RE: Mines 8 (!)

You wrote: 
>
>Now that I think about it having lanes marked was SOP for our mine
>fields.  Obviously it wouldn't be marked until right before it was
>needed.  If I remember correctly there was usually a dog leg in it.
>
>Is this something not practised by Americans?

Yes it is.  With barbed wire fences and signs to indicate the lane.  
What I was objecting to was doing this unmarked (ie hidden on the 
board)	That would terrify me.

John M. Atkinson