Shredpacking Basics Part 2: Handling Videos & story by Liz Sampey. Photos by Steve Fassbinder. Liz has worked as a PMBIA-certified mountain bike skills instructor for eight years. The PMBIA methodology works to teach any discipline of mountain biker at any level. She’s taken her knowledge and experience of bikepacking and applied their proven system…
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Dan Thurber is a Class V kayaker-turned Class V packrafter. He has gone through about a dozen paddles in his career. His experience slants toward packrafting harder whitewater, but he has made his share of open water crossings and endurance downriver days. Dan is also a Swiftwater Safety Institute instructor, and he occasionally guides advanced…
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Expedition Chile By Waldo Andrés Aguayo Riquelme. Waldo took our first Advanced Expedition Planning and Paddling Course May 2022. Read his article, “Chilean Packrafter Hones Skills During Advanced Course.” And, check out photos of the Advanced Course by Andrew Burr on our Facebook page. Waldo will be teaching some courses in Spanish in 2023. If…
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour – A Guest’s Perspective By Mike Adamski Blank Spots on a Map My blank spots. Your blank spots. Maybe they are places just outside your door that for one reason or another, you haven’t been. It could be geologically challenging — a mountain or river corridor. Or it…
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Whitewater Ratings: Class I to Class V and everything in between By Sensei Dan Thurber, Packraft Swiftwater Safety Instructor. Read Dan’s other article, “How To Figure Out Your Perfect Packraft Paddle.” This is an excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide, and so is a guide on whitewater ratings specifically directed at bikerafters. However, it’s still provides…
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Shredpacking Basics: Setup & Handling of a Loaded Bike on Trail Part 1 Photos & story by Liz Sampey Bikepacking on gravel, 4wd roads or doubletrack can be a lot of fun. You can load your bike as heavy as you’re willing to push on the climbs without having to worry too much about how…
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Packrafting with Jaron! Jaron Segay hitting the first major rapid on the Dolores River. Jaron Segay worked the 2022 spring/summer guide season at Scullbinder Ranch for Four Corners Guides in 2022. Doom and I first met Jaron on a bikerafting trip that we ran in conjunction with Jon Yazzie and Nadine Johnson, founders of Dzil…
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An Excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide: Packrafting With Bikes on Flatwater, Fjords & Oceans Greenland It’s not just whitewater that people packrafting with bikes need to be wary of. Take no body of water lightly, says Huw Oliver, a Scottish adventurer. On his trip to Greenland with partner Annie Lloyd-Evans, he learned this the hard…
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This past May, we hosted our first Advanced Packraft Paddling & Expedition Course with lead guides Dan Thurber, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, and Ben Phillips. Eight people participated in the course on the Animas and Dolores rivers. Waldo Aguayo Riquelme, owner of the Chilean packraft guide service, Scouting Rios, was one of those participants. Waldo also…
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A Bikerafting Epic Excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide Mike Curiak and Eric Parsons attempt to cross in front of the actively calving snout of the La Perouse Glacier. This is the only glacier in North America that calves periodically directly into the Pacific Ocean. Story & photos by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder After setting ourselves up…
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