Cold Water Paddling Tips
It can be rough, yet incredibly rewarding to paddle in the “off season”. Here’s a few top tips from what to wear paddling, the right gear for cold weather, safety tips, things to make winter paddling more comfortable and ways to get you prepared for cold water packrafting and kayaking in the winter and snow.
Cold Weather Packrafting Safety Tips
Just because temperatures have taken up residence somewhere between chilly and frigid, doesn’t mean we have to put our paddles up until warmer days. Our region boasts a plethora of...
Slow Ride Gargano: A Bikepacking and Packrafting Adventure
The Gargano National Park, with its 121,000 hectares, offers the spectacle of biodiversity as well as a unique territory made up of white rocky coasts, mountains and beech forests. Out...
Self-Bailer vs. Spraydeck Comparison
As we’ve gotten more into whitewater packrafting using our open deck rafts that aren’t necessarily meant for swift water, my boyfriend Tristan and I have been looking to upgrade to...
16 Days in the Gates of the Arctic
The Gates of the Arctic is the most remote national park in the United States. It is situated within the Arctic Circle and has no roads or any sort of...
10 Put-in's That Take You From Vanlife To Packrafting In Minutes
Life on the road keeps adventure right at our doorstep, but pavement and highways can only take you so far. When we first hit the road we didn’t have a...
Recon Packraft: Your New Go-To for Larger Water
Packrafts turned the kayaking world on its head. They're lightweight yet durable, allowing paddlers to take their adventure anywhere. This past year we launched a brand new one of a...
Meandering Through Clear Creek, Arizona
East Clear Creek is one of the best, and most easily accessible swimming holes in Northern Arizona, and also boasts some of the best deep water soloing in the region....
Monarch Icefields: Canadian Skiing Expedition
Instead of taking a full sized raft, have any of you heard of packrafting? There are many reasons for a multi-sport trip. Ours started out of necessity. Skiing on an...
Lan Ha Bay: Packrafting and Deep Water Soloing
Juuso expressed this was hands down one of his favorite trips we did while we were in Vietnam. “There was a sense of freedom I felt not being tied into...
No Such Thing as a Rain Delay
The rain certainly showed no signs of retreating and our rain shells succumbed to the elements. We made valiant efforts to remain dry, but those efforts were short-lived as we...
Why I Took the Packrafting Plunge
A packraft is the perfect accomplice for weekend expeditions. About a year ago, I was in Red Canyon on the Green River in far northeastern Utah, wrapping up fieldwork on...