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Truchas Combo

To get in to Truchas you have to put in on the road and hike in to the jungle for some minutes, then get to a scary cliff where you set up a rappel, and rappel down into the canyon, ones you are there it’s all about having fun. 

Truchas is a perfect 60 ft waterfall, it has a nice boof into a pool and into the perfect drop, it has become a classic in the last years.  What’s not that popular is the upper rapid. We hit the right level, and  decided it to give it a go to…

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Added by Iker Beristain on March 21, 2012 at 2:22am — No Comments

Mexico’s Unknown Waters II (First Decent Salto Atoyac)

Mexico’s Unknown Waters II

(First Decent Salto Atoyac)

Veracruz is one of the best and more popular states for kayaking in Mexico, It’s known by some of its famous rivers, like: the Alceseca, Xico, Jalacingo, etc…

This time we went…

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Added by Iker Beristain on January 11, 2012 at 12:32pm — No Comments

How to properly throw your paddle of a waterfall.











Throwing your paddle of a waterfall is not something you should just decide spontaneously, if you´ve

decided you are going to throw it, you should know it before running it.





This move has some pros and some contras:…





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Added by Iker Beristain on March 10, 2010 at 2:00pm — 5 Comments

Going off the lip

Running waterfalls is one of my favorite things in kayaking, even thought it only lasts for few seconds, it is one of the greatest feelings ever. That doesn’t mean you should go and run every single drop you find, running a waterfall takes big responsibility and compromise with yourself and with all the people you are paddling with.

If you’ve decided to start running big drops, I mean from 50 feet up, here are some moves that might help you to get that perfect line:

1. First of all… Continue

Added by Iker Beristain on November 15, 2009 at 9:35pm — 2 Comments

Global Warming: Side effects.

Global warming is affecting Earth, that’s a fact everyone knows, or at least everyone should know.

There are hundreds of things you might know about global warming, from stuff you’ve heard in the news, or read on the books, like for example: cars and other producers of Co2 are one of the main cause, or the most popular one: polar bears are drowning cause of the ice melting.

All this information you get from the communication media it’s true and you shouldn’t ignore it. But right now I… Continue

Added by Iker Beristain on October 6, 2009 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Mexico’s Unknown Waters.

Mexico is one of the best places to be a creek boater, it has so many rivers, with so much potential, and most of them unexplored. The other good thing about this is that kayaking is a new sport here, so that leaves a lot of FD for us.

This time our FD takes place in Cuernavaca, which is just 30 minutes drive from the big city, this river is like a ghost river. The first time we got to this waterfall, there was not enough water to even consider running it.…



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Added by Iker Beristain on September 23, 2009 at 12:08am — No Comments

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