>>2834747
A canoe can be worth the effort of getting it into the wilderness if you have large lakes and rivers to travel on later. More so if you're two people or have a dog and plan to be out for some time.
Packrafts trade some durability for portability and are great if you mix hiking and paddling. Most good rafts can handle some whitewater, if you're going in the bigger ones you should have specific safety gear anyway, and packrafts are light enough to carry past any obstacles so it's kind of an irrelevant critique.
Packrafts also open up the possibility to cover otherwise inaccessible areas blocked by rivers and lakes.

So with large two person rafts available today weighing 5 kilo or below, is it worth dragging a canoe into the wilderness?