2008 Pack Trip Details

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Trips

Join us on a safari by horse through the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, an area just north of Yellowstone National Park, where streams and lakes abound with Cutthroat and Rainbow trout.  This is a beautiful area where towering peaks overlook pine and spruce forests and vast meadows of wildflowers.  Spanning nearly one million acres, it is the home of elk, bighorn sheep, moose, deer and mountain goats. 

1. Grizzly Creek Camp

We reach this semi-permanent tent camp in the heart of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area after a 16 mile ride over majestic Wallace Pass.  This is one of our most popular and spectacular areas with fine Cutthroat trout fishing in nearby Carpenter Lake, Grizzly Creek and Hellroaring Creek.  This is an excellent trip for riding, wildlife, photography and fishing,  These trips start July 10 and go until September 12. 
 
Rates are $180 per person per day for 6 days or more or $200 per person, per day for less than 6 days. 

2. Alpine Archaeology Trip

A 6-day archaeological field trip from our Grizzly Creek camp starting July 13 which will provide a course for the general public to appreciate and value the archaeological materials in this unique alpine setting of Montana. Participants will employ the field methods of archaeologists such as site location, recordation, interpretation and preservation. The course will be taught by S. L. Lahren, Jr., Ph. D.

Rates are $1080 per person.  
  
3. Grizzly Creek and Buffalo Fork
First 7-day Trip
We start July 27 south of Livingson from Mill Creek. We will spend 3 nights at Grizzly Creek and 3 nights at Buffalo Fork and Hidden Lake and come out August 2 at Cooke City, the northeast entrance to Yellowstone Park.

Rates are $1260 per person.

4. Grizly Creek and Buffalo Fork
Second 7-day Trip
Starts August 3at the Slough Creek trailhead. We will spend 3 nights at Buffalo Fork and Hidden Lake and 3 nights at Slough Creek and come out August 9 at the Slough Creek trailhead.

Rates are $1260 per person

We can customize your trip for you if you want different dates.

Black Otter Guide Service
PO Box 68
Pray, Montana 59065
Phone (406) 333-4362 

E-Mail
blckottr@ycsi.net