Why Llamas?

Meet your new companions, all equipped with gear and different personalities: Antero Llamas.

 

Llamas make great pack animals. Their padded feet, similar to a dog, lets them easily traverse steep and rocky paths while being more environmentally friendly than horse hooves. They can navigate narrower paths reducing disturbances to vegetation. Llamas also have a 3 compartment stomach which helps them cope with poor quality food sources. Another benefit to llama hiking is how they can carry about 25% of its body weight with no problem making them the perfect trekking burden of beast for eco-tourism.

 

A great advantage with llamas is that they are extremely quiet and low maintenance. Their excellent endurance along with their docile and peaceful nature makes them ideal for your hunting trips. You can be confident in our llamas to carry gear to camp and quietly pack out a tagged elk. 

 

Our Services:
Many of our customers are introduced to packing with llamas for the first time in our 2-3 hour Llama Packing 101 workshop. We can provide training both at the farm or before a trip, and several times a season we provide weekend training trip workshops. Seasoned trekkers return to us year after year for the reliable, professional experience they have come to expect from Antero Llamas. Contact us today to reserve llamas for your next expedition.

 

Our Expertise: 
Antero Llamas LLC has been in continuous operation since 1991. In 2006, Bill Gardiner purchased the service from Jim McConaghy so he could retire. Bill has been training and packing llamas since the 80's. Bill has extensive backpacking, hunting and outdoor training experience. He holds a degree in Wildlife Management from Colorado State University and when not working with his llamas, can be found serving as a Conservationist for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.