Why is the Salmon River called “the river of no return”?
Early boaters could only drift down the river. They couldn’t return by water because the river was too swift. Outboard motors didn’t help because rocks in the river destroyed the propellers. The invention of jet boats solved this problem. A jet boat is propelled by a jet of pressurized water pushing the boat upriver. There is no propeller to get broken. (There are no jet boats on our section of river.
