We are a Wilderness

Guide and Packhorse Outfitter providing Excursions to Northern California Wilderness Areas.  We Provide Full Camp Services or Drop Camps for those who want to go Hiking, Backpacking, Hunting, Fishing the High Lakes and Streams, or experience a Remote Family Camping Vacation.   

Explore the Outdoors through Adventure Trips; We pack your supplies in on horseback for Youth Groups, Hunting Parties, Rock and Mountain Climbing Expeditions, Birding and Nature Watching to places like the Trinity Alps, Marble Mountains, Thousand Lakes, Caribou and Russian Wildernesses.

 

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Things We Like to Do:

• We enjoy INTRODUCING PEOPLE TO THE WILD OUTDOORS.
• We love to TRANSPORT ALL YOUR GEAR, so you don't have to.  We call these "DROP CAMPS" which means we take you and your gear in and come back on another day for your return trip back to the trailhead.  
• We love to GO TO NEW PLACES AND SET UP CAMP most anywhere in northern California.
• We "KEEP CAMP" which means we do the cooking and you are on vacation - or - can focus on your hunting!
• We like SERVING INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS.

FAMILY NATURE EXCURSIONS:

• Birding
• Rock climbing
• Backpacking
• Horse packing
• Camping
• Fishing
• Hiking
• Wildlife watching
• Photo shoots

HUNTING (BOW or POWDER)

• Deer
• Bear
• Bobcats
• Varmints
• Highland Game Birds

Trip Information

• Trips can be as short as a day or multiple week stays.
• We can pack in your camp and equipment and come back later to pack it all out for you.
• Trips can be planned for most anywhere in northern California; including the Wilderness areas of the Marble Mountains, Trinity Alps, Thousand Lakes, and Caribou.
• Use our "contact us" page to let us know where you would like to go and the particulars of your dream vacation, hunting trip or outing you have planned.

Yep, that's Mike cook'n up a fine breakfast, starting the day out right! This photo was taken along the trail on our way into the Marble Mountains.  If we choose a late start, we will often camp at some convenient place along the way and finish the trek the next morning.

Experience the REAL outdoors

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(530) 774-5594

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Mike's Outdoors

PO Box 745

Durham, CA

95938

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This is where we picketed the horses during a drop-camp expedition to the Caribou Lakes in the middle of the Trinity Alps Wilderness. On the approach into the Caribou Lakes in the Trinity Alps Wilderness.  The horses and our camp in the first photo are about center, behind the tall trees in the photo above.

This photo is of a campsite located just off the Pacific Crest Trail of Northern California.

Our horses are standing in a meadow we discovered deep in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, I would estimate this meadow to be somewhere around a thousand acres.  (The photo shows but a sliver of the meadow, at the point where we entered it.)

This meadow is surrounded by clear (to the bottom) trout infested lakes, springs, and a crystal stream.  The entire valley is ringed by majestic high rocky crags and bald faced mountains.  Formidable challenges for most rock climbers and good practice for the more experienced.

Spring comes late in the mountains.  Starting in late July through the middle of September you will find this valley lush with flowers and wildlife. 

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May all your outdoor adventures be "wild" ones!