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John Baker sending the gnar.📸
12/27/2025

John Baker sending the gnar.

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Happy Holidays y’all! ❤️😊
12/25/2025

Happy Holidays y’all! ❤️😊

12/13/2025

Hey! This is Lizzy Scully, host of The Packrafting Life podcast. Welcome to episode #15. In this fascinating episode we look at scientific reasons behind the differences between how men and women learn, teach and how and why courses designed specifically for women or non-binary folks can be really b...

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12/13/2025

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12/11/2025

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Scullbinder Ranch: To Stay Or Not To Stay, That Is The QuestionA lot of people ask about the stay at Scullbinder Ranch. ...
12/09/2025

Scullbinder Ranch: To Stay Or Not To Stay, That Is The Question

A lot of people ask about the stay at Scullbinder Ranch. A few of our key team-building courses include multiple nights and food that I cook at the Ranch. Some of these include the Level 2 Women’s Expedition Course and the Level 3 Expedition Course, along with all our Tribal Park Bikepacking Tours. And we sometimes invite other course participants to stay at the Ranch, generally May and June or sometimes in the fall. We don’t advertise that much, so you have to ask about it. Or we sometimes put in an offer to stay on the registration page.

Many of our clients have been following us for years and want to see the basecamp we have built at the southern tip of Weber Mountain. Others prefer staying closer to where the action is. Either is fine with us. We charge $135 per night, which includes breakfast and dinner. But the money is not the point. While it does pay for insurance, food, my work cleaning, setting up and maintaining the cabin and glamping tents, the point is what it means to stay down here.

Scullbinder Ranch Logistics & Its surroundings

The Ranch lies at the confluence of two canyons, one with Weber Creek, which runs through Weber Canyon, and the Mancos River, which flows through Mesa Verde National Park (our neighbor) and is the only riparian area in the entire 81 square miles of the Park. Those canyons and rivers come together and form a larger river flowing through the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park. All canyons are lined with steep sandstone cliffs, and there are dozens of side canyons, many of which show signs of the 1000s of years of human engagement, primarily the Ancient Puebloans. The Tribal Park and Mesa Verde are chock full of ancient sites, while we’ve found pottery, petroglyphs, pictographs and stone tools on the BLM land in Weber.

The canyons have also been migratory corridors for birds, wildlife and people for centuries…

Read on via the link in our bio.
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This is also packrafting, especially on exploratory missions. Luckily this October the Mancos River’s sometimes overwhel...
12/07/2025

This is also packrafting, especially on exploratory missions. Luckily this October the Mancos River’s sometimes overwhelming river bushwhacking didn’t include the hundreds of spiders in the willows clogging the narrowest stretches as it does in the spring. But it was still messy business with a lot of climbing over and scooting under downed trees, boats filled with detritus, and navigating massive beaver ponds with no main channels, and generally getting really dirty😆 However, I wouldn’t trade these special experiences for anything. Thanks so much to the Ute Mountain Utes for letting us paddle through their lands 🙏🏼

with 📸 paddling with FCG guide .bussell and owner

Happy packrafters! We’ve already raised $337 so far for the through our 5% For Packrafters campaign this month. Until D...
12/05/2025

Happy packrafters! We’ve already raised $337 so far for the through our 5% For Packrafters campaign this month. Until December 31 we will donate 5% of all course registration payments to the APA. So if you’re thinking about registering, do it this month and take care of two things at once—supporting the APA and your personal adventure education.

Thanks for letting me use your smoking face for our announcement 😉

Four Corners Guides Packrafting is donating 5% of December Registrations to the American Packrafting Association Why?Bec...
12/03/2025

Four Corners Guides Packrafting is donating 5% of December Registrations to the American Packrafting Association

Why?

Because we deeply appreciate the work of the APA. The organization builds community through their RoundUp and Ambassador Program, advocates for packrafter access to rivers around the United States, and works to increase safety awareness and education in paddling.

The APA is the reason packraft guides and guide services can offer standardized instructional certification through the ACA Paddlesports. APA board members and volunteers worked with the ACA to develop the existing certification program. Thus, you can rest assured any time you take a course from an ACA-accredited instructor (like all FCG guides), you’ll get an excellent, thorough paddling and swiftwater safety education. Read more about why we love the APA here!

Because we are so grateful and stoked to support the organization moving forward, we’re donating 5% of all December course registrations to the APA. So if you’ve thought about registering for a course in 2026, get on it.

Happy holidays from Lizzy & Doom!

Link to register is in the bio.

Four Corners Guides Packrafting is donating 5% of December Registrations to the American Packrafting Association Why?Bec...
12/03/2025

Four Corners Guides Packrafting is donating 5% of December Registrations to the American Packrafting Association

Why?

Because we deeply appreciate the work of the APA. The organization builds community through their RoundUp and Ambassador Program, advocates for packrafter access to rivers around the United States, and works to increase safety awareness and education in paddling.

The APA is the reason packraft guides and guide services can offer standardized instructional certification through the ACA Paddlesports. APA board members and volunteers worked with the ACA to develop the existing certification program. Thus, you can rest assured any time you take a course from an ACA-accredited instructor (like all FCG guides), you’ll get an excellent, thorough paddling and swiftwater safety education. Read more about why we love the APA here!

Because we are so grateful and stoked to support the organization moving forward, we’re donating 5% of all December course registrations to the APA. So if you’ve thought about registering for a course in 2026, get on it.

Happy holidays from Lizzy & Doom!

Register here: https://fourcornersguides.com/scheduled-tours/

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