{"id":185,"date":"2018-08-16T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivemarketing.info\/wwa\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2025-04-09T05:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:42:57","slug":"lower-salmon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"Lower Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"185\" class=\"elementor elementor-185\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2ea9783 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2ea9783\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c4430ee\" data-id=\"1c4430ee\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e55e277 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e55e277\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Lower Salmon &#8211; from Spring Bar to the confluence with the Snake River &#8211; is open to powerboating year round.<\/p><p>Down river from Riggins there are several large rapids that demand respect including Ladder Creek, Chair Creek, Fiddle creek, and Blackhawk Rapids.\u00a0 All should be scouted before running.\u00a0 Since Highway 95 runs along the river, scouting is a matter of pulling over and taking a look.<\/p><p>In &#8220;the Gorge&#8221; &#8211; the section from Hammer Creek to the Snake River confluence &#8211; there are several rapids that demand due respect.\u00a0 They are Snow Hole, China Bar, Slide, and Eye of the Needle.\u00a0 Before you access the Salmon below Hammer Creek, you are required to complete a &#8220;self-issue&#8221; use permit.\u00a0 These permits are available at the ramp at Hammer Creek.<\/p><p>All along the Lower Salmon there are launches maintained by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and other public agencies.\u00a0 The most notable are at Shorts Bar, the park in Riggins, Lightning Creek, Lucile, Steelhead Inn, Slate Creek, Twin Bridges, Whitebird, and Hammer Creek.<\/p><p>The whole of the the Lower Salmon is a river environment with ever-present rock and current hazards.\u00a0 Water level dictates difficulty.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lower Salmon &#8211; from Spring Bar to the confluence with the Snake River &#8211; is open to powerboating year round. Down river from Riggins there are several large rapids that demand respect including Ladder Creek, Chair Creek, Fiddle creek, and Blackhawk Rapids.\u00a0 All should be scouted before running.\u00a0 Since Highway 95 runs along the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/?page_id=185\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwhitewater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}