People looking to take pack horses or mules on their next trip afield face some steep obstacles. Transporting cargo on horseback is an ancient practice and in the western United States horse packing ...

KALISPELL, Mont. -- On a summer evening, three horse packers rode into the Bob Marshall Wilderness north of Lincoln to pack out a trail crew. The crew had been packed into the wilderness by a ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program is sponsoring a horse-packing workshop May 6 near Whitefish. Packing into the backcountry by horse can be fun and rewarding.

Hannah (left), Brady (middle) and Kimber Boll have been putting their horse packing skills to good use, teaching others as part of 4H and Northwest Montana Back Country Horsemen projects. (Jeremy ...

Demonstrations with horses and equipment will be proved by Mitchell Jackson, who is a seasoned horseman and a native of Sanpete. Besides being a farrier for over 40 years, he has been packing and ...

Cole and Jonas had to think on their toes to get their horses out of the ravine safely. When Cade Cole and Jordan Jonas approached a washout on a trail in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness on the ...

From the first middle-school days that I clicked into a pair of skis, I started dreaming big. And I mean really big: fantasizing about remote ski expeditions to the Karakorum, Parim, Caucasus, and ...

If the rooftop cargo companies ever see Smoke Elser pack a mule, their whole industry might blow away in a pile of plastic. With only a 32-foot rope and an 7-by-8-foot canvas manty tarp, he snuggled ...

BILLINGS — People looking to take pack horses or mules on their next trip afield face some steep obstacles. Transporting cargo on horseback is an ancient practice and in the western United States ...

Transporting cargo on horseback is an ancient practice and in the western United States horse packing continues to be the predominant method of moving heavy loads through wilderness areas. But for a ...