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That's interesting. A lot of the areas I backpack in used to have roads and vehicles.
It is interesting some of them that I have hiked in for over 20 years how nature has taken back over and a lot of them in places you can't even tell there WAS a road. This is mainly in the stream ones where the flooding washes out the road.
2 summers ago I was down the North Fork of Cranberry trail. I had last hiked it in 1987. Blew me away how much it had changed. The one shocker was about a mile after it left the wilderness and became "back country" there was a huge liming facility built. It's a trout stream and they needed the PH to be right. However most of the trail was grown up in spruce and not civilized at all:thumbup:
It is interesting some of them that I have hiked in for over 20 years how nature has taken back over and a lot of them in places you can't even tell there WAS a road. This is mainly in the stream ones where the flooding washes out the road.
2 summers ago I was down the North Fork of Cranberry trail. I had last hiked it in 1987. Blew me away how much it had changed. The one shocker was about a mile after it left the wilderness and became "back country" there was a huge liming facility built. It's a trout stream and they needed the PH to be right. However most of the trail was grown up in spruce and not civilized at all:thumbup: