Bighorns Part 2: The Tongue

The Tongue River, a tributary of the Yellowstone River, rises in Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains and flows through northern Wyoming and southeastern Montana. After finding steep creeking gold on Goose Creek, Team NRS paddler Erik Boomer along with Nouria Newman and Ben Stookesberry, decide to up the ante and make another first descent attempt, this time on the Tongue River. Super sketchy but good to go is a good description of the Tongue’s whitewater. The crew could easily identify most of the crux c