Runaway Mule on the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail: Catching Cracker

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

Okay, that was sorta sneaky how I left you hanging after my mule Cracker got away from me while we were riding the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail. Here’s how that little drama played out.

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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