
Meet the Queen of the Snake River
They call Connie Kennedy the Queen of the Snake River. In 2024, during a single trip down the Snake, which twists through Hells Canyon in Idaho, she steered a raft past a swimming black bear, threaded the needle into a notorious wall of water dubbed The Green Room, told stories about the people who once lived in the area, and held down the fort as a brief but mighty squall blasted through camp, sending tents sailing.