Find…

Clothes for a Three-Week Mule Ramble: Virginia Highlands

Published May 20, 2024

I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.

Good Monday morning. The mules and I are heading to Damascus, Virginia today, to start our mule ramble. Right now I’m getting gear loaded into my saddle bags. Here’s how many clothes I’m taking for our three-week ramble.

Clothing packed for a three-week mule ramble on the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail by Long Rider Bernie Harberts: spare shirt, pants, socks, sock liners and thermals — The clothes I’m bringing on my mule ramble: 1 spare shirt, 1 spare pair of pants, 2 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of sock liners, thermal top and bottom (because it can get damn cold on the top of Grayson Highlands and Mount Rogers (Virginia) in May.)

Long Rider Bernie Harberts' entire three-week mule ramble wardrobe packed into a single Ziplock bag — My wardrobe packed away in a Ziplock bag.

Have a great day!

Read more posts from this ramble: Virginia Highlands Horse Trail — A Mule Ramble.

A few years earlier, my wife Julia and I rode a good stretch of the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail together. That became its own adventure. Julia documented that ramble on her blog Saddle Under the Stars and you can read those posts here:

More about mule rambling the Virginia Highlands.

Let's Keep in Touch

Sign up for The River, the RiverEarth newsletter, for occasional doses of rambling and homestead life. Plus you'll get a free copy of my 155-page illustrated ebook 19 Million Mule Steps.

Just enter your email below and hit Subscribe.