I would like to talk to someone who has hiked the CDT trail in Wyomming. I would like to hike the Great Basin in June and want to know how well the trail is marked. Susie
susie Burns
Great Basin, Wyomming
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#2
It is marked well but, there are issues. I suggest you use a good map and keep an eye on your distance traveled. When you find yourself at key intersections and do not see a marker, look for it on the ground. It may just be there, broken at the base (run over by vehicles or pushed over by the wind).
Have fun and good luck, it is beautiful. WB
WB
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#3
WB - you forgot the cows. The markers in the Basin are Carsonite posts - and cows (and other livestock/wildlife) love to use them to scratch. So they don’t last long.
Jim Owen
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#4
Jim… too true. It seems the critters do the same thing all along the trail. Way down south in New Mexico, the trail is marked in places with fence posts, another great “Back Scratcher” (ha).
WB
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#5
The other issue is ticks. They were horrible in July last year, but you might be all right in June. Probably won’t be very hot. When we went through it was close to 100 degrees. Love those cows!
Robocop
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#6
how can cows (or other animals) use carsonite posts to scratch themselves? They’re pretty wobbly… I know cows are pretty dumb, and will do lots of futile & stupid things, but it would seem this wouldn’t work at all…
jonathan
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#7
This calls for a controlled experiment!
What we’ll need:
Cows
Fenced enclosure
Several carsonite posts
Several representative soil types
Surveillance cameras
Something to make the cows itchy - how about ragg wool?
blisterfree
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#8
C’mon Trailforums code monkeys - gimme some line breaks, will ya?
Cows…
Fenced enclosure…
Several carsonite posts…
Several representative soil types…
Surveillance cameras…
Something to make the cows itchy - how about ragg wool?
blisterfree