RAFTS OF INEXPERIENCE
“Should we take a drysuit?”
“I have no idea; I guess so...?”
“Where do we put our packs?”
“Not sure.”
“So where does your bike go then?”
“Oh look, I have absolutely no clue, but I know it’s a thing. We’ll figure it out, won’t we?”
This was the conversation when Mike Dawson and I discovered packrafts. He had an ulterior motive in that he had decided to do the Godzone race (which has a packrafting leg), and I’d seen a video of some Nelson guys paddling the Clarence River with their bikes strapped to the front of packrafts. It seemed like a pretty good way to ride down a track and not have to turn around and
