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[pct-l] more about blazing
- Subject: [pct-l] more about blazing
- From: metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)
- Date: Fri Oct 21 12:54:38 2005
Yogi Wrote:
that gives you the right to judge others for doing something different. If
you believe, that somehow makes you better.
Thank you Yogi!
I love it!
This ought to stomp out some contraversy............
(And you're right, it does make me feel better! :-) )
Warner Springs Monty
> [Original Message]
> From: yogi <yogihikes@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 10/21/2005 9:22:06 AM
> Subject: [pct-l] more about blazing
>
> more about blazing:
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> WHITE BLAZING: The Appalachian Trail is very well-marked with 2" x 6"
white blazes of paint on trees, rocks, road signs, etc.
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> BLUE BLAZING: Trails that intersect the AT are blazed with blue paint.
These trails might go to shelters, they might go around a hill while the AT
goes over the hill, they might go to a waterfall while the AT avoids it.
In this respect, the Eagle Creek Trail on the PCT could be considered a
blue-blaze trail.
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> YELLOW BLAZING: Riding in a car. This interrupts a continuous hike.
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> AQUA BLAZING: Riding in a boat.
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> I've heard of more types of blazing, but these are the major ones. It's
an AT thing. Sort of like religion --- by designating yourself as a white
blazer, that gives you the right to judge others for doing something
different. If you believe, that somehow makes you better. The whole
concept makes me nuts.
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> But then, that's just my biased opinion.
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> Did I see all the white blazes on the AT? Yep. But I don't care if
someone else did/didn't. Make your hike your own, then tell the truth when
someone asks if you hiked the whole trail.
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> I'll never see every step of the PCT because I just can't bring myself to
miss Eagle Creek.
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> yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
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> yogi <yogihikes@sbcglobal.net> wrote:no, no, no.
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> yellow-blazing is riding in a car.
> it's a bad thing.
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> yellow blazing does NOT refer to walking.
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> yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
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> StoneDancer1@aol.com wrote:
> So, as I understand it... Yellow Blazing could either be "accomplished"
by
> walking or hitching on a road and skipping a section of trail, or by
hitching
> when the road *is* the trail.
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> Someone mentioned Eric Ryback's supposed indiscretions. I recently
re-read
> the book. He talks about going through Rockhouse Basin ( Just south of
> Kennedy Meadows ) in the afternoon and spending that night in
Tehachapi... some
> 150 miles south. Eat your heart out, David Horton. :C)
>
> "No Way Ray" Echols
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