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Rivers would work for north-south travel, but they also traveled east-west across mountains. Daniel Boone traveled through the Cumberland Gap to...

I turned 68 a few days ago. How many good years do I have left? I hope at least a couple. My plan is to make it to 75, then start to drink and smoke...

Didn't they mostly use the rivers? Settlement next to the river, hunting grounds in the nearby forest. I believe there were some well defined paths...

Well, hard to say, but I for one would not want to hike Vermont in early May. Even it it turns out to be a fairly dry spring. I'd suggest...

Due to COVID and other reasons, I didn’t hike at all in 2020 and I miss it and will be heading out shortly. The trail towns and shelters seem like...

During "Covid," I have not been here much. Rainman gave me much valued advise about 10 years ago on where to take my then 10 & 12 year old sons to...

I don't visit here much anymore so I am just now seeing this. I went to a few of his hiker dinners and get togethers in Nashville and a hang or two...

Saw it in the Hannaford down here outside Albany (NY) today, so they seem to have spread it through the chain. Right near the baked beans in our...

Maybe, if they never traveled to a particular place before. People hiking the AT for the first time follow the White blazes. Driving to a city you...

It could be drilled as opposed to a tube end meeting a tube with rounded sides ? Not really much bonding service area. That's why I'm thinking...

There are lots of long distance trails besides the AT (or the big 3). This may be the perfect year to explore them. I’m a bartender who has been...

"Trail marker trees" are a myth. Just weather damaged trees that city folks weren't equipped to understand. Do you really think Native people needed...

There is no way to know for sure if an unusually deformed tree, of the appropriate age, is a Native American marker tree, or if it was caused by...

I doubt if the longer tube got drilled. Both tubes seem to have identical diameters, so any drilling would cut the longer tube into half. Even if...

The one pole is probably drilled to allow it to go inside as far as it can and epoxied, and then you have the flared piece epoxied.. To make a...

Thanks. this material is just so lightweight. Will be interesting to see how it performs!

Thanks. If it was soldered, you would propably see a different color in the gap, but well, I doubt if Epoxy would have the strength in this case?...

I have/had the ZP Vertice rain jacket. Wearing a tee underneath I don't get bit on the forearms.

Here is one is another of the many pics I took. It appears one side of the T fitting was flared and epoxied and mated to the other part of the T. ...

Of course their hoping conditions improve and restrictions are removed sometime this spring. But considering things are getting worse and the vaccine...

Y’all can have the fish tacos. Leave more shrimp tacos for me! Wayne

Fascinating topic! Wish I had something to add. I will be following this thread.. Best of luck. Wonder if Tipi Walter has any info on this?

Not true, there are hundreds of the "marker trees" scattered across the nation. As far as the age of these trees, I'm an old man, I took these...

Numbers seemed slightly down from what I saw. Especially vs 2019 when they were first showing those. It does seem like very muddled messaging.

Yes that's right. Any of those that are less than approximately 180 years old are called descendent marker trees because they were formed / shaped by...

When I eat it, it reminds me of Guinness Beer. Might be good pairing;)

Very interesting topic! I have never heard of marker trees before but I do pay attention to trees with unusual shapes. Thanks for bringing up this...