In 2020 we researched a local Alaska creek, Ptarmigan Creek, which appeared to have enough water to packraft and found a black spot on Google Earth. What was in there? Would there be easy intermediate class III rapids or a raging class V torrent? We had no idea, so we decided to drop in and find out.
Packrafting Ptarmigan Creek on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula near Seward, Alaska turned out to be a manageable class III adventure, but when we first explored it and took our Alpacka Packrafts into the gorge, we had no idea. We found mostly class II rapids with two or three intermediate class drops. There were some wood strainers and an unrunnable class V gorge, but navigating around those proved to be relatively easy. This intermediate packraft float in the Alaska backcountry is well worth the effort and this video tells our story of our first time down.
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:41 - Background
02:55 - The Approach
04:20- Dropping In
07:33 - The Lower Gorge
12:54- Epilogue
14:04 - Outro
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7 июн 2024
