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A Local Chilean Canoes a Patagonia Jewel & Reflects on a Gift to His Nation
Adventure StoriesEnter to Win our #CanoeLife – Oryx Packraft Canoe & Camp Kit Giveaway, sponsored by Alpacka, Big Agnes, Thermacell Bug Repellant (yes it works!), and Aqua-Bound. A Local Chilean Canoes Through Parks Created by the Largest Private Land Donation in History Story & photos by Cristóbal Kapsch When we heard that […]
Packraft Newfoundland & New Docuseries
Adventure StoriesPackraft Newfoundland – New Docuseries “Man & Dog: 700KM Survival” Story, photos, & video by Justin Barbour. Spring 2017, I embarked on a 700-kilometer snowshoe, packraft, and backpacking expedition across the harsh, yet magical Newfoundland interior wilderness. I went solo, but was far from alone. I traveled from start to […]
You, Too, Can Learn to Packraft A Tale From Someone Who Never Imagined Boating Whitewater
Adventure StoriesA Self-Proclaimed Non-Athlete On How Even Amateurs Can Become Solid Packrafters & Have The Most Fun on Whitewater — A 5000 Miles of Wild Story Share Your Story to Support the 5000 Miles of Wild Campaign (and also get the Chance to Win a Werner Sherpa Paddle!) Photos, illustrations, & story […]
Exploring Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Adventure Stories, Conservation EffortsAfter staging multiple adventure trips throughout the Southwest US over the past 34 years, we finally got our chance on the Escalante River. Photos & text by Tom Bartels All four in our group had spent time in the canyon backpacking in the past, but never on the Escalante. One […]
The Vjosa River: Europe’s Unknown Wild Jewel
Adventure Stories, Conservation EffortsClimb, Paraglide, Packraft: 3 Adventurers Raise Awareness for one of Europe’s Last Remaining Wild Rivers European explorers Sean Villanueva, Nico Favresse, and Tom De Dorlodot recently spent a few weeks on Albania’s Vjosa River (aka the Aoös) to raise awareness for the threats to the river, including numerous proposed dams. Check out our Q&A with […]
Island of Forgotten Dreams: Exploring Kodiak by Foot and Packraft
Adventure StoriesTwo Best Friends Hike & Packraft Across Kodiak Island Seeking Solitude and Brown Bears Follow us on Instagram to see more of Chris Miller’s photos from this trip. Story by Bjorn Dihle and photos by Chris Miller. Cover photo: Footsteps, at right, worn into the landscape from years and generations of […]
Inspiration for Adventuring Close to Home
Adventure Stories, Trip IdeasTrip Ideas in the Southwest to Help You Adventure Near Home Looking to avoid travel, but still want to have fun? Not all adventures require flight travel or long distances to be great, including packrafting trips. Avoid the crowds, hop in your packraft and pick an adventure close to home. […]
Customer Spotlight: Luke Rollie Rogers
Adventure StoriesCustomer Spotlight: Luke Rollie Rogers Alaskan Luke Rollie Rogers is traveling around the world for one year. He recently sent us an email and a stack of fun photos to share with our fans. Thanks Luke! We’re a bit envious, but also super stoked for you. Stop by the Alpacka […]
A Ski to Packraft Odyssey in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains
Adventure StoriesPhotos by Andrew Burr | Story Carmen Kuntz And so it began… With gusting winds blowing outside, we were cold just thinking about the whitewater to ski touring trip we had planned for early February in BC’s Coast Mountains. But good friends will follow good friends into questionable adventures. So, […]
Explore. More. The Kimberly, Australia
Adventure StoriesIn far Northwest Australia lies a vast wilderness of palm-clad tablelands and spinifex*-covered plains carved by seasonal rivers. About the size of California but with a thousandth of its population, the Kimberley hosts marginal, million-acre cattle stations, isolated Aboriginal communities and national parks accessible only by helicopter. In 2018, a Brit […]
No Exit: A 1st Descent of a 50-Foot Wide Underground River
Adventure StoriesA 1st Descent: Chris Higgins Leads A Team of Cavers Under 3 Mountains, Down 7 Miles of River Photos, video, and story by Chris Higgins. Visit us on Instagram @alpacka_raft all this week to see more photos of packrafting and the cavers! Around ten years ago I visited a cave with […]
The Käsivarsi Wilderness by Packraft
Adventure StoriesExploring Finland’s Käsivarsi Wilderness by Packraft We love receiving customer adventure stories. Thanks so much to Jens Fredrik Allworthy for sharing his story and photos about the Käsivarsi Wilderness with us. Check out more of his photos on his Instagram page, @allverdig. A lover of big adventures, Jens Fredrik Allworthy spent as much time […]
Adventurer Christian Clot Traverses 4 Extreme Environments to Study Human Adaptability
Adventure Stories, Photo GalleryExplorer and researcher Christian Clot succeeded in multiple solo traverses of extreme environments on his expedition – Adaptation 4×30. Christian Clot traversed the four most extreme environments on earth by foot and by raft to study the adaptability of human beings. He first crossed Iran’s Dasht-E Lut desert, the hottest […]
The Packraft Trip to Quarantine Prepping and packing our way to solitude. Written By: Outdoor Adventure Ultra Athlete and Global Influencer,Buck Macho (a.k.a. Jesse Angelo) As it became clear that things were about to go a little sideways, my wife and I made the decision to make our way up to […]
Summertime Packrafting on the East Coast
Adventure Stories, Packrafting HistoryDarren Kazemi Showcases the Waterways of the Eastern United States An adventurer and conservationist, Darren Kazemi grew up on Long Island paddling narrow inlets, tidal rivers, and saltwater bays. When he got his first packraft, an Alpacka Explorer 42, he expected to take it on exploratory missions. Searching for solitude […]
Packrafting Wrangell-St. Ellias National Park. Nothing better.
Adventure StoriesExploring The Middle of Nowhere Alaska — Wrangell-St. Ellias Photo essay by Erik Bernhoft. In 2018, Erik Bernhoft and three friends flew to Anchorage, Alaska, drove seven hours (two of which were on a 60-mile dirt road) to the middle of nowhere where they boarded a bush plane and flew another […]
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
Adventure Stories, Conservation EffortsHeather is coming to Maria’s Bookshop in Durango for a reading, discussion, and book signing! Check out her Facebook event. Solo Packrafter, Writer, Conservationist, Heather Hansman Shares Stories From Her New Book, “DownRiver: Into the Future of Water in the West” A freelance writer and editor, Heather Hansman writes about a […]
The Wild and Scenic Deschutes River
Adventure StoriesThe Wild and Scenic Deschutes – Journal Notes From A Wild and Scenic Packrafting Adventure
Mapping Lechuguilla Cave Words and photos by: Stephen Eginoire At the foot of New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains in Carlsbad Caverns National Park lies one of the world’s great subterranean anomalies, Lechuguilla Cave. The portal to this extraordinary underground wilderness is quite literally a hole in the ground, and up until […]
Project Packraft-In-Place Sheltering in place—how I incorporated packrafts while staying home. Written by: Emily Ledergerber | Photos: Cody Doig Who knew packrafts had so many uses? From yoga, to sofa chairs, to the perfect desk, packrafts helped me shake things up a bit. Packrafts have been a great tool to […]