“Rain’s season” season!

Author: madamax  |  Category: whitewater kayak

Rain season definitely started out here and most rivers are runnable, despite access and pull out issues.

A classic sighting in this season, kayakers in Cameleon Land

Philippe Giors and Sylvain Lelong had a good session in Itasy area, just after their Betsileo trip and truly enjoyed both Lilly and Mazy rivers.

A clean shower to dust off from muddy Mazy

When the highest falls are portaged, those runs becomes very reasonnable goals in the class IV-V range.

One of the Mazy steep and high falls

Weather is rather gentle in this area apart from afternoon showers and storms. bearable when rains are as warm as the lake waters; …

Check out the small video from Mazy

Malagasy-Franco-German Betsileo river mini trip

Author: madamax  |  Category: whitewater kayak

Sly and Pilou two french kayakists + a german tourist named Gust went with Edmond (you remember the beat up guy from last year!) for a 4 day descent on the upper Mania.

They launched boats in Sandrandahy, north east of Ambositra.

They ended up breaking one of the boat on day 3 of the Mania and switched on to Manandona, a bit further north, for a cool ride on the cata raft and an exploration of the gorges

The gorges received a lapidary comment of Sylvain who fears that some could try it!…