# Large rocks found in treetops, how did they get there?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-rocks-found-in-treetops-how-did-they-get-there/214206 "2003-11-19T23:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![gcarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@gcarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gcarroll)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-rocks-found-in-treetops-how-did-they-get-there/214206/61 "2003-11-23T23:04:12Z")

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See the definitive paper on the topic: “Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate Grudge Match: A Preemptive Strike By Pulpwood”.

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**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-rocks-found-in-treetops-how-did-they-get-there/214206/62 "2003-11-25T06:08:33Z")

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Avalanches, not glaciers.

If the terrain isn’t steep enough for avalanches, maybe the UFOs bent the countryside sideways until the snow slid!

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-rocks-found-in-treetops-how-did-they-get-there/214206/63 "2003-11-25T18:10:29Z")

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Two very skeptical theories:

1. How many people have actually been to the location? I could create a convincing version of this in Photoshop.

2. If I were a prankster, it’d be a lot easier to get something up there that \*looks like \*a boulder, than to hoist up the real thing. Waterproofed papier maché?

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-rocks-found-in-treetops-how-did-they-get-there/214206/64 "2003-11-26T06:43:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by grienspace \*  
> **Gobbler’s Rock (400 lbs), the original find sitting 80 feet high in a chestnut tree was probably the result of logging road blasting long ago.**

I don’t know anything about blasting; for those who do, does this sound plausible? It sounds like a terribly sloppy and dangerous blasting job if it results in 400-lb rocks flying 80 feet into the air.

I’m having a little trouble with the “prank” theory though: it doesn’t seem worth the trouble. It’s in a remote location, and hoisting a 400 lb rock 80 ft up is a fairly dangerous and difficult work. I have no doubt it’s possible, but would someone actually do it?

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