But by late June, when the busy rafting season begins, water temperatures hover around a balmy 60 degrees.

In June, 2005, Phitsanulok Province initiated a campaign entitled "Sip Coffee at Kaeng Song, Paddle Along Nam Khek Rapids", and held the first Kaeng Song Coffee Tasting Festival to celebrate the opening of the rafting season as well as to promote a regional specialty, coffee.

Higher temperatures in recent weeks helped inaugurate northern California's rafting season in early March, according to James Bailey at the California Department of Water Resource.

Call (208) 756-4808 during the rafting season; (208) 345-2400 at other times.

The Salida, Colorado based firm runs daily river trips during the rafting season, using inflatable rafts, and both hardshell and inflatable kayaks, on one the of the most popular river runs in the world, through Brown's Canyon on the Upper Arkansas River.

They fear that water diversion will lower river levels and shorten the rafting season.

The main rafting season typically runs from mid-June to mid-February.

And this summer, residents and visitors to Santa Fe, a city in which the night can still be pierced by howling coyotes, have been routinely treated to sound and light shows as thunderstorms flashed across northern New Mexico, extending the white-water rafting season on the Rio Grande.

-K. S., Merrick, L.I. Answer:In the Northeast the white-water rafting season generally runs from late March to end of May.