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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.

Sam Merrill trail just above the junction at Echo Mountain.

Jones Peak 2008-03-01:

Echo Mtn. Jan. 14, 2022

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

Did someone get lost on the fire road?

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.

I found one on GRR.

It is not there anymore.

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

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.

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

Atop what I guess is Burbank Peak

Alternate origin of Carins, the Fae:

Taco is a Fae.

HikeUp wrote: ↑Taco is a Fae.

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

It's what Faes do.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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... ?

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

This was helpful for my circumnavigation of Lake Sabrina.

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.

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

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.

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