[at-l] Brief trip report and long question - wierd!

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

Perhaps it was someone erasing the all too frequent white blaze.  I heard 
they're doing that.  If there's anything that ruins my "wilderness" experience on 
the AT it's too many blazes.  I don't need a reminder to know I'm on the 
trail every minute!

Sly


In a message dated 8/11/2003 3:06:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
trippclark@mindspring.com writes:

> One very odd thing that I observed, and I wanted to check with the 
> list-ers, is that in several places, first on Unaka, I think, some of the blazes had 
> been ?brown blazed? over top, making the blazes almost invisible.  I am 
> fully aware that when the trail is rerouted trail clubs/maintainers will paint 
> over the old blazes in brown to deter folks from following the old trail and to 
> direct them to the new trail.  So when I first saw this I stopped, did a ?
> double take? and backtracked.  When I went back two or three blazes, I came to 
> white blazes but absolutely no reroute or new trail, so I returned to where I 
> was and went on another 100 yards or so, and then the blazes began white 
> again.  In this stretch there were probably 6 brown blazes in a row.  This was 
> really weird!!  Then, I encountered the same thing 2 or 3 more times between 
> Unaka and Roan.  The only thing that I could figure . . . and this seems far 
> fetched . . . is that this was some type of weird prank to pull on hikers.  I 
> thought I was on Candid Camera or something!!  Does anybody have any better 
> ideas or information about this?

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