Are you thinking about packing into the backcountry with your horses/mules/donkeys? Trying to figure out how to make hunting season a little easier on yourself? Do you already pack but are looking for some new ideas?
Come join us for some one-day packing workshop fun this year!
We’ll be going over all things packing, from selecting and training your pack animal (yes, hobble training too), trip planning, navigation, different types of gear, tying hitches and packing without fancy knots, camp and highline set up, feeding yourself and your stock, and how to be (mostly) warm and safe while enjoying the backcountry with your equines.
I take the Mustangs and my German Shepherds into the backcountry for fun and pack a fairly straightforward load pretty much knot-free. I could live on dried fruit and jerky for a week just so I don’t have to cook.
So I talked Trevor Barzar with Front Range Back Country Horsemen into doing these workshops together. Trevor packs with his Mustang and mule. He hunts and does trail work, so he knows how to properly secure game on his pack animal, and safely transport anything from hay to chainsaws and the world’s most enormous bedroll in both mantied and non-mantied loads. Trevor takes backcountry cuisine pretty seriously, to the point of packing in a griddle and pop up oven for top notch cooking in the wilderness.
With some luck we might have some of our mentors join us for one or more of the workshops. Either way, we’re committed to keeping the art of horse packing alive!
Where: In Guffey, Colorado at Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy (you might even meet your future pack horse while you’re here… we usually have gentled Mustangs available for adoption)
When: 2024 packing workshops have not been scheduled yet. Please contact us or check back here for dates
Cost: $75 per person
What to bring: a chair, water, sunscreen, lunch and whatever you need to be comfortable in our sometimes temperamental Colorado weather. We’re at 8700 ft, please check the forecast for what to expect. We’ll have trees blocking some of the sun and wind.
No dogs allowed at this event. Please PM us or send an email to info@wildhorseoutreach.org to reserve your spot.