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<\/a><\/p>\nThe crew was set, all we needed were some epic rivers. The first river we did was a steep first descent on the east coast.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a 60km river packed with steep slides and big drops.\u00c2\u00a0 We were fortunate to have some local villagers help us hike our fully loaded boats the 6km from the end of the road to the put in.\u00c2\u00a0 After a full day of paddling through rice fields and spider webs we made it to the steep part of the river.<\/p>\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Repel over an unrunnable 90 footer!<\/p>\n \n This was pretty standard for the style of river.\u00c2\u00a0 The next two days had a bunch of clean slides with a few huge unrunnable drops thrown in the mix.\u00c2\u00a0 After we finished the 3 day run we waited 36 hours at a bus station for a ride back to Antananarivo to get ready for our next big river..<\/p>\n The next river was an unknown 250km section of the Betsiboka river.\u00c2\u00a0 The Betsiboka took us 12 full days of Croc. infested waters with some huge big volume slides and rapids.<\/p>\n \n \n \n Big tomato soup rapids<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n croc caught by a local village.\u00c2\u00a0 I think they were more scared of them than us<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n After 12 long days of paddling, camping in the rain, and drinking out of the brown side streams we made it to the take out at one of the most amazing falls I have ever seen. Stay tuned for the Documentary to be released this spring!<\/p>\n
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