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I got bored during my lunch break so I stacked up a bunch of rocks and some wood. Then I took a picture. And now its art, I’m told. I have a guy who wants to know where it is so he can go out and snap a ton of pictures of it.
I told him I destroyed it, because it is MY ART!
Then lol’d.
Then told him where it was at, and it was still there maybe. Depends on the wind.
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February 2, 2011 at 10:09 am
Good work trolling that guy. I approve.
February 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm
^^This.
February 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Okay the “art” was great. The picture is great.
But if this is where you lunch, where do you poop!?!
February 2, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Haha. We drive about 10 miles to a rest area. This spot is roughly 32 miles from the shed.
February 2, 2011 at 8:04 pm
So what do you do? Build bombs? Meth?
February 2, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Highway construction and maintenance. At this particular job, we were cleaning up a flash flood from last summer. We reshape the berms and everything once a year, because the floods that come through are horrendous.
February 2, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Last summer? So the roads only work 6 months a year?
February 3, 2011 at 12:19 am
No, the roads are open every day of the year (unless we have a slide that shuts it down, which happens every once in awhile).
When the floods hit last year, every one of my coworkers were assigned a road construction project. When assigned, we oversee road improvements; from a new bridge spanning the Colorado to a six day lane leveling job. Its important that we are there for Quality Assurance, so the road is built to spec. If you’re not out there, they try to get away with everything they can.
So we had minimal time to get the road cleared, before we were needed back on our projects. We basically cleared the road, set a ditch-grade to flow water to the culvert, and left.
Once my boss had an entire crew (which was two weeks ago), we went back up there to reshape the slope and clean up the “eyesore” mess. We used the material brought down from the flood to build shoulders up on the “narrows”, which was in my other post about snow plowing.
It’s kinda the gift that keeps on giving, Material is expensive but we always end up with a bunch after a good flood up there. And that material is free, because its on our road. Wee!
February 2, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Driving between Cali and Utah you see hundreds little piles of rocks and stuff like this all over the place, I just assumed it was hippies on their way to Moab and/or Burning Man.
Do you know if there’s like a specific shared thing that motivates people to do this in particular, or if its just something that started randomly like ‘the shoe tree’ or something… You work on the highways, maybe you know.
Unless it was all just you the whole time. That would be awesome. You’d be the Banksy of rocks.
February 3, 2011 at 12:11 am
A lot of the time, its to mark trails. Most of the time, its because people get bored and stack them. In my area, people sometimes put a piece of paper at the bottom saying who stacked them up and what date they did it on.
On the Ute/Navajo rez which is south of us, they stack rocks up in honor of someone who passed away. You see hundreds of them on the road between Aneth and White Mesa and Whitehorse.
BTW, I live in Moab.
February 6, 2011 at 4:22 am
Canadians have the INUKSHUK.