Journeys

WolfHorse Outfitters offers customized guided wilderness adventures expertly designed to concentrate on the surrounding environment, plant Joe's Cathedraland animal identification methods as well as seasonal foraging techniques.

Your customized pack trip or day excursion will provide you with an opportunity to experience:

  • Fundamental techniques and knowledge of outdoor living skills.
  • Experiences essential for a safe, minimum impact — leave no trace, active enjoyment of this rugged and vast country.

Accommodating all levels of experience from beginners to advanced riders who just want to “cover some ground” — from the occasional hiker to “trail munchers” — a customized adventure will enhance your personal vacation or for groups and reunions wanting a backcountry getaway.

Joe Saenz teaches students out in the field of the Gila Wildnerness

WolfHorse Outfitters is a Native American Guide Service, specializing in horseback adventures, trail rides, pack trips, drop camps and back packing expeditions. Also providing expedition support services, consultation and interpretive services.

Your guide, Joe Saenz, is of Chihe’ne (Warm Springs Apache) ancestry with extensive guiding experience in horseback and backpacking expeditions, throughout the American Rocky Mountains, Gila wilderness bluffincluding Canada, Mexico’s Sierra Madre and Alaskan Brooks Range.

Ancient Native Peoples were created here and have inhabited these sacred mountains, valleys, and canyons throughout the span of time.

The Ndee (Chihe’ne, Chokone’ne, Bida’nku, Ndenai), known as the Chiricahua Apache People predate all other cultures present in the area.

Ancient Cliff DwellingThe ancient Pueblos, referred to as the Mogollon, Anasazi and Mimbres cultures of the preserved Gila Cliff Dwellings, attempted to settle this region, unsuccessfully.

Traveling through “Dzil” (the mountains of the Gila region) offers opportunities to view ancient homesites and to discuss living conditions and survival philosophies of these ancient builders as well as the true inhabitants and inheritors of this country, the Apache People.

The Ndee’s fierce defense and nomadic lifestyle allowed this region to flourish and exist in The Gila Wildernessharmony for countless generations in it’s purest essence. In more recent history, well known Apache band leaders, war leaders, and warriors like Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Nana, Loco, Victorio, Naiche, Chihuahua, Geronimo, Porico and Lozen joined forces to drive all intruders from these sacred grounds.

A Gila Wilderness bluff up close and personalLocated in southwest New Mexico, the Gila Wilderness is America’s first and largest designated wilderness. At 3.3 million acres, the Gila National Forest offers one of the continent’s most pristine and rugged wild areas known today. Elevations range from desert and 4500 feet, to alpine at 10,000 feet. The Gila River’s immense watershed system creates valleys, mesas and canyons only imagined in dreams.

The wildlife present gives visitors a glimpse into an ecosystem desired by your soul. Soaring eagles, hawks, heron and kingfishers haunting the sky while deer, elk, antelope, black bear, lynx, cougar, bighorn sheep, wolf, coyote and Javelina roam the shadows of the forests, meadows, and canyons.

WolfHorse Outfitters presents Native American historical indigenous perspectives and interpretive services in regards to American western history and to the appreciative relationship of the natural resources of Dzil, which were once preserved and protected by Ndee ancestors.

So for your group getaway, an educational journey, your solo wilderness trek, a romantic wilderness escape, or a family reunion, come join us for an experience your heart and senses will never forget!

Please do not hesitate to inquire for specific trip descriptions as clients have choice of trips and locations from which to choose. Simply click on the CONTACT page link and send me an email!

WolfHorse Outfitters is APPROVED and PERMITTED to guide visitors in the Gila National Forest.