This project involves moving rocks. A lot of them. Far. Most of the stone the labyrinth was built with has to be carried from about 1/4 mile (1/2km) away.

After seeing the cows damage the borders of the labyrinth I decided to cow-proof the project as much as possible by using larger and larger stones. These things are as heavy as I can lift, so I can only move them about 20 paces at a time before I need to stop and rest. This led me to build piles of stone beside the road/path between the cell tower sites where I get my building material and the hilltop, creating a trail of cairns. Big rocks got carried from one pile to the next, allowing me to advance the line of stone a little each day I got up there.

Here is a video:

A couple of weeks ago I hiked up the hill to the Labyrinth site and found several of these rock piles scattered. This didn’t look like simple vandalism to me, someone worked hard, really hard, to scatter these stones. It’s the third time it’s happened so I’m taking it as a communication: don’t pile your rocks beside the road. Might have been the cattle rancher that leases the park’s property for grazing. Could have been a park ranger. Whatever.

The new policy is to leave as little material on the roadside as possible. I’ve almost finished moving all the stones in the cairns to the labyrinth. It accelerated the expansion from five to seven circuits, though once I run out of cairn material then progress will slow again. C’est la via.