Rocky Contos/Kayaker

I'm a kayaker and explorer. I will be putting up information from hundreds of river first descents in Mexico and Latin America.

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Río Marañón video - highlights kayaking/rafting Grand Canyon Central + Lower... https://t.co/RBewMcxh05 via @YouTube

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Check out a new article From The Outdoor Journal about some trips I did in the year 2000! https://t.co/bX8wu0tTpm

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GRANDE-COLORADO: Great news!!! Dam on hold!! I’m enroute home after 4 busy days here delivering a new raft+equipo and helping get the current group of Brandon Naber/ Justin Miller underway. Glad to meet these guys... https://t.co/ihwumdCuwH

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Another Río Beni trip coming up on March20. Anyone interested? See photos of the last trip I ran here (first descent) at:
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Parliament rejects Murchison Falls dam construction https://t.co/g8dth4ZMqr

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Bolivia raft/kayak expeditions coming up February 27 (19 days - SanPedro-Grande) and March 22 (14 days - Pilcomayo). Let me know if interested to join as passenger/paddler, oarsman, or kayaker. https://t.co/8r7YoJYs9V

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SWIFTWATER RESCUE: The past 3 days I had Sam Drevo teach an Sierra Rescue International RRC course here in Chiapas for my guide team. Thanks to Sam Drevo for doing this before his eNTG group’s Usumacinta trip! A few... https://t.co/ubgELsisaJ

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OMO: Day14: km 710-747; We met and stayed a while with the Karo in Koricho village. Very interesting people - love to paint their bodies with white paint - they don’t drink cow blood like Bodi & Mursi (at least not... https://t.co/2mfaGxhseB

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OMO: Day13-14; km 661-710; 710-747 We continue on the slow meandering lower Omo making ~8 km/hr when rowing. The water keeps coming up 1-2 ft per might so I’m sure they are doing maximal releases from GibeIII and... https://t.co/ttSmtE5jzv

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OMO: Day11 km 543-601. We are in Omo National Park but not seeing much more wildlife than other parts of the river. Yesterday we did 78 km: saw 3 hippo, 42 crocs, 1 buffalo, >50 colobus, >50 baboon. Met the Badja... https://t.co/oi6THOWFNd

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OMO: Day6. We advanced 61 km today and are now at km 326. Wildlife count for the day: 64 hippo, 8 croc, ~30 colobus, 15 baboon, 4 waterbuck, 8 warthog, 12 African buffalo. We’ve met a few Oromic people along the... https://t.co/MoTcqCqOQn

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OMO: Day4: FLOODED! We bought some resupplies in Soddo and put in just downstream of the GibeIII dam. Seemed to be a relatively low release but it was Saturday. We set up camp 2km downstream on a sandbar but just... https://t.co/568PbQr5ql

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General trip coming up anyone can join Dec24. https://t.co/fwfsm1fYuK

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ALSEK: Photos of our trip with take-out date 5Aug2019. This was big water, cold, windy at times, challenging, with fun rapids, but incredibly beautiful. The photos and captions give a better idea of the trip. We... https://t.co/iEQUAVeBu9

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MARAÑON: Another successful descent of the full Grand Canyon Amazon! Pedro, Ariel, Lucho and Fico did a great job over the 24 days pf the two trips. There are groups going down October and December trip (anyone can join). All info on river: https://t.co/pQtBq04PN9

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YANGTZE UPPER CANYON: Day26; km 1043; END. We reached the end of the expedition at the start of Tiger Leaping Gorge on June 18, and went to Upper Hutiao Shoal to remember Mary Grace and disburse some of her remains... https://t.co/T3TMUohwJe

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YANGTZE UPPER CANYON: Comparison photos of ThreeBoatRapid from 1986 to 2019, mainly showing that we had much higher water on our descent (2-3 m more at the base of this rapid), and also how the secondary landslides... https://t.co/NoDyzxjKm8

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YANGTZE UPPER CANYON: I've now found out much more about the major landslide blocked the upper Yangtze river on 11Oct2018 and again on 3Nov2018, resulting in a lake up to 70 m deep to accumulate upstream. Both were... https://t.co/x8Cfxb0FRr

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YANGTZE UPPER CANYON: A few photos of the first half Yushu section. Sorry no good shots of rapids. These are from my iPhone (easy to post). Currently through all major rapids in the Yushu section - class III and IV... https://t.co/QQ65aXllwd

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DENVER area paddlers! I'm coming out there this weekend and will be paddling the Arkansas River - there's an official invitation to join me paddling on Sunday, but I'll be paddling Saturday too. On Monday, I'm due to give the... https://t.co/mSEf5TdszD