Idaho Adventure News

Strong mountain snowpack expected to provide exciting, long whitewater season on Idaho rivers with big waves and rapids.

Boise native Jack Hurty has spent the last five years guiding trips on the Lower Salmon River, the Main Salmon and the Middle Fork.

This year has been extraordinary, culminating in our 69th Annual Meeting, Exhibitor Fair, and THAW fundraiser. I’m grateful for your active participation and support.

This year has been extraordinary, culminating in our 69th Annual Meeting, Exhibitor Fair, and THAW fundraiser. I’m grateful for your active participation and support.

If you had hoped to book a trip with an Idaho outfitter, many of them are already booked for the 2023 hunting season, and they’re booking up fast for the 2024 season and reserving dates for 2025.

Idaho horseback outfitters have a perfect solution – they offer “drop-camp” trips in which they carry your heavy camping gear, tent, sleeping bag, clothes, food, pots and pans to a high mountain lake of your choice with a pack string of horses and mules.

Published originally in 2005, the book predicted there would be a huge drop-off in outdoor recreation use in America because children were far more interested in watching TV and playing video games. Studies showed the children spent less than 7 minutes a day outdoors, while they watched TV and played video games for over 7 hours a day.

A long, cold winter with above-average mountain snowpack is expected to create an ideal whitewater rafting and jet boating season on Idaho’s world-class rivers statewide.

As many of you may already know, the last couple years have brought some big news regarding Idaho’s salmon and steelhead, and the main challenges they contend with for survival and stock recovery.

By Steve Stuebner With every snowflake that falls in the Idaho mountains from this amazing series of April snow storms, the stoke level for the summer rafting and jet boat season for Idaho rivers is rising rapidly! More than 2 feet new snow has fallen in the Idaho high country just in the last week, increasing snowpack levels in all of the key river basins that count for whitewater rafting and jet boat trips – the Salmon, Snake, Middle Fork Salmon, Payette, Lochsa and more. “I’m optimistic, with these spring storms we’re getting right now, it’s not nearly as dire as last year,” said Jared Hopk...

Discover an eclectic mix of world-class recreation activities in these quaint mountain communities  By Steve Stuebner It’s summertime in Idaho, and the recreation season is in full swing in our mountains, lakes and rivers. In this segment on Exploring Idaho, we’re spotlighting some of the lesser-known, unsung recreation meccas in the state, anchored in quaint, friendly small towns. Visitors will be delighted to learn about them, and ...

Wilderness hunt in the Sawtooths (courtesy Mystic Saddle Ranch) By Steve Stuebner As we’ve turned the corner from spring to summer in June, the weather is warming up into the 80s, the wildflowers are popping in the mountains, and the fish are biting on lakes and rivers in the great state of Idaho. Now is a great time to reserve dates for an unforgettable horseback ride into the Idaho wilderness. Ride in a small grou...