Published On: Wed, Aug 20th, 2025

This hiker kicks over people’s picturesque stone stacks. But he’s got a good reason

Side-by-side images. On the left, selfie of man with a graying, braided red beard standing on a countryside trail with rolling green hills and a stone path behind him. On the left, a pile of rocks stacked into a sort of triangle shape.

Stuart Cox is waging war against the hundreds of stone stacks that people keep leaving all over his favourite hiking trails. His weapon of choice? “Brute force and a size 11 boot.”

CBC | World News

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This hiker kicks over people’s picturesque stone stacks. But he’s got a good reason