Four or five mules long, a string is fashioned, each mule's halter tied to the rear of the next mule's aparejo.
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Working in a two-man team, on opposite sides of the animal, packers sling a pair of manty-wrapped loads to the sides of a mule's aparejo and lay a 12-15-metre (40-50ft) lash rope gently across his creature's back.