After a successful inaugural packrafing in Escalante, we were fired up to get back on the water. We quickly got to work planning our second packrafting trip, this time, we were ready for more technical water and add to our growing skills on the water. For this we returned to our beloved Wind River mountain range.

We had the exciting opportunity to sit down with our friends over at Overland Journal to record an episode of the Overland Journal podcast with senior editor and dear friend Ashley Giordano!

I have been so excited about this blog post because it’s a trip recap from our FIRST EVER packrafting trip. Not only is it exciting because it was the first time we got to try our hand at packrafting in the backcountry but it also was a trip into one of our favorite places in North America, Escalante National Monument!

A lot of people are camping these days and I’m sure that is only fuel to the fire of those who’re wanting to get into it. If you have a car, you already have the biggest piece of equipment needed to go camping. So today, we’re going to get into the details of how to go car camping!

We’re so excited about this video/blog post! Before parting ways with our dear friends for the summer we wanted to go on one last trip together so we got to work finding the perfect spot for our adventure. Once we had zeroed in on an area, we left the desert with our friends Karissa & Linhbergh and Peter & Shruthi!

Hello dear friends! We have an exciting announcement! Owen and I are hosting not one, but two group trips! One is going to Peru to see Machu Picchu and the second is going to our beloved Alaska! Additionally, I (MAK) am hosting a group trip to Patagonia!

We’re back with a new tutorial on how to pack for a backpacking trip. Below is the video that goes into detail of how to pack your pack, then what follows in this blog post is a little more specifics on the individual pieces of gear that we use and love!

If you’ve ever shopped for a camp chair, you’ve likely felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of options out there. Camp chairs these days come in all shapes, sizes, and colors so it can be hard to know what is best for you and your needs.

Knowledge will always be your most powerful tool for overlanding, or any type of travel for that matter. Before you head out to start overlanding it’s important to know camping etiquette, Leave No Trace principles, fire regulations, road conditions, if there is likely to be cellphone service, and if there is any specific gear you need to safely travel that area.

After leaving Canwell Glacier is was time to start making our way out of Alaska and towards the lower 48. Sadly, we had a few pressing “hard dates” on our calendar that forced us to compress our timeline to get back to the US. However we made stop in Fairbanks to have some much needed time with our family!

Thanks to the scouting mission, we knew right where we needed to go to get to the pool we’d decided on the day before. As Owen was changing out of his clothes, a tour group saw what we were doing and came over to watch.

After our gracier tour in Whittier, we knew the time had come to make our way off the Kenai Peninsula for the last time. Having spent a month in the area, we’d fully fallen in love with this part of Alaska.

Our episode picks back up in Girdwood, Alaska as I prepare to try to surf the bore tide again. While we were elsewhere on the peninsula I had been studying the tide charts in preparation for our return.

Before we ever left for Alaska my brother Erick and bonus sister Julie invited us out for a unique experience. Erick and Julie hunt to provide themselves with the entirety of their meat needs. Julie was drawn from a lottery based system to hunt for a Mountain Goat in a very specific area in the backcountry of the Kenai Wilderness.

We return from Katmai National Park and head onto the Kenia Peninsula for the first time. Our first stops are Girdwood, Whittier and then onto Homer where we venture out on the water with new friends.

In this blog post we do a deep dive into the logistics for planning a visit to Katmai National Park and Preserve. The park isn’t accessible by road thus it takes a little extra planning and strategy to get to.

This episode picks back up right after we left Talkeetna, AK. Driving south we climb into the mountains to explore the highly anticipated Hatcher Pass. Even though we didn’t know a ton about the area, we’d heard nothing but great things about it which made us excited to get there and see it for ourselves!

Our episode picks back up at the Wonder Lake campground in Denali National Park and Preserve. It was our last day before catching the bus back to our truck. Though we were sad to be leaving, the weather took a turn for the worse. We hopped on the bus just as it started to rain.