[touron]

I do not trust them. They stand there motionless, sentries to the wilderness, supposedly, but I always feel like they are watching me. Sometimes I turn around and I will see a cairn behind me that I swear had not been there before. Or there will be one high above on the ridge, but when I crest the ridge I cannot find it anywhere.

[cairn builder]

You weren't supposed to notice! Back to the drawing board, I guess.

[wolffie]

In Canyonlands, the faces in the hoodoos are always staring at me. It makes me nervous. I can't stare them down. It makes me feel so creepy that I panic, and run off naked in the dark screaming. Nobody notices; they think I'm a coyote.

[Dave Workman]

[touron]

The pieces of the puzzle start to fall together. I always wondered why there were always three times more cairns than needed to mark a trail. Well, think about it, , you need three antennas to triangulate a position. Three shifty-eyed cairns can no exactly where you are and transmit said location to central intelligence. Oh, and did you know that NSA can also stand for National Stones Arranging? And wolfie, you may think no one notices you, but if you ever stop in the Canyonlands and read Newspaper Rock, you will discover that the naked coyote actually has gotten a lot of press.