The river is rising, and New Wave is open for business! It’s been a warm winter, punctuated by big snowstorms. The “new normal”? Well, we don’t mind the big snowstorm part of it. With a temperature of 75 degrees at the river yesterday (March 16), the snowpack is beginning to melt, and the river is rising. As of this evening (March 17), the Racecourse run on the Rio Grande is seeing 818 cubic feet per second (cfs). And this is enough water to run the Taos Box, so we’re hoping to get some calls for trips there. The river should continue to rise until the farmers upstream in Colorado begin to divert water, which lessens the amount of water we see down here in New Mexico. Who knows when that will happen? Still and all, the most predictable high water of the season should occur in the first half of June. Stay tuned.
Herringbone rapid on the Racecourse run, March 11, 2015
Neil’s boat approaching Camel Rock, on the Taos Box run of the Rio Grande, 2014
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