As skiers, we spend all winter looking at the forecast, keeping track of how many inches of snow our mountain has gotten, where the snowpack lies in terms of annual average, and so on. But when the ...

After a long winter of powder snow in the Idaho mountains, long-range weather forecasts are calling for a dry second half of April and a warm start to May, meaning rivers may peak slightly earlier ...

BOISE, Idaho — A healthy snowpack this spring may portend robust whitewater this season. “Rafters can expect a big start to the season with plenty of water and big waves,” said Hardy Bender, ...

Each year, guides aged 20 to 80 run the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, a legendary waterway in Idaho. A few months after I graduated college in 1999, after a stint pecking out cover letters on an ...

This story was produced by April D. Lee and distributed by Next Net. There’s no question about it, whitewater rafting is about as exciting a sport as it comes, nestled amongst some of the most ...