PaulJohnson1222 wrote:
I have a similar interest. So if you find anything please let me
know..Paul

I have been researching hard, in English and Spanish. Truly there is
very little out there on the web. I got a personal email from Tom
Robey, he emailed because he noticed I was looking at the Rio Guayalejo.
He said that river has had a flood, is now totally different and a
Class III/IV, so I am taking it off my list. I will probably run the
final river list by him for his comments.

I did get some information from a paddler from Veracruz, but he said
that he knew of no trip writeups available on most of the rivers. :-(
He was nice enough to add me to the mailing list for his paddling club.
Obviously all the email is in Spanish, which I can read and write.
They are having a club trip in a few weeks to the Cascada Tamul, in the
Huasteca of San Luis Potosi. I am hoping to go down in 2006 with
members of the local paddling club and have a joint trip. Should be fun.

Given the limited information, it will be a challenge. There are a few
kinds of trips that make sense to me. 1. Well documented whitewater
rivers in the Robey book, many of which are commercially run. 2.
Rivers widely reported to be flat water, even if there is no
documentation available. 3. Paddling in the lagoons near the coast,
great for birding. 4. Rivers run by the Veracruz paddling club.

I think that if you just pick a river off the map, you might be
rapelling as part of your portages. ;-) Rapelling is OK, if you have
the equipment, the crew, and the time to do it, but I am probably too
old and too smart to want to do it.

If you get the topos, you can use the feet per mile calculation to give
you a hint of which rivers are probably easy, but you would still have
to watch out for surprises.

Richard




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