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Girl Hiker · Post by **Girl Hiker** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 2:51 pm

Same here Jeff. This is last year in the Eastern Sierras on my route to Dingleberry Lake. There were many sections were you had to navigate the correct route. A few areas had very few rocks in a line that were supposed to send you in the right direction.

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Post by **JeffH** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:00 pm

Sam Merrill trail just above the junction at Echo Mountain.

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Post by **HikeUp** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:58 pm

Jones Peak 2008-03-01:

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Post by **Sean** » Sun Jan 16, 2022 2:56 am

Echo Mtn. Jan. 14, 2022

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Post by **JeffH** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:40 pm

Claremont Hills Wilderness Park, seen on my weekly sunrise walk yesterday morning.

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Post by **Sean** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:17 pm

Did someone get lost on the fire road?

Post by **tekewin** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:45 am

Some better than others.

Orocopia Mountains High Point

Dome Rock, AZ

Bobcat Knob below Goodykoontz

Metal cairn? Probably not technically a cairn. Guadalupe Peak, TX

Los Pinos, OC

Peak 4403 below Mendenhall

Rocky Peak

Washington Monument (San Bernadinos)

Mount St. Helens

There is a huge rock cairn on Dawn's Peak in Anza-Borrego (peak 6582) but I haven't been there yet.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:37 pm

I found one on GRR.

It is not there anymore.

Post by **Uncle Rico** » Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:16 am

I suppose this can be characterized as a cairn. On the summit of Pine in 2013.

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Post by **JeffH** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:56 pm

Officially this is on Webb Canyon Road, the dirt part well behind the school after it branches off from Miller Ranch Road. There were more than 50 of these set up along the big uphill to the power tower, some significantly larger than others.

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Post by **Sean** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:30 am

You reminded me of the cairn builders on Mt. Fuji. In 2017 they had a few stacks up there. This was one of them.

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Post by **Uncle Rico** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:23 am

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Atop what I guess is Burbank Peak

Gene · Post by **Gene** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 4:26 pm

Alternate origin of Carins, the Fae:

Post by **HikeUp** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:08 pm

Taco is a Fae.

Post by **Taco** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:03 pm

HikeUp wrote: Taco is a Fae.

i put on a little dress and say disagreeable things on the internet

Post by **HikeUp** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:42 pm

It's what Faes do.

Post by **JeffH** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:56 pm

Looking for an older picture I stumbled across this one of New Army Pass.

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Post by **Sean** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:14 pm

You talkin' 'bout that massive cairn in the middle, or the small thing next to it?

Post by **JeffH** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 8:30 pm

Sean wrote: You talkin' 'bout that massive cairn in the middle, or the small thing next to it?

Not the giant rock, just the smaller rocks on top that were placed by humans.

Post by **Sean** » Tue May 10, 2022 12:15 pm

The Rubio Crew finished brushing the lower Old Echo Mountain trail on Saturday, then on Monday Cecelia and I came down it from the Sam Merrill. Between these two visits someone created a new cairn along the trail. It's a small, delicate thing that some animal will probably knock over with a powerful urination.

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Post by **JeffH** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:58 am

Along the John Muir Trail, north of the Palisade Lakes area. I don't know if it was to suggest going across on the tree or taking the actual trail to the right, I did the latter.

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Post by **Sean** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:31 am

We saw this orgy of cairns on the Pinnacles Trail in the San Bernardino NF.

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Post by **Sean** » Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:38 pm

Found this modest pile o' rocks on Islip Ridge. Nothing fancy. Just a good, old-fashioned cairn. Not too small, not too big, and probably completely unnecessary.

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Nate U · Post by **Nate U** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:00 pm

Sean wrote: Found this modest pile o' rocks on Islip Ridge. Nothing fancy. Just a good, old-fashioned cairn. Not too small, not too big, and probably completely unnecessary.

I think I know exactly why you have stacking rocks on the brain... ?

Post by **JeffH** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:20 am

Random trail junction at the top of a hill in Desolation Wilderness.

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Post by **JeffH** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:05 am

This was helpful for my circumnavigation of Lake Sabrina.

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Post by **JeffH** » Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:05 pm

Is this a cairn? Baden-Powell summit.
Related question - when did it grow? For years the elevation was 9399, now the signs both say 9407.

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David R · Post by **David R** » Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:57 pm

JeffH wrote: Is this a cairn? Baden-Powell summit.
Related question - when did it grow? For years the elevation was 9399, now the signs both say 9407.
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They use this for measurements now with more accuracy and the change was noted.
https://geodesy.noaa.gov/datums/vertica ... 1988.shtml

Post by **Sean** » Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:14 pm

JeffH wrote: Related question - when did it grow? For years the elevation was 9399, now the signs both say 9407.

Is this haunted peak actually stretching, or is it your imagination?

And I'm going to say "no" to the cairn, because it appears to be supported by the back of the tree trunk. A cairn should not have support walls.

jfr · Post by **jfr** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:36 am

They say that 10% of hikers kick over cairns, 10% build new cairns, and the other 80% leave them alone

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