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Chasm Lake Trail @ Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2016
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Other cairns are built so massively, it's easy to imagine them still standing here in 200 years (or 2000) -- unchanged. There's no practical way to date these, and time is meaningless to stones as old as the mountains.
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Spooky Gulch Trail, Escalante, Utah 2015
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Humans have been building cairns since before recorded history, and some could be thousands of years old -- maintained and repaired through the centuries by countless passersby. It's a curious connection between people that will never meet.
Was this built by some local hiker regularly walking these trails? Or a distant and long-gone traveler, passing here just once, ages ago? How many, like myself, have been guided by this cairn?
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