{"id":7063,"date":"2011-03-28T22:52:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:52:24","slug":"casper-the-friendly-whitewater-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/casper-the-friendly-whitewater-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper&#8230;The Friendly Whitewater Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winter here in Colorado has been a long one. \u00c2\u00a0So long in fact that lately I have spent the countless hours watching kayaking videos and splashing cold water in my face. \u00c2\u00a0October 28th 2010 marked the last time my ass touched the seat of my Pyranha Molan&#8230;until this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>After hearing from my friend Leif Anderson that the whitewater park in Casper, Wyoming was in, I dropped everything headed up to meet him in Fort Collins. \u00c2\u00a0Leif, his\u00c2\u00a0fiancee\u00c2\u00a0Natalie and I rallied through a savage snow storm on a four and a half hour drive north to Casper for a weekend of freezing cold play-boating.<\/p>\n<p>I want to give a huge shout out to the Schmitt family for hooking up a place to crash, T-roy for letting me borrow his M Molan, John Quartana for the Go-Pro and Leif and Natalie for these photos, hope you enjoy them&#8230;edit coming soon!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4643\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4643.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7064 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4643.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4643\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitewater Park in Casper, WY<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4655\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7065 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4655.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4655\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening session with Leif<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4869\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4869.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7066 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4869.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4869\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throwing around the Molan on a puny feature<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4897\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4897.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7067 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4897.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4897\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First loop in a while...felt great!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4746\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7068 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4746.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4746\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not positive, but I think this is a BROWN trout, almost getting as much air as me in the Molan... \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"DSC_4920\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7069 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_4920.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4920\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trying to keep my head dry.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winter here in Colorado has been a long one. \u00c2\u00a0So long in fact that lately I have spent the countless hours watching kayaking videos and splashing cold water in my face. \u00c2\u00a0October 28th 2010 marked the last time my ass touched the seat of my Pyranha Molan&#8230;until this weekend! After hearing from my friend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/casper-the-friendly-whitewater-park\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"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-7063","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-1PV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}