How do I lash a bicycle To my packraft? By Lizzy Scully & Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, an excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide. This is part of a series of articles we are running in May on bikerafting safety. Read the first two articles at Four Corners Guides: “Creating a Bikerafting Culture of Safety,” and “Bikerafting…
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Aqua Bound Just Made My New Bikerafting Paddle Review by Lizzy Scully, with input from Steve Fassbinder, Tyler Marlow and Spencer Harding. Photo by Lizzy Scully. Photo by Lizzy Scully. The Best Thing About the Updated Manta Ray Hybrid 4-Piece Paddle Aqua Bound says “The Posi-Lok™ ferrule is the gold-standard in paddlesports today, known for…
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The Let’s Go Bikerafting! Spring 2023 Giveaway Brought to you by Four Corners Guides, a guide service based out of Mancos, Colorado.
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From April 4-14 The Bikeraft Guide has partnered with Sockdolager Equipment, Kokopelli packraft, Four Corners Guides (TBG parent company), Aqua Bound, Titan Straps and Stikine Packrafts to give away $2550 in cutting-edge bikerafting equipment. Enter the Giveaway here! ULTRALIGHT PACKRAFTING POGIES By Alejandro Strong, owner of the guide service Packraft Maine. I have never been…
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Do You Need a Stikine Bow Protector for Bikerafting? It Depends… Photos & review by Andrew Strempke. Stikine designed their Bow Protector to act as a barrier between a bike and packraft when bikerafting. Webbing loops at the corners fix the sheet to the raft, then additional webbing straps on the sheet provide attachment points…
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Historia y fotos de Waldo Aguayo Riquelme. ¡Lee la reseña en inglés! He probado las bolsas secas de Stikine en un viaje de tres días por los ríos San Miguel y Dolores. Concretamente en un modelo Alpacka Raft “Classic”, talla L. Cargado con comida y equipo para dos personas durante todo el viaje. El material…
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Testing Internal Dry Bags on Colorado’s Dolores & San Miguel Rivers Story & photos by Waldo Aguayo Riquelme. Read the review in Spanish! I tested Stikine’s 70L internal dry bags on a three-day trip on the San Miguel and Dolores rivers, Colorado, while working for Four Corners Guides. I used them in an Alpacka Raft…
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Bikeraft Checklist Tips from a Canadian Multi-Sport Adventurer Canadian Adventurer Anthony DeLorenzo recommends making a bikeraft checklist and checking it twice, and then revisiting it years later. For his first big trips (and even big trips he does now), he lists all the gear he plans to bring and how much each piece weighs. “Starting…
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Hurunui Bikerafting Brevet* – A Beginners Trip Photos, film & story by Deane Parker Bikerafting New Zealand A bike and a packraft have allowed me to pull off some cool short routes, inspired by some longer routes. I didn’t actually need boats on any of these trips, but I used them for access – to…
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Lost Coast Bikerafting In 2011 Maurizio Doro Naturaider attempted to do the Lost Coast, Yakutat to Cordova, arriving to within 10 miles of the end of the trip. Unfortunately he had to be rescued because he was out of food and had reached his limits. What a bold effort to do something only a handful…
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