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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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It never snows around here, I never knew snow could form paths like this! Thank you for sharing, I learned something new today :)
I'm actually just thinking, "Is this actually a desire path, technically?"
Because it simply happens because one person has to be the first to cross the field, and then the second person just follows them because they don't want to step in the deeper snow and so on
So it's only one person originally making the path and the rest only have a "desire" to not get wet feet ๐
@Mr_Blott @rosahaj I've met countless times when the desire path retained it's place in the snow. Basically, when lots of people step on the snow, it even becomes icy. In this case, it's clear that lots of people traveled that way in the snow.