{"id":2142,"date":"2008-04-17T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/david-fairweather\/morocco-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:09:19","slug":"morocco-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/morocco-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/paddling.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Eastabrook on the Sefrou\" border=\"5\" height=\"450\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of us are just back from a short trip to Morocco to sample some of the incredible scenery, famously hospitable people, amazing food, and of course the whitewater that the country has to offer.   Just a short flight from the snow of the UK landed us in sun drenched Marrakesh and from there we hit the road looking for rivers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chris-flying.jpg\" alt=\"Pyranha Everest flying\" border=\"5\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><u><em>Chris Eastabrook flying in his Everest<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The aim was for a relaxed trip, and we certainly achieved that, with some beautiful long trips through some deep sandstone gorges and low stress multi-day paddling.  the whitewater isn&#8217;t the hardest, but the scenery is incredible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chris.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Smith kayaking Morocco\" border=\"5\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Everests really came into their own when loaded up with multi-day kit and on the longer paddles where the extra speed was certainly appreciated.  When we found a long stretch of almost Corsica-esque bouldery grade 4, they were responsive enough to deal with tight and twisty rapid, even fully loaded.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gorge.jpg\" alt=\"Moroccan gorges\" border=\"5\" height=\"450\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><u>Tom Parker and Chris Eastabrook in a deep gorge<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Chris has stayed out there for another couple of weeks and the last we heard, was headed for the Dades Gorges in a bus, so keep your eyes peeled for an update from him in a week or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of us are just back from a short trip to Morocco to sample some of the incredible scenery, famously hospitable people, amazing food, and of course the whitewater that the country has to offer. Just a short flight from the snow of the UK landed us in sun drenched Marrakesh and from there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/morocco-part-1\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-2142","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-yy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}