RE: What trail markers to get???
There are a couple of products on the market that I liked better than tacks. I have used "Night Guide" which is a gel in a squeeze bottle. Now they also have "night eyes" in a bottle. I like that because it blended in with the bark and to the casual observer he wouldn't even know it was there. You had to hold the flashlight up beside your eye to make it reflect back at you - so if someone else was moving around with the light held in the normal way they won't pick up the light. I used 1 dot to mark going in and put 2 dots of it on the back of the tree for when I came out after dark. Could also put in an "arrow" to indicate turns. It would last all season. About the only time it failed was when we had a real heavy snow the night before, and it hung on the branches, and took down everything under 3". Even then between the Night Guide and a compass I was able to find the stand.