Hurricane Helene Ripped Up So Many Roads That Supplies Have To Be Delivered By Pack Mule. ... supplies by helicopter are forced to reject modernity and revert to the old ways of hauling ...

A team of U.S. Forest Service packers used a seemingly old-fashioned method to transport building materials for a bridge ...

Doug Smith ties up packs on a mule, using a knot he learned as a teenager working at the Golden Trout Pack Station in the 1960s. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

In a way, the pack mules “just lightened things” for people who were living through a historic disaster, said Michele Toberer, who runs Mountain Mule Packers alongside her husband, Mike. Start ...

The 2021 report for the Shoshone Specialty String Pack states that last year, the group packed 386 mule loads, or 57,900 pounds, of materials and supplies over approximately 900 miles of ...

At the core of the work is the nine mules the pack train utilizes. Weighing 1,100 to 1,200 pounds, the Ninemile mules are bred with mammoth jacks -- the biggest donkeys -- to be 15 to 151/2 hands ...

According to a report by Associated Press, volunteer Mike Toberer hauled his pack of a dozen mules to the region in an effort to deliver food, water, medicines and diapers to the people who live ...