Desert Bikerafting: Learn to Pair Bicycles & Packrafts in Utah
Want to Learn River Bikerafting Skills?
Please note, if a course you hoped to do is sold out or if you want to schedule a bikerafting adventure, please email us and we’ll do our best to schedule a course for you. Private courses cost the same as long as you have 2+ people. Click here to view our bikerafting trip options.
Course Introduction
Have you ever wanted to try something totally unique and unlike anything your friends have ever done? If so, try pairing packrafts and bicycles. What? No it really works! Roll up that packraft tight and put it on your handlebars. And then ride 3, 10, 20 (the sky’s the limit) miles to your nearest river. Take that boat off your bike, blow it up, take your bike apart and lash it to your boat. And then head down that river! It’s as easy as that. Well sort of. It helps to have experience with the transitions and navigating a boat with a bike on it. So we’ve got the course for you.
On this Level 1/2 river bikerafting course, you’ll spend one learning packrafting skills on the Moab Daily, and then a second half day bikerafting on that same stretch to get your bike to boat and boat to bike packing systems down. Then you’ll spend three days and two nights in the Utah desert on the Colorado River and Lake Powell.
You don’t need any packrafting experience for this trip. The course is challenging overall due to the mileage you’ll be paddling and cycling. You definitely need experience riding bikes and being in the backcountry.
Price: $1795
A 50% deposit is required when you sign up. The remaining balance will need to be received through 90 days prior to your course. The remaining balance is due immediately if you are registering inside of the 90 day window.
Please review our cancellation policy, which you will find on our Terms, Conditions & Cancellation Policy Page.
What's Included
An open Alpacka Classic packraft, PFD, paddle, helmet, all food for the backcountry (starting with lunch on the first day in the backcountry and ending with lunch on the final day), permits, wag bags, sanitizing kits and camping. We do have bike bags to loan out.
what's not included
Transportation (though we will work together to ensure everyone gets a ride to the put-in), a working bicycle and bike gear (helmet, tools), adult beverages, whitewater boats, drysuits, river knives, whistles or throw bags.
You do not need a drysuit for this course.
Instructors
Steve Fassbinder
Steve, aka “Doom,” is one of the country’s first Level 4 American Canoe Association Packraft Instructors. And he is a certified International Rescue 3 Whitewater Rescue Technician Professional (WRT-PRO) and IRF Whitewater Packraft Guide. Steve is also certified in Advanced Swiftwater Safety and Wilderness First Responder. An early adopter of packrafting, he has guided or instructed bike-packrafting to kids and adults for over a decade. And he has done remote packrafting expeditions around the world for over a dozen years.
