[at-l] Getting Lost (was Trail Maintenance: Blazing)

[texas12step@hotmail.com (Texas Twelve-Step)]

> Good maintenance practice requires that all old 
> blazes be obliterated after a relocation. As the
> manual tells maintainers, "you should obliterate
> all former blazes end to end to avoid misleading
> those hikers who have gone astray."

> The manual goes on to tell how. "scrape off as much
> old paint as possible. Lightly cover any remaining 
> paint with neutralizing paint ... using mixtures of
> brown, green and gray."

Curiously, this procedure rarely seems to be followed -- 
at least on the major relocations in Maine. On nearly 
every "abandoned" or blue-blazed section that was once 
part of the Appalachian Trail I still frequently see 
white blazes.

-TXIIS