"And so we walked. We walked up mountains and through high forgotten hollows, along lonesome ridges with long views of more ridges, over grassy balds and down rocky, twisting, jarring descents, and through mile after endless mile of dark, deep, silent woods, on a wandering trail eighteen inches wide and marked with rectangular white blazes (two inches wide, six long) slapped at intervals on the grey-barked trees. Walking is what we did." Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
All along the trail trees are marked with white paint. These markings help hikers make sure they are on the AT. Jack said that when they went through the open fields that instead of trees there are poles lined up very close together to take you across. He wasn't sure why this was necessary until he went through one when the fog was heavy. He said if he didn't have the poles to look at he would have been totally lost.
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