Over the years there have been several passionate discussions about marking Moab slickrock sections of trails such as Rockstacker (other than the offical Slickrock trail) with paint. There are those in Moab that believe some other trail routing technique could be used, but it was never stated what it could be.
Now that the Green Dot and Blue Dot trails have been adopted into the system the new paint option is now YELLOW. The reason for this post is that in Sedona have a new slickrock trail and other short sections of trail that need either to be marked with paint to define the route or they need some other form of marking, which has never been defined.
Going from white dots (on the Slickrock trail) brown solid lines (on Rockstacker) to blue dots (on the Blue Dot trail) to green dots (on the old Green Dot trail) to now YELLOW dashes (on the new M7 trail) has been quite a process. Can anyone out there in the other land of Red Rock give me the logic behind now using yellow paint on the new once Green Dot now M7 trail.
These trail marking discussions with a government land manger is like hearding ants. What process was used in coming up with YELLOW dashes? Maybe it was as simple as drawing a slip of paper out of a hat with color names on them.
Now that YELLOW is the old Green Dot trail color will they be repainting the current Slickrock trail YELLOW. Please provide some insight as to how the color selection process might be reduced when bring up the topic with the land manager. Also how do you convince the public in general, who hate trails on slickrock, that paint is the best way to go.
Apparently someone decided that the environmental damage done by marking a trail with YELLOW paint is small enough that it is now considered acceptable by the land manager. I wonder if those guys with the portable battery operated paint removal tools will put up with the YELLOW paint, those guys can be a real pain.
They came down to Sedona and removed the black stenciled bear paw prints off the slickrock section of our beloved Hangover trail. Maybe if they were YELLOW bear paw prints it would have been ok. Someone went up and replaced the grey smudges of wire brushed off black bear paw prints with white translucent paint, which still remains.
Does this also mean all or some BLM land managers might have an addendum in their trail building manual that YELLOW paint is the paint of choice for slickrock trails, if so can someone email me a copy.
Thanks in advance for any insight that would be helpful in marking our new Sedona unmarked slickrock trail.
TD
Now that the Green Dot and Blue Dot trails have been adopted into the system the new paint option is now YELLOW. The reason for this post is that in Sedona have a new slickrock trail and other short sections of trail that need either to be marked with paint to define the route or they need some other form of marking, which has never been defined.
Going from white dots (on the Slickrock trail) brown solid lines (on Rockstacker) to blue dots (on the Blue Dot trail) to green dots (on the old Green Dot trail) to now YELLOW dashes (on the new M7 trail) has been quite a process. Can anyone out there in the other land of Red Rock give me the logic behind now using yellow paint on the new once Green Dot now M7 trail.
These trail marking discussions with a government land manger is like hearding ants. What process was used in coming up with YELLOW dashes? Maybe it was as simple as drawing a slip of paper out of a hat with color names on them.
Now that YELLOW is the old Green Dot trail color will they be repainting the current Slickrock trail YELLOW. Please provide some insight as to how the color selection process might be reduced when bring up the topic with the land manager. Also how do you convince the public in general, who hate trails on slickrock, that paint is the best way to go.
Apparently someone decided that the environmental damage done by marking a trail with YELLOW paint is small enough that it is now considered acceptable by the land manager. I wonder if those guys with the portable battery operated paint removal tools will put up with the YELLOW paint, those guys can be a real pain.
They came down to Sedona and removed the black stenciled bear paw prints off the slickrock section of our beloved Hangover trail. Maybe if they were YELLOW bear paw prints it would have been ok. Someone went up and replaced the grey smudges of wire brushed off black bear paw prints with white translucent paint, which still remains.
Does this also mean all or some BLM land managers might have an addendum in their trail building manual that YELLOW paint is the paint of choice for slickrock trails, if so can someone email me a copy.
Thanks in advance for any insight that would be helpful in marking our new Sedona unmarked slickrock trail.
TD