[at-l] Trail relo

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Some trails in Florida (side trails off the FT) are blazed white.  There's also a white lichen that grows on trees here; that makes it difficult to distinguish lichen from blaze at a distance.  So I feel your pain with yellow blazes and yellow leaves.

Your disorientation at doing the same trail in an opposite way is why I don't object to yo-yo hikes.  Somehow I always see things on the return that I totally missed on the way out.

Joan






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From: Mike Cunningham <hikermiker at yahoo.com>
To: Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com>; Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
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I have gotten disoriented twice on familiar trails.
 
Both were loops. On one I had always done it clockwise & so decided to do it the opposite way. It was then that I discovered it had only been blazed in one direction.
 
On the other I had not done it in a while & since all of the leaves had turned yellow, it was tough to follow the yellow blazes.
 
hm

--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] Trail relo
To: "Tom McGinnis" <sloetoe at yahoo.com>
Cc: at-L at backcountry.net
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 2:27 PM


I've actually been disoriented by the change of seasons on trails I know. Sometimes it is amazing how much different things can look after the leaves fall. Even with no relocations of the trail it can look like an entirely different place.

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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:

### I'd go much further, so far as to substitute "violated" for "disoriented" -- I think this is the nature of objection when big changes come to specific hills, dips, even trees and brooks, when we have come to regard these (micro-!)landmarks as stable and stabilizing... A thought, anyways.

ivegrowntallerforwalkingwiththetreestoe




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