hit the trail

Informal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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take to the trail; leave; depart.

Quotations

1898

It is now clearing so I must "mush on," hike or hit the trail, in hieroglyphist parlance.

1964

When the winter of 1898 set in, Kate Ryan acquired a sleigh dog team, and travelling alone hit the trail for Atlin by the old Teslin Trail.