a guide to help you figure out which course you should be in Updated July 2025. What level packrafter are you? Please answer these questions to self identify your skill level to the best of your ability. Please do not use an Internet search to answer the questions. As a second skills assessment test, we…
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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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Part #2, What is “The Culture of Safety” and why is it relevant to bikerafters? Plus Luc Mehl”s Safety & Rigging tips By Lizzy Scully, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, Luc Mehl and Andy Toop. There’s much adventurers need to consider to safely start bikerafting. I won’t cover all points here, but I want to give you…
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Part #1, An Introduction to bikerafting safety and Risk ASsessment, an Excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide In 2022, Steve and I published the first edition of The Bikeraft Guide, a book we assembled during the pandemic. I interviewed dozens of people and read from dozens of obscure blogs to report the history. And we gathered…
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Stories & photos from a historic alaska bikerafting adventure In July 2016, Brett Davis, Jon Bailey, Roman Dial, Mike Curiak and Steve “Doom” Fassbinder set out to do something no one had every done before. They wanted to ride and packraft around 150 miles from Cordova to Yakutat, the northern section of Alaska’s Lost Coast.…
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