2015 recap

one more year…. time flies when you are having fun and this one has been an amazing one… so many things to be thankful for … healthy family, beautiful friends, living the life I always wanted !!huge thanks to my sponsors who help me on the mission of making a living from kayaking !!Red BullWaka Kayaks Werner Paddles Sweet Protection Watershed Drybags Smith Optics @redbullesp Here's some stats of what 2015 looked like:46 new rivers 8 swims 2x mariman (implosions doing freewheels )high water Upper Gandara ( 2 at the gauge. epic !!! didn't make it left on the slide and got owned by a huge hole… GOTTA MAKE IT TO THE LEFT AT HIGH WATER !!! 1x villalobos, colombia (lean to surf to 35 sec. down time…scary one.)1x caqueta surfed a huge hole , held on for ever … nothing else to do but swim.. bz falls , usa ( got stucked on the right side, couldn't paddle out)mariman high water left line. beatered and ended surfing the big hole… 5th sister, alsesseca, mexico (owned…. ) most epic days of paddling- upper jalacingo - lower jalacingo - tomato's - 7 sisters (3 hours and a half - myself & Pat keller)- Rio Urubamba Chilca to aguas calientes - hike up/down Machupichu - Santa Teresa todo Majoy 1st descent of the untouchable rapid- high water Aldeyrjafoss 125+ cumecs- 1st time on the keldua with eparker and todd wells, iceland- todo Majoy for the first time, Siberia - graceland + last gorge upper cherry high water with EG Best solo's- High water Gandara- BB to 7 sisters- High water todo Nevados / Palguin / Gol-Gol1st descentskeyhole 100 ft. , canadatruful put-in 40 ft. shallow landing , chilenewen falls 80 ft. , chilequadrop, keldua icelandviking waterfall 50 footer , iceland60 footer , extra shallow landing , icelandgeyser rapid, rio arazas, spainrio putumayo . 3 days and a half in the river. most committing gorge I've ever been to. over 200 hundred class IV / V rapids. unscoutable / unportagable rapids. it was epic !!! 4 runnable portages. 2nd descent untouchables2nd descent newen falls2nd descent 40 footer rio arazas x278 In 87 days offno injuries besides tendinitis, sore ribs and a few shoulder issues… stoked !!!

Posted by Aniol Serrasolses on Thursday, January 21, 2016