It was around three o’clock in the morning when I began to worry about the llamas. I was huddled in a tent at 11,700 feet in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, and as sheets of rain and gusts of wind ...

After all, they were domesticated in similar terrain in the Andes about 5,000 years ago, and since then they’ve been used almost exclusively as pack animals on rough, high, dry trails.ACE IN THE ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MINTURN — My 7- and 10-year-old daughters’ collective stinkface when I announced we were going hiking was, to put it lightly, dismaying. I believe kids ...

Annual Back Country Llama Rendezvous and Drive-In to be Held Near Estacada Every year the Back Country Llama Association a group specifically dedicated to llama packing and Rattlesnake Ridge Ranch, a ...

Tom Seifert and his wife, Sue, walk their six llamas in the Boise Foothills to train for packing trips into the backcountry. On this trek, Tom exercised Gaius, left, and Cisco. Chadd Cripe ...

I was walking along a trail in Yellowstone National Park, meditating on mountains, breathing in the scent of pine and sagebrush, when a llama sneezed in my ear. With bear spray strapped to my waist, I ...

Enthusiasts of llama packing, an activity in which they are used as pack-animals for backcountry excursions, are worried about a proposal that may ban the activity during certain times of the year.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MINTURN — My 7- and 10-year-old daughters’ collective stinkface when I announced we were going hiking was, to put it lightly, dismaying. I believe kids ...

Annual Back Country Llama Rendezvous and Drive-In to be Held Near Estacada The Rendezvous is an extraordinary opportunity to meet with experts and to gain hands-on education about what can be done ...