Alpacka Raft Caribou - 2025

Our lightest multi-purpose adventure packraft, the Caribou is perfect for backcountry and sidecountry adventures on flatwater and lightwater. Its comfortable, stable and easy to carry awkward loads like bikes and packs. It is a multi-purpose adventure packraft focused on backcountry and sidecountry trips on flatwater, lightwater, and bike rafting.

The Caribou features a high volume hull with a classic stern to minimize weight and bulk, so you won’t have to worry about fitting everything in your pack, or your boat once you are on the water. The late rise bow provides additional foot room and makes carrying bulky heavy items like bikes and packs a breeze.

The Caribou is available with Open, Removeable Deck, and Self Bailing configurations, plus you can add our innovative Cargo Fly zipper internal storage system.

The Caribou is also available in both our lightweight and standard 210d hull fabrics so you can choose whether to optimize packability for backpacking or durability for a broader range of uses.

The Caribou hull design is unchanged for 2025, but we’ve added two features to improve versatility and replace some of the options from the discontinued Classic.

First, we added an inflatable backrest which provides more comfort for longer days on the water. This will make the Caribou closer in fit and comfort to the Classic. Of course, you can leave it behind if you want to minimize weight.

Second, we added a standard weight 210d hull option. Previously, the Caribou was only available with our lightweight 210d hull. The standard weight fabric is more durable for a broad range of uses while the lightweight fabric maximizes packability. We recommend standard fabric as a replacement for the Classic.