Painted Rocks

Horos
Horos Posts: 4,519
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Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.

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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,496
    It's definitely a thing a lot of places. We found one in the bushes at my work in MN. It had a link to an Instagram account on it and asked the next person to hide it and snap a picture of where it was find. I brought it home and we took it on our camping trip. The kids hid it at our campsite and some friends found it the next week. It's kind of a neat idea. Especially when you can track where the rock has traveled. The rock we found looked like a baby chick.
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    Horos said:
    Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.

    Painted rocks are ALL over Ohio as well. 
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    tbergs said:
    It's definitely a thing a lot of places. We found one in the bushes at my work in MN. It had a link to an Instagram account on it and asked the next person to hide it and snap a picture of where it was find. I brought it home and we took it on our camping trip. The kids hid it at our campsite and some friends found it the next week. It's kind of a neat idea. Especially when you can track where the rock has traveled. The rock we found looked like a baby chick.
    Problem is they don't have a good tracking system. When my kids were kids we used to go geocaching and they would have travel bugs that were meant to be moved. Search for the bug and you could pull up a map showing it's travels.
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Found this one in Bremerton.

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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Well I'm not much of an artist but here's my first rock to be hidden at Safeco tomorrow.

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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    If you are touching, moving, making rocks cairns or painting rocks in a state/provincial or national park that would make the person doing that an idiot...
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,886
    edited August 2018
    I have never heard of this, but it's a fun idea... I agree with Meltdown's comment about doing it in state/provincial or national parks though. This seems more like something that should be restricted to cities and towns, and kept out of actual natural settings IMO.
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2018
    Only a moron would make a comment without actually knowing what they're talking about...

    Sorry. This post was unnecessary. As far as I've seen it's an in town phenomenon. Still pretty hard to go hiking and not touch or move a rock. I have hiked a few times.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,058
    i'm throwing painted rock into lake let's see if any one can find it .....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    josevolution said:
    i'm throwing painted rock into lake let's see if any one can find it .....
     =) 
    #FHP
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Horos said:
    Only a moron would make a comment without actually knowing what they're talking about...

    Sorry. This post was unnecessary. As far as I've seen it's an in town phenomenon. Still pretty hard to go hiking and not touch or move a rock. I have hiked a few times.
    Actually I know what I'm talking about .... When in a national/state park it is illegal to move nature on purpose ... fool
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Meltdown99 said:
    Horos said:
    Only a moron would make a comment without actually knowing what they're talking about...

    Sorry. This post was unnecessary. As far as I've seen it's an in town phenomenon. Still pretty hard to go hiking and not touch or move a rock. I have hiked a few times.
    Actually I know what I'm talking about .... When in a national/state park it is illegal to move nature on purpose ... fool
    Actually it's only illegal to remove rocks. The prefix makes a difference. But I guess you know what you're talking about.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,886
    edited August 2018
    Horos said:
    Only a moron would make a comment without actually knowing what they're talking about...

    Sorry. This post was unnecessary. As far as I've seen it's an in town phenomenon. Still pretty hard to go hiking and not touch or move a rock. I have hiked a few times.
    Yeah, it's fun - I'd like to see painted rocks all over town! Me and my friends did this as kids in our neighborhood - I had no idea it was still a thing being done by grown ups. We'd steal rocks from neighbors' rock beds, lol, take them home, paint them up, and return them to the rock beds.... As far as I know, people enjoyed it (it was water soluble of course, so only the grumpiest grumps would have a problem with this IMO). I like the idea of painted rocks being placed in random locations even better.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Cool! I'll keep an eye out at Safeco. Fun times ahead, y'all.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,158
    I see the book how to win friends and influence people is having an impact.

    keep up the mediocre work.
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  • Wobbie
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    Horos said:
    Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.


    you’re married?????  :tired_face:

    who knew?
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • mickeyrat
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    Wobbie said:
    Horos said:
    Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.


    you’re married?????  :tired_face:

    who knew?
    his wife and kids?
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    mickeyrat said:
    Wobbie said:
    Horos said:
    Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.


    you’re married?????  :tired_face:

    who knew?
    his wife and kids?

    Probably Horos, too. 
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,158
    edited August 2018
    oftenreading said:
    mickeyrat said:
    Wobbie said:
    Horos said:
    Is this a national or international thing or just here in the PNW? People are painting rocks and 'hiding' them. My wife is really into it. I plan to leave a few at Safeco. I found this one at White River Amphitheatre this weekend.


    you’re married?????  :tired_face:

    who knew?
    his wife and kids?

    Probably Horos, too. 
     come to think of it......
    Post edited by mickeyrat on
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