KALISPELL, Mont. -- On a summer evening, three horse packers rode into the Bob Marshall Wilderness north of Lincoln to pack out a trail crew. The crew had been packed into the wilderness by a ...

Greg Schatz, an experienced packer and horseman, gives Bigfork resident Mark Mercel some pointers on packing at last Saturday’s Back Country Horsemen of the Flathead’s clinic on safety and horse and ...

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 ...

Cole and Jonas had to think on their toes to get their horses out of the ravine safely. When Cade Cole and Jordan Jonas approached a washout on a trail in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness on the ...

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.

From the first middle-school days that I clicked into a pair of skis, I started dreaming big. And I mean really big: fantasizing about remote ski expeditions to the Karakorum, Parim, Caucasus, and ...

The first Backcountry Horsemen of America (BCH) group formed in the Flathead Valley of Montana in 1973. Since then, the group ...

Two horses have been missing north of Moran in Wyoming’s backcountry since late October. While a search for the pack animals ...

Colyne Hislop, a wilderness packer with the U.S. Forest Service’s Spotted Bear Ranger District, spoke about the virtues of using electric fences to corral horses and mules in the backcountry. (Scott ...