{"id":8565,"date":"2011-08-09T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:52:48","slug":"demshitz-return-to-co-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/demshitz-return-to-co-crystal\/","title":{"rendered":"Demshitz Return to CO &#8211; Crystal Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"P1012213\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012213.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8566 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012213.JPG\" alt=\"P1012213\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a good, but long week hanging out with the Pyranha family at Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, we headed back to Colorado for some actual kayaking. Here in the inner Crystal Gorge, Josh Bechtel is trying out the new creekboat; the Shiva.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012142\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012142.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8567 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012142.JPG\" alt=\"P1012142\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sporting Astral&#8217;s new &#8216;Down with the Brown&#8217; shirts during Outdoor Retailer&#8217;s Open Air Demo.\u00c2\u00a0 There were tons of new toys to explore at OR including these shirts, and more importantly the creeker Shiva protoype &amp; new old-school playboat; the Loki.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012209\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012209.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8568 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012209.JPG\" alt=\"P1012209\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After cleaning up after OR and saying farewells, we hit the road and arrived in Carbondale, CO at 4:15am, crashed until midday, and then managed to motivate for a Crystal Gorge mission.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps owing to our post-OR tiredness, our trip in the gorge was unnecessarily epic.\u00c2\u00a0 But, after years of living in Colorado, I am glad to finally have seen this remarkable gorge.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012187\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012187.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8569 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012187.JPG\" alt=\"P1012187\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pine Tree Falls &#8211; Nate (above) Dave Fusilli (below)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012202\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012202.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8570 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012202.JPG\" alt=\"P1012202\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012215\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012215.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8571 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012215.JPG\" alt=\"P1012215\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh Bechtel Shiva-ing through the inner gorge where we found\u00c2\u00a0 lots of sticky boxed in holes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012223\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012223.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8572 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012223.JPG\" alt=\"P1012223\" width=\"418\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back upstream at the inner&#8217;s entrance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"P1012124\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012124.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8573 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1012124.JPG\" alt=\"P1012124\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kayak porn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a good, but long week hanging out with the Pyranha family at Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, we headed back to Colorado for some actual kayaking. 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