The Best Packrafting Paddles Your Paddle is Your Engine (and Your Way Home) When you’re packrafting, your paddle is more than just a tool – it’s your engine, your steering wheel, and sometimes your ticket home. Choosing the best packraft paddle isn’t just about comfort; it’s about safety, …
Reinforcement Learning Traps
When Bad Decisions Look Like Good Ones in Packrafting By Huw Miles Packrafts are sneaky bastards. That’s part of their charm, right? Tough, floaty little tanks that’ll bounce off a boulder, ferry you through a bony line, and make you look better than you are. But that’s also the danger: they …
Pack Weight Reduction in Packrafting
The quest to lighten up the load you carry into the backcountry is seemingly never ending! At Packrafting Queenstown, we're constantly looking for incremental improvements for our overnight set ups. Typically I've never been a "Weight Weiner". I work in the backcountry and I have a duty of care …
