KICKSTARTER Success - Learn to Packraft is a GO!

February 15, 2013 - Today, we successfully closed our Kickstarter campaign to fund the online video course series Learn to Packraft!, the documentary The Packrafter, and the documentary The Ultralight Backpacker.

Backers will stay informed of progress via Kickstarter backer-only updates, and we'll publish public updates about the progress of these projects here at learntopackraft.com!

Developing Packrafting Habits

Habit, instinct, or reflex?

The debate distinguishing whether an action is habitual, instinctive, or reflexive has occupied the minds of many psychologists and physiologists through the centuries, but we do know this:

We don't have control over reflexes.

Instincts are generally inborn but can be manifested more acutely through repeated environmental exposure.

Habits are developed by practice.

As habits are formed in complex environments with stimuli hitting you from many directions, the line between habitual and instinctive behavior gets blurred.

Packrafting Sizzle Selects

Sasha Joseph Neulinger and Ryan Jordan filming Learn to Packraft on the Madison River in Montana.

We are hard at work on developing the new Learn to Packraft! Online Video Course for Backpacking Light. Last week, we did a shoot to capture some footage for the cold weather packrafting segments, and managed to paddle some nice rock gardens for pirouettes and snicker-snacks too.

The Vimeo montage was put together by the project's DP, Sasha Neulinger. The AC/DC track must have been a nod to me, having come of age in the 1970s and 80s.