{"id":498,"date":"2006-11-16T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/creeking-articles\/toro\/alternatives-to-snow\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:32:12","slug":"alternatives-to-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/alternatives-to-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"Launching at Cresta 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__25-custom.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My new home is 250m from the Ski Station, and the season pass is here, but not jet the snow. While i wait for the snow to come, i have to talk some friends into it, that there are still some possibilities for paddling around. Now, i could convince some, and we even found an un-run stretch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A little Creek, in some places consisting more or less of a long series of connected potholes, which normally is just a lot of quite unrunnable boiling white, seemingly never before got a paddlers attention in the wintertime.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cresta_drop_flem__05-custom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__05-custom.JPG\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cresta_drop_flem__61-custom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__61-custom.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nMost of it is filled up with logjams, but i thought, some meters could be worth trying.<br \/>\nI got our group together, Franz, Sandro, Andrea, and another friend helping with rope skills.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cresta_drop_flem__13-custom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__13-custom.JPG\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cresta_drop_flem__23-custom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__23-custom.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After checking out the way out, and setting up safety, we gave it a try.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Launching at Cresta 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__25-custom.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesss, sweet! after the first run, and then doing safety for Franz, i had to go again, we paddled only some 50 meters anyways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toro-von-unten_2-custom.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/toro-von-unten_2-custom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toro-von-unten_3-custom.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/toro-von-unten_3-custom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toro-von-unten_5-custom.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/toro-von-unten_5-custom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daylight started to fade away way too fast, so we had to leave the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cresta_drop_flem__28-custom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cresta_drop_flem__28-custom.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excited by the fact, that we found such cool new Playgrounds in such a well known area, and knowing that the arrival of the Ammo promises even more fun on these small features, i started to look into a series of other small side-creeks.<br \/>\nIf snowfall doesn&#8217;t  set in soon, i will be able to report more.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Andrea M. Zarn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new home is 250m from the Ski Station, and the season pass is here, but not jet the snow. While i wait for the snow to come, i have to talk some friends into it, that there are still some possibilities for paddling around. 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