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.