Well, we're back... trip ended and everyone is alive.
Getting used to the normal life again after 2 weeks of adventures...Pfiou...
The group was divided in 2 teams, but also ran together some of the classics;
- Lower Fuy (class III),
- Lower Trancura (class III),
- Truful Truful (class III)
glacier fed, straight from Hades with solidified lava over older lava fields and thick layers of ashes and crystallized basalt columns - and San Pedro (class III big water with one class IV rapid).
We might be the last group going down the San Pedro as they are building a dam on it.
With the "K team", we did harder runs in the IV/IV+ range while the other team worked on class III.
- The Machin (class IV) was a spectacular boulder field in a tight canyon,
- The Upper Trancura (class IV) was a pool and drop and we skip the big Meriman drop...
- The Upper Fuy (class IV+) had a 25 footer and 3 more in the 10-16 foot range
- and classic Upper Palguin (class IV+) basalt lava channel with a double drop technical 14 footer, a 10 footer and a forked 20 footer.
Billy posted entries in his blog;
http://billyharrismission.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html;
Several of the photos in his blogs are from the team members or mine in fact, including all those in his "Arrival" entry.
You can also get a description of the runs through this online guide book;
http://www.exchile.com/guide/index.php/San_Pedro_River by navigating a bit.
I am still working on a long blog entry and playing around with my pictures and video footage.
Tomorrow is back to work...
LD
