While we were hardly ready to put away our skis, Mark and I were excited to hop in the kayaks for a brief break from the snow and make it back down to Taos for some boating. We met our friend Sam for two days of kayaking on the Rio Grande. While Sam had made dozens of run down the Racecourse in the past few seasons (a popular stretch of class III whitewater near Pilar, NM), Mark and I hadn’t been on the Rio Grande in two years. When we had last been there, we were just learning to kayak READ MORE