Upper Cotahuasi Peru

These are shots from 2 different sections on the upper Cotahuasi in southern Peru.

The true Upper was creeky sieve avoiding class 4 and 5.

The other was a short but really good section of class 4 with 1 class 5 rapid we took out were the hike into the 5 day section on the Cotahausi starts, however it would be possible to keep going down to Sepia falls, portage the falls which is a huge multi teared drop and would be a long fairly brutal portage.
Then put back on and run Flat water canyon [ coming up in another post ] into the 5 day section.
We had a group ahead of us doing the hike in and so needed to catch up, when we reached the take out one of our mules who was loaded with a lot of our food had been left behind so we became mule drivers for the rest of the day. The hike past the Falls is spectacular.

The Rio Cotahuasi offers incredible amounts of white water we managed to run a lot of it, but there is a lot we didn't get to. Got to get back there. Peru is Amazing.









Photos below = the short section above the start of the traditional hike in to the classic 5 day run