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On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:11 pm
by Boab Bob
The internet is full of tourism authorities and national parks the world over asking people to refrain from stacking stones, pebbles and rocks. I suggest we can discount the piles found where tourists go which one could argue is just about everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_balancing
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:59 pm
by Simon M
So it's nouveau planking?
Bloody tourists.
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:10 pm
by TrevorPeters
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:25 pm
by Wolf
Just because humans do it too does not preclude our hairy mates from doing it either.
Though if I saw some 'Gravity Glue' stacks way out in back blocks I would be very impressed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswc7xB0V6c
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:40 pm
by yowiedan
Just yesterday I hiked up a ridge that was burnt from a recent fire. I found a rock stack there only 3 rocks high with a fourth which had fallen off. Now this rock stack would have been in thick bush until the fire went through there. Now saying that who would climb up a ridge and stack 4 rocks on top of each other in thick bush that no one would see. It has me puzzled a bit. These are the only type of rock stacks I personally take notice of. Out of the ordinary ones. This is the link to the video I posted on my Youtube channel Australian Yowie. You can watch it all or just go to the 3.30 mark and look at the area the Rock Stack is found in.
LINK:
https://youtu.be/0PS-kzCUxXE
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:30 pm
by Slats
I have heard of rock stacks being called "rock cairns". Originally used by explorers as markers similarly to other posts I've read climbers use them as trail markers. However, if a stack or cairn is in the middle of nowhere similarly to the one Yowie Dan found IMO it would warrant futher investigation.
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:25 am
by ChrisV
Yes but there have been rock stacks showing up in places where humans are not so common!
I can understand these stacks forming in popular areas...
But in the middle of nowhere?
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:54 am
by Slats
ChrisV wrote:Yes but there have been rock stacks showing up in places where humans are not so common!
I can understand these stacks forming in popular areas...
But in the middle of nowhere?
That would require further investigation and monitoring I would think
Re: On rock-stacking - it seems to be a global tourism fad
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:20 pm
by theloneranger
Went trecking in the bavarian alps yeaterday. c**p loads of rock stacking in the middle of nowhere
Sorry it aint yowies