Episode
New Mexico Pack Burros - Shane Weigand (Part II)
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- Hiker Trash Radio
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- Jun 17, 2026
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- 1797
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Summary
In Part 2, Shane Weigand gets into what it actually takes to run New Mexico Pack Burros as a going concern while holding down a full-time federal job managing public lands infrastructure. This half covers the guided expedition experience in the Pecos Wilderness — a four-day working trip where guests are assigned their own burro and expected to pull their weight alongside it; the logistics and surprises of race directing five pack burro races on the Southwest circuit; the racing season that runs from January in Arizona all the way through summer in Leadville and Fairplay; and Shane's proudest achievement in the sport, which involved 150 miles of the Colorado Trail, a wild burro he'd adopted two years earlier, and a race finish that told him the burro was family for life.