Each weekend, Nathan Putnam loads up the kids and hits the trails. The kids, a handful of young goats, follow behind Putnam in a single-file line made up of adult female goats, called does, and ...

POWELL — Ice- and mud-covered roads certainly weren’t going to get between Desarae Starck and her limited quota tag for a bull elk deep in the Bighorn Mountains. She was set on hiking into the woods ...

Nathan Putnam’s pack goats, seen here hiking in Boise, Idaho, can carry up to 60 pounds in panniers. The packs distribute the weight evenly on either side of the goat without putting pressure on the ...

So you've heard of pack donkeys and pack alpacas - but what about a pack ... goat? Rachel Karneffel works at Foghorn Farm and has a few goats that she's working on training - to be pack goats. Kind of ...

Chris explains what goat packing is, how it works, and why goats make excellent trail companions. He also shares the history of NAPgA and its advocacy efforts to keep public lands open to pack goat ...

Hiking into the backcountry with pack goats is relatively simple. They go anywhere a horse can go as well as over rocks where horses won’t go. They browse as they travel, don’t require packed-in feed ...

Robert Hatton-Fearnley got the idea of training goats to carry hiking gear while on a camping trip with his dad. "He's 60 years old and carrying a 50-pound pack," he said. "Like, if I want to keep ...

As I jogged up the Vallombrosa trail from the One Mile parking lot in lower Bidwell Park, around this time last year, I was delighted to see the low white fencing that penned in a herd of goats. I had ...

As I pulled into Carson River Park I realized I'd neglected to get a description of the person I was meeting with. A moment later I spotted two women surrounded by a small herd of goats in the parking ...

While goats can also carry movi, Desarae points out that a small pack goat herd is different from hundreds or thousands of free-ranging sheep. The treasurer for North American Packgoat Association, ...