Today I walked 3 hours to see this.
Posted Aug 2, 2014, 8:37 AM UTC
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Today I browsed 10 minutes to see this.
God i hate having to study in the summer.
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I have to study too. It's like a tax for stupidity and/or laziness through the semester -.-
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Yea, same here. I'll be coming to Slovenia in a month though :D
Any tips on what to see, allready got Bled planned, anything else?
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Depends, how long are you planning to stay here?
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We (me and some friends) will be there for 2 weeks. We don't have a car so we'll need to take busses/trains. Is that doable?
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Can someone explain these things to me? I am an avid outdoorsman but when I see the stacked rocks, it makes me think that humans just have to leave their mark/ego on nature. Please tell me if I am misreading these!
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Avid backpacker here. I think the same. Cairns are useful for trail marking but, yes, some people just want to rearrange the natutal state and are oblivious that they are screwing it up for others.
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Oh no, some people are stacking up small rocks. Hang them!
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This is so true. Actually it didn't detract from the beauty of this river as these 'cairns' are unique in the area, I personally have never come across this before in my outdoor travels so it was kind of interesting to find.
Random fact: Cairns is the name of a city in northern Queensland where travellers depart for the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding islands. Another beautiful part of the world.
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I think people arent getting mad about DAMAGE being done to the environment, but you walk 2 hours in the forest to discover nature and still you see humans rearranging it. If you look in the background of that pic there are a bunch of other stacks. It looks retarded
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https://lnt.org/blog/leave-no-trace-brings-partners-together-protect-cairns-northeast
tl;dr: They are for marking trails, if you find them don't touch or alter them, and do not make your own just for fun.
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I definitely understand that. But I feel they no longer represent trail marking and are more of a anonymous type of graffiti tagging. Are there 25 trails that need marked in the photo?
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Exactly, they are meant to/should be used only for trail marking, but like you said people just want to leave their mark.
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Normally used to mark a trail. Ideally, it'll be setup where you can see it clearly from a distance to help guide you. The ones in this pic don't seem to serve much purpose tho.
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I always thought the idea was that human use of trails up hills and stuff added to erosion, so carrying a pebble from bottom to top was some sort of gesture against that. Granted I have no idea where I got that from.
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Cairns always remind me of that part in Valhalla Rising.
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It's not about the destination as it is about the journey :)
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Damn, that really sucks. I hate it when people feel the need to alter nature for no reason. I hope you knocked them down.
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Some cairns carry religious significance, and mark personal shrine, prayer, or devotion.
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I absolutely agree. They are hideous, like physical graffiti, made by stereotypical, disrespectful tourists. I especially hate them at ancient ruins or historical sites. I did my best to destroy all of them in Petra last August. They should be used as trail markers only, and only ONE small one, not a whole shit pile like in OP's pic.
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We saw a ton of them next to a river stream in Stechelberg, Switzerland. It's the bottom of a valley, in a town, with obvious signs for all hiking. We had no idea what they were at the time and now that I know, I wish we had knocked them down.
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I've only seen them in locations where it was apparent that the stream would wash them away in a trivially small amount of time. I don't see this as any infringement on nature at all.
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The ones piled next to the stream were above water level and definitely in no danger of being washed away :-/
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Too bad
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http://i.imgur.com/kSs5cno.jpg
Feel for you...
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Trail markers?
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what a waste of time it was
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For all you United States' folks out there, this looks exactly like Buddha Beach in Sedona, Arizona.
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And I just got to lay in my bed to see it! Score!
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if I was in your pants and knew that there is such a beautiful view, I'd walk days to see it. that is really beautiful.
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If it were in louisisna, some asshole would have knocked it all down and spray painted their gang's tag on it
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Looks very peaceful. But also a bit Blair Witch
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mirror lake?
edit nope but simmilar
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Wow! Great shot. This must have been a fantastic moment for you and your SO!
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I thank OP for sharing original content -- and for introducing me to a new spot I'd like to visit -- but from a photography standpoint, that is not a great shot. The composition, exposure and color balance are all off. I wish, sometimes, that the travel subreddits would distinguish between photos of nice places and nice photos.
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The reflection in the water looks like Angkor Wat reflected in the lake in front of it.
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My brother and I actually stack and balance rocks. Here's a shot from today. We walked down this entire river bed doing them. The one is the front is my brothers, it had to be at least 50 pounds, if not more. For the rock kicking madbros in the comments here, they will just fall down when the river rises, really anytime now. No big deal.
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Sorry everyone. This is at Mount warning, New South Wales' Australia. The walk is said to take 4-5 hours. It took my SO and I two hours up and an hour down. We were so pooped we took no pics on the way up.... In fact my partner joked he thought about faking a sprained ankle half way up.... It was painful. This pic is at the bottom. The locals of Murwillumbah have been building these little rock formations for years, at least since I visited about 4 years ago. Very beautiful part of the world.
Edit: an important fact
Just a heads up, Mount Warning is in New South Wales.
Interestingly, Mt Warning is the first part of Australia that is touched by sunlight every morning. This makes it a popular climb, especially on New Year's Day.
Unfortunately when I did the climb at the start of this year it was cloudy at the peak :( still worth it though.
Haha yep. You beat me to my edit. :)
I know it took four years to make all of that, but deep down inside, some voice is telling me to kick it. ^I'm ^horrible.
It's pretty cool, but I doubt it took four years to make.
theyve been making them for 4 years repeatedly, not spending 4 years working on them.
This photo reminded me of a spot on a river in the middle of nowhere in British Columbia, where people have been making piles of rocks exactly like in your photo. Unfortunately I don't have any photos to share, last time I was on that side of the contienent was many years ago.
Hikers all over the world build these little piles of rocks. I've seen them in Hawaii, the Appalachians, Quebec, BC and France.
Well there's lots of inukshuks everywhere.
I didn't notice the other stacks of stones and thought to myself why that would take years to build haha
You walked up there today 4 years ago? Or did you visit it again today after being there 4 years ago?
Well technically it was now yesterday that we went, and I also made the trek around 4 years ago. There were only around 10 odd stacks then...
Join us on r/hiking Not too many locals around :)
I knew I had seen these before. I went up Mount Warning a few years ago (damn, that last climb) and I saw all these on the drive to the start of the walk. They have obviously been there for a while. It was quite eerie, like something out of the blair witch project.
I used to live in Uki and my brother and I would make these!
A local!! Yes, this is why I thought it was awesome. It reminds me of childhood... Making something little but remembering it forever. Whilst some commentators say it's destroying nature, I tend to disagree. There's no denying people are there everyday, it's a special place, I'd rather see the rocks formed into something unique rather than taken or thrown around. It takes time and focus, and a bit of each person went into each one I like to think.
These look like Buddhist prayers.
Have done this walk with my family as a kid many times.. never took us more than 2.5hrs up or down. Its worth the view though.
On my first trip we were much quicker but like I said, my partner wasn't so happy on the way up... He actually thought about quitting half way... Needless to say he's not a fan of hiking. The estimate of 4-5 hours is written all over the info boards at the start of the walk.
Did you want him to tell ypu he was out looking for the Blair Witch?