The Snake River

The Snake River is scenery marked by ancient cataclysm.

Shaped by the same epic, Ice Age floods that formed the Northwest’s Columbia River valley, Cougar Crew trains and races on miles and miles of open water. Granite walls frame every practice, which can stretch as far as Lewiston Idaho on the crew’s longest journeys.

The crew heads out from Wawawai Landing. Head races begin at Boyer Dam before ending back at Wawawai. Spring sprint races start fifteen hundred meters from Wawawai before ending in epic fashion, passing a breakwater of screaming fans.

Rowing on the Snake is uninterrupted by the need to turn, gauge careful routes, or worry about the same impediments you hit in more urban settings. You can just row, row, row.