Having said that, the Club 200 is on the lightly/cheaply built side (I think we paid $7 for it), so I would be cautious about using it for safety critical functions, such as long distance floats out of the backcountry, critical swiftwater crossings, or big water crossings where a failure would mean loss of gear or life. For recreational use where the consequence of a failure is a wet swim to shore with no loss of important gear, I’d highly recommend it.

Also note that we did not have backcountry use in mind when we purchased the raft, and thus I haven’t compared it to other options for backcountry suitability (capacity, weight, durability, ease of deployment, packability, etc.).