sentences:  Typically the boats are carried to cross and float rivers, streams and lakes while carried between watersheds.Packrafts have historically been used as portable boats for long distance wilderness travel, usage that reached its apogee in the Higman-McKittrick 4,500 mile expedition along the Pacific Coast from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands.This classical use has been modified by most packraft owners to shorter day trips that mix trail hiking and river and creek floats or lake paddles.