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Trent Peterson: The Way Forward

During a trip to the Sierra Nevada’s in 2015 he first set his eyes on the mountains he now calls home while scouting the area for a planned horse traverse of the PCT. He settled into an area next to the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, where he often gone for weeks at a time working as a Forest Service Packer and lives a mountain man way of life, living and packing in the mountains in the summer, and building lightweight packer saddles in the winter.

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Profiles

James Reeves: The Mule Packer

“When I walk into any pack station or ranch, I know from the get-go that I’m probably not going to look like anyone else who works there. But anyone who wants to work all day with mules is a little different anyway, and at the end of the day, all anyone cares about is if you can do the job. If you can, then no one cares how you look.”

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