‘Wild and Scenic’ Selway River float trip offers memories to last a lifetime

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

While I hope there’s still plenty of time left to experience other memorable vacation experiences - Alaska, Australia, Italy, a return to Ireland are some that quickly come to mind - one got crossed off the list over the last week.

This past Sunday I returned home after having spent five days on Idaho’s Selway River. Only three days were spent actually on the river. There were two longer days of coming and going to the launch site at Paradise Guard Station, well into the Selway-Bitterroot National Forest. And to journey’s end above Selway Falls, about 100 m...