Hoof Boots on the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail: Mules Brick and Cracker at 80 Miles

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

I recently wrote a post on how my Renegade hoof boots were performing on the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail is rough in places, littered with rocks, logs, mud, puddles, boulders and yes, the occasional horse shoe that was ripped off a horse or mule’s hoof. My hoof boots did great. Here’s a short video of how they performed on a flat but rocky section of the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail.

I’m proud to report that after 80 miles of sometimes very rough going, none of the 8 hoof boots my mules are wearing have fallen off.

My Experience With Hoof Boots

I have traveled over 10,000 long distance miles with hoof boots on my mules and horses. That’s over 1,000 nights on the road with no support team or chase vehicle.

For an in depth hoof report I wrote about riding from North Carolina to Virginia and back in hoof boots, check out The Hoof Boot Report.

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:

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