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Every place I go sasquatching involves a pond that you have to backpack into. One pond is fairly round so using a thermal you can see roughly 200 degrees of the shoreline when standing at shore. All the other ponds have odd shapes with many bends so you can only see a small portion of the pond's shoreline. I'm considering getting a packraft and using it in low light, and even dark, conditions so all of the pond's shoreline can be observed. The thought of sitting quietly out on the pond in the dark with the thermal is quite appealing. I suspect being on the water also allows more sound transfer so you could hear things moving in the woods around the pond that you would never hear otherwise. It involves an element of risk if you go into the drink in the black of night. Fortunately, the ponds are such that a swim to shore would be manageable. I'd be sure to have firestarting equipment and a flashlight in a waterproof container in my chest pack in case I needed to start a fire once back to shore to avoid hypothermia. I've canoed a lot over the years but the places I go for sasquatching do not lend themselves to portaging a canoe or kayak. Too long a hike, too bulky, and with difficult terrain. A packraft can fit in/on a backpack so it is easy to go anywhere with it. There are not many companies out there and the two largest ones are Alpacka and Kokopelli. Not inexpensive either but it can be used for fishing as well so I will get money's worth. Does anyone have any experienced with packrafts? https://www.alpackaraft.com/collections/packrafts Here are two of the ponds I go and getting out on the water would be a huge advantage

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