For
me, coming across IKs and lately, packrafts, was like first discovering mountain
bikes; suddenly the outdoors became a whole lot more interesting. With a packboat the hitherto ignored blue bits of the
map became new byways to adventure.
Here among the cheap, plastic
beach toys were functional, durable and
portable boats and mini rafts.
They could be backpacked to the water's edge (or even carried indefinitely) from where you could
paddle off for a few days after which you air down, roll it up and to
make your way home.
I've only been paddling since 2005 and was never into hardshells or boating; it
was IKs that brought me to the water and an exciting new way
of travelling. In 2010 I got myself an Alpacka packraft, a genuinely portable 3kg 'IR'.
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