The South Side

I went rock hunting on the South Side of the truck trail to find a platform cairn that I had read about. I didn't find it on my first hunt out there, but I did find a lot of boulders on a bank above a stream, as well as stone that was under foot everywhere. The bank is moist, with lots of water, either runoff or spring water (I'm not sure which) coming out in quite a few places. It runs off into Lander's creek, that feeds into the Susquehanna.

I took quite a few pictures of the boulders in this area, but the pics are dark because of the pines at this site, and the boulders are covered with ferns, moss and saplings so it's hard to tell if there is any stone on these boulders. Here's a pic of one of the boulders:



This particular boulder had an interesting feature to it...



...stacked stone to make somewhat of an enclosure on this side. Sorry about the ferns in front of the stacked stone - I was a bit nervous about something living under there - it looked 'occupied'.



These two rocks, well, I'm not sure if this is natural or man-made. There is so much stone around under foot here, this is probably just natural, but it is interesting.



Then there was this stone, which speaks for itself:



The second time I went to this area, I had success. I was 300 to 800 feet away from the boulder field in the photos above.

This is a cairn I found in an unusual spot - near what appeared to be a colonial foundation (complete with an old garbage dump), the main road, and also near boulders.





Here is a boulder that has some of the old glass bottles on it:




And this is the stone that appears to make up the colonial foundation, I think:




Then there is the platform cairn that seems to be by itself, about 450 ft. to the north of the cairn near the road and around 800 ft to the Northwest of the boulder field that has the boulder with the small stacked stone enclosure.

This picture is of the cairn at a distance:



This is a view from what I call the 'front' which is actually the lowest side of the slope/platform cairn.



This is the same side, but a little bit more to the right - I was trying to get a good photo of the stacked stone to the right of the boulder, which appears to have a niche in it - the downed tree was getting in my way.



These are two close up views of the niche that appears on the right side in the photo above:






On the upper or top side of the cairn is this rock, that is shaped like a bowl. I took some pine needles out of it to get an idea of the depth.




And here are two pictures of the top side of the cairn - one looking like the stone is not stacked (or was stacked and collapsed) and the other photo showing some stacking is still obvious:







I'm still not sure what to think about this large platform cairn. It seemed esoteric and beautiful.

I found a few more things that day, but will post those separately, since they are in a different area.