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muddyfeet Member
Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 49 | TRs | Pics
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So, does one need to pee down both sides in order to properly claim the conquest of a divide?
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here it comes,
<<<<cymbals<<<<
or just the real men
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muddyfeet Member
Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 49 | TRs | Pics
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Oh, and cairns rock, at least those made by non-mechanical means.
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Spotly Member
Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 3723 | TRs | Pics Location: Spokane Valley |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:13 pm
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RDEshadow wrote: | That cairn is pretty big, Spotly. You might have a winner there. Where is that at? |
ok...I cheated. It's actually in Idaho. Granite Peak.
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summitseeker Member
Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 138 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
Jason Hummel wrote: | I found this one near chain lakes:
Not big but cool. |
That is a totally awesome cairn. The next time I head out I'm going to try to make one of those. I gotta go with Matt: style gets extra props.
"Find out who you are and then do it on purpose."
www.summitroutes.com : Guidebook to the 100 highest peaks in Washington
"Find out who you are and then do it on purpose."
www.summitroutes.com : Guidebook to the 100 highest peaks in Washington
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Tazz Member
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7902 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:22 pm
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dicey has a shot of a cool one just like that on Daniel.
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ArcDome Member
Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 285 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:11 pm
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According to the USGS, they had built an 8' tall cairn on Tiffany Mountain to mark a benchmark. The cairn is no longer there. Following is a description taken from the geocaching web site:
Documented History (by the NGS)
1/1/1900 by IBC (MONUMENTED)
DESCRIBED BY INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION 1900 STATION MARK--A DRILL HOLE 6 INCHES DEEP IN SOLID ROCK WITH AN 8-FOOT CAIRN BUILT OVER IT.
1/1/1925 by CGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1925 ON THE HIGHER AND MORE SOUTHERN SUMMIT OF TIFFANY MOUNTAIN, A ROUND, BARE, DOUBLE - TOPPED MOUNTAIN IN THE MAIN RANGE BETWEEN THE METHOW AND OKANOGAN RIVERS. THE STATION IS ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINTHROP, EASHINGTON, ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOOMIS, WASHINGTON, AND ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCONULLY, WASHINGTON. IT MAY BE CONVENIENTLY APPROACHED FROM ANY OF THESE PLACES. STATION MARK--A DRILL HOLE 6 INCHES DEEP IN SOLID ROCK WITH AN 8 - FOOT CAIRN BUILT OVER IT.
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Joe Member
Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 819 | TRs | Pics Location: Kent |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:20 pm
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I saw this last year near Little Chetwoot lake
strange-things-at-little-ch
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2818 | TRs | Pics
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How tall are "ducks" compared to "cairns"?
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summitseeker Member
Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 138 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
Cascadian Farmer wrote: | How tall are "ducks" compared to "cairns"? |
Back in my rookie years, I was trying to follow a route description for a largely cross-country 7-day traverse from Chile to Argentina, near Pucon. The route description used all sorts of words that I had no idea what they meant at the time, so I was constantly scratching my head. One of those words was "duck". Follow the "ducks to the col," the description said. "What the hell would ducks be doing up here on this volcanic plateau?" And for that matter, "What in the hell is a col?" It was an enlightening experience, let me tell you. I did eventually make it to Argentina, despite my ignorance.
"Find out who you are and then do it on purpose."
www.summitroutes.com : Guidebook to the 100 highest peaks in Washington
"Find out who you are and then do it on purpose."
www.summitroutes.com : Guidebook to the 100 highest peaks in Washington
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Flower Sniffer Sniffer of flowers
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 977 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish, WA |
Okay, these are not particularly large either, but they really ROCK!!
Here's another pic of the one at LaBohn Gap...I have pics of the one at the base of Daniel too, but it's not digital. Very cool though! WTF??? Here's a funny pair... My personal favorite...
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
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Magellan Brutally Handsome
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13116 | TRs | Pics Location: Inexorable descent |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:53 pm
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Ducks are usually two or three stones with the top one pointing the way up. I believe they are popular on the east coast. On the west coast we build cairns, usual three to five stones. No pointers, just randomness. You can look all this up in the Cairn builders manual
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TrailPair Member
Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1699 | TRs | Pics
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There are a bunch of elegant and artistic cairns on top of Table Mountain (across from Mount Baker).
This thing called work is interfering with my play
This thing called work is interfering with my play
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JimK Member
Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 5606 | TRs | Pics Location: Ballard |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:19 pm
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The cairn on top of Wapaloosie Mountain is roughly .80 Quarks tall. There is a summit register hidden inside near the top.
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Scrooge Famous Grouse
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 6966 | TRs | Pics Location: wishful thinking |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:08 pm
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Probably made by the same person as JS's Chain Lakes arch.
Table Mtn 09-23-06
And a couple more from Table Mountain.
Cairn Tibeten cairn
And from Table Mountain several years ago.
Tibet
Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
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Matt Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4307 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:51 pm
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Table Mountain is a cairn-building playground.
It may not have the largest cairn, but it easily wins for greatest number and variety.
For those who question cairn-building, I'd like to note that the cairns aren't actually on the summit, but on the flat crest where the trail from Artist's Point first reaches the top of the mountain, visited by thousands of people. The cairns are continuously being taken apart and rebuilt by children young and old, and they provide a charming ever-changing form of popular art. I don't usually build any cairns, but the multitude of flat rocks there practically begs one to see what kind of creative way you can stack them.
Ryan and Daniel with the cairn they built in September 2003 Lots of kids and cairns on Table Mountain Daniel checking little cairn city on Table Mountain Daniel and me with the cairn we built all alone in the rain on Table Mountain, September 2005
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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