Washington State Llama Packing

Pasaytan Wilderness

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Pasaytan west

Near Goat Lakes along the Pacific Crest Trail, north of Harts Pass.
Along the west edge of the Pasaytan are rugged mountains and canyons
along some of the most scenic Pacific Crest Trail hiking in the northwest.
That is Powder Mountain in the center.

Find out more about Dusty and Sahalie and their owners.

Packing the Pacific CrestTrail is sometimes dry and hot work
and a pack llama appreciates a drink from a friend. Like real good friends, Jim shares his water with Sahalie.

Read about this female pack llama in an article called,
My new packing buddy,
in the BCL, 8-94 back issue.

North Cascades - on the PCT (Jane Pinkerton and Minstrel)

North Cascades - from the PCT, near the Canadian border

Pasayatan east

The Pasayten Wilderness is along the Canadian border and offers llama packers many miles of trails to explore.

On the eastern half of this large wilderness are many very large meadows.

The meadows are a delight to explore.

Lots of horsemen and hikers visit these areas, but there is room for everyone.

On one trip that the BCL editor and family took, they experienced a fierce and freak wind storm that blew over seventy trees across the trail in one three-mile section.

In such cases it is good to have llamas that will follow the handlers through brush, down and up steep sidehills, and. . .

. . . even through very narrow places. Our llamas had to jump up and push their bodies through a very narrow space between longs, stump and debris.

His first jump hit panniers on both sides and he bounced back down the hill.
He had to be willing to go again and be helped.

Read about a cross-Pasayten trip.

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