>>1569041We I live In Canada we don't make cairns. Closest thing we do to cairn around here is inukshuk; however, the use is now purely aesthetic. Inukshuk usually would be at confusing forks, good campsites, vistas. and trail ends. Now they're just everywhere and mean nothing so I don't even bother to kick them now. Before inukshuk were used in this region, trails were marked broken supplies mostly. Stuff like burn out pans, split axe heads rammed in a tree with arrows scratched in it, and tree marks in between. Stuff like that Now you hardly find a tree mark but someone is still doing the rock carvings with arrows in them and I give props to whoever is doing that here as they use a big piece of ledge partially embedded in the ground so people don't turn it around. They also put a happy face on the back, probably just to know if the arrow has been moved.
