{"id":23228,"date":"2020-07-23T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.nrs.com\/?p=23228"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:26:38","slug":"zamora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/2020\/07\/23\/zamora\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMORA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIwupOjbQ7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn order to keep mining and to keep hydro outa here and to keep logging out of here, they\u2019re willing to cut your head off and boil it, in hot water.\u201d \u2013 Scott Lindgren<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eddied out in a remote Ecuadorian village, politics and local beliefs force a group of kayakers to desert their hopes of a first descent on the Rio Mulatos and Rio Coangos. Unwilling to simply go home, Team NRS paddlers Todd Wells and Galen Volckhausen set their sights on the Rio Zamora instead.<\/p>\n<p><em>ZAMORA<\/em> is a story about cultural barriers, personality barriers and physical barriers between paddlers and kayaking expeditions. 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