Chile & Argentina in pictures part I

Just been looking at photos from my recent trip to Chile & Argentina and decided to put them up. The fall in Chile this year was amazing, providing super high water levels that made us stay away of a lot of the good stuff. Here are some shots of Futaleufu, Nevados, Carhuello, Nilahue, Blanco.... this is the first part of 2 blog posts!

sick shot of myself getting in to the Zeta rapid

photo: gael caride

LJ growth on log rapid in the upper upper nevados

photo: aniol serrasolses

EG on the nasty low water drop on the carhuello

photo: aniol serrasolses

LJ on the same drop!

photo: aniol serrasolses 

ricas truchas from Futa!

photo: aniol serrasolses

rice, fish and potatoes! the way to survive cheap in Futa...

photo: aniol serrasolses

EG and Fred posing in front of Nilahue at super high flows!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Nilahue at class VI!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Las monjas!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Crazy irishs jumping off the bridge

photo: aniol serrasolses 

Futa!!! you gotta live it!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Gabriel on the terminator rapid

photo: aniol serrasolses 

futa crew!

photo: aniol serrasolses 

asadito!

photo: aniol serrasolses

mike freewheel going down!

photo: aniol serrasolses

walking to bonito waterfall!

photo: aniol serrasolses

matias garage!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Logan getting ready to walk all the way up to the blanco

photo: aniol serrasolses

beautiful argentinian landscape

photo: aniol serrasolses

Gramos is exhausted!

photo: aniol serrasolses 

Evan boofing cali drop hard!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Graham on his way down cali drop!

photo: aniol serrasolses 

logan going down mandinga

photo: aniol serrasolses

Logan on the Alerces slide!

photo: aniol serrasolses 

Matias running duck slide!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Tronador!

photo aniol serrasolses

at the take-out of the Manso gorge

photo aniol serrasolses

driving to futa with the boys!

photo aniol serrasolses

logan running the alerces drop!

photo aniol serrasolses

Bariloche!

photo aniol serrasolses

going back to chile ! pajaritos border!

photo aniol serrasolses 

Beautiful fred after he broke his nose on Bonito for the second time in his trip

photo aniol serrasolses

rio Gol gol at flood stage!

photo aniol serrasolses

Zeta rapid

photo gael caride

Second part coming soon! hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Spring time

After our 5 days in Galicia/Portugal we drove again all night to be at home in the morning of the saturday cause we where doing a freestyle kayak course with SBP together with my brother Gerd. The surprise was to find a flooded river! there where plenty of options to go kayak and we even had the opportunity to paddle the Boavi, with comes up once in a few years if you're lucky.

Enjoy some more pictures of this last days kayaking around!

package for the trip to Galicia

photo: aniol serrasolses

Panadeiro slide, rio Umia, caldes de reis

photo: aniol serrasolses 

getting ready for a sick day of park'huck at caldes de reis

photo: aniol serrasolses

Aniol going for one of his favorite slides 

gerd following up

aniol on the entrance boot

aniol hitting the kicker

love this place!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Go pro shot on the 1st drop of the castro laborer

booting hard the 2nd waterfall of the castro!

somewhere in Gali...

photo: aniol serrasolses

future super star Urko!

photo: aniol serrasolses

1st rapid on the boavi

photo: aleix salvat

photo: aleix salvat

photo: gerd serrasolses

the rock is sharp in the pyreneés rivers...

photo: gerd serrasolses

Gerd making sure of his line.
photo: aniol serrasolses

aleix enjoying some of the nicest slides of the pyreneés

photo: aniol serrasolses  

photo: aniol serrasolses

gerd on one of the sickest boots of the run

photo: aleix salvat

aniol going next

photo: aleix salvat

another cool rapid

photo: aleix salvat 

all the run is packed with fun slides and challenging rapids

photo: aleix salvat 

aleix running one of the most fun slides in the run

photo: aniol serrasolses

photo: aleix salvat 

photo: aleix salvat

gerd on the 20 footer

photo: aniol serrasolses

Gerd on the "happy ending" rapid, the biggest one of the run!

photo: aniol serrasolses

2 years ago at high water flows I swam on the end of the rapid, after getting stuccoed in the hole....

photo: aniol serrasolses

upper noguer at hgih flows!! we did the run in 40 min together with Gerd

photo: aniol serrasolses 

BAR coyote!

photo: aniol serrasolses

Gerd freestyling on the Limbo rapid

photo: aniol serrasolses

The water levels keeps holding, an spain is now a great destination to go kayak! Leaving on a road trip to the french and aragon pyreneés next week! Hopefully we'll get to run some amazing slides and waterfalls!

photos: aniol serrasolses, aleix salvat, gerd serrasolses