My first couple weeks in Chile have been incredible. I’ve seen and run some of the biggest and most spectacular whitewater of my life. It seems like there is a new river or lake around every turn in the road, and I can’t wait to explore more of this country.
Our first week here we stayed at Dave’s house in Pucon. I became accustomed to the Trancura river which the property borders. On the Trancura, I got familiar with the feel of the river since I hadn’t been on anything big since October. Right below our house, the Trancura features a great playwave, and the upper sections offers good class III-IV river running. I spent a lot of time with Billy Harris on the Trancura learning my boof.
We spent our second week here in the tiny, one-road lake town Choshuenco. Our focus in Choshuenco was on one river, the Rio Fuy. On our first day at the Fuy we drove up to the water fall Leona, a clean 25 footer, and I ran my first waterfall. The lower Fuy offers some nice play and a great place to perfect boof strokes and eddie turns. The middle Fuy is an action packed run with waves and holes everywhere. The upper Fuy is a smaller water run with multiple waterfalls. The blue water of the Fuy leaves it one of my favorite rivers in the world.
After the week in Choshuenco we are back in Pucon. Yesterday, I ran the Rio Palguin for the first time. It is a creeking run in a beautiful canyon. The Palguin is my favorite run so far in Chile because of its scenery and fun rapids.

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