Places

Waypoints, check points. Call them whatever you want. Trail workers have come up with quite a few names for specific, sometimes strategic locations on Montreal and Uller Trails. They’ve found, when they’re broke down or someone is in need of help, having a waypoint near by helps locate the general location of where people should meet.

Perhaps, when there is some extra time, we’ll even get around to placing some signs out at these important or interesting sites. Places like ‘Ice Falls Bridge’, ‘the T’, ‘Midway Cutoff’, ‘The Hall of the Mountain King’, ‘NIxon Crossing’, ‘Big Bend’, ‘Fauerbach’s Climb’, ‘Mike Fauerbach Pause’, ‘rest creek’, ‘lunch creek’, ‘High Point’, ‘Finn Bridge’, ‘6oaks’, ‘the Switchback’, ‘the Pits’, ‘Troll Crossing’, ‘Porcupine Junction’, ‘Upper and Lower Deer Trail’, ‘Macht Grade’. Thank goodness we re-routed around ‘The Wall’ and the ‘Wall Spring’ that we never could conquer. Each location means something to those of us who find themselves out there in weather that can turn ugly, or with equipment that finds a way to break down.

Maybe signs will cheapen the aura of the site, but then perhaps one day a cell phone call will come in with someone in trouble just East of ‘Jenna’s Bridge’ and we’ll know almost exactly where to get to.

Lots of sign carving to do, eh?

Ski Freely, Z