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Thank you all who maintain the trails.

In August 2022 I saw people in principle blazing either the Kilkenny Ridge Trail or the Unknown Pond Trail near Unknown Pond. They were actually talking to another hiker. So another datapoint saying that blazing does happen in the whites.

Actually the main rain forest "trails" in Puerto Rico (I forget the name of the park) are paved. I asked a ranger there and he said that there was enough foot traffic that paving was the only way it could maintained properly. I have spent most of the last 2 summers hiking the Maine 4000 foot...

Monadnock has a lot of blazes and route information painted on rocks, although the junction markings on the White Dot and the Red Spot for Smith Connecting trail extension have had obliteration attempts. But that is not WMNF, and some say is the 2nd most climbed mountain in the world, so...

Regarding billing for the not-actual cardiac arrest medivac - someone has to pay the pilot, fuel and helicopter maintenance. The solution we have now is to bill the "patient".

My anecdotal experience says that pretty much every good weather day in the summer and early fall someone climbs trap dike. In October 2022 when I hiked Mt Colden and exited by Avalanche Lake (yes the opposite of what "most" people seem to do; I wanted to do the main goal first and the second...

Or any human conversation without a topic-moderator.

What are you hoping to accomplish with these apps? I am just a trail user, but I like to read about and understand other people's trips and ideas.

in 1994 when I was 39 and staying at Putnam Camp, I did Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack, Blake and Colvin as a 12 hour day hike. I started at 9:30 after breakfast and a bus ride halfway up the road from St Huberts to the lower Ausable Lake. The stupid part was turning right for Blake at...

In the late 1960s or early 1970s I was taught that it was correct to build up cairns that appeared to need it. I believe that was what the people in the Highlands of Scotland, which I believe is the source of the word cairn, did to maintain their walking pathways. With the number of people and...