PRANZ has already come a long way in a year; We’ve established websites, safety plans, relationships with White water NZ and Federated Mountain Clubs of NZ and run meetups. There’s a whole bunch more meetups on the horizon for the 2018/19 season, and plenty more work to be done. We’ve achieved all this with the […]
Over the weekend of 23/24 March, 25 member of PRANZ met in Te Anau, for the first official event of the Packrafting Association of NZ. It was pretty chilly at first, with fresh snow down to about 1000m on the Kepler Mountains, but the sun came out and warmed things up considerably! The weekend began […]
It’s all about the river I have been kayaking most of my life, starting as a kid with corrugated roofing iron canoes, then canvas canoes, inner tubes, fibreglass kayaks and 40 odd years of whitewater kayaking all over the planet. Obsessive? Possibly, but it has taken some reflection to realise that what really energises my […]
FMC is pleased to support the work of the Packrafting Association of NZ (PRANZ) by offering up to 15 safety training scholarships of $300. The aim of the scholarship is to encourage the spread of Pack-rafting water skills and safety awareness among FMC members from a non-river background. The scholarships are part of the support that FMC […]