{"id":672,"date":"2008-07-21T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/blogroll\/mark-pecot\/ph-at-toronto-paddlefest\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:38:02","slug":"ph-at-toronto-paddlefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/ph-at-toronto-paddlefest\/","title":{"rendered":"P&amp;H at Toronto Paddlefest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ph_paddlefest.jpg\" title=\"PH Booth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ph_paddlefest.jpg\" alt=\"PH Booth\" height=\"614\" width=\"461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P&amp;H Sea Kayaks was on hand for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mec.ca\/splash.jsp\">Mountain Equipment Co-op<\/a> Paddlefest in Toronto, Canada June 13-15.     The P&amp;H Great Lakes Squad was mobilized for a border crossing, as Kelly Blades and I made the trek to this always fun event.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->MEC is the largest outdoor retailer in Canada, and the Toronto event is the largest of a series of paddle events held throughout the provinces.   Along with the P&amp;H team, coaches such as TITS juggernaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cackletv.com\/justine-curgenven.html\">Justine Curgenven<\/a>, Greenland-style man of mystery &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubside.net\/\">Dubside<\/a>,&#8221; and US freestyle canoe champ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfoote.com\/karen\/index.htm\">Karen Knight<\/a> were all on hand to help make the event a success.   With over 200 participants on the water at any given time, the MEC staff made organization look easy and made everyone feel right at home with typical Canadian hospitality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly and Justine lead a &#8220;Kayak Play&#8221; class&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kelley_justine.jpg\" title=\"Kelley_Justine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kelley_justine.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Blades and Justine Curgenven\" height=\"333\" width=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A strong storm rolled in on Sunday, forcing an earlier than expected end to the day&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/storm_kayaks.jpg\" title=\"storm_kayaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/storm_kayaks.jpg\" alt=\"storm_kayaks.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"587\" width=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&amp;H Sea Kayaks was on hand for the Mountain Equipment Co-op Paddlefest in Toronto, Canada June 13-15. The P&amp;H Great Lakes Squad was mobilized for a border crossing, as Kelly Blades and I made the trek to this always fun event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}