Recreational river runners have the right to float and fish rivers that wend their way through private land.

It's been a miraculous spring for river runners, with high water across the West.

Higher water and colder seasons are for professionally guided tours or for experienced river runners.

Other river runners would soon follow.

Galloway would later go on to pioneer rowing techniques still used by river runners today.

Gordon was the most experienced of the team, but all were considered expert river runners.

"My man found little trouble in gaining you passage on a river runner," Vaines went on.

Most of the natural steps, a geologic formation, still stand today and are used as a marker for river runners.

This variation of the region challenges the body and spirit of the river runner.

Few boats came this far up and the river runners passed quickly by.