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Adventure Stories

February 28, 2024

Low and Slow: Building Whitewater Packrafting Skills

Packrafting Safety, Adventure Stories, Trip Ideas

When water is low and your waiting for spring runoff, whitewater can be hard to find. But don’t worry, there are other ways to get your whitewater fix and improve your skills before the bigger flows return.

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March 28, 2020

Packrafting Films

Adventure Stories, Conservation, Trip Ideas, Uncategorized

Great Packrafting Films For Your Home Screen. Check out a good compilation of recent films to help you get stoked for packrafting.

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December 18, 2019

A Paddle / Climb Expedition on Baffin Island

Adventure Stories, Climbing

Story and Photos by Bronwyn Hodgins This summer myself, my husband (Jacob Cook) and two of my longtime closest friends (Zack Goldberg-Poch and Thor Stewart) traveled to Baffin Island in northern Canada, only a few hundred km across the bay from Greenland. Our mission was to climb some big mountain […]

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July 11, 2022

An overnight bikerafting loop just outside of Moab, UT.

Bikerafting, Adventure Stories

Eszter and her crew grabbed their bikes and packrafts and headed out on an overnight bikerafting adventure just outside of Moab.

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February 26, 2020

A Hidden Triangle of Wild – Into the Badger-Two Medicine

Adventure Stories

A Hidden Triangle of Wild – Into the Badger-Two Medicine Photos and Story by Tara Kramer We followed grizzly tracks along the old road bed for the entire first day. Over a pass, along the ridge, down into the thin waters of the South Fork of the Badger. We’d loose […]

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January 6, 2022

Paddling Blind - Blind explorer, Erik Weihenmayer paddles Alaska for Welcome to Earth

Adventure Stories, Athletes & Ambassadors, Trip Ideas

Paddling Blind. Erik Weihenmayer paddles Alaska for the new Welcome to Earth Series with Will Smith

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June 20, 2017

Packrafting Afghanistan

Adventure Stories

Packrafting Afghanistan – 1st Descent of the Oxus River Story & photos by Jonathan Rider Rafting in Afghanistan. Sounds fun. Packrafting Afghanistan. Even better. In September 2015 Edmund Le Brun and I made the first descent of the Oxus River from its source in the Afghan Pamir to the border […]

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April 9, 2018

A Desert Wander

Adventure Stories

10 Fort Lewis College Adventurers Hike & Packraft 80 Miles of Uninhabited Desert Country Below Clay Hills to The San Juan Arm of Lake Powell Photos & story by Brett Davis “For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will […]

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April 24, 2018

What Have Rivers Given You? A 5000 Miles of Wild Story

Adventure Stories

Alex LaLonde on Learning Focus, Resilience, and Respect on The Saranac River (& Other Rivers) – A 5000 Miles of Wild Whitewater Story Share Your Story for the Chance to Win a Werner Sherpa Paddle! As a way to explore some of the world’s packrafting landscape and also fulfill their […]

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March 5, 2018

A Brief History of Bikerafting (aka “Nature Biking,” aka “Hell Biking,” aka Anything But “Bikepacking,” please)

Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Packrafting History

Biking & Rafting (aka Bikerafting): An Early History of Two Human-Powered Travel Methods From the Perspective of Some Legendary Adventurers By Lizzy Scully, with significant help from Steve “Doom” Fassbinder and Roman Dial “Bikes and rafts are a really cool combination, one that will make you feel clever, especially when […]

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December 6, 2017

A Trekking 1st: Fisherman Justin Barbour and his dog, Saku, Fish & Packraft Their Way Across Newfoundland

Adventure Stories, Fly Fishing

A Man & His Dog Make the 1st Trek Across the Remote Newfoundland Wilderness, Feeding Themselves With Fish Along The Way Over the last few years Justin Barbour has completed and filmed solo long distance trips throughout his province. Last year he found a new adventure partner–his Cape Shore Water […]

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November 13, 2017

Packrafting Across Nepal - A Creative & Adventurous Way to Graduate from University

Adventure Stories

“Expeditionary Studies Students” Alex LaLonde and Theodore “Ted” Tetrault Explore Nepal’s Packrafting Landscapes for Capstone Project As a way to explore some of the world’s packrafting landscape and also fulfill their final Capstone Project at SUNY Plattsburgh (a graduation requirement), the duo of Ted Tetrault and Alex LaLonde will spend 40 […]

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February 22, 2018

The Adventure Dispatch - Featuring Pro Team Athlete Steve "Doom" Fassbinder

Adventure Stories, Athletes & Ambassadors

Photographer, Adventurer, and Alpacka Raft Ambassador Steve Fassbinder on Film In this episode of The Adventure Dispatch, Steve Fassbinder and Adam Zurn head to the timeless red deserts of the American West for an adventure that pushes the boundaries of a bike’s perceived limitations. Fly in to the middle of […]

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February 6, 2018

Alpacka Raft Pro Team Athlete Spotlight - Dulkara Martig

Adventure Stories, Athletes & Ambassadors

From barefoot childhood wanderings to long-distance, multi-sport trips, Dulkara Martig was born into adventure Throughout February we will be featuring our new 2018 Pro Athlete Team—Dulkara Martig, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, Luc Mehl, and Mike Curiak. Each of these athletes boasts a wide spectrum of skills, from mountain biking to climbing […]

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July 6, 2020

A packrafters paradise: South West New Zealand – Te Wāhipounamu

Adventure Stories, Packrafting Podcast, Athletes & Ambassadors

A packrafters paradise: South West New Zealand – Te Wāhipounamu Alpacka Raft Ambassador, Dulkara Martig, tells us about one of her favorite parts of New Zealand. And, she introduces us to one of its most prolific packrafters, Stanley Mulvany.  Words by: Dulkara Martig | Photo above: Scotty Sinton There’s a […]

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October 24, 2017

Employee Trip Profile - Molly Harrison & Crew Explore the Brooks Range by Raft

Adventure Stories, Photo Gallery

This summer, Alpacka Raft Customer Service Rep Molly Harrison and four close friends trekked 160 miles through the Brooks Range “There is still wild country left to explore, and we saw the tiniest piece of it up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.”

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April 3, 2019

Fluid Trails-Three Adventurers Bikeraft New Zealand’s Second Largest National Park

Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Athletes & Ambassadors

Kiwi adventurer Deane Parker is at it again, filming a bikeraft adventure to a remote New Zealand national park to highlight opportunities that flow from the economic growth of trail development. Fluid Trails – Kahurangi Bikerafting Epic Seeking Bigger, Longer, Harder Adventures After a successful bikeraft adventure that he captured […]

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August 29, 2017

From Russia With Packrafting Love - Stories from Chukotka

Adventure Stories, Photo Gallery

August 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 […]

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