Wyoming’s rugged backcountry is teeming with big game, but the farther into the wild hunters go to shoot deer and elk, the longer and more brutal packing their game out will be.
Some hunters rely on their own strength and use backpacks to haul out meat and antlers. Others get help from pack horses, mules, or pack goats.
A pair of Wyoming hunters, Anthony Natale and Austin Griffith, think llamas are the perfect wilderness pack animals. Llamas may not be native to Wyoming, but they’re perfectly suited for Wyoming’s high country terrain and the wilderness. The pair started out a few years ago with just a couple of the gangly critters, which are native to the perilous mountains of South America.