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All that snow in the West? It’s water now, and it’s providing a banner season for white-water rafting. Here are five rivers to run this summer.

As record Sierra snowpack melts, an epic whitewater rafting season takes shape in California

As the record Sierra snowpack begins to melt, it is sending immense volumes of water cascading through some of the most storied and beautiful rafting rivers in the world: the Kern in the southern Sierra, the Tuolumne, which flows out of Yosemite National Park and the American flowing out of the mountains near Lake Tahoe.

As the record Sierra snowpack begins to melt, it's sending immense volumes of water through some of the most storied whitewater rafting rivers in the world.

The Bakersfield Art Association has partnered with river advocacy group Bring Back the Kern to highlight the many benefits of keeping the Kern River flowing through Bakersfield year-round.