{"id":5014,"date":"2012-04-05T03:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:50:48","slug":"kern-river-festival-hooligan-build-your-own-boat-byob-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/kern-river-festival-hooligan-build-your-own-boat-byob-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern River Festival &#8211; Hooligan Build Your Own Boat (BYOB) Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KERNVILLE, CALIF.&#8211;The annual Kern (Whitewater) River Festival April 21-22, 2012\u00a0 celebrates the spring snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains. The water flows rapidly, creating challenges and thrills in Kernville, the California Whitewater Rafting Capital.\u00a0 The rules are simple at the annual Hooligan BYOB Contest (shown in photo), part of the Kern River Festival:\u00a0 Only MAKE-SHIFT boats, using NON-BOAT MATERIALS are accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the water portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-kinetic-sculpture-race.html\">Kinetic Sculpture Race<\/a> held Memorial Weekend in Humboldt County, Hooligan BYOB Race only takes place in the water. Other challenges during the River Festival include a Wildwater Biathalon.\u00a0 Stick There is also a T.J. Citizen Slalom Race (Junior Olympic Qualifier,) Standup Boarder-Cross and more exciting challenges. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kern-river-festival.html\">Kern River\u00a0 Festival<\/a> (kernfestival.com) takes place April 21-22, 2012. Kernville also celebrates wet &amp; wild WhiteWater Wednesday, now in its 25th year. It is held June 20, 2012 (kernvillechamber.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; KERNVILLE, CALIF.&#8211;The annual Kern (Whitewater) River Festival April 21-22, 2012\u00a0 celebrates the spring snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains. The water flows rapidly, creating challenges and thrills in Kernville, the California Whitewater Rafting Capital.\u00a0 The rules are simple at the annual Hooligan BYOB Contest (shown in photo), part of the Kern River Festival:\u00a0 Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}