Saturday, June 24, 2006

We've hit Switzerland and man have we landed on our feet, staying in a chalet only 30 minutes from a handful of good runs. This country is some sight, with miles and miles of snow tipped mountains sprawling around in all directions and wee little creeks raging in-between these vallies. Unfortunately internet cafés are non existent here…..


With the help of the lads in Swiss Raft Adventure (http://www.swiftraftadventures.ch/) we have been shown some of the regions classics. A sweet creek called the Medals Bach near a town called Decentieshas provided much entertainment with crisp clean 15 foot drops and exciting rapids. It has to be said however that this river has stripped me of my dignity on more than one occasion. We also got in a hairy river called the Sant Vixerine, which begins with 70ft of pure narl and a play run by the name of the Vorderhein.


Not every kayaking trip is solely about kayaking, again thanks to Swiss Raft Adventure we were introduced to canyoning, ‘twas quite the craic ab-sailing down creeks that with any water would be amazing runs. We were abseiled down 50ft waterfalls and dropped down 20ft slides.
We have another week or so here and then we are off to Norway… the red bull mountain bike trials are on here in Flims at hte moment so we should have some good fotos up of that soon...



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