Are you looking to venture farther away from civilization with a capable watercraft stowed in your backpack? The latest release from Alpacka Raft aims for low weight and high durability, adding a new ...

You may think that a lightweight, packable raft capable of carrying hundreds of pounds through rapids would require advanced skills and facilities to produce. Well, you’d be wrong. “We made them in ...

Maker of high-end packrafts at home in small town Not many manufacturers call small-town America home anymore, but the stars and the development of the packrafting industry seem to have aligned to ...

At the age of three, when most kids are just learning how to count, Sheri Tingey started sewing doll clothes. By age 10, she was making most of her own clothing by hand, intent on creating better ...

To get a sense of how excited Alpacka is about its newest creation, the Alpackalypse, look no further than the fact that it’s marketed as the “world’s first whitewater packraft” when the company ...

I've never been much of a water person. More a terrestrial type, really. Once I nearly drowned getting caught in a frothy rip at Newport Beach, California, along with two kids who, terrified, tried ...

BOZEMAN (AP) — Rocketing through whitewater on the Gallatin River’s Mad Mile in a one-man inflatable raft, Ryan Jordan draws some funny looks. ‘‘People are used to seeing 16-man whitewater boats,’’ he ...