pack horse
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Before the advent of the chopper, the end of a mission entailed hiking miles out of the deep backcountry with heavy gear or waiting for a pack horse.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023
Dreaming of bagging the 3,954-metre peak, in 1909 an Edmonton clergyman took a pack horse to the mountains and tried to scale these heights.
From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2020
An emaciated white pack horse stands behind them.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2016
“I remember the cover of this one L’Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow,” Mr. Heller, 55, said.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2014
But the cleft was so narrow that a pack horse must be adept at squeezing past protuberances and gauging the width of its pack if it would travel the trail.
From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto
