I’m gazing out across a vibrant green summer landscape from 38 metres above the River Dee in North Wales, sitting in a rubber raft. To achieve this feat I’ve travelled to the Snowdonia National Park, ...

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The deep guttural roar of a stag echoed across the loch, rolling from one valley to another. I lay in my tent, half-awake, the sound somewhere between a bear and a large cow. All night, these ...

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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) ...

Gerard Ganey, of Anchorage, Alaska, takes a packraft down Rainie Falls, a class V rapid on Oregon’s Rogue River. Smaller, trendier and more technical than traditional inflatables, packrafts are ...

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 ...

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 ...