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"So I'm assuming that the white blaze and blue blaze terminology also comes from the Appalachian Trail?"

Yes. But there's a lot of cross-over in terminology between the trails. If you're interested, here's one source of long distance culture
trail terms and slang. It's a bit AT-centric, but some of those terms are used elsewhere too, such as NERO, NoBo, PUDS, Trail Magic, Vitamin I, Yogi-ing, etc etc.
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Brian Lewis
http://postholer.com/brianle