Photos and Video from Canoeing in Costa Rica!
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:05 pm
We had a great trip last week to Costa Rica. Many thanks to Jim Coffey and Esprit. We got live the Pura Vida down there!
We had 80 degree weather and great water all week (there was rain from the week before and there are a large variety of dam controlled runs). I was blown away by the quality of whitewater there. We paddled 4 rivers in 3 days (our trip was cut short due to an injury; more in the blog post). There were everything from waterfall runs, to Smokies style boulder garden creeks, to cheoah type runs and even a Costa Rican Jungle version of the Gauley going through the rain forest. Costa Rica is definitely a world class paddling destination.
If you're ever thinking about doing a paddling trip in Central or South America you need to talk to Jim Coffey and Esprit. I've gone on amazing trips with Jim in Mexico and Costa Rica and he may even have another country in mind for next year (it will be awesome if he sets it up for 2013...) Regardless of where you go Esprit takes care of all of the logistics, shuttles, meals and they have a fleet of L'Edges, spanish flies, taureaus and preludes. It would be a tough call on which rivers I like better between Mexico and Costa Rica. There are amazing runs in both countries (but you can drink the tap water in Costa Rica! haha)
I would strongly recommend anyone taking a trip to paddle with Esprit in Costa Rica. It was 80 degrees and sunny in January, we saw tucans and howler monkeys and we were running waterfalls in the rain forest... Canoeing doesn't get much better than that!
Here is the blog post with photos and video footage. Enjoy!
Dooley
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We had 80 degree weather and great water all week (there was rain from the week before and there are a large variety of dam controlled runs). I was blown away by the quality of whitewater there. We paddled 4 rivers in 3 days (our trip was cut short due to an injury; more in the blog post). There were everything from waterfall runs, to Smokies style boulder garden creeks, to cheoah type runs and even a Costa Rican Jungle version of the Gauley going through the rain forest. Costa Rica is definitely a world class paddling destination.
If you're ever thinking about doing a paddling trip in Central or South America you need to talk to Jim Coffey and Esprit. I've gone on amazing trips with Jim in Mexico and Costa Rica and he may even have another country in mind for next year (it will be awesome if he sets it up for 2013...) Regardless of where you go Esprit takes care of all of the logistics, shuttles, meals and they have a fleet of L'Edges, spanish flies, taureaus and preludes. It would be a tough call on which rivers I like better between Mexico and Costa Rica. There are amazing runs in both countries (but you can drink the tap water in Costa Rica! haha)
I would strongly recommend anyone taking a trip to paddle with Esprit in Costa Rica. It was 80 degrees and sunny in January, we saw tucans and howler monkeys and we were running waterfalls in the rain forest... Canoeing doesn't get much better than that!
Here is the blog post with photos and video footage. Enjoy!
Dooley
http://canoemovie.amongstit.com/?p=358" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;