- The start of the river is near Hannegan Pass just inside of the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest and the Mount Baker Wilderness.
- In Canada, the river changes its name to the Vedder River.
- Billy Wilder (german-way.com)
He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in a remote corner of a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland).