{"id":8809,"date":"2011-09-23T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2011-09-23T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:59:57","slug":"1st-time-creek-boater-paddles-the-shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/1st-time-creek-boater-paddles-the-shiva\/","title":{"rendered":"1st time creek boater paddles the Shiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I made it back home to Clarion, PA in search of some much needed rest. \u00c2\u00a0 I had been on the road for about five and a half months.\u00c2\u00a0 I must say it was another amazing summer in the Pyranha van!\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, so I&#8217;m back home.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike, a friend that helps my dad out at the house starts talking to me about paddling the Upper Yough.\u00c2\u00a0 The Yough is a great well known class 4 river.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where I honed most of my creeking skills as a younger paddler.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing Mike as a strong fired up dude, I looked over at the Pyranha van, and thought &#8230;.. yes this will be a great test for the new Shiva.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing how user friendly the Shiva is I was confident that Mike would have a great day on the Upper Yough.\u00c2\u00a0 This was Mike&#8217;s first time in a creek boat and first time on something as difficult as the Upper Yough.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike did not even flip over!\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29060636\">Click here to watch Mike paddle the Upper Yough!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Picture-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8810 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"Picture-1\" width=\"540\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike browning after National Falls<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Picture-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-8811 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"Picture-2\" width=\"390\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lining up Meat Cleaver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I made it back home to Clarion, PA in search of some much needed rest. \u00c2\u00a0 I had been on the road for about five and a half months.\u00c2\u00a0 I must say it was another amazing summer in the Pyranha van!\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, so I&#8217;m back home.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike, a friend that helps my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/1st-time-creek-boater-paddles-the-shiva\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"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":[4],"tags":[61,188],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creeking-articles","tag-demshitz","tag-pyranha-shiva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-2i5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}