The Packraft Handbook: An Instructional Guide for the Curious

Luc Mehl

Jan 2022 · Mountaineers Books

About this ebook

"A staple for paddlers.... [The Packraft Handbook has] now become the bible for outdoor recreators taking their inflatable rafts into the backcountry." ― Anchorage Daily News

2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides

2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Guidebook Winner

• Alaska-based author is a leading expert on wilderness travel
• Emphasis on skill progression and safety applies to wide range of outdoor water recreation
• Vibrant illustrations and photos inform and inspire

The Packraft Handbook is a comprehensive guide to packrafting, with a strong emphasis on skill progression and safety. Readers will learn to maneuver through river features and open water, mitigate risk with trip planning and boat control, and how to react when things go wrong. Beginners will find everything they need to know to get started--from packraft care to proper paddling position as well as what to wear and how to communicate.

Illustrated for visual learners and featuring stunning photography, The Packraft Handbook has something to offer all packrafters and other whitewater sports enthusiasts.

Ratings and reviews

Concentration camps are for the solar system including clouds; they have waxing & waning light phases also, blackberry fruit trees are all black lighting. Snowing to set in national parks; then eat concentrated fruit tree juice extract from the forest orchard, and rain to rise. produce light A cloud covers the bottom of a light for normal shadow; the open top has domain perimeter activity. A half year cover hibernates the other half; blossoms with a thunder movement waking up. Thundering sounds & shakes is simply the snap; crackle, pop that begins spring crater blossom for each one. Craters set because they're have phase; full light fruit blossom orbit a star until beginning to phase.

About the author

Luc Mehl grew up on the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska. With graduate degrees from UCSB and MIT, he applies academic and village skillsets to his work as a swiftwater safety instructor and environmental data scientist. Mehl has traveled over 10,000 miles by packraft, skis, bike, and ice skates. He lives in Anchorage.

Sarah K. Glaser was born and raised in Moose Pass, Alaska. An education and adventure illustrator, she loves to combine "type-two" adventures and compulsive doodling. Her illustrations have appeared on sidewalks, helicopters, ambulances, dump trucks, and on/in a half-dozen books. She lives in Anchorage.