Colorado Outfitter
By: Karin Hollebeke
Year: 2025
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Price: $7,900
For those who yearn to pack into the wilderness country of the West on horseback, a skilled professional outfitter will get you in and out of the back country safely and efficiently. He combines expert animal handling with wilderness navigation and management skills to facilitate outdoor adventures in remote back country areas for recreation, or other purposes.
A pack string can take you into some of the most beautiful wild country, inaccessible by any other means. The animals need to follow calmly through miles of steep, rugged country, cross downed timber, boggy trails, fast streams, and deliver your gear to camp each night intact. River crossings, particularly in the early season, can be treacherous, and demand special skills by the outfitter at a time when the water is flowing high and muddied.
This piece of artwork is in the 2025 Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale.