Skyline Trail,  Olympic National Park,  Jul 12, 2005 - Jul 16, 2005     page 36 / 52

The trail would have been difficult to follow over the bare rock had it not been for a series of rock cairns. These are piles of rock, placed by hikers, to mark the way. To find your way, one simply has to move from cairn to cairn until reaching a more traditional trail.