Snake River Redux
March, 2015
EVERYONE REMEMBERS EVEL KNIEVEL'S FLOPPED ROCKET RIDE. FOR ONE MAN, THOUGH, IT HAS DEFINED HIS LIFE T win Falls, Idaho is a Godfearing town, a place framed by long drags of strip malls, fast-food joints and tire centers, where semitrailers stacked high with potatoes and antlers (yes, antlers) rumble in traffic. Few things reach skyward, save for the spires of the Mormon temple and the hands of its 12,000-some followers. Last fall, a bright white rocket mounted on an 88-foot-tall ramp built on...
