[at-l] Trail Maintenance: Blazing

[Slyatpct@aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

Seriously, how lost have you ever gotten on the AT?  Inconvenienced by a 
matter of seconds, minutes, or hours?  What difference does it make, you may 
find something  else in the meantime.

Sly


> Yes, one does.  I've been places where we went back for a good ways to find
> the last blaze to make certain that we hadn't gotten off the trail at a
> switchback or old trail or something.  I've been in the fog where we
> couldn't find blazes at all and the open area along the mountaintop gave us
> no indication where the trail might go off.  And I've done only up to
> Damascus.  There's a nifty place before Roan Mt., NoBo, where you go into an
> evergreen copse of maybe an acre.  There aren't any blazes in there, and the
> needle litter on the ground obscures what trail may have been there to begin
> with.  Spooky.  We tried to keep in a straight line, though, and managed to
> hit the trail on the other side OK.  Blazes give me great security.
> 




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