Do you guys see rock stacking where you live?...

[Locut0s]

This is a hobby / art form we started seeing here in Vancouver quite a few years ago. I'm sure it originates or at least is greatly inspired by Native American Inuksuks. If you take a walk along the Stanley Park Seawall here you will see a number of sites where local artists have created whole fields of them. Some try to make a small living off selling prints or ask for small donations. Either way it's become a very popular sight along the rocky beaches of the park. I'd be surprised if this art form didn't exist elsewhere but I've never actually seen them anywhere else. Do you guys have these rock art work where you live?

There's no trick involved BTW, no glue or cement or anything, it's just painstaking stacking.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Yes, we have rock stacking contests/parties/camp outs.

I have some pix stashed back somewhere ...

[Locut0s]

2. Cool. I like the idea of contests...

Some of these formations really look to defy physics and they can be quite tall sometimes. I've never been patient enough to watch someone fully build one, I wonder how long it takes?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. we work on several at one time. some are never finished ...

always room for one more

[arcane1]

3. I forst encountered it while visiting Arches National Park in 1999

It was quite cool

[applegrove]

5. I saw it in Ottawa, 25 years ago, along the Ottawa River.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. found one -

[hunter]

7. Yes. Actually where I live. In our front yard.

The rocks rise and fall in mysterious ways...

Well, no, not that mysterious. Usually it's the dogs, wind. or small children knocking them down, and random people building them up as the mood strikes.

[likesmountains 52]

8. Very popular along The Colorado Trail

http://www.trailjournals.com/photos.cfm?id=359749

[nolabear]

9. How'd I miss this all these years? It's awesome!

I'm stating the obvious, I know, but they look like sea birds.

[Neofeudal Serf]

10. Holy fuck, I thought they were seabirds perched on rocks until I saw your post and looked again.

Wow!

[RiffRandell]

11. I've never seen any but it's really cool.

Great picture!