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I wonder . . .
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October 5, 2011 Rock Balancing
![]() Mark Frauenfelder, of BoingBoing, was hanging out at Eben G. Fine Park, Boulder, CO, for a family reunion. He noticed these sculptures in the river and took the above picture thinking they were a permanent art installation. He later discovered they were rock sulptures by Mike Grab of Gravity Glue. Quote:
His website also includes his philosophy of balancing rocks and hints on how to do it yourself. Quote:
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I know someone whose little kid saw one of these on a shoreline, was curious, so walked over to look at it more closely, touched it, and a heavy rock fell and smashed the kid's bare foot. These are one of those deceptively dangerous things. In hindsight it's obvious, but I bet you didn't look at these and immediately think "broken feet." It's good that these are out in a stream where they are relatively unreachable.
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not quite the same thing... but this is known as the cheesewring... a natural(?) stone formation in eastern Cornwall ( s.w. England )
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you're right grynch, not the same thing. But you still might break your foot.
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You're not trying hard enough. Have you not seen 127 hours?
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that cheesewring is pretty cool.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Mmmm.... cheese
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Scriv , when were you there ?
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Those are cairns.
I haz one in mah backyard.
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Clearly, this practice should be outlawed.
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I don't think it should be outlawed at all, in fact, I've done this myself.
But I do think that people should be mindful of what they are doing and how it may impact others, especially in a public place. I think these are kind of cool and the few that I've seen, I've enjoyed. But if they were everywhere, I'd probably get sick of them, especially if I were visiting some pristine back country stream and was trying to get away from signs of other people. These go against the idea of "leave no trace." |
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If I was strolling along this river and came to these stones i would wonder what
![]() BTW - the guy who founded the church where the huge touchdown Jesus burnt to the ground after being hit by lightning - he died over the weekend. I wonder if they'll finish that new Jesus statue now?
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