Wednesday, June 5, 2013

1st D. of the Pas-De-Soucy

Wednesday 29th of May, we were going to paddle in Millau with Jonas driving down the Gorges du Tarn, I stopped to show him the famous (=tourist place) unrunnable Pas-De-Soucy.

Pas-De-Soucy is a massive rocks garden, on summer time the river disappears under the rock for 100m.

Two legends about it are still told to the local kids which make this rapid even more spectacular!!

We watched it, and damn, it was runnable at this flow. A clear line was even looking "easy".
We had another look down at the river and we decided to go!!
And we ran it!! 1st D!!

Important to say this rapid is exclusively reserved to expert kayakers. It's full of syphons and a swim could be dramatic.
Jonas and I are 2 experienced paddlers and used to paddle those kind of rapids.

Jonas and I in the Pas-De-Soucy.
We even had cool articles in the local newspapers like this one, in french:
http://www.midilibre.fr/2013/06/01/ils-ont-franchi-le-pas-de-soucy-en-kayak,708561.php 

Merci to Pierre Gattelet for the photo!!

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