[pct-l] re:Trail Markers

[randy_forsland at hotmail.com (Randy Forsland)]

Here is a little piece of trail wisdom that was given to me several years 
ago and has proven to be quite useful.
If you find yourself at an unmarked 'Y' junction on the trail and you have 
exhausted all of your expertise with maps and such...always take the fork 
that goes uphill....

My experience has been that you will be correct at least 75% of the 
time...and in those cases where you are wrong...the trip back to the 
junction will be all downhill.

There is nothing more demoralizing that having to backtrack uphill..

This technique has served me well...

Redwood

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <calliger@infolane.com>
To: <kmurray@pol.net>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] re:Trail Markers


>I think a few very discret wooden or the deep rusted metal
> markers on the clearly indecisive trail junctions are ok..
> for example (there are much better but I can't think of them
> at the moment..)but you could spend a 1/2 day going off towards
> McLoughlin to the left instead of the PCT to the right
> because the map (at least then for me) did not have this
> junction nor was the azimuth definitive because the trails
> paralled each other for a bit...
>
> I found the little signs great moral boosters after being
> "lost" for a hour or so...
>
> R