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Desire Paths

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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah thanks for the anxiety. I can literally hear the Nazgûl screeching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great... Thanks for the nightmares 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Had to share the horror

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is cool, but it's not really a desire path

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wan't sure if this was really built by people walking there for hundred of years, or if it was done intentionally 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This seems like an odd formation to occur naturally. Is it a trench?

[–] pantslesswonder 7 points 1 year ago

It’s a “sunken lane” or “hollow way,” and it’s most likely caused by a few hundred years of very specific erosion (amusingly the lead image for the Wikipedia article for this phenomenon is the same as the post).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is what centuries old desire paths look like. Or it's an old (non-standard?) railway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was just playing hell let loose and i am not having fun looking at this image

[–] pantslesswonder 2 points 1 year ago

Get out of the road!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is this sort of thing formed?

[–] Psythik 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People traveling through this area, riding on horse-drawn carriages over the course of several centuries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Patience pays off, thank you

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