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Tuesday 7 June 2016

Ticino 2016 - by Urban Rejc

Photo Blaz Stan
We started planning our trip a week before departure, but it got soon clear that our plan of hitting Val Sessia around first of May will be a hard task. The weather got cooler and the water was gone. Our second option was south Switzerland, the canton of Ticino. The Italian speaking canton Ticino lies in the northwestern Alps and it is drained by two major rivers, the Ticino river and the Maggia river. 
 Photo Jan Praprotnik


Our first stop was the valley of Verzasca river where we arrived  late afternoon. The river runs through the narrow scenic valley with impressive views on a surrounding mountains. It is 30 km long, originating at Pizzo Barone and later draining into Lake Maggiore.   
 Photo Jan Praprotnik


Verzasca is a well known river in the Alps for kayakers, because of its bedrock and boulder garden style. Due to the low water level we were only able to paddle the classical lower part for a couple of times, but nice clean slides and crystal clear water made it up for the low flow.
 Photo Jan Praprotnik


Next day we woke up thinking what to do. We knew, if Verzsasca is low than the rest is no better. Nevertheless we decided to check the river Ribo, which is about an hour drive away from the Verzasca valley. Ribo river drains into Maggia river and is most famous for its 16 meter waterfall. Luck was partially on our side this time and we were happy to see the Ribo waterfall working at a low flow.       
 Photo Urban Rejc

The highlight of our trip was paddling the Canobino river, which is located on the Italian side of Lake Maggiore. It is approximately a 4 km long canyon run, consisting of class 3 and class 4 rapids. Despite its low flow, it was a great run with bony parts, where the canyon is wider and nice smooth rapids, where the canyon gets narrower. The most challenging parts of this river are scouting and a must run rapids, some almost impossible to scout.

Urban Rejc