10/27- Rio Cotahuasi, Day 4

We rafted Marpa in the AM, and Gian Marco hit his head swimming across the river. Then we had a great line up of rapids:

Meter canyon where we had to highside the rafts to get them through the narrow slot:

Centimeter Canyon where we had a nasty big rapid above a narrow constriction where we had to portage the rafts. Kayakers ran and it was a great rapid:
Christina in Orange Juice, named after a swim Gian Marco had here where he had all the orange juice in his kayak, and it all swam out. A few big holes with great boofs. Liz had an impressive line down the right on her riverboard. Christina nailed the boof:
High side for your life which looked undoable in a raft, but both totally styled it. Great rapid with two HUGE boulders. Start left, cut right, highside for your life!:
Last big rapid everyone portaged, and one raft flipped being lined down on the right side. Baker totally styled it. It was a complex 7 foot slide with narrow margin of error:

We also got some stellar views of Inca ruins and terraces on the hills:
Long day ending with confluence and GALES of wind.


Liz´s comentary: Drew ran Marpa at the beginning of the day. Styled it. For some reason, Gian Marco decided to jump into Marpa and swim the last drop.. and I guess he hit his head in it.
All the biggest rapids were on day 4. We had Meter Canyon, which was cool, then we had Centimeter canyon, which was one of the harder rapids. An S-turn move into the center drop with a giant wieve at the botton left and a tiny slot on the right with crazy boily water at the bottom. Had to roll off the wall at the bottom of that one. It was kinda gnarly. They lined the rafts.
We had another rapid called Orange Juice with 3 flakes at the top and a HUGE flake/ pourover tombstone at the bottom in the center. We all styled it, and they lined the rafts. There was another rapid called Highside for Your Life. I went super deep in the hole and when I came up, all I heard was Scott yelling " That girl´s crazy!" It was a fun one.
There was one huge one that most people walked and they lined the rafts through, and Drew´s raft flipped while lining it. Only Jonathan, Scott, and Andy ran it. It wasn´t very fun looking.