Friday, October 19, 2007

10/19 - Rio Colca, Day 3

Our third day began with great Class IV rapids, narrow chutes

Drew swam deep on bouldery rapid, missed Andys rope and had lots of down time.

Narrow chute drop that looked impossible, down and to the right

Huge drop with hole in front of whale sized rock

2 portages, first was on left through caves, took 1 hour and we ate lunch on rocks up high

Second was 40 minutes later on right over rock wall, good teamwork. Polish canyon. Rock fall area. first decent ran out of food here and thought they'd never escape.

After second portage there was a fun rapid with holes going into a spectacular canyon with steep walls.

Camp was shortly after with high winds filling food with sand. Kitchen behind big rock but still sand everywhere. Anticipation of final day, lots of wind! Ugh, wind or bugs!?

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