{"id":1538,"date":"2011-10-18T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2021-07-11T23:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:26:50","slug":"video-whitewater-kayaking-final-chelan-release-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/paddle-trips\/video-whitewater-kayaking-final-chelan-release-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Whitewater Kayaking the Final Chelan Gorge Release in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Patrinellis put together this really nice video of the last Chelan Gorge release this summer (2011<\/strong>) &#8211; sadly, it looks like that was the last release for years to come. &nbsp;Word on the eddyline is that the water was warm and, as you can see, it was a gorgeous weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rob McKibbin did a first descent of Pinnacle rapid on that run, according to JP&#8217;s post on Professor Paddle it was a lot harder than it looks in the video.<\/p>\n<p>I talked with Rob the other day and he said it was not as hard as running Landslide rapid on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorpaddle.com\/rivers\/riverdetails.asp?riverid=627\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robe Canyon<\/a> at 5&#8217;9&#8243;, which he did last week for the second time &#8211; Landslide being a much longer rapid that for most mortal beings is a portage, especially at that level.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know everyone in this video but definitely saw Fish, Ellie Wheat, Dave Moroles, Rob McKibbin, and it looked like Joe Howard.<\/p>\n<p>I give Ellie thumbs up for doing this in a small Burn, it&#8217;s what I have and we&#8217;ve both been checking out creekboat volumes recently &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/kayaks.php?kayak=Burn\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to Burn specs on the Pyranha site.\" style=\"outline: none;\">the small is only 63 gallons<\/a>, that&#8217;s 11 gallons less than the medium Burn and it makes a big difference when you&#8217;re running beefy drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Patrinellis put together this really nice video of the last Chelan Gorge release this summer (2011) &#8211; sadly, it looks like that was the last release for years to come. &nbsp;Word on the eddyline is that the water was warm and, as you can see, it was a gorgeous weekend. Rob McKibbin did a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[249,145,158,126,256,128,182,125,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}