>>1464723I mean, in some way, Kayleigh is right, you know?
Originally, those cairns where meant to mark a path that's not traveled that much that a visible path develops, so you use those for orientation.
And here in the alps, they are still used for that purpose for some scrambles to some unimportant peaks, and yes, they do indeed sometimes mark the start of a climb. But not int the
>oh, there's a cairn, so there must be some rockclimbing herebut rather,
>guidebook says, "look for the cairn marking the start of the first pitch"so you already know about those dangerous climbs to start with.
Luckily, it's not that much of an epidemic over here, so I don't have a strong opinion about cairns, but yeah, kicking them down might be a dick move. But building "fake" ones is too, so whatever.
Pic related, path marked by some cairns.
