Alpacka Rafts

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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When two gentleman who grew up in the wilds get together, the results are a wonderful conversation on experiences in the backcountry and the proper use of equipment. When both of these gentlemen are small business owners you gain great insight into what drives their passion to make high quality gear. Meet Thor Tingey, Founder and CEO of Alpacka Rafts, a family owned company in Manco Colorado. About Alpacka Rafts Today, every Alpacka Raft packraft is manufactured by hand in our Mancos, Colo., factory by skilled craftsmen and women that are dedicated to their craft. The current models are the product of years of experiments, re-design, and great feedback from the boating community. Sheri remains our head designer. Thor rejoined the company in 2016 as the Chief Executive Officer, handling our day-to-day operations, strategic planning, and design assistance. And Thor’s wife, Sarah is the Chief Operating Officer, doing everything from planning outreach events, to partnering with nonprofits, to giving Sheri’s latest creation a whirl on the water. On any given day, up to 50% of our shop staff may be dogs. We continue to build tiny, little boats for those who demand something unreasonable from them. Our designs and innovation have refined and defined the sport, and with the help of adventurers all over the world, pushed packrafting further than we ever thought possible. KifaruBecome a Patron!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kawharu Cast everyone. I'm solo today. Frank is doing real live work
0:05.8	And I have Thor Kingi from Alpaca Packrafts on the other end here. Thanks for coming on. I'm glad to be here
0:13.2	Yeah, so kind of
0:15.7	Like you to tell everybody a quick version of your story as far as you didn't plan on running a pack-raft company
0:22.6	In the beginning, so it's kind of interesting tell everybody a little bit about the company and you're in yourself
0:29.1	You know, and then we'll kind of go into what you guys offer and in everything like that. Yeah, I'll try to keep this relatively straightforward
0:36.2	so I
0:38.1	I was super fortunate as a kid I grew up
0:41.2	With parents that were essentially really into the outdoor and so I grew up as an out as an outdoor kid
0:48.4	I know a lot of people that get really into outdoor adventure
0:51.1	You know they come to it later in life because they made growing up in a city with parents
0:54.7	I didn't do that but that was not my parents my mom was a hardcore kayaker and
1:00.3	Year as we moved up the Jackson pole my dad was a
1:04.0	Climbing ranger who also moved up the Jackson pole and he was it he
1:08.3	ended up in the national park sure it was a climbing ranger and
1:11.5	So and then we moved up to Alaska in 1981 when I was three years old so I grew up in
1:17.9	rural Alaska in the national parks doing
1:22.0	trips with my parents every summer river trips backpacking trips
1:26.3	flying trips you kind of name it and I
1:29.9	went to college
1:32.4	Colorado college down in Colorado spring and
1:35.6	They had a grant program there for
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