Best Pack Assisted Trips with an Adventure Travel Company?

We can no longer backpack (I%26#39;m in my 60鈥檚 with a new hip) but we are looking for your favorite trips in the west with an adventure travel company such as Sierra Club, Rei, etc. We would love to carry our day packs while mules, horses or llamas are hauling the heavy gear. There are so many companies with so many itineraries that we thought you could help regarding your favorites. We don鈥檛 want to spend a lot, so we鈥檙e looking for the best 鈥榖ang鈥?for the 鈥榖uck.鈥?Time frame: one to two weeks, this summer. We like hikes up to 10 miles and 2000 ft. elevation gain.

Thank you, Kathy and Elliot

Best Pack Assisted Trips with an Adventure Travel Company?

my friend, david markham, owns adventure outdoors he has llamas and has done this for many years. i don%26#39;t know all the details, so you could PM me and i will give you the phone number.

just looked it up venout.com

Best Pack Assisted Trips with an Adventure Travel Company?

Thanks Charlie. Looks like the assisted pack trips are going to be a bit expensive for us right now. We%26#39;re probably going to simply do some car camping out west and begin saving for a mule/llama trip in later years.

How about renting a US Forest Service look out tower and just doing some day hiking around it? Awesome views in awesome country. We have a number of them here in Clearwater Country in Central Idaho, and better yet, we don%26#39;t have the crowds they have up north and in other areas.

That%26#39;s a great idea; however I believe at least one of us is afraid of heights! I%26#39;m assuming you%26#39;re outside and climbing the tower to get in. Are there any amenities inside the tower?

i would google it. i have always been interested in doing that. sounds kind of cool and i have heard that they are all different.

Kathy and Elliot, the towers, as they are called, are often 50 or more feet off the ground, although, many are sitting right on the ground. Not towers at all. All of them have lights, refridgerators, stoves, heat, most will have water of some sort,etc.. Most you can drive into, a few you will have to hike or ATV in, and fewer still are hike in only. They will always be on a high spot and have an awesome view, and will see much wildlife, deer, elk, etc.. Rental towers have been remodled to be what they are, vacation tower rentals. You can go online and look them up by National Forest, Clearwater N.F. , Nez Perce N.F., etc.

I don%26#39;t know what our budget is, but the Sierra Club has ';supported backpack trips, where you only carry a daypack. This one with llamas is one of the least expensive:

sierraclub.org/outings/鈥?9190A.asp

Thanks for the information. Will have to do it eventually. It%26#39;s too cool to pass up.

Almost perfect, thank you. However, upon reading the description, they are still requiring up to 30 lbs of weight four hours per day. But yes, quite affordable for what you%26#39;re getting. I%26#39;ll ask Kathy and see.