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Review of Snake River Adventures and Riv...

I took a jet boat trip with my family a few years ...

I took a jet boat trip with my family a few years back with SRA. It started and finished after a loop upriver and back at Pittsburgh Landing near White Bird ID. My mother in law had traveled in from out of state and wanted to see the area from a jet boat. I've lived here for years and it was the first commercial river trip for all of us. We were excited.
The trip upriver was pretty good. We took a lot of great pics. We had the boat almost to ourselves.

UNFORTUNATELY.

"Captain Nate" evidently considers himself something of a practical joker though and this is the reason for the single star. On the return trip, after being pretty quiet the whole time, he asked me to change seats to the left rear side. This, he said, would help to balance the craft in the rapids coming up. I obliged since he's the one with the experience and it seemed to make sense. Then, in a pretty obvious move, as we came through a small choppy set of white caps the "Captain" turned the boat hard to the right sending a curtain of water onto me, my phone and my camera.

I was seething mad. I couldn't even speak to this moron as he giggled and pretended to apologize. WTF? Anyway, he had a good laugh, but I didn't forget it and here's the review to document my first and last trip with SRA.

I'm sad, because I'm certain there are thoughtful and intelligent people who are making their living there and I debated to even mention this as it's not NY desire to harm anyone. Just be forewarned.

Any thinking captain could've just asked "hey, who wants to get wet? We're going through rapids and the water will come over the side and you'll love it."

OR THIS

"Hey, put away your electronics, we may get water coming in over the side in the section coming up! "

But, not our guy, no. It was only important that he had a good laugh (hahaha) at the paying customer with spendy, and not water proof gear.