miércoles, 7 de mayo de 2008

Solo first descent

I was looking for a good run, a good first descent, so with my friend Sergio Vidal we jumped in the truck and went to look for the unknown, this time it was the Reco river,
We drove like three hours from Pucon towards Panguipulli.
The river was with a good level,but we found us in the middle of nothing and without shuttle bunny, so we thought of coming back with a better timing and with a driver to make our descent easier.
Somehow I ended up going alone with my driver Chapulin, this time the river was lower and from what we knew that was good news because the first 5 kilometers the river drops like 120 meters which is not that bad if it was true. The map showed us that the river was like 10 kilometers long, so like 4 hours run more less. I started going down and after the firs 50 meters the river started droping without stop, full of undercut and trees then I look back and my driver wa salready gone, so I tried my radios but they did not work, I was already in the canyon so I starte walking, like a gentlelman adn the river was getting steeper and steeper with a portage option class 5+, took me 3 hours to portage 2,5 kilometers, with more water that would be a suicide. I took some Pics from that section. Then the river started to opening up again with a nice class 3 and 4, then the canyon closed again with a fucking beautiful lanscaped around then the class 4 started again, preatty much until the end.
I think the upper section of this rivers looks better
here are some Pics from the first 2 kilometers



Oooooppppssss

Put-in


Walking down the river

On my way down

Half way down

The last couple of hundred meters

The way back home

Pucon Pics

Well long time since my last update, but here we go.
It's been a preatty good 2008 for me so far and I have nothing to said about it, I'm a daddy now and we bought a awesome propety in my home town(Pucon), Now I'm in Amsterdam, going soon to Norway.....looking forward for that.
Pucon was great not so much water but still great, I could not kayak to much but I had a great summer together with my new family and friends.
Now I hope I can kayak more but we will see. Whit the Fluif SOLO is so much easy
Here are some pics from a always a good run....enjoy it




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