{"id":5851,"date":"2010-07-18T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2010-07-18T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:00:17","slug":"alabama-winter-paddling-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/alabama-winter-paddling-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Winter Paddling Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Tellico-Ice-BoofingSMALL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-BoofingSMALL.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"Snowy-LRC-Put-In\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-LRC-Put-In.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"Tellico-Ice-Boofing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-Boofing.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"Snowy-LRC-Put-In\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-LRC-Put-In.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"Tellico-Ice-Boofing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-Boofing.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"Snowy-LRC-Put-In\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-LRC-Put-In.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5852 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-LRC-Put-In.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy-LRC-Put-In\" width=\"540\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Spring sprung and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now deep into another hot summer here in the southeastern United States. I was a great winter\/spring of paddling, but as usually my photo and video updates are running about 6 months behind, so lets back up for second. In early December I spend a couple great weeks in the Grand Canyon (see report <a href=\"http:\/\/granolapaddler.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/december-to-remember-part-1-grand.html\">here<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0After getting off the Colorado River on Dec 18<sup>th<\/sup>, I headed south to Mexico to enjoy some warmer weather and warmer waters (see report<a href=\"http:\/\/granolapaddler.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/december-to-remember-part-2-from-grand.html\"> here<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0When I returned home in January I found the entire region in a deep freeze.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Below_Pinball_Snow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Below_Pinball_Snow.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Snowy-Cable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Cable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5855 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Cable.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy-Cable\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The following two months the core groups of local paddlers kept paddling straight through one of the coldest Januarys and February s on record. Highlights included endless ice chandeliers on every run, beautiful snowy river banks, breaking through (and sometimes portaging) frozen pools on Little River Canyon and a few days dodging ice undercuts on the normally tame Tellico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Tellico-Ice-Boofing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-Boofing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5860 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-Boofing.jpg\" alt=\"Tellico-Ice-Boofing\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.immersionresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tellico-Boof1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more photos from this past winter and my review of the Immersion Research Double \u00e2\u20ac\u0153D\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 drysuit, click <a href=\"http:\/\/granolapaddler.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/staying-warm-and-dry-in-cold-and-wet.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Until Next Time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Adam Goshorn<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Below_1st_Ledge_Ice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Below_1st_Ledge_Ice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-5854 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Below_1st_Ledge_Ice.jpg\" alt=\"Below_1st_Ledge_Ice\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Tellico-Ice-Boofing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Tellico-Ice-Boofing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Spring sprung and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now deep into another hot summer here in the southeastern United States. I was a great winter\/spring of paddling, but as usually my photo and video updates are running about 6 months behind, so lets back up for second. In early December I spend a couple great weeks in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/alabama-winter-paddling-season\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"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-5851","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-1wn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}