Workout Vacations: A Pack Trip on Horseback
Where: Buffalo, Wyo.
Duration: 4 days
Distance: 24 miles
Cost: $200 to $250 per day
Operator: Paradise Guest Ranch (www.paradiseranch.com, 307-684-7876)
Difficulty Challenging
At Paradise Guest Ranch, which is surrounded by over a million acres of the Bighorn Forest, you can stay in a luxury log cabin and enjoy daily rides and hikes or head out into the 13,000-foot mountains on a high-country pack trip. The Paradise mules haul all the gear as you ride 12 miles up through the Cloud Peak Wilderness and into high camp at Frying Pan Lake. The next day, you might opt for a strenuous 2 1/2-hour hike, toss a line in South Piney Lake, and fry your own trout or ask one of the ranch's packers to handle the cooking. This trip is recommended for people in good physical shape with solid riding experience only. The combination of rough trekking and a relatively fast-paced ride at high altitude will undo the less robust horseman.
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