Alpacka Raft

Name: Alpacka Raft
Address: 192 South Main Street Mancos, CO 81328, Mancos, CO
Telephone: 970-533-7119
Price range: $$

Alpacka Raft makes the most innovative packrafts on the market. With nearly 20 years of experience and ingenious design, Alpacka helps redefine access and gives you an incredible freedom to explore. And they are dog friendly!

The first Alpacka packraft was built in a Chugiak, Alaska basement, fall 2000. Since then, Alpacka has led the industry in research and development, pushing the boundaries of design, reliability, advanced materials, and an established infrastructure for customer service that allows for quick and easy repairs or upgrades. Alpacka Raft continues to refine and define the sport of packrafting, by creating bombproof packrafts bolder and more rugged than the most skilled athletes, but so stable and streamlined they’re perfect for entry-level adventurers. Made in Mancos, Colorado, Alpacka Raft packrafts can take you anywhere.

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Alpacka Raft

Sheri contemplating her latest spray deck design in New Zealand, 2004.

Founder(s), CEO and/or President Sheri Tingey

Founder Story

Alpacka Raft started in the fall of 2000 as a collaboration between Sheri Tingey, the design genius behind all of our products, when her son had just completed a 600-mile packrafting traverse of Alaska’s Brooks Range and had some ideas for how to make a better-performing packraft.

Sheri’s journey began in the late 60’s, when she fled the socialite circles of Phoenix, Ariz., for the river-rat/ski-bum life of Jackson Hole, Wyo. Her grandmother had taught her how to sew. And while in Jackson she founded “Design by Sheri,” a custom ski clothing shop and one of the first modern outdoor clothing companies. Also an avid kayaker, she brought one of the first whitewater kayaks to Jackson. In the early 80’s, Sheri sold her original gear business to raise a family, and it’s only fitting she got back into it as a result of her son.

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