{"id":153,"date":"2009-05-10T21:44:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-05-12T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T02:51:47","slug":"french-broad-river-section-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"French Broad River (section 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often paddle the section of the French Broad river between Marshall, NC and Barnard &#8211; particularly when we take the dog along.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t normally put it on the blog here, but we thought we&#8217;d share this one because Trout invented a new way to sit in a kayak.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154\" title=\"trout_kayak\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_kayak.jpg\" alt=\"Trout in the Kayak\" width=\"391\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_kayak.jpg 391w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_kayak-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trout in the Kayak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What&#8217;s happening here?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t really know.\u00a0 Obviously sideways is not the way to do this but Trout was feeling creative.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are an assortment of small rapids in the section of the river, most of them class II on the whitewater scale so that when the dog leaps out in the middle of one it&#8217;s not too difficult to get him back in the boat.\u00a0\u00a0 None of these rapids are big enough to have names so we&#8217;ve christened a few of them on our own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155\" title=\"trout_beach\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_beach.jpg\" alt=\"Trout Beach\" width=\"388\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_beach.jpg 388w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trout_beach-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trout Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of those is Trout Beach with is about a mile or so downstream from the Marshall dam.\u00a0 There is a river-wide ledge with a sandy beach below it on river right.\u00a0 We almost always stop here for a swim and to let the dog run around a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often paddle the section of the French Broad river between Marshall, NC and Barnard &#8211; particularly when we take the dog along.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t normally put it on the blog here, but we thought we&#8217;d share this one because Trout invented a new way to sit in a kayak. What&#8217;s happening here?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French Broad River (section 8)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}