{"id":13785,"date":"2012-09-24T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2012-09-24T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:31:24","slug":"elk-falls-nc-southern-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/elk-falls-nc-southern-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Falls, NC &#8211; Southern Stout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elk Falls (or Big Falls) has been on the radar for me since I was 16 years old and still\u00c2\u00a0just getting into kayaking.\u00c2\u00a0A friend had found pictures on American Whitewater and suggested we drive up from Atlanta to run it. I said we should probably work on our rolls first. But,\u00c2\u00a06 years and a lot of kayaking later, levels looked about right so I rallied a crew and headed over after class. I fired it up first followed closely by Mac McGee ( in a pirouette and hand paddles!) <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/49799422\">Check out the video here &#8211; Shot by Tommy Penick and Wes Overvold<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and Muchas gracias to Emory Klesick for setting safety!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13786\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13786\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/big-falls-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/big-falls-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/big-falls-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/big-falls.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elk Falls (or Big Falls) has been on the radar for me since I was 16 years old and still\u00c2\u00a0just getting into kayaking.\u00c2\u00a0A friend had found pictures on American Whitewater and suggested we drive up from Atlanta to run it. I said we should probably work on our rolls first. But,\u00c2\u00a06 years and a lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/elk-falls-nc-southern-stout\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creeking-articles","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-3Al","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13789,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/13789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}