Exactly what I had in mind: nicely spellt out Mr Riverman!
Could be interesting indeed especially as my experience of going through
rapids in a canoe only stretches as far as a day on Orealven last year
paddling in a river looking more like a lake!

Would you mind enquiring with the helo company, Roger?
Jerome
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Actually, there are canoes to be rented starting from the major calm
stretch
just outside Adolfstrom. It works this way: You pick a canoe number,
then
you paddle upstream to the first rapids. You lock the canoe by a tree
then
walk past the rapids and take the canoe with the exact same number.
Repeat
this until you reach the Clave central, which is where you have to
stop
anyway since the last canoe will have been 2 kilometers downstream.
Now
you
have canoes for the journey back ;-)
Not many choose this way up there, and even less will have the stamina
to
paddle and walk as far as to our Clave central. Canoes are available
in
three sets.

Don't worry about finding companions for the helicopter after say a
week.
More people than you will think that a week is enough.



Hmm, what about this, then? Rent a canoe, and instead of paddling
upstream,
tie it onto the helicopter leg and fly it to the clave. Then, float
downstream, portaging each of the rapids and drop it off at the lodge.

--riverman


I will humour you on this idea.
I can easily get access to one upto four canadian type canoes and I could
put them on a trailer to have them driven up to Adolfstrom.
As the helicopter needs to fly at least three times with just us ROFFians
and as I plan on staying longer to fish with Vaughan one could end the
clave
with a three day downstream (towards the ocean BTW....uh....goddam I still
can't stop laughing about that one) float.
The only problem I see is that thee might be rapids there which you might
be
the only one to handle.
Another problem is that I don't know whether the helicopter will take a
canoe, but this I can find out.

/Roger