Comments on: Northwest Rivers Wild (and Tame) http://jeffwallach.com/adventure-travel/750/northwest-rivers-wild-and-tame Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff Wallach http://jeffwallach.com/adventure-travel/750/northwest-rivers-wild-and-tame/comment-page-1#comment-216 Jeff Wallach Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:09:55 +0000 http://jeffwallach.com/?p=750#comment-216 James: Thanks for the comment-- always nice to find a river without much traffic. I've heard good things about the Sauk but haven't been lucky enough run it-- yet! James:

Thanks for the comment– always nice to find a river without much traffic. I’ve heard good things about the Sauk but haven’t been lucky enough run it– yet!

]]> By: James L. Moore http://jeffwallach.com/adventure-travel/750/northwest-rivers-wild-and-tame/comment-page-1#comment-215 James L. Moore Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:29:57 +0000 http://jeffwallach.com/?p=750#comment-215 Jeff: Thanks for the concise compendium of rivers in the western United States. I particularly appreciated your closing comments regarding how to select an outfitter. Asking a long list of questions to whomever you get on the other end of the telephone or the other end of an e-mail tag (the phone is 100 times better), is the key to being sure you will 'get what you paid for'. And you are right about Washington state. . . we really do not have any eye-popping commercial whitewater, like the Lochsa, and we have almost no overnight options and certainly none that compete with the classic Western river trips (Rogue, Salmon, Tuolomne, etc). However, other than the Skykomish, the Sauk River is a fantastic day trip that is close to Seattle and in the midst of the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie Forest. It is a nice little day trip suitable for first-timers and regulars and, the best thing about it, is that it is not overrun with commercial trips. Jeff: Thanks for the concise compendium of rivers in the western United States. I particularly appreciated your closing comments regarding how to select an outfitter. Asking a long list of questions to whomever you get on the other end of the telephone or the other end of an e-mail tag (the phone is 100 times better), is the key to being sure you will ‘get what you paid for’.

And you are right about Washington state. . . we really do not have any eye-popping commercial whitewater, like the Lochsa, and we have almost no overnight options and certainly none that compete with the classic Western river trips (Rogue, Salmon, Tuolomne, etc).

However, other than the Skykomish, the Sauk River is a fantastic day trip that is close to Seattle and in the midst of the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie Forest. It is a nice little day trip suitable for first-timers and regulars and, the best thing about it, is that it is not overrun with commercial trips.

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