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From Russia With Packrafting Love - Stories from Chukotka
Adventure Stories, Photo GalleryAugust Instagram Takeover: Featuring Russian Adventure Photographer Timur Akhmetov My name is Timur, and I live in the far far East of Russia – Chukotka. This territory is directly across the Bering Strait from Alaska. I am an Environmentalist on a gold mine; I work shift by shift, which is […]
The Adventures of Fat Kid & Twiggy: Fatbikes & Packrafts on the Great Salt Lake
Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Athletes & AmbassadorsTwo Crazies Embark on an Improbable Mission to Circumnavigate the Great Salt Lake Story by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder. Photos by Doom and Andy Burr. “Over the years I’ve been fortunate to have found a few super solid adventure partners. This human, Andrew Burr, has been a pillar of that list as […]
Packrafting Sjaunja - A Swedish Paddler's Paradise
Adventure Stories, Photo GalleryThree Adventurers Explore One of the World’s Largest Unmodified Natural Areas Cultivated by Humans Check out our Instagram page August 3-6 to see more stunning shots of Sjaunja. Adventurer and packrafter Caj Koskinen recently reached out to us to share some of the stunning photos he shot while packrafting through […]
Bikeraft Scotland - Two Adventurers Inspire with Instagram Photo Gallery
Adventure Stories, Photo GalleryHuw Oliver & Annie Lloyd-Evans Showcase Stunning Bikeraft Scotland Shots in Recent @Alpacka_Raft #InstagramTakeover Scottish adventurers Huw Oliver and Annie Lloyd-Evans recently took over our Instagram page to showcase their bikeraft Scotland photos. You can read more about their trips on Oliver’s blog, including his latest, “Way out West: Bikerafting in the Outer […]
Making the Waiau-toa Odyssey - Behind the Scenes Look at an Award-Winning NZ BikeRafting Film
Adventure StoriesChecking In With the Waiau-Toa Odyssey Crew. What’s Next? This summer we premiered the award-winning New Zealand film, “Waiau-Toa Odyssey,” at the Mancos Valley River Film Festival, a fundraising event sponsored by Alpacka Raft. As a follow-up this fall, we asked Damian Stones, one of the athletes and the main […]
DIY Alaska - Climb, Ski, Packraft & Burn Your Skis Along the Way
Adventure StoriesAdventurer-Artist Craig Muderlak Shares Photos & Stories of his DIY Alaska Adventure May 2016, the trio of David Fay, Drew Thayer and Craig Muderlak spent more than three weeks skiing on homemade skis into a remote Alaskan Glacier to climb first ascents of rock, ice and snow routes on unclimbed […]
Packrafting Podcast: William Vandoorne
Adventure Stories, Packrafting PodcastAdventures with Willem Vandoorne, a Belgian with a love of long journeys in remote places. And enjoy a new “The Packrafting Podcast” episode to inspire you for the New Year! Words by Dulkara Martig | Photos supplied by Willem Vandoorne Willem Vandoorne is a packrafter from Belgium, who has a […]
The Joy of Something New – Bikerafting Scotland
Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Athletes & AmbassadorsAnnie Lloyd Evans takes friends bikerafting to Loch Maree, Scotland, to explore an old Viking graveyard in her story, “The Joy of Something New.”
Renee Patrick, and Her Friends Kirk and Grant Take On the Minam River – A 5000 Miles of Wild Story When Kirk and I traveled to the Minam River in the Wallowa Mountains in June 2012, we hit the spring snowmelt and were faced with flows around 3,500 cfs, and […]
Buy Packrafts Not Smartphones - A Packraft & Climbing Adventure in the Weminuche
Adventure StoriesExploring the Eastern Weminuche Wilderness of Southwest Colorado Photos & text by Katie Grauel The Animas River flows from just outside Silverton, Colo., cutting a deep river valley through the San Juan Mountains. In 2015, the EPA accidentally released a flood of contaminated water into Cement Creek previously trapped in […]
Our First Christmas As a Married Couple - A 5000 Miles of Wild Story
Adventure StoriesMichael Russell Gives His Wife a Packraft & Takes Her on the Adventure of a Lifetime to Big Bend National Park, Texas – A 5000 Miles of Wild Story Photo & Story by Michael Russell My wife and I are approaching our first year anniversary, later this month. But […]
"From the Doorstep" - An Exclusive Premiere of an Urban Bikerafting Adventure Tale
Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Urban AdventureAlpacka Raft Partners With Pursuit Films to Launch an Urban Bikerafting Adventure Tale, “From The Doorstep,” Online, July 13th In partnership with Pursuit Films, we premiered “From the Doorstep,” an urban bike and packrafting tale featuring adventurer Brian Donnelly, at the Mancos Valley River Film Festival on Saturday, June 30th. […]
The Seasons are a Changing – November is Winter
Adventure StoriesStories From a Cold-Weather Packrafter (Maybe?) Katie Grauel reflects on her very cold trip to the Gates of Lodore on the Green River and whether or not she’ll ever packraft in winter conditions again. Story and photos courtesy of Katie. I only embark on river expeditions once my chances of […]
April in New Zealand - Packraft Fly Fishing Stories
Adventure Stories, Fly FishingTag us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook with your best packraft fishing photos. The first 50 people get a free 2019 Trout Unlimited Membership! Want to go Packraft Fly Fishing in New Zealand? Andrew Harding Gives You a Few Good Reasons Why It’s a Great Idea Stories and photos by […]
The Packrafting Podcast Dulkara Martig, Alpacka Raft athlete, has just launched the first podcast specifically dedicated to packrafting, ‘The Packrafting Podcast‘. We asked her why she’s doing it and to tell us a bit about the first episode. About ‘The Packrafting Podcast’ from Founder, Dulkara Martig. My goal is that […]
The Kimberley is Not Suffering
Adventure Stories, Athletes & AmbassadorsTwo Alpacka Raft Athletes Embark on an Adventure to the Kimberley, the Furthest of Australia’s Outback, a Wild Frontier with Few Roads and Fewer People. By Brad Meiklejohn, Alpacka Raft Legacy Ambassador. Photos by Ben Weigl, Dulkara Martig, and Meiklejohn. Follow us on Instagram all this week (Aug 13-17, 2018) to see […]
A Dream Packrafting Adventure Down the Franklin River
Adventure Stories, Athletes & AmbassadorsDulkara Martig actualizes a nine-day dream trip packrafting Tasmania, down the Franklin River By Dulkara Martig. Photos by Dulkara Martig and Ben Weigl. The Franklin River offers one of the most impressive multi-day whitewater journeys to be found anywhere. It winds its way 120 kilometers through one of the most […]
Lituya Bay to Haines: Ski-Mountaineering and Packrafting
Adventure Stories, Skiing, Athletes & AmbassadorsLituya Bay to Haines A ski-Mountaineering and packraft traverse in Southeast Alaska. Written by: Dulkara Martig Photos by: Dulkara Martig and Christian Martin A few years ago an email popped up in my inbox with ‘temptation awaits’ in the subject line. It was Friday afternoon, I was five days into […]
Madagascar by Bike & Packraft – A Photo Essay
Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Photo Gallery, Athletes & AmbassadorsAlpacka Raft Photo Ambassador (& All-Around Badass Whitewater Boater) Casey Fulton Shares His Madagascar Bikeraft Adventure in Photos Photos & story by Casey Fulton. Follow Fulton on Instagram, and check out the Alpacka Raft Instagram feed all this week (August 6-10) to see additional photos. I love staring at maps and […]
Traversing The Canol Road - A BikeRafting Adventure Across A Failed Alaskan Pipeline
Adventure Stories, Conservation EffortsThough it was supposed to cost just million, the Canol Road and Pipeline went million over budget in the early 1940s and turned out to be a monumental failure. Five ladies, Sinead Earley, Hannah Johnston, Rohanna Gibson, Caitlin DuBiel, and Gabriela Stephens, decided to traverse this road via […]