and you’ll spot the distinctively stacked rocks amid the bigger granite boulders. Known as the Bates Cairns, they’re like miniature stone bridges: two base rock columns, one mantel ...

Allan Thuranira, a seasoned travel guide, says the pile of stones is called a stack ... a trail. Cairns is also used to symbolise a place of peace, calm, and meditation centre. The rock stacks ...

Robyn Martin writes that there is an annoying plague of rock stacks balanced carefully atop one another in the West. These piles aren't true cairns, the official term for deliberately stacked ...