Three blazes indicates that the trail is forking in two different directions (as in a loop).

The trail forked on the opposite side, and Bolan took the left branch, almost immediately seeing that the trail started to climb ahead of him.

At the south end of the lake, the trail forked.

Puck pointed to the right-hand path, where the trail forked.

The trail forked and he paused, stark still for a moment, listening, thinking.

A short distance up ahead, the trail forked in two directions.

At one point, I took a break beneath the meager shade of pinyon pine where the trail forked east and south.

The trail forked suddenly, and Chantry drew up.

Presently, the two riders halted at a spot where the trail forked, and dismounted.

Later that day, Aliam seemed to wake up-he talked sense to us, and told us which way to go when the trail forked.