{"id":8276,"date":"2011-07-23T19:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2011-07-23T19:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:59:26","slug":"quebec-paddlefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/quebec-paddlefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Paddlefest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PaddleFest is organized by Mountain Equipment Coop every summer in order to give visibility to watersports in general. For Quebec City&#8217;s MEC, we have a terrific site near downtown with huge beach and stuff, next to St-Lawrence river. What was different this year?&#8230;the store agreed that it wasn&#8217;t the best spot to devellop the whitewater part so they asked me to set something up at a different place.<\/p>\n<p>The Tewksbury section of the magnificent Jacques-Cartier river has what it takes for this kind of event ; calm\/moving water for initiations, short class II\/III for technical courses and nice stretch of class IV for a friendly boatercross, less than 20 minutes from the city! The local raft company (Rafting Valcartier) offered us their big put-in as the main place for exposants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"boatercross\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MG_0329_3_1_1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8277 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MG_0329_3_1_1.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"boatercross\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><a title=\"boatercross2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MG_0330_2_1_1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8282 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MG_0330_2_1_1.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"boatercross2\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This first edition showed that whiterwater is growing up in Quebec area. All the classes were full (we even took lil&#8217; more than the max capacity) for initiations and technics. 12 paddlers did the race and had a blast! Hopefully the first edition to a future classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PaddleFest is organized by Mountain Equipment Coop every summer in order to give visibility to watersports in general. For Quebec City&#8217;s MEC, we have a terrific site near downtown with huge beach and stuff, next to St-Lawrence river. What was different this year?&#8230;the store agreed that it wasn&#8217;t the best spot to devellop the whitewater &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/quebec-paddlefest\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"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-8276","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-29u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}