I’m gazing out across a vibrant green summer landscape from 38 metres above the River Dee in North Wales, sitting in a rubber raft. To achieve this feat I’ve travelled to the Snowdonia National Park, ...

Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco ...

Backpacking is great. But water is the blood of a landscape. In a boat, drifting at eye level with the water, undistracted by the cutting straps of an anvil pack, you can sit and feel the pulse of a ...

After a friend died in a tragic packrafting accident almost a decade ago, Luc Mehl shifted his outlook. The Anchorage resident started to give up much of his swashbuckling backcountry lifestyle to ...

Gerard Ganey, of Anchorage, Alaska, takes a packraft down Rainie Falls, a class V rapid on Oregon’s Rogue River. Smaller, trendier and more technical than traditional inflatables, packrafts are ...

I had a “mind-blown” moment in a packraft while paddling out from the crater lake of an active volcano in Alaska. “Seriously?” I thought. “Who gets to do this?” I was enraptured. The crater lake was ...

Two weeks ago I shipped my skis home and picked up my packraft, which I will carry until the very end of this expedition in October. Most people have never heard of packraft, which Wikipedia defines ...