Timeline for What's the purpose of the huge amount of stone piles on the trails in Gran Canaria
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| Oct 25, 2016 at 18:17 | answer | added | Kimball | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 5:41 | vote | accept | OddDeer | ||
| Oct 20, 2016 at 3:37 | answer | added | Charlie Brumbaugh | timeline score: 11 | |
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 1:48 | answer | added | Desorder | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 1:18 | history | edited | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 20:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackOutdoors/status/788841212237213697 | ||
| Oct 19, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | ab2 | "People see one and copy it". The technical term for this is: "Monkey see, monkey do." | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | user2766 | It could just be, because someone did it one day! A bit like a Cairn on a hill. These tend to multply, not because of some mistical scheme but, mainly becasue people see one and copy it. Humans are weird sometimes. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 12:37 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | You've found where the Department of Public Works keeps their spare cairns. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | gerrit | @OddDeer I mistook it for very high altitude thinking near the summit of Teide (Tenerife) rather than Gran Canaria, as it looks quite lifeless at a first glance, hence the query about ecology. I agree that it reduces the wilderness experience for humans (although I admit that I did enjoy the remains of a cairn-building competition near Mèr de Glace near Chamonix, France many years ago, but those were true works of art in an area where the only large non-human animals are cow and sheep). | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 11:04 | comment | added | OddDeer | @gerrit Exactly what I asked our guide on the tour :) He explained to me that it destroys possible homes for various species (mostly reptiles which need large dense stonefields rather than a lot of stone-towers but also a lot of flora), it builds "walls" which are bad for several things but first of all the really sensitive weather on Gran Canaria (horizontal rain, winds etc.) and after all every man-made adjustment is generally bad. Gerrit, just check out the provided picture. Does this look like a naturally healthy habitat? Imho not. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 10:47 | comment | added | gerrit | I strongly expect people build them just for fun. I believe most people will not see much harm in them. It's not a wilderness and strict leave-no-trace isn't very well known in Europe; of course one should not leave garbage or damage the environment, but most would not see this as damage. How is it bad for the ecosystem? | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 9:36 | history | edited | OddDeer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 9:29 | comment | added | OddDeer | @jmn We are not talking about trail-signs here. Did you see the picture? That's not one or two stone-piles signposting the trail, that's just a ridiculous amount of man-made stone piles in nature. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 6:54 | comment | added | jmn | To be honest, I would rather see stone piles (cairns) than trail signs or blazes on trees. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 6:15 | history | edited | OddDeer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 6:09 | history | asked | OddDeer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |