Muy pronfundo pensando

What say I, things are good. Life here is relaxed and fun I am really enjoying how relaxed I feel down here. My friends are down here and we are getting some paddling done. We did a cool creek the other day that was recomended to me by a peruvian but also said to be a first descent. So as it turns out we did a first descent of an absolutely amazing creek perhaps one of the best creeks I have ever done. Getting there was a slow half a day affair. First we took a cheap bus to a small town about a hour away, pisaq. From Pisaq we hired a taxi and got a ride down into the neighboring valley, this drive was between two and three hours and at one point took us over a 13,000+ foot pass, it was cool. We landed in our aimed town and spent the night in an old farm, the villagers came around both then and early in the morning as well. They helped us put in at
around 8 in the morning and we paddled out of their beautiful farm valley into the unknown. In about twenty minutes we did come to a couple jumbly rapids, class 3, but this was just a sign of what was to come. After coming through a couple rapids we all made a nice five foot slot boof and that was when things started to get good. From there on out it was continous read and run 3/4 with maybe a five or two. We came down a couple nice boofs around a corner and we got to run a sliding ten foot water fall and then we realized well crap were in a bit of a canyon. I scouted the next rapid and declared it marginal, but of course this rapid was a guard to the canyon. Because there was no good way to portage this rapid and then get back in the river afterwards, the only way was to bail up to a road about five hundred feet up a big hill/cliff. Well this is what we did, it took us about three hours and involved 5.7 rock climbing moves on a 300 foot exposed cliff, but overalll we all got up to the road find with the help of some friendly peruvians. What we saw once we got up is that after that canyon, if we had run that drop and gone further we would have been forced to run a quarter mile long unscoutable box canyon, wow, peru is awesome. This creek was truly amazing and even more so that it was a first descent. Well that is my biggest happenings right now, chou, nate.

Pasando tiempo y esperando

My friends will be arriving here tomorrow so I thought I would say howdy and post a couple more photos before I depart for my kayaking travels. Things have been very well here the rainy season has really started to pick up, which of course I enjoy. Anyways been doing a bit of thinking about my total schooling experience here and just realizing how good it has been . I already miss everyone a lot even though it has only been a week, I think I miss everyone because I am living in a foreign culture and I got custom to moving about this culture with my friends from school and now that's gone. But things are alright overall, ok I guess that's all for now. Enjoy the photos.
This is our last day of work at Mantay and gives you an idea of what was accomplished, nice walls, eh.
This is just a funny picture that I like taken at one of the ruins along the way on the Inca trail. What a beautiful flower.
This is some type of moose looking creature chewing some grass in the false summit of the large pass on the Inca Trail.
This is elizabeth and I hiking along the Inca Trail, climbing up the 13,700 foot pass, it was a lot of work on the lungs.

Random photos of my family in NC and peru fotos.

I really like this photo so here it is, this is me, my brother, and my dad, more or less all good people.

My semester is done, termino, and some photos.

This is taken at Moray, the first ruins that we visited. A cool group photo.
A beautiful view from Pacca Huaynacolca, looking down into the Sacred Valley.
Another beautiful photo of mantay, what a cool place, a cool day, and a cool photo.
This is Maritza, my peruvian mother, as you can see she is great.
This is mantay and all the women that live there, this is our final day group photo, a truly good bunch of people.
This is our last day of working at the service project, mantay, it was truly a very fun experience and I may go work there a little bit more because I have some free time before my friends show up from the states.