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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Pack goats make my life easy,” said Howie Halcomb, a hunter who pursues game with the rigor of a backcountry athlete. The 38-year-old sportsman said pack goats are ideal companions for hiking to ...

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 ...

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, ...