View Wine & Food on the Salmon RiverWhitewater rafting
Wine & Food on the Salmon River
A multi-course dinner on a white sand beach
Lower Salmon River, IdahoFrom $1,995/person
The hard part isn't deciding to go. It's knowing who to call.
View Wine & Food on the Salmon RiverWhitewater rafting
A multi-course dinner on a white sand beach
Three weeks in October, hunting high and glassing the open side hills for a trophy buck. Spot and stalk, on horseback, in the same 250 square miles they hold exclusively for deer and elk. SWO refuse to work one fixed camp. They move with horses and mules between multiple backcountry camps and a front-country cabin base at Grandjean, so a hunt can chase the animals instead of the infrastructure. Backcountry camps are wall tents, cots and wood stoves; the Grandjean cabins have a bed, a shower and internet; and ultralight tents go in when the hunt demands country neither will reach. They are explicit about what they will and will not promise: "Unlike guaranteed trophy hunts, we believe in the intrinsic value of earned success." They control the food, the guides, the stock and the camps, and they do not claim to control the weather or the animals.
