Re: [SPAM]RE: [Grand_Canyon_Hikers] signs ...
I've used the word "duck" for many decades, always thinking that a duck was just a small cairn. To me a duck is about 3 rocks stacked one on top of the...
Bob Bordasch 2009-07-31 11:01:10 #56824
Re: [SPAM]RE: [Grand_Canyon_Hikers] signs ...
So, I ignorantly once again ask, what is the difference between a carin and a duck? I know many of you have written about the number of rocks used, how they...
Becky Ryder 2009-07-31 10:27:33 #56823
Re: cairns
In recent times I've seen these "type e" cairns in the bed of the Royal Arch
drainage when they're really only necessary at the exits and bypasses. Most
of...
Peter Borremans 2009-07-31 10:25:05 #56822
Re: cairns
A friend recently took me on a hike in the Sedona area. It was a well trodden trail and every so often there were these strange mounds of rocks enclosed in...
Bessie Hyde 2009-07-31 10:19:24 #56821
Re: cairns
Doug,
I might have seen some of those cairns a few years back. I left them intact, thinking (right or wrong) that someone was marking one of the many...
hikrphred 2009-07-31 09:48:31 #56820
Re: cairns
I've been out to the Battleship a number of times, and I've seen cairns
(or ducks) all over the slopes on the way out. Then on the way back I
usually find...
Hank Schnieder 2009-07-31 09:40:26 #56819
Re: cairns
A similar example was a series of cairns in the streambed going up to
Cheyava Falls which I was knocking down each as I passed. I would say
that truly...
Doug Nering 2009-07-31 09:10:21 #56818
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