[at-l] Trail Maintenance: Blazing

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Actually, I did miss the real trail coming out of Devil Fork Gap, TN, and
walked so far on the old trail and got so lost that I finally got a ride out
and gave up my plans for that year.  All the time, I was following blazes,
just very old ones.  I didn't know what I'd done wrong until the next year
when I had a partner.  Less than a mile from where we got on, I went right
in front of a tumbledown log cabin, and she went left.  I was going where
I'd gone before, but she'd seen the right way.  I was so busy looking at the
fallen down cabin that I missed seeing the other blazes to the left.
anklebear

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To: <rafeb@adelphia.net>; <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Trail Maintenance: Blazing


> I think y'all are spoiled, and have no faith.  If you get lost, it's your
own
> fault and no one elses.  Treadway, map, compass, and commom sense usually
> prevails.  How far off the AT have you ever walk before you realized you
were
> going in the wrong direction? Not far, I imagine, in the scheme of things.
> Barring white out conditions, the worst you could do on the AT is stumble
> into a Pizza Hut.
>
> Sly
>
>
> rafeb@adelphia.net writes:
>
> >> And how many stretches are there where there are NO blazes
> > to be seen, for what seems like tens of minutes at a time.
> > Many's the time I doubted my way because of the lack of
> > blazes, even backtracking to the last-seen blaze, for
> > reassurance.  Yes, I was still on the trail, but there'd be
> > no way of knowing that from the blazes.
> >
> > And lets' not forget the tricky "turn here" blaze, painted on
> > a rock, flush with the ground, on a minor, bare summit.  Fail
> > to heed one of these, and you can get seriousy messed up.
> >
>
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