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New Wave Rafting Company, since 1980, Santa Fe, New Mexico's premier river outfitter. Serving both Santa Fe and Taos, New Wave Rafting Co offers family-friendly trips from the mildest to the wildest in spectacular settings. Get wet with New Wave! "Wild and Scenic" describes the Rio Grande and Rio Chama of northern New Mexico, and is the designation conferred on these two magnificent rivers by the U.S. Congress. The Rio Grande thunders in the depths of a precipitous gorge, with wild rapids boxed in by sheer cliffs, while the Rio Chama flows sedately through a canyon of multi-hued sandstone and stands of tall Ponderosa pine. To protect these rivers, use is limited. The rafting summer starts with the first rush of snowmelt water, in late April. This is the beginning of the "white knuckles" boating season, with big waves, fast water and lots of action, lasting usually through mid-summer. Air and water temperatures, initially cool, warm rapidly, with summer heat arriving by late May. Declining water levels in mid-summer usher in their more playful "sporting" season, where they weave their smaller rafts and funyaks in and out of the boulders that, only a few weeks before, made big waves. Swimming, raft surfing and other antics make this time of year the most fun for families.