Make the most of your stay at the Frog Lake Backcountry Huts using porters! Carry in delicious, fresh food, beer, wine, meat, cheese, sleeping bags, Bluetooth speakers - you name it!  

We carry the load so you can take advantage of the full commercial kitchen, eat and drink in style and save your energy for the fun part!  Our porters will carry in whatever you want (within reason) up to 45lbs.  Make your pack light and have a great trip to Truckee's Frog Lake Huts!

Porters are available for your independent trip or if you'd like to bring additional items into the huts on your Blackbird Mountain Guides Frog Lake Huts trip feel free!  We're happy to haul in whatever supplies you need hauled.

Porters have the right to refuse any load or portion of the load if they do not feel that it is safe or are worried about potentially damaging the contents of your load.  

Items that people often have portered into the Frog Lake Backcountry Huts in Truckee:

• Fresh fruit
• Fresh vegetables
• Fresh or frozen meat
• Beer
• Wine 
• Cheese
• Appetizers
• Hard alcohol & mixers
• Sleeping bags
• Camp pillows (inflatable or semi-inflatable)
• Bluetooth Speakers
• Snack food
• Deserts

Terms

Porters do not serve as guides. They will not accompany you into the Frog Lake Huts.  They are paid to carry a porter load (45lbs) into the huts and they move at the pace that they feel is appropriate for them given the load.  In many cases they will arrive before you do and will leave your items in the hut that you reserved or your designated space in the refrigerator.

Porters will meet you on the morning of the first day of your trip to pick up your load.  Meeting locations are typically at the Donner Summit California State Snopark (Castle Peak Trailhead) or at the Safeway on Donner Pass Road.   Porters will weigh the load and will carry up to 45 pounds.  If you would like the porter to carry additional weight, discuss this with them beforehand to make sure that they are able and comfortable to carry additional weight given the snow conditions.  Weight beyond the 45 lb limit will be charged at $7/pound, payable in cash to the porter.