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Red striped walls soar in nearly impossible shapes. Swirls of mud boil pale green here, light pink there, and brown a while later. Crisp tasting water spouts out of cracks. Rock towers stand shrouded ...

I had a “mind-blown” moment in a packraft while paddling out from the crater lake of an active volcano in Alaska. “Seriously?” I thought. “Who gets to do this?” I was enraptured. The crater lake was ...

One of the cooler outdoor innovations to really take off into its own sport over the past two decades or so, the packraft opens up new adventure opportunities, packing down to backpack size so it can ...

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Kokopelli Packraft Based in Denver, Colorado, has been designing and producing lightweight inflatable packrafts for over five years and has now taken to Kickstarter for the first time to raise funds ...

I'm always interested in people who take on big, difficult challenges, but usually it's in some far-off place, not our own backyard. That's the beauty of exploration, and I don't mean that on a global ...

If you have enviously eyed the packable but expensive Alpacka packrafts made in Alaska but just couldn’t commit to the $600-$2,500 price tag, there’s good news. A 37-year-old British Columbia engineer ...

TWENTYMILE RIVER -- A half-mile or so below where the disappearing Winner Creek Trail stumbles out of the brush to meet the upper reaches of this Chugach Mountain stream, the water disappears too. The ...

The growth of stand-up paddleboarding has brought to market some interesting accessories, including a few paddleboard-top tents from the likes of Hold Up and outdoor-survival personality Bear Grylls ...