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Exploration
of the
Middle Alseseca
Episode
Two
I
was disappointed to miss the second day of exploration, but
Montezuma’s Revenge was giving me a good working over. Eric
Seymour was
kind enough to supply me with pictures and a brief description of day
two.
The group rappelled in below a fifty-foot waterfall that landed on rocks. We had scouted the gorge from above the day before and found two slides and one waterfall we guessed at forty feet.
Next up for the group was a slide into a twenty-foot waterfall that landed in a boxed in cauldron at the lip of the larger waterfall. Eric probed this one, so no pictures of the entrance drop. After a clean run down the larger falls Eric signaled back to the group that the mandatory, unscoutable at river level waterfall was around fifty feet high.
Eric has this to say about the waterfall “I also put in a photo of nick after he broke his paddle over his hip. He was in a lot of pain and not happy. Ben landed on his side and was not happy. Rafa lost his paddle and hand rolled up.”
This run looks epic, and I am sure others will run it in the future! Thanks again to Eric Seymour for all the photographs.
The group rappelled in below a fifty-foot waterfall that landed on rocks. We had scouted the gorge from above the day before and found two slides and one waterfall we guessed at forty feet.
Phil
Boyer rappelling into the gorge.
The
first rapid was a big slide into a
gigantic hole, which Ben probed
without problems.
Nick
Troutman running the same big
slide.
Next up for the group was a slide into a twenty-foot waterfall that landed in a boxed in cauldron at the lip of the larger waterfall. Eric probed this one, so no pictures of the entrance drop. After a clean run down the larger falls Eric signaled back to the group that the mandatory, unscoutable at river level waterfall was around fifty feet high.
Ben
Stookesberry on the mandatory
fifty-five footer.
Eric has this to say about the waterfall “I also put in a photo of nick after he broke his paddle over his hip. He was in a lot of pain and not happy. Ben landed on his side and was not happy. Rafa lost his paddle and hand rolled up.”
Nick
Troutman dealing with a good
amount of pain.
This run looks epic, and I am sure others will run it in the future! Thanks again to Eric Seymour for all the photographs.