On Sep 2, 12:14*pm, wrote:
On Sep 1, 8:26*pm, "Russell D." wrote:

wrote:

As I understand it . . . . Its origin is in the Whulshootseed language
originally spoken by several of the Coastal Salish "tribes" of the
Puget Sound and basin. The spelling is in the English alfabet.
Pronunced Sky-ko-mish.

Dave

More detailed, its 'sky-KO-mish'. Used to run rafts down it, and I
might have the first canoe run of Airplane Turn back in 1984. Lived
just upstream of Index in a treehouse. Them was the days....

--riverman
(50 today. HBTM, IAOMN)