'Blazing a trail?'...I'm not sure we will be!

The article below appeared in our local paper this week, under a headline that, whilst incorporating the word "trail", is not totally accurate.

The saying, 'To blaze a trail' means someone "...forging ahead and clearing a path for others", which would tend to lead towards imagining blaze to mean burn, in the same way. Another allusion might be to someone charging ahead with such vigour that they leave a smoldering trail in their wake.

  

For a number of reasons, the above analogies are inaccurate.

1. We are starting at 8:30am and expect there to be a few hundred walkers ahead of us at any given point, and 
2. We are not Gurkhas, and 
3. I'm not sure that I've ever been full of vigor...ever!, and
4. Having been stopped by the police last Sunday morning, see Questioned by Brighton Police on early morning walk - we don't want any rumours being spread about us potentially setting fire to anything!

That being said, I suppose that the headline "Four blokes slowly follow a lot of other people on a long walk, doing nothing illegal whatsoever", would possibly not have fit in the limited number of 'column inches' available.