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Continuing my story: We were taking our grandkids on pack trips with us and got concerned that someone might accidently get hit by a goat horn. So, in 2004 we started to make a transition to pack goats without horns.
We got Gobi and Prince in 2004 as yearlings. Prince died in February, Gobi is still with us but has retired from packing (he’s 14 now).
We got Zermatt and Zinal as kids in 2004. Zinal died in 2007; Zermatt died this June.
We got Hershey, Chinook and Chelan in 2006 as kids. We still have Hershey, he still hikes with us and could do shorter trips, but I wound not take him on a longer trip any more. Chelan started to lay down on trips in 2016, essentially telling me he did not want to pack anymore. He’s now a pet for some other people. Chinook died in 2015 due to an injury. We have had several other pack goats since we got started, some died, some were sold to other people.
Gobi, Prince, Hershey, and Zermatt are the goats who stand out in my mind the most because I’ve done a lot of pack trips with them over the years.
I like to go on 5 to 10 day trips, particularly in the Pasayten wilderness, the Chelan-Sawtooth and the Glacier peak area. I particularly like going when the Larch are golden – the end of September or early October.
As an example, here are some pictures from a 5 day trip that I did with Gobi, Prince, Hershey, and Zermatt at the end of September 2015 to Buckskin Ridge in the Pasayten wilderness.
We got Gobi and Prince in 2004 as yearlings. Prince died in February, Gobi is still with us but has retired from packing (he’s 14 now).
We got Zermatt and Zinal as kids in 2004. Zinal died in 2007; Zermatt died this June.
We got Hershey, Chinook and Chelan in 2006 as kids. We still have Hershey, he still hikes with us and could do shorter trips, but I wound not take him on a longer trip any more. Chelan started to lay down on trips in 2016, essentially telling me he did not want to pack anymore. He’s now a pet for some other people. Chinook died in 2015 due to an injury. We have had several other pack goats since we got started, some died, some were sold to other people.
Gobi, Prince, Hershey, and Zermatt are the goats who stand out in my mind the most because I’ve done a lot of pack trips with them over the years.
I like to go on 5 to 10 day trips, particularly in the Pasayten wilderness, the Chelan-Sawtooth and the Glacier peak area. I particularly like going when the Larch are golden – the end of September or early October.
As an example, here are some pictures from a 5 day trip that I did with Gobi, Prince, Hershey, and Zermatt at the end of September 2015 to Buckskin Ridge in the Pasayten wilderness.