'Muletide' wishes

Virginia Parker embraces a mule as Glenn Ryan, lead packer of the The Rocky Mountain Regional Specialty Pack String, waters his fleet of horses and mules before continuing his journey to central Colorado. The Rocky Mountain Regional Specialty Pack String stopped in Saratoga Monday to water mules and horses before returning to central Colorado. The pack string is one of four regional groups in the United States that represent the U.S. Forest Service. “We cover two-thirds of Wyoming, all of Colorado and we work in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Pine Ridge Company in Nebraska,” Ryan said...