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 ...

The crew was outfitted with Alpacka rafts, one-person watercraft that look as if they would be more at home in a pool than ...

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 ...

A committed, lifetime canoeist’s boat-test and review of Alpacka’s new two-person (10-lb.) Oryx packraft. From the get-go I understood the allure of the packraft: incredibly lightweight boats you can ...

MANCOS – Craig Benally is leaning back in his chair in front of a Swiss-made seam taping machine in the Alpacka Raft factory. He is feathering laminated nylon panels beneath a tiny pipe blowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/John Baker for Alpacka Rafts) Are you looking to venture farther away from civilization with a capable watercraft stowed in ...

Packrafting is a legitimately novel way to explore new waterways. “Cool tent,” said my friend Bill Gamber. “Who makes it?” His interest in the rolled-up UPS parcel was natural; he runs a tent company ...

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 ...

Not many manufacturers call small-town America home anymore, but the stars and the development of the packrafting industry seem to have aligned to make Mancos the perfect place for Alpacka Raft.