2days self-support on the Dourbie river!!

Video made by Stephane Pion

On October 12th and 13th, I joined my buddies Raph Thiebaut, Stephane Pion and Valentin Corrotte to paddle the full upper Dourbie river in France on a 2 days self-support trip!!

We load our stuffs in our kayaks for 2 days with sleeping bags, a tarp, warm clothes, tin dish, food, etc...
And here we go for 2 days on the river with our 35kg kayaks!!!


Raph Thiebaut in the 1st gorge.


Raph Thiebaut boofing his heavy kayak in the 1st gorge!!


Val Corrotte in the 1st gorge.


Sometimes heavy kayaks don't help you at all... Ask Stefun!! ;-)


At the end of the afternoon, we found a super campsite for the night, you know the one clean, flat with trees to put the tarp on, with grass and no rock!! hehe!!
Here Raph Thiebaut getting warm around the campfire when the night arrived.
A good dinner, tea and grilled chestnut and we were ready for a good long night!!


Myself.


The exit of the 1st gorge of the 2nd day.

So we paddled the 17km of the upper Dourbie on 9h of kayak on 2 days self-support.
It's a really wonderfull section with great class IV/V+ rapids all along and a really smooth and pleasant kayaking style, and all that in a beautiful valley!!

Many thanks to my kayaking buddies for these 2 awesome days of great kayak!!