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High-Water Rafting on the Merced and Main Tuolumne River

February 15, 2019 By Sierra Mac

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Each year, usually in spring and sometimes extending into early summer, rivers in California reach their highest volume of the year. As the hills begin to turn green and start bursting with wildflowers the twin forces of warmer temperatures and melting snowpack merge and Sierra rivers literally come … [Read more...]

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