expedition course description: Turn the blue lines on maps into trails
Acquire the packrafting skills you need to embark on bigger, better and safer adventures on your own.
A Level 1 Expedition course will teach you the basics of multi-day trip planning and logistics, pack lists, how to pack things in your boat and your pack (or bicycle), ultralight practices, expedition food and prep, leave no trace, navigation and finding camps, plus a basic overview of online resources: GIS, USGS water gauges, Google Earth, etc.
On more advanced courses, Level 2-4, you’ll dive deeper into developing all these skills, plus travel to more remote locales.
We developed our expedition planning and paddling courses for experienced paddlers who want to expand the skills they learned in our Level 1 courses and expand their paddling skills in order to run Class II-III rapids in a backcountry environment.
The goal with these courses is to dive deeper into the Level 1 Packraft Foundations â Basic Paddling & Expedition Skills list, and to practice these skills in a backcountry setting. On the longer courses, youâll also spend time practicing swiftwater rescue skills you learned in previous courses.Â
Please note that depending on how long these courses are, you will learn and/or practice more or fewer of these skills. To see our full curriculum please click here!
Expedition Course Schedule
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Want some expedition tips, check out our blog post, “The Bikeraft Guide: Route Planning Checklist,” or “Pack This! A Tajikistan Bikerafting Kit (Month-Long Trip).“