Llancahue
The Llancahue borns on the south face of the Villarrica volcano. We went to have a look to a new section of the Llancahue, but right now there’s too much water. The Llancahue is a really wet river, with deep canyons with plenty of vegetation and volcanic rock from the eruptions of the Villarrica volcano. It’s really hard to scout, so it’s hard to put-in and take-out of the river. We spent a day scouting a small part of the river and looking for a take-out, but the canyon is too deep, so you have to run the whole section.
South face of the Villarrica volcano in the evening.
When we woke up the next day the waterlevel was higher, abd the rapids look pretty hard. I finally ran the two first rapids and the first drop. This section of the river has never been paddled before so I ran the first descent of this nice waterfall. The river is really step with no eddys, and the end of the second rapid was waterfall. There was just a little eddy to stop before the fall. The fall was high, and the pool was really violent with no eddy and a lot of water going downstream to the next clean and really nice drop with no exit. The only problem of this second one was that if you ran it, there was no way to take-out, so we decided to wait a few weeks for low water and run all the section.
The rapids before the first fall.
On the lip of the first fall.
Going for a good line.
In the middle.
The next waterfall.
The second one with no exit.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm and is filed under Paddler Lifestyle Articles.
