High-end maker of 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 ...

Sheri Tingey has been sewing since she was 3 years old. The 76-year-old never thought the skill would make her one of the pioneers in the pack raft industry. But as her company Alpacka Raft celebrates ...

The sun is high in the sky as I crest the final hill after four miles of hiking through pristine wilderness, surrounded by changing leaves and occasional wildflowers. My hiking partners are dots in ...

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 ...

Alpacka Rafts make incredibly compact rafts designed for backpack-carry that could take your next trek into the hinterlands to a new level. “Alpacka Raft was started in Chugiak, Alaska, in 2001, to ...

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 ...

In this video, I compare two packrafts that I reviewed this summer - the NRS Neutron and Alpacka Expedition. Should you be considering a packraft? If so, which packraft should you get?