This deluxe, seven-day pack trip covers the essentials of horsepacking with the Golden Trout Wilderness of the High Sierra as your laboratory. Past participants have acclaimed it as an outstanding adventure. Learn about equipment, emergency veterinary care, feeding and managing livestock in the backcountry, and more.
Lecture and laboratory topics include:
- Wilderness conduct of people
- Trail riding safety and horse equipment
- Methods of feeding livestock in the backcountry
- Management of livestock
- Preventative medicine
- Evaluating the normal horse
- Treating a hurt or sick horse in the wilderness
- Packing equipment, fitting saddles, making loads, hitches and leading strings of mules
- Veterinary skills including physical examination, floating teeth, intramuscular/IV injections, applying wraps, animal restraint and aging horses
- Shoeing
Additional information is available on request.
Course Code
142820