Saturday, April 27th, 2024
OR
Sunday, April 28th, 2024 (2nd day added!)
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Teton Weatherbeater, Choteau MT
Clinic Details:
This is an introductory one-day pack clinic to introduce or refresh, build confidence, and learn some Bob Marshall-specific tips and tricks for your upcoming summer trips. No experience necessary – all skill levels welcome! Meet some like-minded women and enjoy a laid back environment to learn new skills or hone in skills you already have. We will have a broad overview of general topics ranging from safety to Leave No Trace, basic stock handling and saddling, building balanced loads and how to secure them to a mule safely and efficiently.
Come learn about the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation and feel free to bring a map and get some help with trip planning for the summer ahead. This is the first all women's clinic offered, and we hope to have more offerings in the future! This clinic is intended for women and girls ages 14 and older.
Saturdays clinic filled up so fast, we’ve added another day! We are now offering a clinic on Saturday and Sunday.
Cost: $100/Participant
Limit 12 participants per clinic
Register Here!
Meet Your Instructors:
Keegan Rumsey
Keegan grew up in the mountains and woods of Montana and found it only natural to work for the Forest Service when she left home. She spent 20 seasons working in the Bob both out of Spotted Bear Ranger District and then the east side of the Bob where she spent many years as a wilderness ranger for Rocky Mountain Ranger District. She’s long considered the Bob her home and has resided within walking distance of the Wilderness since moving to the east side in 2005. In 2018, she switched gears and became a massage therapist starting her own practice in Choteau.
Keegan is studying to become an equine therapist to add horses and mules to her clientele on the Rocky Mountain Front. Her passion still remains in the wilderness and she prioritizes logging miles in it nearly as much as when she worked there. Her mode of travel is either trail running, with her horse and mule or occasionally on skis. Her trail running ranges from daily jaunts from her home in the Teton to long runs across the complex. She’s spent her life exploring wild places but she considers this place in particular, the Bob, her home.
Krissy Gillispie
Krissy was born and raised in Montana, where a strong love for the wild was instilled. As early as an infant she was tagging along with her parents on fishing and hunting trips in the Bear Paw Mountains. She spent high school and college years chasing peaks in Western Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. During a volunteer trail maintenance trip in the Scapegoat Wilderness, she learned about volunteer packer opportunities and applied to be an apprentice in the first year of the BMWF’s packer apprentice program. That was eight years ago, and she has been packing for the BMWF since.
Krissy currently resides in Helena and owns a private practice for mental health counseling. When she’s not in the mountains with her dog Ripp and her mules, you’ll find her at the gym chasing her other passion as a competitive bodybuilder.