Episode #2: Whitewater Packrafting Gear In the second episode of our A Beginner’s Guide to Packrafting Podcast (& occasional YouTube video) Series, Tony Miely talks whitewater packrafting gear. While he doesn’t review the full spectrum of boats, paddles and helmets available (that would take hours!), he offers an overview of the gear people need to …
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Exploring Patagonia’s Ice Fields by Packraft Story, photos & maps by Waldo Aguayo. Read Waldo’s story, “San Quintin Chilean Expedition.” Prologue Lizzy Scully, owner of Four Corners Guide, asked me to write an article about my latest Patagonia packraft expedition. Writing articles for her has helped me clarify my thoughts and visions of life. She…
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a Beginner’s Guide to Packrafting: A Q&A With Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, Head Guide & Co-Owner of Four Corners Guides Packrafting & Bikeraftin
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a guide to help you figure out which course you should be in What level packrafter are you? Please answer the questions in each of these sections honestly. As a second skills assessment test, we will also have you fill out a pre-trip registration questionnaire. However, please start here and self identify your skill level…
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CHECK OUT OUR 2024 BIKERAFT & PACKRAFT COURSE SCHEDULE! Greetings from scullbinder ranch! Hola, buenos dias and greetings from Scullbinder Ranch, We are back from our various travels around the world–Doom to the inside passage of Alaska and Lizzy to Spain, Scotland and Zambia. Though we love traveling, it has been incredibly beautiful at Scullbinder…
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Intermediate Packrafting: What I learned Photos, videos & story by Spencer Harding. Thanks to Spencer for reviewing the Four Corners Guides Intermediate Packrafting course he took July 2023 🙏🏼 For years I’ve stumbled my way through water trips. On my first trip packrafting I took a bad swim, with my camera in hand no less.…
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Story & video by Waldo Aguayo. Photos by Andrew Burr. rolling a packraft Most packrafters or people who know about these boats wonder if it is possible to perform the famous “roll” in packraft. As the owner of a guide service (Scouting Rios Packrafting School) and an avid Chilean Packrafter (there aren’t many of us!),…
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Read Part 1 What’s the ideal bikerafting gear? How do you choose the bikerafting gear you’re going to use? Is there an ideal set up? These are tough questions to answer, especially considering there are dozens of bikepacking gear companies in the world today! There’s really no ideal set up, and what you use totally…
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Read Part 2. Bike-Packrafting Gear, Part 1: Bikerafting Bikes What’s the ideal bikerafting bike? Yikes, how to answer that?! We get a lot of questions about what kind of bikes one should use for bikerafting. As always, the answer depends on a lot of things, which we highlight below. There’s really no right or wrong…
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An excerpt from, “Hellbiking,” Chapter 1 of The Bikeraft Guide, by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder & Lizzy Scully, with additional photos of bikerafting on the Whanganui River provided by Deane Parker from his 2020 adventure, “Forgotten Highways.” The History of Bikerafting: Were the Kennett Brothers really “bikerafting” in 1988? While the Alaskan Crazies (i.e. Roman Dial…
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