>>510516I hiked along the Navajo Nation's rainbow trail and got all the way to the other side of Rainbow Bridge natural arch. Without the cairns the natives put up for us, it would have been a lot more difficult to find certain parts of the trail. When they're used in a minimally invasive way and as a tool to mark a trail every now and then, cairns are fine. However, shit like
>>513909>>515907drives me up the fucking wall. It's legitimately destructive when people rip rocks from the ground, killing native plants, destroying erosion-resistant cryptobiotic soil, fungi, and entire micro-systems. Pic related. This goofy 6'4" neanderthal-looking fuck is one of my camping buddies. We found this thing near Zion NP and took it down before moving on.
>>511567>/pol/_goes_on_a_hike.reich 