Does anyone else find these annoying when not used to mark an important location? Seems like every popular hiking trail has an unnatural abundance of them; clusters of them in many cases.
I'm sure most of them are built by well meaning artistic folk waiting for their fellow hikers to catch their breath or finish a snack. I think it's only slightly more sophisticated than a dog taking a leak every 100 yards on it's walk.
I am thinking about returning to Katahdin to make some more photos of the tablelands and most of the pictures I find online of it have a cairn in them. I'm not really going for that look. Many of them are probably trail markers, but probably less than half.
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