This means less time required to stop and graze. Llamas also require less feed for the same time than other pack animals. This means that less weight in the packs is devoted to llama feed. Llamas will go to the bathroom in potty piles and rarely go along the trail while they are moving. This leaves more area undisturbed and provides easier clean-up for the hikers.
Hikers can also keep their pack animals from going to the bathroom too close to water sources.
This will minimize any fecal contamination of the water. This is not true of other pack animals and gives llamas a tremendous advantage for hikers, hunters and park rangers. Llamas enjoying the view on the way to Sidelhorn in the Grimsel region of Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Tom Wursten of Heitern, Switzerland. The amount of weight which llamas can carry depends upon their age, condition, the terrain and distance to be travelled.