Packrafting 2013

Starting in New Zealand and ending in Patagonia, 2013 was yet another stellar year for traveling by packraft. The above film is a celebration of the Earth's remaining wild rivers and landscapes and the great friends I explore them with.

The video includes footage from Tasmania's Franklin River; Idaho's Jarbidge and Bruneau rivers; Wyoming's South Fork of the Shoshone River, Thorofare Creek, Buffalo Fork River, Wiggins Fork of the Wind River, Granite Creek, and Spread Creek; Montana's North Fork of the Flathead River; Utah's Labyrinth Canyon; Antarctica's Peninsula; Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park; and Chile's Torres del Paine National Park.

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.” – Edward Abbey