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Rock balancing
Human-created installation rock art / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about man-made rock pile structures. For natural balanced rock formations, see Balancing rock. For the Zimbabwean rock formation, see Balancing Rocks.
Rock balancing (also stone balancing, or stacking) is a form of recreation or artistic expression in which rocks are piled in balanced stacks, often in a precarious manner.
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Conservationists and park services have expressed concerns that the arrangements of rocks can disrupt animal habitats, accelerate soil erosion, and misdirect hikers in areas that use cairns as navigation waypoints.