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Hells Canyon

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Hells Canyon  (hlz)
A gorge of the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border. It is about 201 km (125 mi) long and has a maximum depth of approximately 2,410 m (7,900 ft).


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s deepest river-carved gorge Hells Canyon which borders a portion of the western side of the state.
Somewhere in the mid-1980s, Professors Mike Blumm and Jim Huffman, students Jeff Bennett and Steve Owlett, Jim's sister, Marjorie Smith, and myself, spent some days and nights camping and rafting the dangerous, white-water rapids of the Snake River as it rushed through the harrowing Hells Canyon, which separates Idaho and Oregon.
I have been with an Audubon club for hikes of a week or more, 50 miles at least, to wild places with names like Hells Canyon, Seven Devils, and Bighorn Crags.
 
 
 
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