{"id":38,"date":"2026-08-05T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&#038;p=38"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:03:54","slug":"1st-time-open-boaters-on-upper-gauley-raw-video-1994","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/video\/1st-time-open-boaters-on-upper-gauley-raw-video-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Time Open Boaters on Upper Gauley Featuring The Tubes &#8211; Raw Video 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was Don &amp; Milt&#8217;s first time on the Upper Gauley.\u00a0 The thunderous tubes were terrifyingly awesome.\u00a0 Of course, they are gone now.\u00a0 Summersville dam was built for flood control so they didn&#8217;t put generators in.\u00a0 When they released in the fall to draw down the pool, all that energy was wasted as turbulence.\u00a0 So, they eventually added a generator was was much better use of that hydro power, but so much less of an experience!<\/p>\n<p>Milt Aitken, Steve Frazier, Don Kinser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was Don &amp; Milt&#8217;s first time on the Upper Gauley.\u00a0 The thunderous tubes were terrifyingly awesome.\u00a0 Of course, they are gone now.\u00a0 Summersville dam was built for flood control so they didn&#8217;t put generators in.\u00a0 When they released in the fall to draw down the pool, all that energy was wasted as turbulence.\u00a0 So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}