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River Rafting the Rio Grande Video

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Cisco Guevara of Los Rios River Runners

Video (6min 44sec) of Francisco "Cisco" Guevara owner of Los Rios River Runners. Los Rios is New Mexico's oldest and most experienced river rafting company. Cisco Guevara is a representative of the New Mexico River Outfitter's Association. River rafting as a recreation started as an offshoot of the Manhattan Project when they were building The Bomb at Los Alamos, because they brought people from all over the world especially from Europe to work on the bomb. Some of those people had white water boating skills. They started looking around, on their days off, to see if there's anything in the southwestern desert that was floatable and they found the Rio Grande...

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Taos Mountain Balloon Rally Video

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Video (2 min 4sec): Taos Mountain Hot Air Balloon Rally 2006. Video by Rick Romancito, editing by Melody Romancito, music by Harold Budd, presented by TaosExperience.com. Each year, The Taos Mountain Balloon Rally has full schedule of events and a new organization. This year was one of the best years yet. The Balloon Rally Parade began at 1 p.m. Saturday October 28 was greatly expanded from previous years, including The Taos High Marching Band as well as several other Bands, representatives from many local police and fire Departments will also have entries this year.

 

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Flying Over Taos Video

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Flying Over Taos

Flying Over Taos Video (4min 12sec). Have you ever wanted to fly over Taos in a small plane? Take off from and land at Taos Municipal Airport with Pavel Lukes, Ellary Simms, and J. R. Ransom in a 1959 Beechcraft Bonanza K-35 V-tail. Check out the whole town, Taos Plaza, the mountains - A Beautiful Sight!

You get an almost perfect view of Taos from the air. Taos, Plaza, El Torreon Hacienda, The Rodeo Grounds and Baseball field. Flying in Taos is great for viewing your perspective Real Estate purchase and several Real Estate agents take buyers up into the skies of Taos. Flying in Taos is also just plain fun. There are some other airports around (such as Angel Fire) where light planes can land.

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