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Bike & Packrafting Odyssey Adventure Film
Bio
Bike & Packrafting Odyssey Adventure Film
3 adventurers, a film-maker and a photographer set off on a 6 day, 300km unsupported journey. By combining new bike-packing and pack-rafting technology, they link together white-water rivers and backcountry tracks through some of NZ’s underappreciated wilderness areas. To add to the drama, only months before a massive earthquake changes their plans and reveals opportunities to explore new landscapes.
The Waiau-toa Odyssey Has been awarded the Hiddleston/MacQueen Award for the Best NZ Made Film for the 2017 New Zealand Mountain Film Festival!
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A journey of discovery New Zealand's Ultimate Packrafting Adventure - Unique, Unparalleled & Thrilling. One day and Multi day Tours . Expedition x ltd is the Official New Zealand dealer for Alpacka Rafts
We built the first Alpacka Raft in a Chugiak, Alaska basement in the fall of 2000. All these years later we’re still designing and hand-building simple, tough packrafts with the best materials and techniques available. All of our boats are handmade in Mancos, Colorado by a small team of local craftsmen and women. Alpacka Rafts are artisan craft, from stem to stern. Each one has a little personality of its own.
Kayak HQ is a kayak store run by kayakers for kayakers. We love to paddle and most importantly we love to share our passion with others. In store you can talk to staff who have run first descents on whitewater rivers, who have competed in races such as the Coast to Coast and who teach others to kayak. We are a friendly bunch of people who are always keen to hear stories from the water.
Marmot is an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and Eric Reynolds, who shared the common goal of making their own mountaineering equipment.
Resonate serves as a turn-key creative, commercial video production service for branded content and advertising works – with specific expertise and passion for outdoor location productions in New Zealand’s incredible South Island. We’re trusted by creative agencies as well as small, medium and large enterprise, New Zealand wide, to create world-class productions.
Grant is an established commercial photographer based in Nelson, New Zealand. Beginning as an outdoor adventure and rafting photographer in the early 90s, he progressed into wedding portrait and a multitude of commercial work. Grant's career has come full circle back to photographing people enjoying New Zealand’s beautiful outdoors. He has been published in North America, Australia, England and New Zealand focusing mostly on mountain biking.
After being rained off a 3-day training trip on the Buller in November, it seemed unlikely that we would have the experience with the Alpaca Packrafts to make it feasible to attempt the challenging Rapids and continuous white water of the Upper Waiau. Plans were drawn for another 2 days in the boats...