So, here is my ideal long vacation:
Haul out to wilderness trailhead. Pack mules and wranglers are waiting for us, they load up the personal gear we brought and we head out. Other wranglers have already ridden out the camp spot and by the time we get there, tents are up and dinner is cooked. We sit around the campfire (that they built) and sing songs and drink beer under the stars. The next day, we groom and feed our own horses, saddle up, and proceed to another wilderness camp where by gosh the same thing happens -- we get there, saddle sore and hungry, and camp is already waiting for us. Continue in huge loop for a couple weeks until we get back to the original trailhead.
Points: we are riding our own horses, and the whole thing takes place away from roads, parking lots, generators, motor homes, live-in trailers, flush toilets, computers, phones, four-poster beds . . .
Does any outfit do this? I don't want to ride a dude-string horse ever again if I can help it. Nor ride in a nose to tail line with people in sneakers and shorts with their toes pointing down holding on to the saddle horn. But, I am not up for learning how to horse camp in the wilderness all by myself. Nor do I know anybody personally to teach me. I'd be happy to pay if such an outfit exists.
Ideas?
Haul out to wilderness trailhead. Pack mules and wranglers are waiting for us, they load up the personal gear we brought and we head out. Other wranglers have already ridden out the camp spot and by the time we get there, tents are up and dinner is cooked. We sit around the campfire (that they built) and sing songs and drink beer under the stars. The next day, we groom and feed our own horses, saddle up, and proceed to another wilderness camp where by gosh the same thing happens -- we get there, saddle sore and hungry, and camp is already waiting for us. Continue in huge loop for a couple weeks until we get back to the original trailhead.
Points: we are riding our own horses, and the whole thing takes place away from roads, parking lots, generators, motor homes, live-in trailers, flush toilets, computers, phones, four-poster beds . . .
Does any outfit do this? I don't want to ride a dude-string horse ever again if I can help it. Nor ride in a nose to tail line with people in sneakers and shorts with their toes pointing down holding on to the saddle horn. But, I am not up for learning how to horse camp in the wilderness all by myself. Nor do I know anybody personally to teach me. I'd be happy to pay if such an outfit exists.
Ideas?