The sight of a pile of rocks indicates someone has simply been here before even if it was hundreds of years ago. One Iqaluit resident told me they traveled sixteen days from Iqaluit to Pangnirtung by dogsled on a trail that included some four hundred inuksuit. Others described how in whiteout conditions, inuksuit had an uncanny tendency to appear just as they began to experience the dread that they had surely lost their way.
