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.…
DetailsA Testimonial for Four corners Guides Back in 2021, Mike Adamski did a day-bikerafting trip with Doom on McPhee Reservoir. Thanks so much to Mike for sharing his experience! I recently had the pleasure of going on a bikeraft tour of McPhee Reservoir with Four Corners Guides, and it was an unforgettable experience. The day…
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Dogs of packrafting! Yes, you can take your dog paddling if you start early & train them right Story by Molly Harrison, photos by Molly, Lizzy Scully and Steve Fassbinder. We pile out of the Subaru as though it’s a clown car- dog after dog spills out of the backseat and they go tearing off…
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Check out our 2023 summer kid’s packrafting camps! Sign Up Now! Pairing Bikes & Packrafts: It’s Not Just for adults! Story by Steve Hazelwood, photos by Steve Fassbinder. This is the unabridged version of one of the stories that appeared in The Bikeraft Guide. I fell in love with bikerafting before touching the water. I…
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