A BEginner’s Guide to Packrafting & Bikerafting, Episode #5: Healing Adventure Trauma For Episode #6 of A Beginner’s Guide to Packrafing & Bikerafing, we interviewed Julia Yanker, a long-time packrafter, life coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, aka trauma resolution specialist. My primary goal with chatting with Julia was to really find out what can be…
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Four Women Bikeraft McPhee Reservoir June 2024, at the request of a return client, Four Corners Guides owner, Lizzy Scully, ran the company’s first women’s bikerafting course. Check out our video and recap below. https://youtu.be/iY1a4DGZqHQ?si=tzAyCLJjiIAF2CNX Story by Lizzy Scully, photos and video clips by Lizzy and Sarah Carr. I’ve always felt more empowered doing adventures…
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Explore More Thanks so much to Doug Artman for letting us share his April 2024 blog post about his adventures exploring Ancestral Puebloan ruins into the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park with our guide, Jon Bailey, and fellow bike explorer Bay. It was early season, so cool and refreshing out. The river was not too…
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Desert & Mountains It’s summertime, and Mancos temps are in the 80s. It’ll get hotter in August for a week or two. But at Scullbinder Ranch we’re blessed with cool nights thanks to the Mancos River a 100 feet from the house. And up in the La Platas, temps are 10 to 20 degrees cooler,…
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Thanks to Sarah, Sheri & Thor Tingey of Alpacka Raft for seeding our Fund with a $2500 matching grant that we recently achieved! Thanks also to all who have supported this new fund. We’ll be announcing the scholarship application process early in 2025! If you know black, indigenous, Latinx or LGBTQ+ folks seeking outdoor adventure…
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Packraft Culture of Safety Month It’s the last day of the packraft community’s Culture of Safety Month! So we thought we’d chat about, well, safety. Swiftwater Rescue Courses First, swiftwater rescue courses. Why are they important for every packrafter? Because it’s imperative to be equipped with the skills you need to rescue yourself and your…
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“We’re trying to drift towards safety by embracing and fostering a culture of safety. A significant way to do that is to share incidents where things almost went wrong. I can give you a great short example. The little hardware that used to come with deck bags on various boats, both Alpacka and Kokopelli had…
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Introduction: Luc Mehl Interview by Lizzy Scully, photos courtesy of Luc Mehl. Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 25, 2024, and we’re publishing the 5th edition of our, “A Beginner’s Guide to Packrafting & Bikerafting” Podcast. Today we dive into issues both beginners and experts will appreciate. Enjoy all the tools in Luc Mehl’s safety tool…
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Teaching Friends & Family How to packraft (or bikeraft) By Lizzy Scully, photos by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder from a family trip we did summer 2020 on another river. Updated April 18, 2024. How to Teach your Friends how to packraft Tip #1: pick an easy, local river A handful of miles up from a small…
Detailsmarch snows bring spring flows on the Dolores River & the animas! Great news! March snowstorms bolstered Colorado’s snowpack, and as of April 1st it was at 109% of the 30-year norm. And we still have a few weeks of possible additional snowstorms before melting intensifies. In a Denver Post article, National Weather Service meteorologist…
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