{"id":1635,"date":"2007-08-30T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/dfusilli\/back-to-the-roots\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:58:14","slug":"back-to-the-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/back-to-the-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/imgp1878.jpg\" title=\"tomko\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/imgp1878.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" alt=\"tomko\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upper Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Jared, Graham, and I arrived back east just in time to paddle some of the classic runs  we learned to kayak on.  We ended up runing the Upper Blackwater, Upper Yough, Top Yough, and Big Sandy all at good flows and some of the warmest days I&#8217;ve ever paddled these runs.   Another bonus, we were able to do these runs with people we grew up kayaking with.     <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upper Blackwater<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-028.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-028.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-028.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave, Sticky Fingers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-023.jpg\" title=\"Graham dropping into The 100 yd dash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-023.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Graham dropping into The 100 yd dash\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graham, 100yd Dash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-033.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-033.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-033.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jared, My Nerves Are Shot<br \/>\n<strong>The Big Sandy   <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-002.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-002.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-002.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave, Wonder Falls<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-014.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-014.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-014.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jared, Big Splat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-003.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-003.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-003.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom Flume<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Yough <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-018.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-018.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-018.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clarion boater Roger Pile nailing his boof stroke in the Ammo at Swallow Tail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-019.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-019.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-019.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger and Keith Schloss @ Best Boof<\/p>\n<p>Here is a shot of the new ASCI whitewater park in Deep Creek MD.  We all stopped by there on sunday to check it out.  Its a very nice I like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-037.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-037.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fusilli-037.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fusilli-033.jpg\" title=\"fusilli-033.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Blackwater Jared, Graham, and I arrived back east just in time to paddle some of the classic runs we learned to kayak on. We ended up runing the Upper Blackwater, Upper Yough, Top Yough, and Big Sandy all at good flows and some of the warmest days I&#8217;ve ever paddled these runs. Another bonus, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/back-to-the-roots\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-qn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}