These four rock cairns provide a link to the past while serving as a guiding beacon to present-day trampers As rocks are almost ubiquitous in the mountains, they offer the most natural way of marking routes. On a mountaintop, where a track crosses a river, or across a difficult pass, rock cairns show the way. […]
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