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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program is sponsoring a horse-packing workshop May 4 near Columbia Falls.

The Backcountry Horsemen of Missoula hosted a summer rendezvous Saturday at the Blackfoot Clearwater Game Range to thank the community for supporting their work, and to teach visitors how to ...

In the early 20th century, Oregonian Jean Birnie led a trailblazing group of horsewomen called the Hen Party on horse packing trips in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. Inspired by their ...

“The first thing is acquiring equipment and stock. ... a relatively recent innovation considering not much in horse packing had changed since Genghis Kahn ruled China in the 12th century.