Ayasse River - Northern Italy

After the Outdoor games, we were ready for a break, the last thing we felt like doing was kayaking. We'd been dreaming of warm weather and sun since we got here, but all we'd had was rain and more rain.
So it was decided, we were off to the beach! but not before we got conned into paddling once more. Swiss kayaker Severin Haeberling was keen to head into the Ayasse river, about half an hour's drive from Ivrea, apparently a super sick run, the water levels were perfect, we were sold.
We had a multi-national team of 5, 1 Swiss, 2 Kiwi's and 2 Russians.
The first rapid of the day was a great start to a beautiful and classic run chock full of goodies. Slides, water falls and boulder gardens. I'll let the photos and video do the talking.

Village at the put-in for the Ayasse.

Typical stone house architecture up in the alps.

Mean Castle on a random peak in the valley.

Ayasse River from brendan bayly on Vimeo.