Submitted by Moe Witschard on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 4:32pm
To me, spending time in Alaska's Brooks Range is one of the very best things I could dream of doing with my time. We did a 14 day packrafting trip there this past August.
What's a packraft? It's a small, light one person raft that weighs 5.5 lbs, can be rolled up and stowed in your pack when you're walking, and blown up and paddled when you want to float.
A trip of this nature necessitates watching every ounce that goes into your pack. I took a light kit: My Nikon D300, 12-24 lens, 70-300 lens, two batteries, 10 GB worth of cards, and a polarizing filter. No tripod. It all fit into my Lowepro Photo Runner fanny pack that I wore backwards so that the pack was in front, giving me easy access to my gear. When we were floating, this pack went into a lightweight, but very high quality dry bag. Check out the presentation below to see what we did.
