What was your reaction the first time you saw the trailhead at Springer or Katahdin?
Your first white blaze?
After 30+ years of dreaming, planning and wishing. I finally set foot on Springer at 10 AM 3/15/97, my first reaction was to cry. Not a heart wrenching sob, but quiet tears of joy. I then found the register & wrote something in it, have no idea what I wrote. I had walked to the trailhead from FS 42 trying to not look at the blazes, so that when I got to the marker the first blaze I saw was the first one on Springer, it was a magical moment, and to this day I still feel a special magic when I pass a white blaze, I even have a few photos of them. There are times I am quite happy to see a blue blaze, but nothing matches the feeling of passing yet another white blaze. I have mixed reactions to shelters, sometimes I’m happy to see them, some times not, but I’m always happy to see a privy
Doctari.