Idaho Women’s Main Salmon River
Rafting Tour 2025

+++Flight times are determined by availability with our charter. Below is an ideal schedule, but is subject to change.

Morning flight from Boise to Salmon, enjoy scenic views of Idaho Wilderness. Arrive Salmon, Idaho. We will drop our bags off at the hotel and stretch our legs with a walk downtown.

5pm: meet our partner and lead guide of Aggipah River Trips. During this orientation, participants will each receive waterproof duffel bags, and instruction on how to use them. Your guide will go over the expedition plan, and answer questions about the upcoming adventure.

Group dinner at a restaurant in historic downtown Salmon. Overnight at the Stagecoach Inn or Similar.

Meals: BD

After breakfast we take a two-hour (bumpy) bus ride to put-in at Corn Creek. Here, your guide will go through pre-trip orientation. Expect to be on the river by 11am.

Our introduction to the Main Salmon starts with exciting rapids such as Killum, Gunbarrel, Alder Creek, Rainier, Devil’s Teeth. Around 1pm, we will take a break and enjoy a riverside lunch with locally sourced ingredients. Your guide will lead you to some native American pictographs and give you insight about what life was like for people who lived in the canyon 12,000 years ago.

After lunch, more river rafting fun, and then arrive in camp about 4:30pm. 7:30pm Dinner. Relax with new friends.

Meals: BLD

6:15am Rise in the morning to smell of alpine air and freshly brewed coffee followed by a hearty breakfast prepared by your guides.

Break camp, and head downstream for another day in paradise. Expect big rapids like Black Creek, Hancock and Bailey with stretches of tranquil water allowing you to look for wildlife as you gaze at mountain views. A few excursions including a soak in a hot spring will break up the day on the water.

Arrive at camp about 4:30pm. Dinner. Swap stories by the campfire.

Meals: BLD

Join us on our Main Salmon River Women’s Rafting Adventure, a 9-day women’s rafting float rip that includes 5.5 unforgettable days rafting 80 miles of the scenic Main Salmon River. This adventure combines exciting Class III+ whitewater rafting with long stretches of slower opportunities to enjoy the scenery of towering granite canyons, swimming in calm, clear water from the shores of white sandy beaches, soaking in hot springs, taking short shore excursions, and spotting wildlife like birds, bighorn sheep, eagles, and bears.

The Salmon River canyon is a remote, unique place with a rich history, with many of its most famous settlers being women. Your expert rafting guides will break up your time on the water with guided shore excursions to prehistoric sites with pictographs and visits to homesteads, helping you connect with the human story of the river and the notable women of the Great Frontier.

The adventure begins in Boise with an overnight stay at an airport-area hotel to allow for flexible arrival times. The following morning, participants will take a 50-minute charter flight in a prop plane over Idaho’s wilderness, landing in the town of Salmon, Idaho. In Salmon, we will continue getting to know each other, meet our river guides. After a night at a hotel, we will set off on our rafting adventure down the Main Salmon River, passing through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. There will be five nights of camping. The takeout is in Riggins, and we will overnight in McCall on Day 8. On the final morning, a 2-hour group ground transfer will return participants to Boise for afternoon flights.

This women’s rafting trip is a perfect opportunity for women of all ages and backgrounds to come together for a multi-day adventure. Participants can be experienced rafters or newcomers looking to test the waters on their first rafting experience. A majority of the time is spent as passengers on oar boats with an oarsman/oarswoman paddling the raft. For those with experience and seeking some paddle time, participants will take turns in solo inflatable kayaks going through rapids in line with the raft boats.

Lower in the canyon, the thick forest gives way to steep granite cliffs and the glass-like pools provide a place for play and reflection.

The water conditions ahead make it a good day for inflatable kayaking! You will experience smooth water intermixed with class II+ whitewater. Stop at Painter Mine where we will learn about gold mining in the Salmon River canyon. Lunch and informative session at Buckskin Bill’s homestead. Here, learn about how Buckskin made his living along the river, and visit with Barbra, who has been caretaking and living full-time at the place since 1983.

More river time through afternoon, arrive in camp around 4:30pm. Dinner. A billion-star show starts at sunset. Do not forget to look up.

Meals: BLD

Expect another good inflatable kayaking morning with smooth water intermixed with small rapids. Visit Polly Bemis’s homestead, a Chinese immigrant who began her life in Idaho in a mining camp in the late 1800s and moved to the Salmon River in the late 1890s. She lived here until her death in 1933, several of those later years alone.

Lunch shortly afterwards, then the rest of the day spent on the river. Arrive in camp around 4:30pm. Celebrate the last night on the river. There will be lots of she-nanigians to reminisce about over the past few days together. Belly-laughs guaranteed.

Meals: BLD

Enjoy a leisurely morning. Depart camp at 9am.

Fun morning with three of the largest rapids on the trip, Chittam, Vinegar Creek, Carey Falls. Arrive at Carey Creek take-out boat ramp around 11:30. Transfer by bus to Riggins with a box lunch. Transfer to McCall. Overnight in McCall. Group farewell dinner.

Meals: BLD

8am Ground transfer from McCall to Boise Airport. The drive is about 2 hours. Participants will arrive by 10-10:30am. Plan for flights to depart after 1pm.

Meals: B