Mountain Mule Packers

TACTICAL MULE PACKING AND ANIMAL HANDLING COURSES FOR MILITARY AND CIVILIAN GROUPS

Mountain Mule Packer Ranch, located in Mount Ulla, NC, provides mule training and mule packing instruction for both military and civilian groups. We also offer special group sessions for youth and corporations. Each course can be customized to fit your goals and needs.

Training Courses

Two Army soldiers walking in forest with packed mules

Military Unit Training

Working with the very best of the elite military groups to prepare for mission-specific requirements they may be tasked with in the future.

Public Mule Packing

Beginning to Advanced packing techniques can be taught to individuals and small to large groups. Simulation backcountry camps available for course practices.
Mike Toberer wearing cowboy hat standing next to packed mule
young boy wearing blue shirt and a white cowboy hat saddling a mule

Youth Group Instruction

These courses are short and offer education of pack and riding animals, history of mules, explanation of equipment used and its care, Dutch oven cooking, and Leave No Trace principles.

Corporate Team Building

Your group will learn new skills, work together, and discover how collaboration with everyone having an integral role will lead to successful outcomes.
Group of men in back country camping

Proud to do our part – training good people to work in bad places.