• halferect@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As someone who goes deep into national Forrest they are absolutely used as a trail markers, you may not like it but it’s a fact of life and better than putting a wooden sign up. And we are talking deep country not well beaten paths that are day hikes

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      Obviously I don’t kick down actual cairns.

      I’ve done more summits than likely anyone else in this thread and there are hardly ever any functionally useful cairns though. Most are just vandalism. Same with painting rocks, or carving your name into a tree, etc etc.