“Doom wants these [bikerafting & bikepacking] trips to be transformative. Almost like therapy. The perpetual motion, the alien-like landscapes, the lack of communication with the outside world…it all turns adventure into a reset button. All we have to do each day is pedal our bikes and find water. That liberation feels as if we’re not just riding bikes, but traveling through time, exploring a world before cellphones and out-of-office alerts and weekends spent traveling for an 8-year-old’s club soccer tournament. And that’s the whole point: to exit our comfort zone and enter another world where survival hinges on a bike and a rubber boat, and bare necessities become the priority.”
~Graham Averill, Men’s Journal
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We run various bikerafting and packrafting courses in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the surrounding public lands. We take people packrafting on the ephemeral Dirty Devil River, backpacking-packrafting into the deep and remote Dark Canyon and bikerafting on Lake Powell and the Colorado River and the miles of dirt roads that surround these bodies of water.
DARK CANYON EXPEDITION PACKRAFTING
Known for clear flowing water, ancient ruins and remote hiking, Dark Canyon forms at the Western Flank of the Blue Mountains and flows through the Bears Ears National Monument for close to 40 miles before merging with the Colorado River in the Glen Canyon National Rec Area. Our hike will take us through the lower section toward the Colorado River with one camp along the way. Once we exit Dark Canyon it’s a 20+-mile paddle out on the Colorado and Lake Powell with two night camping at idyllic spots, under dark skies, on the river.
LAKE POWELL BIKERAFTING
Have you ever wanted to try something totally unique and unlike anything your friends have ever done? If so, try pairing packrafts and bikes. What? No it really works! Roll up that packraft tight and put it on your handlebars. And then ride 3, 10, 20 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.
OTHER UTAH ADVENTURES!
We run 2- to 5-day bikepacking tours in Utah in the Bears Ears area and Manti-La Sal National Forest. Explore the wild hoodoos, snow-capped mountains and canyon lands of the Bears Ears area by dirt roads, specifically Beef Basin and the Bridger Jack area.
Additionally, we run trips on the Dirty Devil River. River levels are ephemeral and the Dirty cannot be run at below 200cfs. Thus, it’s hard to schedule trips. Email us if you’re interested and have a very flexible schedule, especially in March.
