Milner & Murtaugh IDAHO'S BIGGEST BIG WATER

In a whitewater state like Idaho, it takes something remarkable to set a section of river apart. For the elusive Milner Mile and downstream Murtaugh Canyon, located on Idaho's Snake River, it is the rare combination of big gradient and big volume over a short, action-packed stretch that puts it on the map as one of the best big water runs in the Pacific North West. Though irrigation and the state's famous potatoes currently take water priority, the Snake also reminds us why boater's voices are critical in finding a compromise to keep water where it belongs.

Words: Aaron Pruzan

Deep powder snow stacks up high above Jackson Hole, creating the legendary skiing of the Teton Range. Come springtime, that same snow that made skiers grin will start putting smiles on river runner’s faces as they harvest the melt on the free-flowing rapids of the headwaters of the Snake River. If enough frosty flakes fall, there's a chance that a large snowpack will spread downstream and unleash the pent-up whitewater of the Murtaugh Canyon and the Milner Mile, treating paddlers to the rare combination of 150 feet of fall and five digits of flow. A BOUNTY OF WATER Fed by the natural moisture channel that extends from the Pacific Ocean to Yellowstone National Park, the Snake River starts just south of Yellowstone and then quickly swells with snowmelt from the…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2019

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