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* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2025-02-11 to 2025-02-13 12 / 3 days 1day / Packrafting/ SOBO/ RP regular (partly) / TomášThijmen Scholten'''</span> 

From Futaleufu, we tried to take * Water level was low at least 1m under the 10am bus to Chaiten with algae line on the plan rocks* Due to get low waterlevel Rapid 7.9/168 was dangerous because all of at Puerto Ramírezthe current went underneath strainers. So I walked. * Read river early and go were most water goes, but it was fullto avoid hitting rocks. Apparently the 6am bus was full too* It's beautiful!! Alot of small little rapids. You need * Many campspots next to reserve at least river and good fishing. * After rapid 23.4/135 There is a day split in advance, the ticket office opens at 10:00 river take left even though it's shallow! I got suck into strainers and there is usually a big queue already. They said this does not apply for the bus had to Palena - for jump and abandon my packraft that was sucked under. I think with high water levels you just show up at can easily avoid the terminal. We did not want to wait, so we hitched: trees but now with low water levels it took us 4 cars and 5 hours. We arrived in Palena 18:00, so we slept in a hospidaje here: -43.61753, -71.79944. 40 thousand for two with an early breakfast's impossible.

ROUTE:Walking from Palena, you do not need to cross the bridge, there is a staircase to a beach on the left just before the bridge. What others said about the river largely holds, we had even lower water than most reports. The river was probably half a meter under its maximum(in narrower places more in wider less). At the beggining ground contact was a concern, but could mostly be avoided. In the second section, there are indeed trees, but largely easy to avoid and there is not that many of them compared to 17P. The first section goes through a beautiful gorge. In the second, there are magnificent pointy mountains on the left. We wondered if they have ever been climbed, given their relative remoteness, namelessness and moderate prominence and altitude (~2000m). Side streams for drinking were pretty regular until km 85.5, after that until the sea you can easily got 10–15 km between drinkable accessible streams.

Nat's Notes:- 47.0, where mad nomad capsized, Jen Ni's 5 part Wiki post is an uncomplicated class II rapid with high (~1m) waves if you manage to hit the V between the trunks. Howevera great general overview, it then pushes you against a head wall with some speed, so remember to exit it must read. -At this point in time. We did I would not and hit the wall at a slow speed (via backpaddling)say post Rio Frio was "fast flowing", regained strength maybe only moderately fast in an eddy along the wall, and then attacked the side current to get outbits with rapids. It There was tricky to get outa lot more padding than expected, I think we could not paddle on averaged only 6kph.-Loved the left due to the wall and had to lean hard against the wall in order to not be capsized by the current on the right. mountain scenery!