Fluid Trails- An Epic Bikerafting Adventure In Kahurangi National Park

Fluid Trails follows three adventurers as they make their way across Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand via mountain bike and packraft. The park is an ancient place of rare birds, rolling alpine tussock, earthquake shattered peaks and towering podocarp forests. A place of colonialism gold fever and endeavour. A place of cascading rivers and winding singletrack.
Hope you enjoy the film, produced by deane.parker.nz and extremekidproductions.com

[@farnsiesinthedells]

It was fun seeing the familiar sights of the old ghost road. Thanks for sharing this epic experience with us. Can’t wait to follow in your tracks in this incredible bike rafting experience.

[@jrjasminaradulj5542]

A wonderful video and a great story. Thank you for sharing it with us...❤

[@davidmcconnon2800]

Wow, proper adventure guys well done. Thanks for sharing this. 👍👍

[@mswarrior932]

Excellent video!! Thank you for sharing!!!🤘

[@Rokellyutube]

What a great adventure 😀

[@ThatKayakingGuy]

Awesome! One day I hope to take a trip like this

[@TheHuwMiles]

Just watching this again for the hundredth time, looks incredible! Next time Deano, call me!

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Huw Miles you’re on speed dial mate 😉

[@stephankorneffel3269]

Very nice trip, with good filming quality. Really inspiring. Thumbs up and regards from Germany.

[@hoser7706]

Just too cool!!! Rock shelters!!! Wow

[@terrorfirmamusic]

Beautiful- man gotta visit those rock sleep outs some time, so sick!

[@dageide6008]

Woow, really inspiring trip and top quality video guys, Thanks

[@coralnerd]

Great work! I'm impressed at how well you were able to paddle with a bike on the rafts. I'm a reasonably experienced whitewater kayaker and packrafter but I've only had one attempt at a short test trip with my bike on the front of my alpacka wolverine. I found that the bike severely restricted my ability to paddle properly. I actually gave up on the bike, stashed it in the bushes, continued down the river and came back for it later 😅

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Rocky rivers are tue worst due tue risk of damaging the bike. But a modern packraft can carry a big load on the bow and as it turns out and awkward one too. Cheers for your comment

[@adrianmerrall]

Wow. Incredible adventure and beautiful film. Congratulations

[@kiwiadventurer]

Impressive well thought out shots and thoroughly absorbing. I doff me hat to ya's

[@nomadicdesiadventures6774]

Stunning

[@nzadventurer]

Awesome adventure guys, well impressed! How come you didn't hook down the Leslie (walk bikes from gridiron) and raft out karamea that would've been epic too?

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Conversely, too epic.

[@nomadicdesiadventures6774]

What a place

[@DJhunta]

I wanna do this! Kiwi Land looks amazing!

[@AydinProductionsLtd]

Great bikepack trip love to do it. Not a rafting guy so would stick to the trails instead if possible? Alos wonder if they had a gear list somewhere on a blog or something ?

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Cheers for the kind words Aydin Productions Ltd. we built this loop around the old ghost road -Heaphy track loop, one of the best singletrack grand loop in NZ. Check the blog I did on our gear here aquabound.com/blogs/resources/our-best-gear-tips-for-bikerafting-adventures

[@ThatKayakingGuy]

Just wondering, how did you manage food and water? I'm guessing you drank filtered river water? Did you take all your food with you or catch fish? Or was there a way to arrange for food pickups at those places you stayed? Also, since it's salsa sponsored, what were the bikes? Mukluk?

[@hambobet]

Seriously inspiring video - and fair play to raft with bikes down some of that, pretty gnarly! What were the pack rafts you used? Cheers!

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Cheers for the kind words. Alpacka Raft, Gnarwhal in the self bailing configuration. I did a review of the boat here; www.deaneparker.nz/blog/2019/4/16/alpacka-raft-gnarwhal-packraft-review

[@hbdjkl]

💙💚💛

[@mstott22lax]

epic

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Mike cheers, it was pretty epic, when Rose went upside down half hour into the first river section, I did wonder what we’d got ourselves into....

[@kyleflowers6200]

What rafts are you all using?

[@DeaneParkerAdventureChannel]

Alpacka Gnarwhal, self bailing www.deaneparker.nz/blog/2019/4/16/alpacka-raft-gnarwhal-packraft-review