I arrive to Mexico the 4. november, looking for paddling big staff.
I´m hoping to find a good team, not just good paddlers, but good people as well.
I know allot of kayakers traveling to this country, so I´m not scared of not getting new friends.
Aniol Sarasoles is here, so I try to contact him as fast as possible.
Bad luck, he is injured.
But luckily I know some friends of me are here, and I find them, in Tlapacoyan.
Mino, Txomin and Eneko are good guys and good friends, and I know they love class 5. Of course I contact them!
From the beginning of this travel in Mexico, I can see how the people want to help me to travel with my kayak. Everybody is very friendly and simpatical.
So I arrive to Tlapacoyan with no big problems.
Tlapacoyan is a small city between mountains and forests of banana trees. The rivers by the rode look very stip.
I meet with my friends and we make plans for next days.
In the same moment they introduce me to Rafael Ortiz, the best paddler in Mexico.
He is very friendly and very happy to show us the reversion the area.
We start by paddling the Rio Alseseka ,tablazo section/roadside section.
The next days we been paddling full of sections. My favorite is big banana!
Everything is very steep.
I need to learn to fly in waterfalls, so we go to San Pedro; 13 m and Trutxa ; 18 m. The next day to the Tomata1; 23 m.
I don't have all the time very good fly, but I´m learning fast.
My friends are leaving, but I find new ones from Germany and we decide to go to paddle in Valles area in Rio Mikos.
It´s not that much action in this area, but the rivers there are wonderful!
After a week of paddling with the Germans we find Aniol in Valles and decide to come back to Tlapacoyan.
The Germans continue their travel by plain, direction Chile.
Chao new good friends.!!!! See you soon.
Aniol is not totally fixed from his indjure but we still paddle allot. There are also some very good french kayakers arriving, they are good guys and we do allot of paddling together.
Rafa Ortis is studying so he come to Tlapacoyan just in the weekends, but soon he will be in holidays. So…. big class 5 section; we arrive !
Cascada San pedro Perfect for start to learn how to fly Foto: Seppi Strohmeier.
This is very cliché, everything is not like this in Mexico, but sometimes its exactly like that.
It's not allways easy to find the rivers. The machete, the lokal big knife, is not to much to carry in your boat.
Rio Mikos, beautiful but with allot of caves Foto: Seppi Strohmeier.
This is Mexico Hiiiijjjaaaaaaa. Foto By Netta Haansnar
Foto by Netta
Ok, in this picture in the far right, I did try to boof off a small drop. I miss my boof because I scratch the bedrock.
Upside down I got recicled behind the curtain of the drop, and ended up in a cave that was big like an elefants ass.
Trying to roll I feel like I'm in a bad situation, so when I see a rock I grab it and pull my spread deck.
Luckely it's not deep everywhere, but it's still dificult to hold on to my kayak because the current push it to a undercave.
I also lost my paddle, or Permins paddle actualy.
The german kayakers don't take the same line as me and when they don't see me in the end they look for me everywhere. Nobody in ower team know it's a cave in this place, so after 15 minutes they start to think they lost me.
Me, I am in my cave and trying to think how the hell show the others that I'm behind this very thick curtain. I tried screaming and whisteling, but no chance.
So I take my rope and attached it to my kayak. I throw my kayak in the curtain and hold on to my rope.
In this moment I thougt it was the best thing to do for show my position. But when my kayak crossed the curtain and got full of water it became dificult to keep holding the rope, so I decide in the moment to jump with the rope pulling me through the curtain.
When I have my head out of the water, I see full of people on the riverbank and Seppi is pulling my rope to help me.
I'm allways going to remenber Permins happy scream.
I hope nobody is going to have this experience, but I write about it, so if it hapens, this will maybe help some kayakers.
Sorry to my Germans friends and to Netta for scare them!
Netta, myself and the German friends; Anne, Permin and Seppi
Rio Alseseca Tablazo `Road side section´ .You boof or you surf.
In this one I don't want to surf
It's a great river to practice the boof.
Before the s
La S, the mian rapid in the Tablazo section. In this section it is the race, against the dam-program, the 15. january.
For shure it's going to be allot of action. Fotos Tablazo by Aniol Serrasolses
Boukaki in Rio Jalacingo. It's not allways easy to make good lines in this one. Foto: Seppi Strohmeier.
Cascada de la tomata Alseseka 23 m, in Mexico we say; Fuck Gravity !!!! Foto By Netta
