Patagonia & Dams

Hello there dear SR Helmet Family.
The trip to south can't be much better, the Patagonia of Chile and Argentina is incredible.
We drive for 3800 Km. in 16 days to arrive in the magic Backer River, the Backer river is one of the biggest rivers in Chile and run with 55,000 CFS.
On the way to the Backer we visited the Gol-Gol river in Chile, the Escondido river in Argentina and the incredible Futaleufu river.

When you do a kayaking trip that long, the crew is something very important and this time we had a perfect team : Ema my girlfriend, my best dude Lj Groth, Evan Garcia, Severin from Europe and Juanito from Peru.

At the moment that we decided to do this trip, I was very interested to know more and more about the “Patagonia sin Represa”. This is a very big problem here in Chile, just because the goverment of Chile is ready to make a dam on the Backer and the Pascua River.

The big problem about this incredible Backer river is that next 2009 they are going to be built 5 different Dams that are going to be built on the rapid section.

Patagonia Sin Represas is fighting with the big electricity company Endesa and they want to built the electric dam in the big Backer and Pascua rivers and people is completely opposed at this dam project...

After have the opportunity to run this incredible river I feel totally sad just because all this beautiful place go to disappear and the future generation don't go to have the opportunity to run this awesome rivers....
Tomorrow we go to the mystic Middle Fuy for continue Run The Shit... So very soon some cool more picture....

From the very end of the world Chile.
Rodrigo Tuschner.