Packrafting Patagonia: Intermediate Expedition & Paddling Skills Course
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Course & Adventure Overview
Do you want to take your intermediate packrafting skills to the next level? Would you like to learn more about expedition planning, from planning and packing to understanding GIS and paper maps so you can get after it in the backcountry? And do you want to do all this in one of the most beautiful and wild places on earth, with a world-class instructor and a local expert packrafting guide? If so, our Packraft Patagonia: Intermediate Expedition Training & Paddling Skills Course can take you to the next level.
Learn how to work together with other packrafters in fast-moving whitewater scenarios to ensure a safe expedition. Participants will hone their skills over two days on various rivers near Puerto Rio Tranquilo. This will be followed by a five-day loop on and around the Gualas Glacier. You’ll be backpacking through wild and sometimes gnarly terrain and paddling both rivers and glaciated lakes among glaciers and mountains.
Please see our post, “What Level Packraft Are You?,” to help you decide if you are ready for this course. Thanks!
To be considered for this course, please fill out this pre-trip questionnaire (click to download) and email it to Doom. Thanks! This is a course for solid intermediate and intermediate-advanced boaters.
Price: $3175
A 50% deposit is required to secure your spot. You’ll need to provide the remaining balance 30 days prior to your course. The remaining balance is due immediately if you are registering inside of the 30 day window.
Additionally, please review our cancellation policy, which you will find on our Terms, Conditions & Cancellation Policy Page.
What's Included
One day of packraft training and getting to know each other on a river near our base camp at Puerto Rio Tranquilo, and then a five-day backpacking and packrafting trip around the Gualas Glacier.
It also includes simple lodging in hostels with shared rooms (unless you choose to upgrade, but that will be up to you to take care of on your own), shared meals in those hostel (though we will be eating out regularly and you will be responsible for paying for your own food in those situations), shuttling including getting to and from the airport, plus all your backcountry food.
What's Not Included
Airfare, any food and lodging outside of the course, adult beverages, a whitewater boat and other relevant equipment (PFD, breakdown paddle, whistle, throw rope, drysuit, locking carabiners, drybags, etc), personal camping equipment and clothing, meals at restaurants.
Instructors
Steve Fassbinder: Steve, aka “Doom,” is one of the country’s first Level 3 American Canoe Association Packraft Instructors, as well as a Level 3 Kayak Instructor. He is also certified in Advanced Swiftwater Safety and Wilderness First Responder. An early adopter of packrafting, he has guided for three years and done remote packrafting expeditions around the world for over a dozen years.
Waldo Aguayo: Waldo is a professional adventure tourism guide who specializes in water sports, mainly in packrafting. He has nine years of experience touring the Northern and Southern Chilean Patagonia. He first started packrafting seven years ago and quickly pioneered several routes on various rivers, fjords and lagoons in Patagonia. In 2019 he founded @scoutingrios, a guide service that runs tours, classes, clinics and packrafting expeditions in Patagonia.
What You Will Learn
We designed this trip for adventurers looking to hone their backcountry packrafting paddling, navigation and expedition planning skills. We will teach many of the standard techniques from our other packrafting courses, and we will do drills practicing those techniques over the first two days of the course. Additionally, we will teach you what it takes to accomplish a multi-day packraft adventure in a wild, international backcountry setting.
Follow us @fourcornersguides on Instagram or visit our Facebook page to see photos from some of our other Expedition Packrafting courses.
The event is finished.
Date
- Mar 17 - 23 2024
- Expired!
Time
- All Day
Cost
- $3,175.00
Location
Gualas Glacier, Patagonia, Chile