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While some Taos County rafting company owners have reported a dearth in customers following three rafting deaths last month, others have found that the moderate-to-high water levels have kept …

The Taos Box is more challenging than most rides due to rapids ranging from Class 4 (for advanced rafters) to Class 5 (requiring extensive fitness and skill).

May 28—Rafting outfitters are looking to make the most of what they predict to be a brief window of opportunity to run the rapids of some of New Mexico's best whitewater. For a little over a week, river levels of the Upper Rio Grande have been above the threshold required to raft the Taos Box, but guides don't expect conditions to last long. "If people want to get in and do the Box, they ...