- 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.
- Pál Szalai (Wikipedia)
Pál Szalai (September 3, 1915 – January 16, 1994) also spelled Pál Szalay and later anglicized as Paul Sterling was a high-ranking Hungarian police officer and reinstated member of the Arrow Cross Party after 1944. In 1945, together with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Szalai helped save hundreds of Hungarian Jews in the Budapest ghetto. In 2009, he was honored by Israel as Righteous among the Nations.