Time to get dirty...

After almost 2 weeks kayaking in Chile we are starting to feel good about running stouts and charge hard. Today was the day to go run one of the craziest and scariest rapids I've ever seen. My old brother ran that drop 4 years ago now, with all the top rapids included... I doubt I would have run it without know that 4 other persons have run it since that time, most of them having crazy lines and good carnage... 

my bro doing the 1st' d of this falls!

On the left you recconect on rocks, the middle is good to go and If you go too far right you fall in to a crack...

anyway the drop itself is not the worst thing, the real deal of this waterfall is on the entrance where you have to make a crazy move against a hole, don't get your boat sucked up in the curly and keep your boat sraight on line... 

boats falling off after a bit too much of rally on the dirt road to the llancahue...

We geared up slowly and walked to the put-in falls, the more I looked at It the less I was feeling it.Too much options to get fucked and not much of stomping it without get any good hit... Luckily Evan was more fired up than me and decided to go first, he cleaned the entrance easily but missed a left stroke and ended up on the super far left side of drop where you reconnect with rocks, from the top I just got to hear the hit... He resurfaced fast and gave me the signal that it was good to go!

Evan going for it!

I stopped thinking about it and ran into my kayak. Did a few strokes and started paddling into it. I went too far In the left on the entrance and got flipped out. That was the craziest moment upside down just a few meters away of the less clean and stoutest rapid out there... I rolled up fast and kept charging hard in to the right. Even so hard that I ended up in the crack...

fuckin it up and going way too far to the right.

It went more smooth than what I expected and got to the bottom without flip, the impact was hard and I got pushed against the wall but safely made it down! 

falling down

stoked till I felt that my gopro was gone... sad for that cause I will not be able to get one for quite a while but happy that we all didn't get injuries! A few meters after the Dirty Gerd you got this beautiful 10 meters drop, clean as it gets! We both had sweet lines, after the drop you have to be fast and get out on the right of the river, some rope work needed...

evan layin treats

myself enjoying the most PERFECT waterfall ever

Thanks to all involved! For the safety, photos and everything! you guys are awesomme!
all the photos by Mathias fossum

living the dream! chile strong as never before!

This last year is becoming the most incredible adventure ever, It has been a few few months out of home, living out of my backpack and travelling from one place to another. I arrived Chile a week ago, we haven't lost anytime and we haved kayaked everyday. We started with the famous todo nevados at good water flows, good lines and lot of fun, that river is a gem.

esperando en Panama city para mi vuelo a santiago de chile

Este último año esta siendo una de las mayores aventuras de mi vida. Ya llevó unos cuantos meses fuera de casa, viviendo de mi mochila viajando de un sitio a otro. Llegué a Chile hace una semana, no hemos perdido el tiempo y no hemos parado de remar! Empezamos con todo el rio nevados, menuda joya!

nevados slide

demshitz drop entrance bien seguidito a Anton

 juanito crazy shot !! como te mandas brother!

el diablito, por sino era suficientemente intimidante ahora el rapido tiene un tronco cruzado donde te puedes quedar atascado....

Next day was followed with two laps on the Puesco, boulder garden with continuous class Iv rapids, so good for hangovers and to just have fun paddling, making steeze and fast lines, a boater-cross here would be sick!
El dia siguiente remamos 2 rondas en Puesco, un continuado rio de clase IV con muchísimos boofs y buenos movimientos.

puesco style, puro clase IV continuado, paradise!

Third day was the day for some medio palguin action, the easiest, coolest and healthiest 70 footer that you will ever find. We ran stout 10 with pretty good lines, and Evan and me went for a second lap form the seal-lunch. We then followed down to the lower where we met with our friend from Argentina Federico and headed up and for a fast upper palguin descent!
El tercer dia fuímos a correr medio paluin, la más fácil, perfecta y sana cascada de 24 metros que puedas encontrar.  le dimos al stout 10 también, una rampita de unos 3 metros con una línea muy muy estrechita...      

stout 10! la entrada a la cascada del medio palguin

el medio palguin from the top. photo by ian garcia

mas medio. photo by mathias fossum

juanito destroying the medio!! photo by mathias fossum

ian garcia going down the 70 footer. photo by mathias fossum

Today was the day for salto palguin check this great shot from Mathias fossum!! I had a sweet line and everything went fine, we then kept going together with Anton and EG all the way to lower palguin running medio and everything except of turbina and brendan's rapid. stoked and getting fired up for some more fire!! chile season is coming really strong!!
Hoy ha sido el dia del salto palguin, mirate esta photo de mathias fossum! He tenido una buena linea y todo salió de lujo. luego seguímos con anton y evan corríendo todo hasta el bajo palguin, solo andamos 2 rapidos, turbina y brendan's rapid. muy en forma, feliz y motivado por lo que se viene!!

Mexico video part 1

Check out the first of Mexico edits, this one is from my friend Lachie Carracher, enjoy and share it around! Lot more content to come soon!

Mexico from Lachie Carracher on Vimeo.

Todo Big Banana best section ever!

Big Banana is one of my favourite sections in the world, deep inside the jungle of Veracruz river combines some of the cleanest waterfalls and rapids you can ever find. This year we have run it for 7 times, always running every single rapid. Todo big banana’s are the best!

Enjoy a few sick gopro shots that shows the section!

1st drop of the run

slide in to deep gorge

silence drop!  

Check out this sequence where I make the last eddy in the left, almost going over the waterfall backwards and in to the bad left cave.

meat-locker, coolest rapid ever...

that's how you wanna end meat-locker
boofing the shit out of it!

the most dangerous rapid of the run, boof or drawn!

the beautiful 20 footer

same drop different angle!

backfreewheel on the last rapid

having fun on the alseseca! if you never paddled this river you don't know what you missing!

Back to the jungle

I am finally back on Mexico, have been an amazing two weeks recording the next Unknown with Tino specht, we have been running all the classics on Tlapacoyan and now looking forward for some rains that brings the levels up. 

Keep checking the blog because the teaser will be online soon. Check a few screenshots of the trip so far, my computer just broke so is hard to put things online but will come.

Hiking to Bukaki

sick gopro shot in Truchas 

heaven.

tomata 1 warm up day.

heading down, last stroke

face it

let it go down, easy and smooth

throw the paddle, grab your skirt
take the hit

roll up, celebrate , 100% adrenaline

Lot more content to come, tomorrow is tomatas huckfest, hope to see some bad ass lines and not much carnage, but is always hard in tomata 2.

Canada global trip 2011

30 april – 04 october

My trip to Canada is finally over!!! What a great 5 months I had!! I bought a 40 dollars tent and started camping at the ottawa river. First days in the spring was hard, cold , millions of mosquitos and so much rain... but as soon we started getting in the summer the temperatures went up as fuck and it was like being in Africa, so hot...

 cocinando en el spanish camp mientras la princesa se lo mira.

Mi viaje a Canada se termino!! Que 5 meses más buenos!! Me compre una tienda de campaña por 40 dollares, y empezé a acampar en el Ottawa river. Los primeros dias fueron muy duros, mucho frío, millones de mosquitos y mucha mucha lluvía... pero enseguida que llego el verano, las temperaturas se fueron como locas para arriba, y era como estar viviendo en Africa, que calor!

Garb sick wave!

The life was super simply, wake up early in the morning and go for a session without lines up, living at 1 min of a wave makes things easier, go get food and water at Beachburg (4 km.) walking  and hickeyking in the beggining but had bike after a few months (Thanks John and David) !! Get wood and cook some food, sleep a bit, go kayak to exhaustation in whatever of the waves is working, met up with many of the ottawa rats and go drinking and party either on WT or portage.... yes such an amazing life!

fuckin good times surfing with my brother in white dog!
hope you get well soon and we can go run the shit again! 

La vida era simplísima, levantarse pronto en la mañana e ír a por una sesión en corner wave o Garb sin cola en la contra. Luego ir a buscar agua y comida a Beachburg (4km) caminando y haciendo dedo durante los primeros meses y ya después nos conseguimos un par de bicis que fueron nuestra salvación!!! Ir a por leña y cocinar algo de comida, unas buenas siestas, mucho tiempo para leer, escribir y pensar. Y sobre todo muchas muchas horas en el agua, remando spots de calidad cada día. Las noches también se ponen buenas en Wilderness tours o en portage, con muchas chiquillas, copetes y gringos locos ...  verano azul!!

yo en el gran slide de la Tuque, la carrera más loca y extrema a la que nunca he participado.

I’m sure many people would get tired of living this way, is hard and monoton sometimes, when it’s cold and rainy, when you don’t have more books to read and there’s nothing to do.  But me I could live my entire life like that, love it! I havent seen such a clear change of the season as in canada, from one day to the other is summer, hot as fuck, and suddenly fall. All strong red fleeces , beauty landscape no matter the season. The valley has a strong power, it’s really easy to get stucked on it, just because the kayaking is too good and easy.

clean blunt en whitedog

Estoy seguro de que mucha gente se cansaría de vivir de este modo, es difícil y monótono a veces, cuando llueve y no puedes ni cocinar, cuando hace frío o cuando la verdad no tienes nada más que hacer. Pero pienso que podría vivir felizmente el resto de mi vida haciendo lo mismo.   Nunca vi un cambio de estación tan claro como en Canada, de un día para el otro era verano, calor sofocante, y de repente otoño. Todas las hojas de los árboles se ponen rojísimas y hace mucho frío por las mañanas y las noches.  

El valle del ottawa river tiene un fuerte poder, es muy fácil quedarse enganchado a este sitio ya que la vida es demasiada fácil y el kayak super bueno.

Typical canadian phrases:

- Thats awesomme!

- let’s get fuckdup!

- fuck you!  

- dont talk, smoke!

- tabarnac!

-i’m weisted!

KAYAK AREAS:

ottawa river, ontario: HOME. The ottawa has been my home for a few months, It’s a sick place to live, no cops, easy life, good weather and a river where you can kayak everyday. There’s a lot of different waves wich makes of this river one of the best freesyle trainings in the entire world.

Northern quebec: The north of Quebec is a wild region, so much water, big waves and stouts to run! Paradise!

Montreal: Montreal is one of the sickest cities I’ve been. So much things to do, it’s definetly a sportsman city, If I ever live in a city that would be Montreal, Habitat 67 and lachine rapids has a lot to do with it, two of the most incredibles in the world just in the middle of this city, pretty cool eh?

BC: Unluckily for me I never made it there, but BC is known to be one of the creeking paradises in the world, so many stout waterfalls, big volume rivers and beautiful scenary. Next year!!

Rio ottawa, ontario: CASA. El ottawa fue mi casa por 4 meses, es un sitio increíble, sin policía, con un estilo de vida fácil y sin estrés, buen clima y un río cojonudo donde puedes kayakear cada día. El río cambia mucho de nivel así que a medida que avanza la temporada tienes la opción de surfear olas nuevas cada semana, haciendo de este uno de los mejores sitios donde entrenar freestyle en todo el mundo.

Northern Quebec:

El norte de Quebec es una región salvaje, no hay demasiada gente habitando allá, los ríos llevan muchísima agua, grandes olas y rápidos cojonudos para correr! Un paraíso!

Montreal city:

Montreal es una de las mejores ciudades en las que he estado. Demasiadas cosas a hacer, definitivamente una ciudad de deportistas, si alguna vez vivo en una va a ser Montreal. Habitat 67 y lachine rapids tienen mucho que hacer con eso, dos de las olas más buenas en el mundo justó en la mitad de esta ciudad, que bueno eh?

Bc: Desafortunadamente nunca llegué, pero BC es conocido por ser uno de los paraísos en el mundo, muchísimas cascadas, ríos de mucho volumen y un bonito escenario. Pronto!

MONEY:

Depends a lot on the lifestyle you are having, but you can make things pretty cheap, the food is not that expensive compared to Spain, if you don’t have to pay for shelter or a car you are not going to waste that much money.

-       5 months in Canada (1100 dolares)  average (7 dollars per day) I think I waste more money in spain.....

-       If you stay in a rafting company money goes out like crazy the average Is around 30 box a day no matter that you sleep in the floor anyway.

DINERO:

Dependiendo en el estilo de vida que lleves vas a gastar mucho o muy poco. Alguna comida no es tan cara como en España, y si no tienes que pagar por alojamiento o auto no vas a gastar demasiado.

- 5 meses en canada (1100 dólares) unos 7 dólares al día.

- Quedándote en una de las empresas de rafting el dinero se te va a lo loco, unos 30 dólares al día e igualmente durmiendo en el suelo. 

alicia discovering the big whitewater of Quebec, DETONATOR!

CAR / NO CAR

Have a car in Canada is one of the most amazinf things in the world! Being the 2nd biggest country in the world, Canada is huge! The buses are so expensive that it’s not worth it to take them, If you get together with a group of friends just buy one for the time you’re there, there’s good cars for not more than a thousand dollars.

Coche/ no coche

Tener un auto en Canada debe ser una de las cosas más increíbles en el mundo! Siendo el segundo país más grande en el mundo, las distancias son enormes! Los buses son tan caros que no vale ni la pena agarrarlos. Si haces el viaje con un par de amigos intentar compraros un auto, hace todo super fácil y te da la opción de viajar por todo Canada sin estar dependiendo de otra gente para ir a remar! Puedes conseguir un auto genial por unos 1000 dólares.

aleix garburator

DON'T:

-       Never leave any food inside of your tent, dry bag... the only way to don’t get it stolen from a racoon is by ting it up on a rope or putting in a closed barrel.

Never clean your ass with a bad plant called posion ivy, hurts so much for like a month!

gerinower sick shot by myles clark.

racing full on in the whitewater grand prix!

BEST OF:

Lachine hell roadtrip

Best trick; pan-am to helix

Best food: 

Best wave: Mini-bus & Ruins

Best competition: White water grand prix

Best rapid: Dobleau-Mistassibi

Most Beautiful girls: Montreal  city

Best day of kayaking: Habitat 67, Lachine rapids & the sisters in one day....

Best party: portage’s are fun, and the whitewater grand prix parties were great too.

Best experience: one day I was paddling the river super early and there was a bear swimming on the river, I got super close to him and then he ran away. Was sick!

For sure this trip would have been so hard to make it happen without the help that everybody gave me. 

Thanks Marcos, Tino, Izabel, Pat, Deuce, David, Jodie and Carly, Sam, and so many other people that was always there to give a hand. LOVE YOU!