>>2462885>Trails are there to minimize impact to the surrounding area ya dingusNo, they're there because deer made them, Navajo and Sioux widened them, and then European settlers started using them as well.
New sections and stretches may have been blazed later, but virtually all American trails rest on these pillars.
They do, however, serve the purpose you state, incidentally in modern times.
>>2462906>It's a research team, you stupid fuck.Even OP could tell he was looking at a bunch of nerds, and also this thread is obvious bait.
