PACKRAFTING AND FLY-FISHING COLORADO’S HIGH COUNTRY
The moist dirt feels spongy under my trail shoes as Amanda and I make our way through the shady understory of the subalpine forest. I feel a lightness of spirit as I breathe the cool mountain air, my lungs refreshed from months spent waiting out winter in the dry deserts of Arizona and Southern California. It is now summer in Colorado, and the temperatures at 10,000 feet are a comfortable 70 degrees. Endless summer.
Rolled up inside our backpacks are two four-pound packrafts from Alpackarafts, a Colorado-based company that makes incredibly high-quality boats that are light enough to take practically anywhere. I’d received the boats from Mancos, Colorado, just a few days earlier, and without reading any instructions, we had packed the rafts, paddles, and our fly rods before hitting the trail in search of wild
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