LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Samuel H. Edwards will have to pay a $2,500 fine for “packrafting” — and he can’t set foot in a national park for two years, either. On Thursday, the National Park Service (NPS) ...

Backpacking is great. But water is the blood of a landscape. In a boat, drifting at eye level with the water, undistracted by the cutting straps of an anvil pack, you can sit and feel the pulse of a ...

Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco ...

PHOENIX — A man has pleaded guilty to leading an illegal packrafting trip in Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said Friday. Samuel H. Edwards entered a guilty plea on misdemeanor charges after ...

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 ...

After a friend died in a tragic packrafting accident almost a decade ago, Luc Mehl shifted his outlook. The Anchorage resident started to give up much of his swashbuckling backcountry lifestyle to ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago I shipped my skis home and picked up my packraft, which I will carry until the very end of this expedition in October. Most people have never heard of packraft, which Wikipedia defines ...