Trail blazing, or trailblazing, is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with blazes, markings that follow each other at certain — though not necessarily exactly defined — distances and mark the direction of the trail. In older times, a tree could be blazed by hatchet chops, while today other methods have become more common, with environmental and aesthetic concerns sometimes playing a part in the choice of blazing method.
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“And Change with hurried hand has swept these scenes:
The woods have fallen, across the meadow-lot
The hunter’s trail and trap-path is forgot,
And fire has drunk the swamps of evergreens;
Yet for a moment let my fancy plant
These autumn hills again: the wild dove’s haunt,
The wild deer’s walk: in golden umbrage shut,”
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The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
“Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.””
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