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 ...

May 29—Whitefish's Hannah Boll never disliked horses but she certainly wasn't interested in them. When her parents dragged a 13-year-old Boll to a meeting of the Flathead Valley 4-H Trail and Packing ...

Jun. 22—Members of the Wild Horse Plains Back Country Horsemen, along with the Youth Conservation Corps, hosted a horse and mule packing class at the Plains Fair Grounds on Friday. Youth from as far ...

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 ...

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.

My buddy and I have talked about doing a 100-mile horse packing trip for the last 4-5 years. We were going to have someone drop us off and then pick us up on the other side of the world so to speak a ...

A few days ago, when the rain continued to fall and there was nothing much to do, I was checking my e-mails and discovered a video on the Savage Arms site. It was quite informative, but at the end ...

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 ...

Hoverson teaches a style of packing known as the Decker method. Decker packing uses ropes to secure cargo folded in a canvas tarp or “manty” to a special pack saddle. The method was developed at the ...