When Your Guide Yells “HANG ON!”
There may come a time when your guide yells “hang on” to prevent your exit from the raft. However, grabbing a secure point is not needed on every decent down a rapid. Your guide will show you where to sit in the raft, how to hold the paddle and where to grab when instructed.
How to Become a Whitewater Guide
Raft guides are trained professionals. They lead commercial whitewater adventures on rivers of various difficulties.
New Wave Women Guides Recognized
[envira-gallery id=”2845″] New Wave Women Guides Recognized. The Taos News recently published “Taos Women”, a special edition magazine. An article entitled “Rough Riders” discussed women Rio Grande rafting guides. The article included the above photos of Kathy Miller, co-owner of New Wave Rafting Co, and guides Cathy Jo Robison and Karen House, along with the […]
Guide Training Program On the Rio Grande
Guide Training Program On the Rio Grande Racecourse, New Mexico Today, on the last day of the instructional phase of our Guide Training Program (GTP), the candidates are practicing on the Racecourse stretch of the Rio Grande, near Taos, NM. On their second run, I took the following movies at three rapids: Big Rocks, Sleeping […]
Guide Testimonials!
Awesome Guide “Me and 6 others did the Taos Box with New Wave and our raft guide Britt was the best guide I’ve had throughout my many rafting trips across the U.S. He knew so much about the local area, geology (which was awesome because I’m a geologist) and knew the river like the back of […]