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Early spring bikeraft jaunt
Last week I was on a ski trip through the Ardennes. A few days later the snow at my home place started melting. Today winter suddenly seems so far away. An early spring sun in a deep blue sky made the...
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Up and down the canyon of the Ardèche
The mouth of the canyon near Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche. Two weeks ago a made a short but powerful visit to the canyon of the Ardèche in southern France. The Ardèche river has its sources in the limestone...
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Packrafting the Ourthe – a 30 hours hike and paddle in the Ardennes
A few days of rain filled the buckets again and so I went to the Ardennes. The Ourthe river had already been a playground for me a few times. Last year I paddled the river till the confluence with the...
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The Magic Packraft Circle
Last weekend 19 outdoor enthusiasts gathered along the Semois river in the south of Belgium to take part in the first packrafting weekend organized by Hiking Advisor, a Flemish online social hiking...
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The Hochschwab Salza loop – tramping through snow thunder and rain
Where did the crystal clear water go? Opaque grey silty water flowed past by through the Salza river when I inflated my packraft. Warm temperatures, high amounts of snow melt and the rainshowers of the...
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An introduction to packrafting in Sarek national park
What the Brooks Range in Alaska means for packrafters in America, does Sarek National Park in Swedish Lapland for packrafters in Europe. Although I immediately have to put this statement into...
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Smells like North Sea
After some sea packrafting in Norway and France years ago, a friend and I met at the Belgian coast yesterday for some sea packrafting on the North Sea. It was the first time ever that I took my...
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24 Grevelingen
Lake Grevelingen is the biggest non-tidal saltwater lake in Western Europe. Located in the southwest of the Netherlands, it was formed after the damming of a sea strait in the river delta of the Meuse...
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Packrafting the Swiss Grand Canyon
End of August and I receive a last minute invitation from Waluyo to join him on a yet to define packrafting trip in Switzerland. By chance I can take a few days off. Same so for Eraz. The three of us...
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Catching the first peak flow of the season in the Ardennes
The end of October and the first weeks of November have been very wet in Belgium and beyond. River levels steadily rose to the usual winter flow. The packraft season started. During the night from...
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Wave surfing the Amblève river
Last Friday Willem and I headed to the middle reaches of the Amblève river in the Belgian Ardennes for a day packraft trip. We originally wanted to make a multi day trip over the Ourthe river, but the...
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Packraft discrimination
Last weekend a small group of Flemish and Dutch packraft enthusiasts headed to the whitewater track of Arras in Northern France for a day practicing and playing. However, some things didn’t work out as...
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The gorges of the Haut-Allier – The jewel of paddling in the Massif Central
Last May I spent four days packrafting on the upper Allier river in the French Massif Central. After multiple small streams gather together from the northern plateaus of the Cevennes, the river gains...
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Packraft sailing the North Sea – Het Zwin to De Panne
Almost 7 o’clock in the morning. The first train of this September Sunday arrives at Knokke station. It’s still dark and night outside. Low drifting grey clouds obscure the rising dawn. I walk to the...
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Wild Patagonia – A wilderness expedition through wind, wet and cold
During February and March this year I went to Central Patagonia with my packraft for a 36-day solo wilderness trip in the vicinity of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. I hiked and...
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