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==Season 2024/25==
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2025-Jan-15 to 2025-Jan-17 / 3 days / Packrafting / SOBO / RP / Davide Materia'''</span>
I started the palena bridge the morning of 15th of January. Right from the beginning I realized the water level was unusually low, in the first 200m I already had to get out of the packraft to walk on the riverbed. It got better afterwards and along the river I never had to portage anymore for the next five days. The first day there was not much of a log problem, this deteriorated the next days with always more and more logs present in the river bed. The low water level allowed to see most of them but also made so that some branches of passages were completely blocked by logs. In some section you might have a window as tight as 2m to pass, with the rest of the width being blocked. Still, I would consider the river viable and safe enough to be packrafted for the whole duration, but I don't know for how much longer of the dry season this will be valid.
As for the days in details:
15th-palena to S 43,670578° O 72,094896°, camped on the eroding cliff of the riverbed a bit further from the erosion border. The whole day was characterized by strong headwinds which made packrafting the ~0-gradient sections of the river quite unpleasant, East-bound wind of up to 25kph, this was definitely the worst day wind wise
16th-Nothing to mention here in particular. Camped again on the erosion cliff at S 43,729461° O 72,342124°on a grazing property after asking to the owner. Wind had picken up against me a bit later than the prior day and we're much calmer, still I didn't feel like forcing my way through them to la Junta and so I camped a bit after the union of Rio palena with Rio frio.
17th- easy day with almost no wind since the river goes SOBO. Pleasant and quick packrafting, I only did half the day to stop at camping agua vida in La Junta, which replenished my strengths and allowed to clean up clothes and body. Furthermore, it has easy access to the river so that I didn't have to pack everything and unpack, I just carried the packraft to the river with all the gear already in the cargo.
I continue with the rest of the report in the 28P page
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2024-Dec-08 to 2024-Dec-09 / 2 days / Packrafting / SOBO / RP / Roman'''</span>