I was wanting some time on the water, but I didn’t want to deal with the crowds at the lake. Fortunately, my packraft allows me to paddle away from the crowds, pack the thing up into my backpack, and then disappear further–so that’s what I did.
I thought my time with the water was going to be limited to the short paddle session on the lake, but the wash that I hiked still had a good amount of water moving through it. In some places, it was only a trickling stream, but in others, it pooled deep enough to swim and cool off from the hot day.