Rock Stacking?

Can anyone give me some back ground on rock stacking? I just moved close to a river in Montana, lots of great rocks to be found, and started doing it.

 

Do you mean rock stacking as in Cairns? Like Native Art/Burial pieces? What exactly do you mean?

 

like where you stack and balance 'em, one of top of the other to make kind of a tower

 

I think it gained noteriaty in SoCal around 1990(?). There was a guy who started doing it at the beach. I remember he came to our school.

 

Do you attach them together...like with concrete or do they stand alone?

 

here is a link to a site that has pics of "rock stacks":

http://www.teamsandtastic.com/RockStacking/

and here are some pics of the Native/Inuit rock monuments that I mentioned:

http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/inuit.html

 

Cool photos...I dont know much about rock stacking, but the results are beautiful.

 

http://tinypic.com/dvptld.jpg
http://tinypic.com/dvptut.jpg
http://tinypic.com/dvpu2v.jpg

I stack rock

...lot's of it

not the type of stacking your talking about I guess though

These pics are from a dry-stone (meaning no mortar is used) retaining wall I've been working on, 85 feet long, 5 feet tall. It's my first large scale project and I have it feeling it won't be my last, working with stone is addictive.

 

Rock stackings are so cool and trippy. My boyfriends dad has a bunch of them in his yard. Hes obsessed with rocks. They are really neat though. And hes also got about a million small smooth stones you find on the beach and he makes things out of those too. Hes crazy but in a good way.
But I have no info about them! Just wanted to share that