Highlights of the 2024 multiday season

Even after more than 10 years, I’m still not entirely sure what exactly it is—but aside from the expeditions, it’s always the multi-day courses and tours that leave the most vivid memories and moments. Maybe it’s the lack of comfort, combined with the effort and intensity of spending time together. Maybe the reason is simply that, personally, I’ve always felt most comfortable and natural in this setting. Whatever it is:

The 2024 multiday season was a very special one; it offered a little bit of everything that defines this original form of packrafting, in many different variations. For me, the great privilege was that, for the first time in a long while, I had the time to help organize an entire multiday season and to lead a large portion of the trips myself.

About the author: Sebastian, founder and owner of Land Water Adventures and basically satisfied as long as there is enough water and chocolate. More about Sebastian is also available here here.

Still, it wasn’t until later that I truly realized just how many wonderful moments those few courses in the spring had brought us again. As we—as is our tradition every year—went through all the photos from the season to select candidates for the calendar. Which, by the way, was so difficult this year that for the first time we packed additional photos into a digital photo book! Had to pack them, so to speak. But that’s just a side note.

After all, this post—with the gallery below—is not meant to be a photo book. It doesn’t consist of glossy photos, but rather a deliberate selection of the many human, beautiful, funny, and special moments that these kinds of courses offer. From the summer vibes in the Bavarian Forest, which this time knew only one season, to the carousel of seasons in the Hunsrück, whose blog post we already called “Multiday at its best” in the spring. It aims to tell the story through pictures: of rabbit ears in a packraft, of chill moments on airy boats, of women and men carrying tree trunks, of fish with herbs, of warm and cold, easy and strenuous moments, and of just the right amount of silliness.

It aims to tell the story through pictures—of rabbit ears in a packraft, of laid-back moments on airy boats, of women and men carrying logs, of fish with herbs, of warm and cold moments, of easy and strenuous moments, and of just the right amount of silliness.

What stays with us after every tour—as participants tell us time and again—is that special feeling of freedom that comes from traveling self-sufficiently. With a paddle in your backpack, the sense that you need nothing more to live than what you carry with you, and with people who, in no time at all, go from being strangers to becoming a community. That’s Multiday!

Have fun browsing, reliving the moments, and maybe even discovering something new about yourselves!