cairns
Trailside rock piles
Cairns are piles of stones, typically erected as landmarks, memorials, or trail markers.
Hikers build cairns to mark routes across rocky terrain where painted blazes aren't possible: Follow the cairns across the summit.
Ancient cairns often cover burial sites.
A single such pile is a cairn. (Capitalized Cairns is a city in Australia.)
Accumulated mass of objects
- rocksSolid mineral pieces
- heapJumbled collection of items
- markerSomething that signals location
- stackItems piled vertically
waypoint · trail · pathway · hiking · navigation · wayfinding · orienteering · trekking
Worthy of reverence
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- offeringSomething presented or given
- prayerAddress to deity
shrine · blessing · devotion · veneration · ceremony · tradition · symbolic · ancestral
Placing deceased underground
- graveSerious and worrying
- tumulusAncient burial mound
- barrowLoad carrier or tumulus
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
commemoration · tribute · monument · tombstone · ancestor · prehistoric · neolithic · funerary
pile
Accumulated mass of objects
stack · waypoint · trail · pathway · hiking · navigation · wayfinding · orienteering · trekking · backpacking
sacred
Worthy of reverence
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- offeringSomething presented or given
prayer · shrine · blessing · devotion · veneration · ceremony · tradition · symbolic · ancestral · indigenous
burial
Placing deceased underground
remembrance · commemoration · tribute · monument · tombstone · ancestor · prehistoric · neolithic · funerary · mound
stones
Small hard earth fragments
quartzite · basalt · sandstone · limestone · pebble · outcrop · weathering · erosion · stacking · balance
highlands
Elevated, hilly land areas
- hillwalkingRecreational mountain trekking
- benScottish peak or parlor
- lochScottish lake or inlet
bothy · peak · ridge · crag · glen · moor · fell · rambling · wainwright · scrambling
- hikingtrail, hike, hiker, trails, day hikes
- Scottish culturebagpipes, kilts, tartan, haggis, Highland Games
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- ancient sitesPompeii, Stonehenge, pyramids, Colosseum, Giza
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- hiking termshiking trails, trailhead, switchback, summit, switchbacks
cairnstalus
Ankle's main bone
scree · moraine · rock outcrops · boulders · geological features
- rock cairnStacked stones as marker