Jul 22 2009

In the heart of the Pyrenees

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Around mid of june, Asier, Eneko, jorge and myself  (Haritz) decided to meet up in “Torla” river, in the entry of Ordesa National Park, to run the “Bujaruelo” slides section, a classic run over the Aragonian Pyrenees (Spain). Luclky we had the company of Tomás, who was our photographer for this mission. We took a look on the river as we were driving up to the put in, specially on “the big ramp”. At first look it doesn’t look difficult, although we knew that you must run this rapid well to avoid the right side of it at any cost.

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The run started pretty easy, paddling through some small-rounded-boulder rapids, though Jorge had to quit due to a minor back injury. Asier did the run a weel earlier, but we still had to stop to check out some lines because of the gradient that the river has in this section, which consist pretty much in the main feature of this section. You would be surprised how much it drops in only 3 km!

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After enjoying the first hour of white water fun, we made it to the portage, just before the main slides.By the time we arrived to the main slide (35 mts) The tension in the crew came up pretty high, specially to me, as the boys laughed about that, you can imagine the expression on my face…..Once we where sure about the line, we went for it! One by one, the adrenaline rush was an amazing feeling as we dropped this pretty one. The following slides came one after the other without much air in between and happy faces came along with them too….We did a successful run, “happy days-feeling” was burning in our veins, hugs and beer were the perfect elements for a good end of day….

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A mediados de Junio del 2009, Asier, Eneko, Jorge y yo ( Haritz), quedamos en Torla, a puertas del parque nacional Ordesa, para kayakear en la sección de las rampas de Bujaruelo, un clasico del Pirineo Aragonés ( España). Junto con nosotros vino Tomas, que fue el que nos sacó todas las fotos. De camino al rio, paramos para echar un vistazo al paso clave: la rampa grande; a primera vista no estaba demasiado complicado, aunque como ya sabiamos de antes, era muy recomendable hacer las cosas bien y no irse a la derecha.

El descenso comenzó tranquilo, abriendo camino por bolos pequeños, hasta que Jorge tuvo que evacuar por un tirón en la espalda. Aunque Asier ya habia corrido la sección una semana antes, tuvimos que parar u par de veces para mirar mejor algunos pasos que ganaban desnivel, y discutir la mejor linea. Una de las caracteristicas de esta sección es el desnivel que acumula en sus alrededor de 3 km de descenso.

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Después de disfrutar de la primera hora de aguas bravas llegamos al porteo que precedia a las espectaculares rampas de este clasico. La tensión subio considerablemente cuando llegamos a la rampa de 35 metros, especialmente a mi, de la cuales se rieron un poco mis compañeros. Una vez evaluada la mejor linea por diferentes puntos, nos echamos por la rampa uno por uno, descargando adrenalina por todos los poros. Las siguientes rampas vinieron una detrás de otra, gozando con el rio en cada una de ellas. Cuando superamos los ultimos intensos 300 metros de rampas, sifones y troncos llegamos exitosamente al final de la sección, abrazandonos y tomando ruta para celebrarlo con unas cervezas.

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