Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Trail Marking using paint

I can't get past the image of someone combining the "marking trail with
paint" and the recent "carrying a gun" issue and coming up with "Marking
your trails with a paint ball gun".  At a fast trot you could also consider
it a training ride.

Linda


> At 12:09 PM -0400 9/4/02, Deanna German wrote:
> >
> >I've seen a few references to using paint to mark trail -- biodegradeable
> >and/or chalk-based. I'm REALLY interested in this and need more info.
Brand
> >names? Where to buy?
>
> I bought mine from a surveyor supply company over the net, last year.
> Got my ride ribbon from Gemplers this year and they may have the
> paint too, their catalog is huge.  It's meant to be sprayed upside
> down, doesn't get on your hands.  I have a sprayer for these big cans
> with a trigger so it can be sprayed from horseback, but didn't really
> use it.
>
> >
> >I need to contact the park offices soon and find out what they will or
won't
> >let us use and want to have all of my ducks in a row before I call. This
is
> >the same park office that objects to volunteers doing anything other than
> >basic trail maintenance with clippers or pruners, but then goes in with a
> >bulldozer, indiscriminantly tearing down trees and backfilling over
culverts
> >with clay soil. (doh!) Good thing our volunteers put in three new
bridges,
> >brush-hogged around bogs and boggy trail and fixed another bridge before
> >they were told not to drive their equipment into the park.... yes, it is
> >easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
>
> We buy (expensive) boxes of diatomaceous earth--the stuff used in
> swimming pool filters.  This stuff has some weight to it and doesn't
> blow around much.  We have a daily breeze that is a factor, every
> afternoon.  The DE is not offensive to the environment except it can
> do a number on ants.  We use it to do arrows and Jim's infamous "12
> dots".
>
> >
> >So I need some time to convince them that our intentions are pure and
that
> >we are not trying to add permanant markings.
> >
> >(And, yes, we are working with the park to try and convince them that the
> >same trail maintenance techniques that work for snowmobile, hiking and
> >cross-country skiing trails don't necessarily work for horse trails!)
> >
> >Deanna (lacking both a really tall horse or a horse that will allow me to
> >stand in the stirrups long enough to tie or clip something to a tree)
>
> We have bought the heavy duty senior citizens jar/etc. grabbers, with
> rubber tips--the heavy duty ones hold up well, and can be used either
> to place clothespins or to grab branches.
>
> With the Arundo, pulling a branch down isn't always a good idea.
> Remind the riders to look up if you mark above.  We tie our ribbons
> on, ever since the first (or second?) year when the clothespins were
> stolen and the ribbons dropped on the ground.  We didn't begrudge
> them the clothespins, but wanted our ribbons to stay in place.  There
> are homeless living in the riverbed in certain places.
>
> We also have an Arundo eradification project going on, with state
> money.  Our 50 milers couldn't have helped but notice the large
> patches where it has been removed.  Cottonwood and other natural
> riverine species will fill in, if they keep after it.  It grows back
> really quickly, which is why trails that we trimmed 3 weeks before
> the ride may not be ideal by ride time.
>
> Lynne
>
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