I'm curious: why were you prepared to disagree? I've only ever seen these and thought they were dumb structures made by people looking to leave a mark of themselves. I don't really see it as all that different from taking a pebble or some dirt, and only slightly better than carving your name in a rock/tree.
Now, that isn't to say that I have a problem with someone moving some stones around completely. If you're stopped for a break and you stack a couple stones that seems fairly reasonable to me, but it's the elaborate piles of dozens of stones that I think should absolutely go. The pictures are a great example: a handful of stones you moved? Not a big enough problem to spare energy being upset. Something a foot or more high? now we're starting to have an issue.
I'm curious: why were you prepared to disagree? I've only ever seen these and thought they were dumb structures made by people looking to leave a mark of themselves. I don't really see it as all that different from taking a pebble or some dirt, and only slightly better than carving your name in a rock/tree.
Now, that isn't to say that I have a problem with someone moving some stones around completely. If you're stopped for a break and you stack a couple stones that seems fairly reasonable to me, but it's the elaborate piles of dozens of stones that I think should absolutely go. The pictures are a great example: a handful of stones you moved? Not a big enough problem to spare energy being upset. Something a foot or more high? now we're starting to have an issue.