Sheri Tingey has been sewing since she was 3 years old. The 76-year-old never thought the skill would make her one of the pioneers in the pack raft industry. But as her company Alpacka Raft celebrates ...

Maker of high-end packrafts at home in small town Not many manufacturers call small-town America home anymore, but the stars and the development of the packrafting industry seem to have aligned to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/John Baker for Alpacka Rafts) Are you looking to venture farther away from civilization with a capable watercraft stowed in ...

You may think that a lightweight, packable raft capable of carrying hundreds of pounds through rapids would require advanced skills and facilities to produce. Well, you’d be wrong. “We made them in ...

At the age of three, when most kids are just learning how to count, Sheri Tingey started sewing doll clothes. By age 10, she was making most of her own clothing by hand, intent on creating better ...

To get a sense of how excited Alpacka is about its newest creation, the Alpackalypse, look no further than the fact that it’s marketed as the “world’s first whitewater packraft” when the company ...

The entire crew was outfitted with Alpacka rafts, tiny one-person watercraft that look as if they would be more at home in a pool or bathtub than near the stretches of thunderous whitewater we would ...

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