Hi all,

I'm back earlier than expected ! It took us 8 days to complete the Kitoy river instead of the 11/12 we had planned. We paddled 240 km from the put-in to the take-out, which makes an average of 30km per day. But the truth is that we paddled as less as 2 kms per day on the difficult sections, and made more than a hundred kms over the last two days !

The waterlevel was quite high, and the river itself was beautiful with 60/80 cubics running through its 3 canyons. We found big volume, huge holes, and a few waves that we acually surfed with our creekboats heavily loaded ! The paddling was even better than on the Tompuda that we completed 2 weeks ago.

Regarding tributaries, we didn't find anything really worth... except the Eche-Gol river and its superb 13/14m waterfall just a few hundred meters from the confluence with the Kitoy river. Wow ! The waterfall itself was already really intimidating, and its remote location made it even more challenging to run, in case something went wrong... But in the end, the fall looked clean enough, and the Eche-Gol waterlevel was perfect, so we all ran it... with success ! What a mind-blowing run it was !

With still a lot of adrenalin running through our veins, we could then continue our descent in a more relaxed way. I won't go into much details now about the incredible rapids and scenery, because I think the pics will speak much better by themselves. So keep an eye on the next issues of Kayak Session for a full report !

I'm also bringing back tens of hours of superb footage to tell our story. I'll post here about where and when to see it ! I'd also like to thank my various sponsors for their support in this trip, and especially Salomon, whose help was essential to make this dream possible for me.