Everyone has an opinion. I'd encourage you not to just accept others. Cairns have a long tradition in hiking and at their most basic are a simple wave to a fell

Everyone has an opinion. I'd encourage you not to just accept others. Cairns have a long tradition in hiking and at their most basic are a simple wave to a fellow wanderer in remote areas. Dark Souls has the same concept as a built-in game mechanic with it's tagging. I don't build them myself because I don't have the patience (and dogs tend to make sitting still problematic :P), but I appreciate most every one I see for what it is: someone came to this same place I'm enjoying and did so in such a calm and focused manner, there are stacked rocks to show for it. I can imagine that someone somewhere has built a massive cairn with disregard to the site and the other wanderers there. That person sucks.