BUTTE, Mont. — Volunteers and service rangers in southwest Montana are training on a skill that dates back hundreds of years -- horse packing. Organizers say the advantage of horse packing is better ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With elbows and cowboy boots perched on a circular metal corral, the crowd listened intently as legendary outfitter Smoke Elser stood in the center of the ring demonstrating how to pack a horse and ...

Packing instructor Bob Hoverson shows participants how to properly load a mule at a horse packing clinic at Anipro Event Center in Absarokee on Sunday, April 2. Unfortunately you've used all of your ...