Ambitious About Packrafting? Here’s How to Actually Progress A yarn for the ones keen to skip ahead My Packrafting Journey Started with a Reality Check Back when I first started packrafting, I came from a pretty solid outdoor background. I’d been working professionally in the outdoors for …
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Reinforcement Learning Traps
When Bad Decisions Look Like Good Ones in Packrafting 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 forgive so much …
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 …
