OnlyCairns

[Uncle Rico]

I'm in that 10%.

Not saying which 10%. ?

[Sean]

Weird, I'm in all three categories, depending on the need for a cairn in a particular spot.

[HikeUp]

I don't notice the damn things.

So I'm in the 0% category.

[JeffH]

Wilderness Park in Claremont. This is next to the unofficial trail which used to have a marker - find a picture of that in the triangular markers thread. That's the fire road right below this stack.

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[JeffH]

Somewhere between Tujunga flagpole and Mt Lukens.

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[jfr]

I saw this NACA sticker on the back of the unmaintained Sawmill Pass Trail sign along the John Muir Trail, just south of Pinchot Pass and north of the Woods Creek Suspension Bridge. I was there a couple weeks ago.

This "trail" maintained by NACA

North American Cairn Association

False Sense of Hope

Confounding Competent Hikers Since 1928

All true!

Looks like we're nearing the centennial of the "organization"!
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[wesweswes]

I'm more of a cairn smasher myself

[AW~]

I dont know about smasher....but I did try to shot-put some stones recently.
https://www.alexstark.com/how-to/blog-p ... efr6-2x97w
So the chakra forms the non-dualist of the zen energy, but " If for any circumstance the cairn were to be abandoned, it is best to disassemble it and return the stones to Nature."..and thats from the highly paid experts.

https://rocksstonesdust.com/essays/hampton.html
"A cairn is a collection of stones, gathered and piled by humans. Cairns are early cartographical tools, acting as sign posts or marking borders, paths, landmarks, or graves. Some are built for the aesthetic or spiritual significance they hold in their own right. A cairn marks a human relationship with a particular landscape at a particular time. They are constituted by stones that are within walking distance of each other, often arriving through the same environmental system (whether tilled by the same glacier, broken from the same mantle or worn by the same river), sitting relatively sedentary until they are guided by human hands into a stack invested with some significance. They typically stay stacked until they are dispersed again by some other environmental factor, such as the rising of the tide. The cairn alluded to by Weiner is purposely disassembled and dispersed again to prevent its migration into a new environmental system. This intentional dispersion cairn may be just as ephemeral as it would have been were it pulled apart by tidal waters, but it leaves a poetic link between the stones intact. "

So yes, it leaves the poetic link in tact. And as a person who has look into this his entire life, he would know. "Hampton holds a Masters in Visual Studies – Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto. "

[HikeUp]

Beware the Cairn Terrier!!! Sasquatch's pet dog.

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The name 'Cairn Terrier' comes from cairns, where the terriers often flushed out vermin. Cairn Terriers are happy, busy little earthdogs originally bred to fearlessly root out foxes and other small, furred prey in the rocky Scottish countryside.

[AW~]

So this popped up...https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.c ... cked-down/
"NORTH ELBA — Eleven of 12 cairns atop Wright Peak were deliberately knocked down on Monday.....
They are built by professional trail crews and summit stewards and are designated by state Department of Environmental Conservation land managers for their specific spots, according to Kayla White, Adirondack Mountain Club’s Stewardship Director...
It’s unknown who knocked the structures over, and White said it’s probably impossible to know for sure what the motivation was — but it likely was one of two things: mischief or a misinformed and false belief that the cairns were unlawful alterations to the natural environment. White said it’s disappointing that someone caused such extensive damage possibly based on either malintent or misinformation....
If someone is unsure of whether a rock structure in the wild is permitted, they should reach out to ADK or the DEC, who will be able to assess that with certainty and, if it is unlawful, remove it responsibly. White added that all of ADK’s work above treeline is discussed with and pre-approved by the DEC."

Well...'NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) regulations that require archaeologists to determine whether cairns or stone mounds that are in the way of planned construction are historic or prehistoric.'...good luck with archaeologists agreement.
' Butler referred to a large stone cairn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which the Reverend John Sergeant saw with an Indian guide in 1734 (Butler,
1946: 3). He described the cairn as being “two cart loads” in size, and as Indians passed by the spot they would “throw astone to it.” Ezra Stiles, the future president of Yale, described the same cairn in 1762 and drew a sketch of it. Butler claimed that “Monument Mountain was destroyed in the 1840s,” but undoubtedly she was referring to the cairn, which according to some sources was “heavily vandalized” (Brown, 1958: 46-47).
The present cairn (FIGURE 1) is supposedly a replacement, but probably built on a core of stones of the original mound. '

In other words that historic view is considered garbage. Heres the original 'new 'cairn BTW before it is now rubble.....

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