In celebration of Independence Day, ECHO Idaho guides joined the local Salmon community and showed off our new rafts in the annual Salmon River Days 4th of July Parade. We lined up behind the Salmon, Idaho girl’s softball team, the Salmon Rodeo princess truck, and the Whiskey Willie’s float with two of our beautiful new Avon boats stacked on the trailer. The two rafts were recently named after the “Shady Nook,” a local bar and restaurant, and “Marnie,” the owner of the Shady Nook. Marnie, a local celebrity here in Salmon, actually rode in the parade with us and nearly everyone in the crowd knew her.
After the parade, several guides attended the Demolition Derby, an old-fashioned, car smashin’ event that they said opened their eyes to a whole new side of Salmon. They claimed it was some of the best people watching they have ever done. The event was apparently quite entertaining.

Salmon River Days will continue through the 4th of July with events held each day. On Independence Day, they will hold a Dutch Oven cook-off. We decided not to enter, knowing that with all our practice making gourmet D.O. meals on the river, we would blow the competition away!

Happy 4th of July!!!

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