Posted on 18/08/07
Of ego and inukshuks
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step - and too often ends with the casual construction of an inukshuk. No wilderness spot is so remote that some hiker won't think it a capital idea to leave a pile of stones behind, replicating the markers that guide Inuit travellers north of the Arctic Circle. The habit is so widespread that Ontario's Killarney Provincial Park, on the north shore of Georgian Bay, issued a notice this summer entreating visitors to "stop the invasion" of inukshuks, since the impromptu piles risk confusing subsequent hikers who are trying to find the stone cairns that mark their trails.
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