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A couple of tips if you use the biodegradable (go
away) paint.
Exposure to full sun will cause it to fade within
several weeks, if it rains, quicker, but will hold for at least 10 days or so no
matter what. Good or bad, depending if you can mark some trail ahead or
need it gone soon.
If you are allowed to put it on trees, try not to
spray an "underslope", it will last thru the winter unless you scrape it off.
Not fun.
Flat rocks work really well and if land managers
want it gone quickly, just turn them over. (Turn it back next ride and
touch it up a bit <bg>) Dead branches can be sprayed and put across
the "wrong" trail, but may get moved. Gravel roadsides hold the paint
pretty good and just need to be kicked or raked over after. Try not to
paint right where the horses will travel.
Big leaf clumps or grass tufts hold the paint well
for a few days when there is nothing to tie ribbons to.
A. M. Leonard, a nursery/greenhouse supplier, has
the temporary paint as well as all kinds of ribbon at a fair price, bought from
them for years. Landscapers and surveyors often have both cheaper than
stores.
www.amleo.com
1-800-543-8955 If you ask for a catalog be sure and ask for the one
that has the ribbon, sales flyers don't always have it.
Have fun!
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