Who Needs Trail Markers Anyway?
Berries And Flowers
This weekend, since the weather was so nice, my friends and I decided to go out to one of local town parks that has a bunch of trails in the woods. We were out there once before earlier in the year but the trails weren’t really marked at all and we ended up getting a little lost in the woods.
This time though, we went out earlier in the day in case we did end up getting lost. Which we did, but not as bad as before.
First of all, we really had no idea where the official trail entrance is. We wandered around a bit until we located the path we took to get on the first time with the intention of only following the marked paths and making as few turns as possible. Despite this method, on our way back, we ended up crossing a bridge that we hadn’t crossed on our way going. You would figure that you couldn’t mess up just walking straight back, but…there we were.
But thankfully, we were on a “marked” trail. I put marked in quotation marks because this is what the town considers to be a marked trail:
Trail Marker
You see the paint on that tree trunk there? Yeah, those are the trail markers. Usually these are invisible if you’re walking the trail in the wrong direction, or just plain hard to spot like this one.
Eventually we stumbled onto a wood marker post which pointed the direction back to the main foot path and we ended up getting out of the system without too much trouble. But man…we had hoped that they would have done some trail maintenance since the first time we went there. Obviously this was not the case. It was good to get outside though. The weather was really really nice.
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