{"id":12676,"date":"2012-05-10T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:45:25","slug":"the-varun-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/the-varun-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Varun Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On first appearances the Varun might confuse, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little bit of a freestyler, but you probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see people seriously competing it, mixed up with a little bit of a river runner means its main niche is bigger volume rivers where you need some speed, but want to stop and throw down some big moves, and it certainly moves in the right hands &#8211; Think Nile or Zambezi style rivers to see the full potential but the Varun can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=7728\"><strong>work every single feature of your everyday play run&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, for a little inspiration here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a collection of some of the stunning places the Varun has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12680\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12680\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12680\" title=\"Africa trip 2010, Ric Moxon at minus rapids Image Maxi Kniewasser\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-2-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-2-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Africa trip 2010, Ric Moxon at minus rapids Image Maxi Kniewasser<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12681\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12681\" title=\" Ric Moxon on the Zambezi. Image Maxi Kniewasser \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/m_kniewasser_pyranha_varuna-zam-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ric Moxon on the Zambezi. Image Maxi Kniewasser<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12682\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12682\" title=\"Pete Simpson on Man Eater rapid, Kawarau River, Central Otago, NZ. Image Antz Longman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pete-Simpson-Antz-Longman-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pete-Simpson-Antz-Longman-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pete-Simpson-Antz-Longman-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pete-Simpson-Antz-Longman-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Simpson on Man Eater rapid, Kawarau River, Central Otago, NZ. Image Antz Longman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12678\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12678\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12678\" title=\"Bren Orton messing about on the Tryweryn. Image Steve Cooper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bren-Varun-Tryweryn-Steve-Cooper-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bren-Varun-Tryweryn-Steve-Cooper-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bren-Varun-Tryweryn-Steve-Cooper-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bren Orton messing about on the Tryweryn. Image Steve Cooper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12679\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12679\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12679\" title=\"The Varuns first Grand Canyon trip. Image (and paddler) Craig Kleckner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Craig-Kleckner-Grand-Canyon-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Craig-Kleckner-Grand-Canyon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Craig-Kleckner-Grand-Canyon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Varuns first Grand Canyon trip. Image (and paddler) Craig Kleckner<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12695\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12695\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12695\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12695\" title=\"Sam Ellis Falls of Lora\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sam-Ellis-Falls-of-Loranew-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sam-Ellis-Falls-of-Loranew-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sam-Ellis-Falls-of-Loranew-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Ellis Falls of Lora<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have fun out there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On first appearances the Varun might confuse, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little bit of a freestyler, but you probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see people seriously competing it, mixed up with a little bit of a river runner means its main niche is bigger volume rivers where you need some speed, but want to stop and throw down some big &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/the-varun-mystery\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[88,124,341,179,242,257],"class_list":["post-12676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-tests-and-reveiws","tag-freestyle","tag-kayaking","tag-nile","tag-pyranha","tag-varun","tag-whitewater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-3is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12676"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12720,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676\/revisions\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}