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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3443061" data-attributes="member: 7900">Interesting observation here, so allow me to &quot;set it up.&quot;Back when men were beginning to settle the west, they had a tendency to stop every few miles and watch their back trail.&nbsp; They did that for two reasons; to determine if they were being followed AND to be able to recognize landmarks that they had passed so that they could find their way back if necessary.That said:&nbsp; The Presidential Trail was marked with a sign pointing to our left, but I elected to go to the right.&nbsp; Doing so allowed me to get views of the figures that people traversing the trail &quot;in the right direction&quot; probably never even saw.&nbsp; However, and this is important, by taking the trail backwards, we did have to climb the 240 stair steps instead of being able to go down them.&nbsp; The 240 steps are NOT all together, so one could get a breather between sets of steps.&nbsp; Going backwards helped me see the Mountain Goat as well, but that was just being fortunate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 3443061, member: 7900"] Interesting observation here, so allow me to "set it up." Back when men were beginning to settle the west, they had a tendency to stop every few miles and watch their back trail. They did that for two reasons; to determine if they were being followed AND to be able to recognize landmarks that they had passed so that they could find their way back if necessary. That said: The Presidential Trail was marked with a sign pointing to our left, but I elected to go to the right. Doing so allowed me to get views of the figures that people traversing the trail "in the right direction" probably never even saw. However, and this is important, by taking the trail backwards, we did have to [U]climb[/U] the 240 stair steps instead of being able to go [U]down[/U] them. The 240 steps are NOT all together, so one could get a breather between sets of steps. Going backwards helped me see the Mountain Goat as well, but that was just being fortunate. [/QUOTE]

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