Canyon of the Claro!!
I’ve just came back from a trip to the north, the Rio Claro again. We went there to run the first descent of the canyon of te rio Claro, a really nice section between the 22 and the 7 cups. It’s a 6 km section with a first nice canyon and a second really deep canyon. This is not a really hard canyon but it’s really deep, so you can’t see what’s inside and once you are in there’s no way to get out, so I think it’s why it has never been paddled before. We spent a whole day for the scouting, climbing, walking… It was really hard. On the evening we have scout mostly all the canyon, and we decided to run it the next morning. We woke up early and get to the water. The rapids of the first canyon were really cool, then we arrived to the big canyon. We ran this amazing slide, and then continue with the following rapids, that were nice too. So a really cool first descent of the canyon of the rio Claro, Chile.
Some cool photos of the canyon.
The slide!! Nice rapids on the first canyon.
Photos by Chris Korbulic
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 6:34 pm and is filed under Paddler Lifestyle Articles.
