Each year, guides aged 20 to 80 run the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, a legendary waterway in Idaho. A few months after I graduated college in 1999, after a stint pecking out cover letters on an ...

Jul. 3—I've been on three rafting trips in my life. The first was a lazy day on the Snake River nearly a decade ago. The second, last year in Riggins, Idaho, was frankly much more about hard seltzers ...