{"id":51844,"date":"2025-11-16T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/51844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:21:08","slug":"ditch-the-gear-and-hike-greenbrier-valley-with-friendly-goats-and-farm-fresh-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/51844\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditch the gear and hike Greenbrier Valley with friendly goats and farm-fresh cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love to hike, but don\u2019t like packing all that gear- we might have just the West Virginia adventure for you.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Coleman, an avid adventurer, is the founder of The Greenbriar Goat, an outdoor tour operation with a surprising twist.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of lugging your gear across rugged and mountainous terrain, he and his three American Alpine goats\u2014Ragnar, Athelstan, and Floki\u2014take you on a trek across the wild and wildly beautiful West Virginia Greenbrier Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their impressive horns, Coleman says there&#8217;s nothing menacing about his goats. In fact, he says he bottle-fed all three, making them gentle, well-trained, and people-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s it like to hike with The Greenbriar Goat\u2019s goats? The company offers several different types of trekking options, including a luxury breakfast featuring farm-fresh eggs, coffee, bacon (and yes, and more bacon), and creamy goat cheese \u2013 all sourced from local farmers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about The Greenbriar Goat from our sister station, WCHS-TV Eyewitness News, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wchstv.com\/community\/traveling-west-virginia\/traveling-wv-the-greenbrier-goat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Traveling West Virginia with Brad Rice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more amazing stories, click here to subscribe to Amazing America TV on YouTube and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you love to hike, but don\u2019t like packing all that gear- we might have just the West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-51844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}