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Fitzroy Packrafting – Australia
Fitzroy article in The Paddler magazine My four videos from last year’s trip – about 45 mins all up – are below. You’ll find Jeff’s version of the same trip in 5 parts (a… more →
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Fitzroy Packrafting - Australia
wrote 6 months ago: Fitzroy article in The Paddler magazine My four videos from last year’s trip – about 45 … more →
Urban kayaking: River Colne, west London
wrote 6 months ago: The other day a friend relatively new to yaking invited me and a mate to paddle a river near her hom … more →
Whitewater test: Packraft v Gumotex IK
wrote 8 months ago: Don’t get excited, we’re talking a few hundred metres of Class 1.1, but that’s as … more →
Packrafting in a Force 6 Gale
wrote 8 months ago: I do like a good storm. On the right was today’s coastal forecast for the Minch. You might cal … more →
Fitzroy Packrafting story
wrote 8 months ago: Just tracked down this article I wrote for Terra journal last year about our packraft and slackraft … more →
Slackraft Sea Trials
wrote 9 months ago: Chopping down my Sevy pooltoy into a slackraft lost too much buoyancy to take my gross weight, but i … more →
Preparing the Slackraft for Escalante
wrote 1 year ago: In a month I’m back in northern Arizona for an Expo and afterwards hope to have another crack … more →
Packrafting Fitzroy - Gear
wrote 1 year ago: Fitzroy 1 • Fitzroy 2 • Fitzroy 3 • Fitzroy 4 • Fitzroy 5 Access One reason I chose the Fitzroy … more →
Packrafting the Fitzroy - 5/5
wrote 1 year ago: Fitzroy 1 • Fitzroy 2 • Fitzroy 3 • Fitzroy 4 Today, our fifth on the river, we expected to break … more →
Packrafting the Fitzroy 4 [video]
wrote 1 year ago: Fitzroy 1 – intro • Fitzroy 2 • Fitzroy 3 • Fitzroy 5 Soon after dawn we stood on a small h … more →
Packrafting the Fitzroy 3 [video]
wrote 1 year ago: • Fitzroy 1 [intro] • Fitzroy 2 • Fitzroy 4 • Fitzroy 5 We were up again with the light, ready f … more →
Packrafting the Fitzroy 2 [video]
wrote 1 year ago: • Fitzroy 1 • Fitzroy 3 • Fitzroy 4 • Fitzroy 5 The video above covers Day 1 (previous post) and … more →
Packrafting the Fitzroy 1 [video]
wrote 1 year ago: Fitzroy 2 • Fitzroy 3 • Fitzroy 4 • Fitzroy 5 A few minutes after the plane took off from Fitzroy … more →
Incept K40 on Escalante
wrote 1 year ago: Just noticed there’s an Incept blog and saw that they ran the Escalante in Utah with rafts and … more →
Packrafting in France 2 ~ Ardeche Gorge
wrote 1 year ago: Part 1 here ~ see also this. Includes pix by Steve L The story so far. We’d nursed the cheapo … more →
Packrafting in France 1 ~ Chassezac
wrote 1 year ago: See also this. Includes pix by Steve L The Ardeche Gorge was the last big river I’d yet to do … more →
Packrafting the Polly Lochans [video]
wrote 1 year ago: A sunny and a warm day, so although I was still feeling a bit groggy following a cold, it was high t … more →
Packraft surfing - Intex vs Alpacka [video]
wrote 1 year ago: Sunday morning Jon and I went to try out his new boat, another Intex Sea Hawk, but the one-man versi … more →
Suilven packraft triathlon
wrote 1 year ago: The forecast was good and with time running out, such days cannot be ignored. ‘Let’s go … more →
