Whitewater River Rafting for the first time.

[Biggsly]

I just booked my first river trip today. I am taking the wife and kids rafting down the Colorado river. We are all pumped. I have never been before. I hope it will be as fun as I think it will be.
How many of you have done this before?
What did you like and not like?

 

[been]

Iv done it several times and its super fun! Where are you going? We usually go on the Illinois at a place called Eagle something but i cant remember.

 

[Okie4570]

It's a blast, we've done the the Colorado (in CO), the Animas and the Rio Grande. Which part of the CO river are you rafting?

 

[Biggsly]

We will be going south of Taos NM a little ways. It will be on the Colorado river.

 

[Biggsly]

It's a blast, we've done the the Colorado (in CO), the Animas and the Rio Grande. Which part of the CO river are you rafting?

about 20 miles south of Taos NM

 

[elwoodtrix]

The Snake River @ Jackson Hole, WY.... hell yea

canoed at the Mulberry river... that was a blast

 

[Okie4570]

Haven't done that stretch, you'll love it wherever you go, kids always have a blast. Doesn't the Colorado River run out of the other corner of CO?

 

[Biggsly]

Haven't done that stretch, you'll love it wherever you go, kids always have a blast. Doesn't the Colorado River run out of the other corner of CO?

Comes out of Colorado almost straigh north of Taos. Give or take a little. I have been to the river many times. Just never went down it.

 

[Big House]

Check water flows before you commit? You could be doing more boulder/gravel dragging than whitewater rafting.

 

[cigman1st]

One of my favorite memories with my dad was rafting down the Nantahala River in North Carolina. I was 15 and I remember it was a workout. It was the first time he let me drive on a "real" road , and down a mountain at that. He was either really brave or wiped out himself.