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Customer Spotlight – Walt Marchbanks Perfects Packraft Fishing
Fly FishingA Life-long Angler Finds New Access with Packraft Fishing Story & photos by Walt Marchbanks. Feature photo caption: “This spot is directly across from a combat fishing hole. My Alpacka allows me to fish the hole from the other side of the river, which is actually the best way to […]
"Biking-Birder" Seeks Green Birding World Record - Gets Face Dyed by Native Peruvians
Adventure Stories“Biking Birder” Gary Prescott seeks Green Birding World Record, Part I Story & photo by Gary Prescott. Trepidation filled me as I inflated my colorful Alpacka packraft and the fast, shallow whitewater of the tributary river of the Amazon, the Madre de Dios, rushed past me. The long walk in […]
The Birthday Paddling Micro Adventure – Exploring Doesburg by Packraft
Urban AdventureKonstantin Gridnevskiy’s Urban Packrafting Adventures in Doesburg Story & photos by Konstantin. When you have a small child, time seems to magically disappear, especially when you don’t have family around to help. I can hardly find time to travel and paddle as much as before. That’s why when my wife, […]
Packrafting Patagonia's River Puelo from Source to Sea
Adventure StoriesThe Puelo, An Expedition From Source to Sea Story & photos by Fernando Fainberg About a year ago I saw some pictures of Chilean expeditionary great, Pablo Besser, on an trip to the Patagonian fjords. He was using an inflatable boat to navigate, that could be stored in his backpack. […]
Bikerafting Australia’s Jamieson River
BikeraftingA First-Timers Bikerafting Adventure Victoria, Australia isn’t known for its whitewater, but a few rivers fed by alpine snow melt are runnable through spring and into early summer. And, they offer up to Class III and IV rapids. The Jamieson River is one of those, with two raftable sections when […]
Power Couple – Braden Gunem & Claire Cripps
Athletes & AmbassadorsAdventurers, Photographers. Live in a 1974 Airstream Not a day goes by that Claire Cripps doesn’t think about finding another river to float. Likewise, her partner, adventure photographer Braden Gunem says he’s usually looking at a map to find a new river to explore. They prefer rivers that don’t go […]
A Trip of a Lifetime - Patagonia by Packraft
Adventure StoriesPatagonia by Packraft – Story & Photos by Ashley Perry
Packrafting Conservation in Alaska's Tongass National Forest
Conservation EffortsHow packrafts are a part of conservation in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska By Maia Mares of Sitka Conservation Society. The Tongass National Forest is the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the world. It’a a landscape of islands, coastal mountains, and countless streams and rivers that boil with salmon returning […]
Climbing, Packrafting, Adventure – Miah Watt Captures it All on Camera
Athletes & AmbassadorsAdventure Photographer. Lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jeremiah “Miah” Watt started shooting photos in the late 90’s after an internship went awry, he dropped a business degree, and signed up for photo classes. “Shooting allows me to lose myself in an objective and come out the other side with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fluid Trails – Bikerafting Kahurangi National Park
Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Athletes & AmbassadorsFluid Trails – An Epic Bikerafting Adventure Through New Zealand’s Kahurangi National Park. “Fluid Trails” follows three adventurers as they embark on a bikerafting adventure across Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand using mountain bikes & three packrafts. The park is an ancient place of rare birds, rolling alpine tussock, earthquake […]
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 […]
Protecting Bristol Bay: A Fight Against Pebble Mine
Bikerafting, Conservation Efforts, Fly Fishing, News, Events, ReviewsAn Interview with Alaska Trout Unlimited‘s Jenny Weis. Media provided by Bjørn Olson. Tag us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook with your best packraft fishing photos. The first 50 people get a free 2019 Trout Unlimited Membership! Streams overflowing with brightly colored salmon, crystal clear water, stunning mountains, plump grizzly […]
The Canadian Packraft Rendezvous
News, Events, ReviewsThis year’s Canadian Packraft Rendezvous to be Held June 28-July 2 at Mount Robson Provincial Park Story by Lizzy Scully, featured photo by Ben Weigl. Canada’s plethora of beautiful rivers and wilderness areas make it prime territory for packraft adventures. Or, so thought numerous members of the “Packrafting in Canada” […]
Jesse Selwyn Explores an Ephemeral Desert River, Made Boatable by a Rainstorm Mike’s email arrived on Friday afternoon. We were expecting friends from Denver for a weekend visit, so I declined his invite. Shortly after a large storm shut down I-70 and our friends canceled their trip. I relayed this […]
My First Time - Overcoming Fears & Learning to Packraft
Adventure StoriesOne Swiftwater Rescue Course & Three Days Packrafting the Dolores River Changed My Life The first time I packrafted, Alpacka Raft COO Sarah Tingey took me on a swiftwater rescue course to Moab. Petrified of cold, fast-moving water for most of my life, I spent the entire first day nauseous […]
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 Walking Wounded on the World's Biggest Expedition Adventure Race
Adventure StoriesGodzone – Alpacka Athlete Ambassador Dulkara Martig Takes on Adventure Racing In 2018, Alpacka Raft, Dulkara Martig, competed in the 7th Godzone, the world’s biggest expedition adventure race. In this article, she transports us into the depths of Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, sharing the jigsaw of emotions that […]
Rockslides and Revelation on the River of Sorrows
Conservation EffortsEarly Season Packrafting on the Dolores River By Rica Fulton, photos by Cody Perry. On Monday March 4th, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Southwest Colorado; its epicenter three miles south of Bedrock along the Dolores River. With the epicenter so close to our treasured Dolores River, we wanted to paddle through […]