For First-timers-What questions not to ask

[SinOrSwim]

Can't remember if it was last year or the year before but we have a group that leave from central iowa and we meet at my brothers north of the twin cities. As we pulled off the main highway to hit the side road to his house he had gone out and stacked up the rocks at the corners we needed to turn. Even though we knew how to get there. It was pretty funny!!! I'm sure there were others at some point who were wondering what the heck those were though. LOL

[Red Pine J]

The wiki pic is NO WAY what I've seen in Canada.

Good try also Gord........lmao

[new hips]

Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the destruction of inuksuit.
IF YOU DESTROY ONE........YOU WILL ONLY CATCH 12in WALLEYE FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS

[unclejoe]

On my firstflyin trip I was a little nervous flying on the old bush plane. I asked the owner if they had ever "lost" an airplane.

He replied quickly, "yes but we found it the next day."

[v-bay gord]

Originally Posted by new hips

Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the destruction of inuksuit.
IF YOU DESTROY ONE........YOU WILL ONLY CATCH 12in WALLEYE FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS

My all time best find was 2 bottles of 8 year old Basil Hayden bourbon (one wasn't even open) next to a rock pile on Hwy 502. I think those boys were probably miffed when they stopped the following year.

[Outfitter17]

I agree with Red Pine, SSH is way off on this topic! I have seen nothing like a "cairns" rock pile on any of my lakes.

SSH - Do you know what kind of rock piles everyone is talking about?

[new hips]

If you stopped at every rock pile on 502.........to look for stash.......it might take you a few days to get to Dryden.

[Campcountry]

The stacked rocks you see are built by kids usually - just for fun. They are supposed to look like Inukshuks which have become a symbol of the north.

The real original use of Inukshuks was to guide herds of caribou along chosen paths so the Inuit could kill them. An Inukshuk was built to look like a man and in the old days it was topped with a clump of black earth to look like hair.

Another question that I have been asked is "Why do some restaurants have a sign that says they are "licensed" and others do not?"

Licensed restaurants can sell booze. Most tourists are thankful to learn that nugget

[ScottL]

Although the ones everyone is talking about along the 502 may very well be liquor stashes as Gord claims. There are in fact "Cairns" in NW Ontario.

I quote from a Lac Seul Map under license from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, "World War II Memorial Cairns, The Royal Canadian Legion (branch 139) and the members of the Lac Seul First Nation have erected memorial cairns to the 9 Hudson members who sacrificed their lives in the cause of freedom during World War II."

But now that I know the real meaning I'm adding an extra day to my trip to go on a geology field trip, yeah that what we'll call it.

["set the hook"]

i dont think so