Friday, I came in Pau just after school to join Eric who came back from Cape Verde where he rode the volcano Fogo in a kayak with Camille de Faucompret, she were in snowboard!!
Yeah frenchies are crazy!!
Well, we're ready for lot of pretty nice adventures and a great kayak week!!
Saturday, we were on the upper Brousset at 1700m.
It was a magic place, and the river was wonderful under this great sun!!
Val in the first rapid, the entry was under the rest if the avalanche
Eric goes big in the second rapid, and probably open the right line
Sunday, direction the Neste du Louron.
All seemed runable, but many trees blocked the last goges... :-(
Too bad, it will be for a next time!!
Well, we do the fisrt gorge!!
It's very steep, fast, pretty good... and the best thing it's a first descent!!
Eric in the waterfalls section
Val goes in the last waterfall
Monday, we take the roadfor the Gorges of Luz.
These one are flood, it will be hard inside!!
In the gorges, it's very big and we have to fight hard to be clean and safe and arrive at the take out without problem.
Fabrice "Fafa" Poueyto in the start of the second gorge.
At the game "who can fight the river?", Pierro loose!!
Pierro swam at the entry of the second gorge and achieve to catch and climb on a rock.
30 minutes after, Eric did a second descent of the second gorge to give him a safety cover, food, water, etc...
Pierro stay on the rock 3 hours, it was impossible for us to pull him out by the river, the cliff was too high but it was possible to climb it.
The last way to pull out Pierre was the air!!
The guys of the PGHM (mountain rescue) was really happy to join us for that!!
Pierro enjoy his helicopter trip and payed his round of beers!!
Tuesday, we decided to go to watch a new virgin river section.
This one was near Gavarnie
Eric in the drop
Wednesday, we came back to the Gorges of Luz.
The gorges was very flood, I have to say you it was real war on the river!!
We did it 2 times, the second one was more flood than the first!!
It was FAAAAAAAAAT!!
We did the 5km of class V of the river in 20 minutes with Eric!!
Eric try his new onboard camera system
Val, before the gorges
The warm up before the dam and the gorges
Thursday: We come back to Gavarnie to watch and maybe paddle a new river section enfluent of the Gave of Gavarnie.
There, something big is waiting for us, a 12 meters (40ft.) waterfall with some slides and drops.
Eric and I decided to paddle the waterfall...
Eric
Val
After that, we go on the classis section of the Gave of Gavarnie with a very big water level, and we had to stop at the middle of our descent...
Friday: The water levels are too much hight in the French Pyrenees and we can't paddle there, so we had to go paddle in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees.
On the road Fafa, Eric and I enjoyed a beautiful sea of clouds and the grassland where we eat.
On the Spanish side, we find the Rio Veral with a little water level... it was a nice descent.
I came back in Pau Friday night while Eric, Fafa and Loïc took the road for the flood Rio Aragon Subordan.
Saturday: On the road to come back home, I stoped in Flip Flap (St Pé de Bigorre) where I joined Marc Girardin, Max Mitaut and others.
The Flip Flap was enormous and flood too, and we really enjoyed this great playspot!!
Max, blunt
Marc and Max did a massive Power Flip
Marco carving in his Element
Val
Many thanks all for this pretty nice week!!
La machina del amor!! haha ;-)
Photos:
Fafa Poueyto
Eric Deguil
Julien Le-naour
Nicolas Fayol
Val Grollemund
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