We rented from Buckhorn Llamas in Durango. Their main office is in Northern CO but they rent from a farm in Durango also. The animals were $40 per day per llama. We also had to pay for an orientation class and you can rent a livestock pen that fits in the back of your truck.

I am not furtunate enough to live in the West and I have never owned horses so to use horses I would have to pay an outfitter. I prefer more of a do it yourself hunt so I chose the llamas. Although we didn' t kill any elk, if we had we could have gotten those llamas into anything to pack them out. We lead them through some pretty nasty blowdowns a couple times and up and down some very steep terain where there weren' t any trails. The horses we checked into would be used to pack us in and we could pay to have a horse left with us, but as I said, a 1200 pound horse would kill me. The llamas required no food to be packed in and rarely would even take a drink. They eat just about anything around them.

If you want to learn more about the llamas go to Bowsite.com and go to the Elk forums. There are a lot of guys there that use llamas.