Packrafting the Clarence River in New Zealand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- In January 2014 Jen and I flew into Christchurch and then quickly drove up to Kaikoura. There we picked up a driver from a local rafting company who came with us to the start of the Clarence before driving our rental car back to their base at the end of the river. We spent four nights on the river and loved it (apart from the sandflies a few times). Music: The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home
Looks like a sweet trip!
Greetings from far away, Norway 👌
Thanks. Greetings back. Love Norway!! :)
Awesome whitewater footage. Looks like you two had a great adventure. Thanks for sharing. We're currently saving up for packrafting gear :)
great watching. Beautiful production. Cheers!
Awesome. Thanks a lot for this great video! Cheers from Germany
Thanks Riverwalker! Appreciate your support. :)
Fantastic thank you
Ahh, so beautiful guys! So much love in that one...Thank you. Love it. Sending it to my patners lovely mom ;), showing her what packrafting can be about...We are soo lucky.
So cool, getting added to our adventure bucket list!
I drove the Acheron Road through Molesworth yesterday and stumbled upon this while researching kayaking the Clarence :) Sweet vid
One of the best videos I've seen...
the whole video is so beautiful and cool.
You're videos are best, what I have ever seen! Great to see other packrafting couples also.
Thanks Caj. That is extremely kind of you! I look forward to paddling in Europe oneday at a Meetup and hopefully catching up with you.
Mark Oates That would be great! Maybe you could teach a few tricks for us. We have also Swedish and Finnish meetups, you're always welcome here :)
Hello! i like New Zeeland. We are cool!!
For anyone interested, the put-in flow-rate for this trip was 17 m3/s (on 16/1/2014, as the combined Acheron and Clarence at Jollies)
[Thank you Mark!]
Very nice Video and beautyfull Nature. Greetings from munich ronactive
Hello from a fellow packrafter living in Thailand. Paddling in NZ, looks awesome! :)
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Greetings from Germany 🤗. Very nice video from you. May I ask how much a packraft costs in the US? in Germany they are very expensive.
Sorry for slow reply. Started to reply earlier but forgot to finish it. I am actually in Australia and here we pay $1500-$2500 AUD which I believes equates to 1000-1700 Euro. Certainly expensive but suspect similar in both parts of the world.
Nice! What brand of extra large dry bags are you using? Or are those dry bag backpacks? I'm looking for something to fit it Osprey into, but maybe I have to get a different backpack. Just got my Nirvana SB and headed to Colorado.
These are Watershed Animas backpacks that are pretty much 100% dry (if you look after them). They fit well inside a Hyperlite Mountain Gear pack and will likely fit inside some of the Osprey packs too. They are an ideal size, particularly if paired with a larger pack so that you can carry paddling.wet gear as well as keeping your essentials dry. Most of the time these days we use Alpacka cargo bags instead so that we can put them easily inside the packraft tubes however the Watershed bags are still best for some situations. Enjoy Colorado!
@@MarkOates Thanks! I got the tiZip on the nirvana (wait times were too long at alpacka), so I'm planning to use the tubes too. Good to know that has worked out well.
Hi Mark,
Mark here, A friend and I are looking at doing a trip along the Clarence over a week in November, Myself in my packraft and him in his kayak. I was wondering if we could have a chat some time to get some hints and tips off you. I'm based in Palmy North this year and if you guys are ever up this way I'd love to catch up, maybe even join you on a trip some time.
Cheers
Mark
So did you do it?
Hi you two. THis looks awesome. I fell in love with the idea of packrafting the clarence river end of february next year. I would love to get in contact with you. Is that possible? best wishes TIlman
Tilman Rentel Hi Tilman. Sure. Email me via mark.oates.outdoors(at gmail) All the best