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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Backcountry Horsemen of Missoula hosted a summer rendezvous Saturday at the Blackfoot Clearwater Game Range to thank the community for supporting their work, and to teach visitors how to cook, ...

The Bill Van Learn How to Pack Stock Clinic will return to Clovis on Saturday, March 26. Now in its sixth year, the annual event will feature both mule and horse packing lessons and competitions, with ...

Dawn broke clear and cold over the peaks, snowflakes falling earthward in lonely two’s and three’s. A bull elk lay asleep with his harem 147 yards distant on a high-country bench, steam rising from ...