Wind River Llama Trip

Over the past week I was on a llama pack trip in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. The trip started out with "llama school," (basically a two and a half hour lecture on llama husbandry, with extreme emphasis on toiletry habits of the animals, followed by learning to saddle and pack them). We then were instructed to meet one of the assistant llama people at the trail at 9:00 am the next morning. The next morning after being each assigned a llama and after two hours of "Oh my gosh, isn't my llama cute?," and "Wait, wait, wait, this random piece of equipment needs to go in this llama bag, not that one!," and me almost being stepped on by by my llama, we were off.

The first adventure happened a few miles down the trail when a llama named Lucky started to be uncooperative due to the fact that he did not appreciate the fly rod cases that he had been assigned to carry. We moved them onto a llama named Stretch, thinking the problem was solved. However, it caused Stretch to go on a wild rampage, causing screaming people and llamas. After the first minor catastrophe of the trip had been sorted out, we continue up the trail for a few miles and then stopped for a not-so-quick lunch at a small unnamed lake. The llamas were fed some of the many pounds of llama cookies that we had brought for them, we had  some of the too- few pounds of cookies for us. That night we made our camp at Little Divide Lake and settled in for what was for me at least, an awful night of sleep, although one that the rest of the trip completely made up for, as you will see.

Coming Soon: Day 2&3 of the Llama Trip!