pack-trail†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trail used by pack-trains.

Quotations

1858

There is a pack-trail from Hope, but it cannot be travelled till the snow is off the mountains.

1921

In making packtrails through the country all these marshy spots have to be bridged with corduroy. . . .

1965

Along the pack trail we met trappers coming out of the bush . . . with their winter's catch of furs.