Salmon

Ran the river in middle of July. Great water level of 7000. The river moved well and the paddling was easy. There are named campgrounds in the guide book but there is lots more places to camp except as you get close to the confluence.

If you have a large group places are harder to find because all the commercial groups will send someone ahaed to score a campground early. This is agaiinst the rules but there was nobody on the river enforcesing this rule. We did 28 miles on day 3 looking for places to camp. Not hard at these flows but everytime we got to a large site it was already clamed well before the time.

Lots of wildlife and we had a 10 foot sturgeon swim up to our camp and show off. Amazing!

Be prepared for the last 10 miles of snake lake, there are intermittant rapids but a lot of dead water.

Also, since the snake is dam controlled it goes up and down over the course of a day. So things will wash away. Plan accordingly and tie your boats up high and don't leave anything next to the water.