I have never seen the start or end trail blazes either. The left and right blazes are usually one over the other and you have to figure out if it means left or right. This confirmed a lot for me ... thank you.
great video. seeing all that green makes me wish it was summertime. little cold and snowy here where I live. I hope you don't mind but I'm gonna post this on my Facebook page that's okay.
I really enjoyed your video. The very first time I went hiking, by myself, I ended up getting lost for over 4 hrs because I didn't know what marker even where.
I know they're out west here, too, but I haven't seen any. Not really surprising though as I do a lot of off trail or remote trails. It's still good to know these things. Thanks Jim.
You mentioned that you use a compass ! You should do a video on the kind you have and how to use it and what you like or dislike about it. Alot of people don't know what kind to get. Just a thought ! Good informative video ! Thanks
Same terrain but not in this area. The Florida trail runs 20 miles south of this location heading west then north west but you are correct about Orange blazes for the Florida trail.
Volunteers working in Harriman State Park in the 1930s for the newly-formed New York - New Jersey Trail Conference developed a system whereby a vertically stacked pair of blazes, with the upper one generally offset in the direction that the trail turns; a triangular pattern of blazes would indicate a terminus, its point up or down depending on whether that was the beginning or the end. These began to be used elsewhere and are now fairly common throughout North America:
I have never seen the start or end trail blazes either. The left and right blazes are usually one over the other and you have to figure out if it means left or right. This confirmed a lot for me ... thank you.
Excellent video and thank-you very much. Learned quite a lot. Be safe!
Thanks for the tutorial! I haven't seen any blazes in our neck of the woods yet.
great video. seeing all that green makes me wish it was summertime. little cold and snowy here where I live. I hope you don't mind but I'm gonna post this on my Facebook page that's okay.
I really enjoyed your video. The very first time I went hiking, by myself, I ended up getting lost for over 4 hrs because I didn't know what marker even where.
I know they're out west here, too, but I haven't seen any. Not really surprising though as I do a lot of off trail or remote trails. It's still good to know these things. Thanks Jim.
Thanks, I learned something new!
You mentioned that you use a compass ! You should do a video on the kind you have and how to use it and what you like or dislike about it. Alot of people don't know what kind to get. Just a thought ! Good informative video ! Thanks
Good information! I hope they are all the same in the northeast around NY/NJ/PA where I am going to do lots of hiking this year. Thanks for the post!
Excellent video for the new hikers Jim.
Well done.! Excellent information and advice.
Thanks for posting this Jim. good info. some of which I did not know! Take Care
thanks for sharing the advice and the video.
Nice job on the vid. This holds true even on the AT since it passes through many parks and even unmapped access routes.
Thanks for the informational video.
RE: Orange Blazes
Were these for the Florida Trail? The terrain leads me to believe they were...
God Bless!
Same terrain but not in this area. The Florida trail runs 20 miles south of this location heading west then north west but you are correct about Orange blazes for the Florida trail.
Really nice video , good information , enjoyed watching
thanks for the info. very informative.
Thanks for the video, I've not seen trails marked this way before - how much of a standard do you think this is?
... quite interesting. I don't think we have a system like that here.
Great overview, I find they the blazes or markers they call them over here are just not done right.
Volunteers working in Harriman State Park in the 1930s for the newly-formed New York - New Jersey Trail Conference developed a system whereby a vertically stacked pair of blazes, with the upper one generally offset in the direction that the trail turns; a triangular pattern of blazes would indicate a terminus, its point up or down depending on whether that was the beginning or the end. These began to be used elsewhere and are now fairly common throughout North America:
@ez2curanut Yes there is. Some may be hiking the other direction
Instead of cryptic paint, why not put up a sign with labels and arrows?
Animals, wind and weather can destroy signs and arrows.