Thursday Walk 5/19/2011 - Desire Lines

I recently went to Michigan, and decided that would be a great place for this walk. Within the Woods, there were many 'desire lines' to follow rather than follow a paved path. I took one out, a hiking trail, and noticed that it went around a river. Finding this line was easy and evidence was also simple to find. Most of the leaves had been cleared out, as if stomped on. You could see the dirt underneath clearly and sometimes, there were animal tracks. It was interesting that I found a desire line that animals also use. It almost makes me wonder whether humans made this desire line, or just found it and decided to follow it, hoping it would lead them to food or just following to see where it took them.