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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An eight-week spring semester course at the University of Montana offers hands-on instruction working with packing equipment, horses and mules. Smoke Elser of Wilderness Consulting Group will teach ...

Talk or sing songs as you walk – especially in dense brush where visibility is limited, near running water or when the wind is in your face. Your voice will help bears to identify you as human. Hike ...