this is not how you flag a trail

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Chip Down
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this is not how you flag a trail

Post by Chip Down » July 16th, 2021, 4:38 pm

Two tips:

You should tie a ribbon to a tree. Do not cut a slit in a tree and wedge a length of ribbon into the slit.

On a trail flagged every five feet, there's no need to carve arrows into live trees.
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Re: this is not how you flag a trail

Post by leiavoia » July 16th, 2021, 5:17 pm

The arrow is just there in case you miss the ribbon.

It still needs a cairn at the bottom, regardless.

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Re: this is not how you flag a trail

Post by Bosterson » July 16th, 2021, 5:21 pm

I think you should cut that tree down and build a stockade and then find the person who did that and put them in it. :geek:
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Re: this is not how you flag a trail

Post by Waffle Stomper » July 18th, 2021, 9:22 am

That's crazy. :shock: :evil:
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Re: this is not how you flag a trail

Post by Aimless » July 18th, 2021, 9:53 am

This is what happens when someone learns "woodcraft" from books and youtube videos made by survivalists. I expect the perpetrator brought his K-Bar knife and some MREs.

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Re: this is not how you flag a trail

Post by BigBear » July 18th, 2021, 2:46 pm

I'm thinking there's a pot farm at the end of that flagged trail and one of its best customers marked the trees. Truthfully, you have to be somewhat incapacitated to need that many visual ques.

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