires, there have been several changes to the rapids of the Middle Fork. The Lake Creek rapid just above Pistol Creek has formed and washed out five times as a result of mud slides from the creek, though it has not a major concern other than producing logs for the Pistol Creek jam until last spring. The Orelano rapid near Pungo has slid about three times, but has washed out enough to not be a big deal. Just above Loon Creek a blow-out a couple of years ago created a new, minor, rapid, which has mostly opened up. A couple of years ago Bernard Creek blew out at the bottom of Haystack Rapid, flooding most of it. The lower end of the rapid was still flooded last summer, but this year it has cut through and is similar to the old Haystack rapid. Immediately below Haystack, though, is the debris from the Bernard Creek blowout, which is a new rapid. The Cramer Creek rapid just above the Middle Fork take-out, which became a major rapid after a blow-out in August 03, and was nasty in 04, began to ease in 05, and was more fun than worry this year. We had a sharp high water in May of 06, up to about nine feet on the Middle Fork, which blew out some of the recent debris.

This summer we hope to get some high flows to flush out a lot of those logs that are clogging up the river, and because snow levels are so good, this very well could be the case.

Come join us in June, July or August this year!

Come join the fun!

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