Noun
A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
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The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon.
The path over which one has already traveled.
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They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the backtrail, perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air.
When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our backtrail.
Verb
To backtrack along a trail.
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If they didn't, they would then have to backtrail to try to pick it up
He reshouldered his rifle. "Want to backtrail with me?"
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I hoped Carson knew where he was going, because there was no room to backtrail here.