It's named that because of the way it snakes around. In some areas the sun will be at your back and little farther down stream it will be in your eyes. It's not loaded with snakes. But there's some there. Lol
I know, the Snake River snakes through Lewiston, we have seven devils up here beautiful area.
I thought Pine City was on the South Fork of the Boise river above Anderson Ranch.
My dad and I fly fished up in that area several times over the years, the town we stopped in was Pine City.