# New Mexico Pack Burros - Shane Weigand (Part II)

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Podcast: [Hiker Trash Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694)
Published: 2026-06-17T08:10:00+00:00
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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.

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