Friday, October 1, 2010

Crazy Hikers

Naperville Now asks about the piles of stones that one sees along Fred's dad's walks up mountains.
These area called Cairns

Cairn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


cairn (carn in Irishcarnedd in Welshcàrn in Scots Gaelic) is a human-made pile of stones, often in conical form. They are usually found inuplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, or near waterways.

These craaazzzzy a** hikers, who do strange things like climb up mountains to see what's there?????? Huh? 
Easy answer. The top of the mountain. Duh.
But they leave strange things to show they were there to the next crazy a** hiker who also climbs up there to see 
what's there.





Wow. God Bless America!




Whaaa?


The wackiest of all


2 comments:

  1. Naperville Now says thank you for the awesome cairn display. Trying desperately to think of something clever (I haven't a cairn in the world?) but will certainly offer brewskis to all yall when you get back home.

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  2. Thank you for the explanation. I had a roommate in college name Cairn and then there was Cairn Carpenter, and OK the horror movie lady Cairn Black, just to name a few!

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