ROCK CREEK PACK STATION Craig and Herbert London
P.O.Box 248
Bishop, CA 93515
(760) 935-4493
2010 HIKING WITH PACK STOCK
ALL INCLUSIVE SERVICE
Services provided by Mt. Whitney Pack Train
Mountain travel for the hiker who wants to enjoy the wilderness for longer than his or her back can carry the needed supplies! We prepare your food and packers break camp and move the gear to a pre-arranged spot each day. Guests may bring 40 lbs of personal gear (includes sleeping bag) and we provide the tents, toilet, camp chairs, tables, meals and staff for your travel in the wilderness. Join other hikers on open hiking trips or form your own group for an all-inclusive private custom trip. We provide sample menus and itineraries for your approval.
We can help you create a personal route, menu and ideal wilderness adventure. Call us to discuss your schedule and preferred itinerary.
Here is a description of hiking with pack stock from a frequent guest:
A table is set up with lunch meat, cheese, breads, cookies, nuts,
fresh fruit, and candy. You bag up your selections before
breakfast which is usually served around 7:30.
During your hearty hot breakfast guests and crew agrre upon where to meet for the next
camp and any side trips you might take. Now you can shoulder your day
pack and start hiking toward the next camp. Occasionally a backpacker will
stop you to ask what kind of camping gear you are carrying that allows you
to travel so light.
Depending on the length of the hike and the speed of the hikers, the crew
will usually pass you shortly after lunch after spending several hours
packing the mules and cleaning up the camp. By the time you follow the
stock tracks into camp, the pack animals...
The smell of fresh coffee on a wood fired stove; the muffled sound of mules munching their morning grain;
quiet words of reassurance as the packers groom and tack the stock in preparation for the day's move.
That is the alarm clock that awakens you to a new morning of hiking with pack stock.
You pack up your duffle and take down your tent between sips of fresh hot coffee (or tea/cocoa).
Pricing for all-inclusive private custom trip is shown in the table below.
| 3 to 4 persons | $235 |
| 5 to 12 persons | $190 |
2010 SCHEDULED OPEN HIKING TRIPS
These trips are part of the Mt. Whitney Pack Train services
Horseshoe Meadows to Onion Valley
9 days
August 21-29, 2010
$1395
A MAPof the area can be seen in this PDF.
Sierra Club Outing --Evolution Inspiration, Kings Canyon National Park, California
August 24-September 5, 2010
13 days
$2,625
This trip will take you over Bishop Pass to Dusy Basin and LeConte Canyon, and then on the John Muir Trail north over Muir Pass to Evolution Lake and Evolution Valley, before exiting the park at Piute Pass. This trip is for adults only.
To see more information and sign up for this adventure, click HERE.
Here's what one of our repeat-guests has to say about her travels with Rock Creek Pack Station: "As a former backpacker, it embarrassed me at first to have to rely on pack animals to carry my gear, but my joints wouldn't allow me the pride of independence. What I found, though, is the crews have a love for the mountain that equals my own and they take much better care of the environment than any backpacker I've hiked with. All trash packed out, deep pits are dug for the latrines, the ashes from fire are buried, and the pine needles are scattered so there is no evidence we were there. They truly left only footprints behind." --G. H., CALIFORNIA, 2005
If you would like to include some riders in your group, or you would like to hire stock and a packer, but provide your own food and cook for yourself, please review these options:
All-EXPENSE PACK TRIP and
CONTINUOUS HIRE OF STOCK & PACKER.
You can email us, also.
Rock Creek Pack Station provides all of its trips as a permitee of the Inyo National Forest.
All Trail Rides and Packing Schools are subject to an 8% regulatory reservation fee, plus 2% USFS fee.
NOTICE: Persons of any race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion or with any handicapping condition are welcome to use and enjoy all facilities, programs and services of USDA (Forest Service).
Discrimination in any form is strictly against agency policy and should be reported to Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20520