Trent Peterson is a custom saddle maker that builds light weight saddles built for the mountains and packing equipment that is tested to its full extent as being a professional packer.

"Everything I build or make, we use. I donate 3% of all my sales from my saddle shop to the National Ataxia Foundation to help fund research into the disease that killed my father, my grandfather, and possibly one day myself. Ive been a professional packer since 2005 when I lead my first string of mules into the North Cascades, and started packing in the Eastern Sierra in 2016 after my wife and I moved here permanently. And in 2017 I completed a ride from Mexico to Canada with 3 mustangs I adopted from the wild as untouched animals, and spent 8 months training them for the journey. At the end of the ride, 2 of the mustangs were auctioned off and I raised little over $20,000 for the foundation. 

 My wife has been packing in the Eastern Sierra for the last 16 years. As part of our passion for packing and our way of life, we teach weekly packing classes and put on full 3 day packing clinics where we will give you the tools to be able to safely go out into the backcountry with your own equine. This year we’ve taken the big step of purchasing our own pack station and will be offering full week long packing schools along with our custom made pack trips. 

 Along with packing, and saddle making my wife and I are trainers and we specialize in starting and training untouched mustangs and mules. We train them for both the sands of the arena, to the granite of the Sierra."

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• The Mountain Packer

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