Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Blazes Like the A.T. Blazes

Liberty University has cut down trees and moved rock on the side of a mountain there in Lynchburg in order to decorate the bare spot with the university's monogram as an advertisement of the school's presence.

One of the university's news releases about the project, titled "Final touches on monogram gazebo complete" and written by Dave Thompson, includes the notion that the various "many miles of new trails" that are "wide, well-built and excellent for hiking or mountain biking" will be marked "in a format similar to the markings on the Appalachian Trail."

Actually, given what they've done to the side of the mountain, I think they've long since passed the point of marking anything in a similar manner to the Trail.

Good luck on that mountain biking, too.

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