A river rafting trip to Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in all of North America, brought this writer and his stepfather ...
Hells Canyon sits near the Oregon-Idaho border, in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. The Snake River currently runs through the deep gorge, cutting the ravine deeper with every rapid.
One of his most audacious attempted stunts came in 1974 when he tried to clear Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a rocket. The feat famously went awry when the parachute opened too early.