Youtube Videos!

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:40 am

Got any videos? Post them here! Use the youtube embed code and just wrap the URL with [youtube]. If you need help email me & I'll help post them for you! If you're uploading any videos to Youtube please tag them 'alpacka' so we can find them!

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:45 am

Videos by Eric Parsons
View all his videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainSwallowtail

6 Mile

Ship Creek

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:46 am

Videos by Nathan Shoutis and Sam Perry
View all their videos here: http://mediafeliz.com

Dink touch up

Salty Schnitzel

Jedi Knight Battle

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:53 am

Videos by Erin & Hig / GroundTruthTrekking
You can view all their videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/GroundTruthTrekking

Packrafting swell

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:13 pm

And another one....

shoutdiggity · Post by **shoutdiggity** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:10 am

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:09 pm

This latest looks good: less hucking carnage, more packrafting style.

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:44 am

This is a movie trailer that Forrest sent me to post. Looks like these guys landed in Little Switzerland and hiked out.

forrestmccarthy · Post by **forrestmccarthy** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:07 am

Two great videos of Bob Brown and Paul Smith's 1976 descent of the Franklin River in Tasmania:

http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/f ... ver/clip1/

http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/f ... ver/clip3/

CST · Post by **CST** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:45 pm

Tucker is one of those NPS Climbing rangers
"sick Balls productions" made me laugh out loud! good stuff, looked like a gnarly route out.
This past summer some other guys were in there that climbed for a few weeks in the rain like us then came out the chulitna.

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:21 pm

Wow Forrest! Awesome, especially that first one. Big water with big boats and big paddles!

So cool. And 30 years ago.

And packrafts saved that river from damming -- how cool is that.

We must put together a trip there for 2008/2009......hopefully it'll get more interest than my Dec 2 run of Ship Creek..

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:35 am

Timmy J's trailer!

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:09 am

WOW........

And check that huge vertical drop ?how many kayak lengths was that? !!

CST · Post by **CST** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:52 pm

Erin and Hig allowed me access to their entire collection from Seattle to Anchorage so far.. here is a quickie! I'm psyched!

Alpacka Raft LLC · Post by **Alpacka Raft LLC** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:08 pm

We're now linking to YouTube Videos from the official Alpacka website. We're also doing our best to credit the videographers in a caption, even though they're also credited on YouTube, obviously. On that note...

Eric Parsons. Your edit of Hig & Erin's footage is now linked on the shop/homepage.

Nathan. We have your videos linked on the shop/homepage and in the Kayaker FAQ at this time.

If anyone has good hunting, fishing, or other fun footage, we'd love to know.

Thanks! -Alpacka Raft LLC

CST · Post by **CST** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:01 am

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:20 pm

The amazing Sheri fixing a boat shredded by a grizzly bear!

Alpacka Raft, Patch N Go and Floor Repair

Alpacka Inflation Demonstration

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:25 pm

packraftnewmexico · Post by **packraftnewmexico** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:53 am

OK guys, this one didn't have any actual Alpackas, but you have to see this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP1tuP0 ... re=related Redneck rafting at it's finest. I THINK this is the Gila River in SW New Mexico, , it is only runable in spring runoff.

wfinley · Post by **wfinley** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:52 am

More Parson's productions:

Erin & Hig's adventures edited by Eric

Eagle River / Echo Bend

forrestmccarthy · Post by **forrestmccarthy** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:02 pm

The Wyoming boys are trying their go at video. We have a ways to catch up with Captain Swallowtail and Media Feliz. Anyhow, Tom Turiano got some footage of Derek Collins and I in Adams Apple Rapid on Willow Creek in the Wyoming Range. We will work on a sound track next time.

Willow Creek

North Buffalo Fork

forrestmccarthy · Post by **forrestmccarthy** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:28 pm

Includes Alpackas on the Canning River.

forrestmccarthy · Post by **forrestmccarthy** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:07 pm

CST · Post by **CST** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:53 pm

In favor of better quality I've switched to Vimeo,
here are my latest offerings:

http://www.vimeo.com/1160662

http://www.vimeo.com/1384708

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:17 pm

Shot by Jeff Conaway, Shoutdiggity, and Dial.

Edited by Dial.

Music by Modest Mouse.

Ingram Creek rapids: Cabin

, Breach Baby, Green Room are the first three drops.

Ship Creek canyon and some of the upper boulder gardens....

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:09 pm

We ran Little Su at around 300 cfs. Bony, hectic, and if you stay in your boat, plenty o' fun.

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:13 am

This video puts a bunch of the steep creek drops together. It's sort of how I feel when I'm running something new and hard: a bit hectic.

As my son says,
"It has a sort of tense, sinister, paranoid feel, where the boaters are on edge and the water's a little too tough."

AeroNautiCal · Post by **AeroNautiCal** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:23 pm

Roman,

You are a Packrafting Sensei, your paddle an aquatic Bo Staff!

Great vids. (o:

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:11 am

Higher rez here: http://www.youtube.com/v/7D1Hk0rGiAc

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:27 am

Just trying to work out how youtube works, as I have some footage from recent NZ trip to post, and in doing so found 2 videos from Roman D that have been posted in the last month.

Interested to see, Roman, that your older style boat seems quite long (I presume that you're the guy in the video, although this may be very presumptious!), compared to my ?yaks (the mid sized boat), and that you attach your pack to the back of the boat, not the front. ?Why. Given that I'm forever having trouble getting water over the back, as the front sits high without a pack on it, your boat seems to sit very flat ?how come - have you got lead feet???????

Andrew Allan

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:44 pm

Here's my favorite video from our recent NZ trip. It shows more hiking than boating, but that's cause we did more hiking than boating and with one boat it's hard to get boating video.

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:58 pm

Here're the first few days of the Arthur's pass to Erewhon Station.

Dr. Andrew asked about how the boat stays flat: first the boat is longer on the inside than a Fjord Explorer (=dory) and so when I put too much weight on the bow it handles weird. So I put weight on the back and strapped about five pounds on the bow too. I designed it for two people. I'll eventually put up our Torres del Paine video and you can see us get in the boat and paddle away, too.

Also, with an open boat I like my bow to ride high as it keeps waves out as I can deflect them with the high bow. I find open boating and decked boating to require different techniques.

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:12 pm

For those of you interested in more details about our packrafting trips in Patagonia and NZ we have posted a blog with text, pics, and VIDEO clips at http://packrafting.blogspot.com/

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:30 pm

Some video from Torres del Paine

Hig · Post by **Hig** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:59 pm

Looks like fun. Also looks like you need to be able to quick-release your pack so you can get it upright for re-entry.

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:18 pm

Nah, quick releases are for flatwater paddlers

.

What I need to do is keep the ole' Kangaroo pocket on the anorak empty so it doesn't get in my way!

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:34 pm

Have at last managed to beat the demons that have prevented me sorting out how to upload to youtube.

This is some footage from our recent 10 day packrafting/flyfishing trip into the Kaharangi NP in the Sth Island of NZ, the flyfishing having been deleted!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE6EfdeE ... b8ee9ef747

nate · Post by **nate** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:45 pm

My idea of an afterwork packrafting adventure. See the Lower 48 forum question of the same name for other descriptions.

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:04 pm

Some packrafting from last weekend in the upper reaches of the Geehi River, NSW, Australia (yes, we do have white water!) - and only 7hrs drive from Melbourne!!

Enjoy.

Andrew Allan

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:10 am

Everyone seems to have gone stagnant on this particular post...................come on! Having a specific post related to youtube stuff makes it so much easier to find them again than having to search through the "geographic" posts.

I went fly-fishing the other day with a mate, and introduced him to packrafting. This is the vid. Perhaps not as exciting as some of the other posts..............but I hope he'll be a convert...............and we seem to need some more in Oz (and NZ..............are you guys all mute???????????).

Off to NZ next week to fly-fish the Ugly R for a week and a bit, and then raft out along the Karamea. Hoping to meet up with Roman on the way out , as he comes to terms with some previous Karamea "demons".

It looks great on Google Earth, with several NZ grade 4-5 rapids (note - not PR grade 4-5, but NZ grade 4-5!) along the way - if interested , check out Google Earth for "Karamea, West Coast NZ", and then go inland 10km, north 7km, then NE 7km, and you'll find the Ugly R, which is where we'll start rafting after fishing it for a week. hoping to meet up with Roman half way up the first "north" section mentioned above.

I'm presuming all 3 of us will end up at Karamea, and that one of us will be able to post on this forum!

AA

gerardganey · Post by **gerardganey** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:14 am

My first full year of packrafting ( I did two days on the Kashwitna in 2008 ). Includes five rivers in Vermont, one in New York, and three in Alaska. Most of this has been in previous videos. I got a helmet cam in September, after that I started recording most of my weekend trips. The Go Pro Camera is great but I've lost footage due to it freezing, or accidentally deleting everything. Here's to 2009. I can't wait for this snow to melt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEh91diliI

andrewallan · Post by **andrewallan** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:56 pm

Well done - very nicely put together. And didn't that big boulder stop you quickly?!!

AeroNautiCal · Post by **AeroNautiCal** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:23 pm

That was great!
Reckon that boulder might have been hard work in anything other than an inflatable.

gerardganey · Post by **gerardganey** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:10 pm

The New Haven Ledges is not much longer than a mile. The really good local kaykers can do a lap shuttled included in 20 minutes. It takes me much longer. I didn't scout the rapids because the dude with me had done it 30 times. He said there was a sieve. At like 50cfs a bch of boaters made the sieve bigger by shoving rocks underneath it. Not fully understanding the route being explained to me I ran right into the trap. With the adjustment a kayak could probably wiggled out. I tried what felt like a minute but was a couple seconds to get out of it until I jumped out, grabbed the raft, bailed, and finshed the rapid. I certainly have a better understanding of the term sieve and go all the way to the right.

Rods · Post by **Rods** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:01 am

Good video. Enjoyed it!

ideas101 · Post by **ideas101** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:38 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugYFjIPDq9Y

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AeroNautiCal · Post by **AeroNautiCal** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:48 pm

Hey' Denny,

Whilst the thread title is Youtube Videos! I think you'll find the idea is that they're kinda related to Packrafts! You know, this being THE Packraft Forum an all!

Perhaps you were looking for the Cups Appreciation Society, here, https://secure.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5049494312

Fishdejour · Post by **Fishdejour** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:46 pm

Nadgee Howe Wilderness in NSW Australia, 5 day walk with side trips in the rafts. Camera died on day 2 but still some intresting footage.

Steve

RomanDial · Post by **RomanDial** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:42 pm

January 2010, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand compilation:

gerardganey · Post by **gerardganey** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:07 pm

~March 9, 2010~
Second day out in 2010, first since January and first with my camera.
In Vermont we are having a slow (thus far), unseasonably warm spring. We actually are about 80 inches below the snowfall average. One storm dumped only the west side of the mountains and in the Champlain Valley (which is odd). We also had significant rain that wiped out the existing the snowpack in January. All those snowmageddon storms hit well below us. There was a day when it snowed a foot in New York City, and the it rained in central VT (typically we are 15 degrees cooler then NYC). Finally we got nailed by a storm three weeks ago, and there is about 4 inches of water waiting for 50 degree weather, rain or both.

According to the guide book "Let it Rain" by Alden Bird the minimum for the Lower Mad is 400 cfs. A more reasonable minimum is 300 cfs. This was below that. There still were frozen sections of the river. The portage in this video is of horseshoe falls which at a reasonable flow has two options. The only option at this level is a class IV drop into a deep hole, it is harder at higher levels. A 1/4 mile of flatwater leads to the heavy boaters take out, and that was frozen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cL4ovrUxzk