A Christmas and New year in Chile.

The season here is starting to move along now.
We've had quite a few trips and just finished our multi-day trips with 2 groups of clients.
It has been good times here in the Futa. The weather has been amazing and I'm hoping it says like
this for a good while.
We've ran the whole river by now, theres been some good lines and some bad lines. I think the bad lines
out-weigh all the good lines that I've had. But all has been good on the river. Learning all the rapids and
rowing has been good. Guided the Bridge to Bridge section a few times. Spilled some people, they had a big swim but then on the other hand I've also not spilled anyone.

Christmas day was a fairly hungover day. So it was relatively slow. We could have worked but Josh decided against it as we were all in a bad way. So we jumped in the van and headed to Aren and Sarah's place on the Rio Azul for an asado. And it was Epic!

Asado, Bbqing the lamb. 

Aren and John cutting up the lamb. 

 

 

 

 We ate like kings, it was some of the best meat I've eaten along with some good salad. What I like about here is that I've pretty much known where all the food has come from. When it comes to the lamb, you ask a local farmer that has lamb for sale and tell him what day you need the lamb for. The only thing is, you need to
kill the lamb yourself. Which is usually in a humanefull way. The locals usually drink the blood from the lamb with lemon and some herbs. After a long time digesting and a good few beers later, some of the guys went playboating on the Rio Azul in a play hole with good eddy service.

The guys lining up. 

Aren throwing it down

John throwing a loop. 

 

 

 

 

 

 After christmas we had two groups coming in for a few days. The plan was to run the whole river with them but before hand Josh thought it was a good idea not to run the canyon as it was a bit high.
We did run the rest of the river with the group and I believe that everybody had a good time. For the guys at the end of the trip, we had a asado for them down below at the lodge at the take out of the Casa de Piedra section.

The group at the put in for the terminator section. 

 Our new years was not the most exciting night I've ever had. We went out the eve before new years so we were hungover on new years and we had engine problems along with a flat tire so we stayed at the lodge after the rafting trip. Went to bed pretty early. So fairly quiet but a good one.
Not alot else to report, Just enjoying life here in Futaleufu

After the cold weather got this shot of the mountains behind the town

 Thought I would leave you with that one.
Happy New Year to all
Enjoy

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