Bushwalk Australia

Like many people I like a good mystery. But I am a thoroughgoing rationalist, not inclined to conspiracy theories or any such similar nonsense. So a good mystery demands a rational explanation, except I am utterly lost for one.
Last weekend I climbed St Paul's Dome in the Fingal Valley. It was a cracker of a day, and we had plenty of time, so we decided to continue on down the western ridge of the Dome toward Mt St Peter. It was pretty broken country, prickly scrub but not too thick, lots of boulders and small cliff lines to negotiate, but not difficult. Several hundred meters down the ridge we came across.....a small glass pane. Unbroken, standing almost upright, carefully set in a plinth of small stones. It was perfectly clear, and had bevelled edges, such as you might see in a cabinet or door glass. Definitely not a mirror. No sign of a frame. Nothing else there. Although a bit hard to tell it looked like it had been then for a while. You could see down to the Fingal Valley, and the pane was angled - slightly - down in that direction.
Why would someone go to that trouble? Why in that spot? For what?
One mystery is good.
Two is definitely.....something's up.
So a friend pointed out that someone else had recently come across a glass pane, unbroken, standing up, in a remarkably similar location (i.e. high on mountain, but well away from normal routes) in the Western Tiers.
What is going on?
An elaborate prank? Then why sooooooo far out of the way?
Someone testing a range-finder? Then why not a mirror, and why such an odd location?
Someone enlighten me.
But don't bother with conspiracy theories.

Could they be memorials to somebody whose favourite walks were in those 2 areas?

I don't think it should be left there.

If it brakes (rock fall, animal treads on it) it becomes a hazard to wild life ...

The glass looks shaped as in a picture frame - probably a picture used to be attached to it in Memorium?

eggs wrote:The glass looks shaped as in a picture frame - probably a picture used to be attached to it in Memorium?

... and the frame/print burnt ?

I would imagine it had no frame- just a glued on picture that weathered away.
But it is just a conspiracy theory....

I don't think so. The glass itself was quite clean, and no evidence of either a backing (such as for a mirror) or a frame. The pane was well held by the rocks around it. If it had been framed, and subsequently burned, I expect it would have (a) cracked and (b) been loose in its footing. Neither was the case.

I'm inclined to think that glass like that is a fire-starting risk in the hotter months. And being found in not one, but two places raises more questions than answers.

Probably no rhyme or reason to it, just a sort of 'forgetmenot'/ maybe even a prank, but something that can cause injury or a fire is not a good thing to be left in the wilderness.

Yeah the potential for something like that to start a fire, unintentionally or otherwise, is the first thing that came to my (suspicious) mind... certainly something that does not belong there!