Low spot on the trail. When it rains, mud pit.
Good point actually, that makes a lot of sense.
Or there was a barrier of sort there before, but now there isnt anymore.
Oh, that’s a good notion. My thought had been that it’s a place where people often stop so it formed a bypass of sorts.
Hmmm maybe, but the left is on a slope. The real path is lower, why wouldn’t the rain pool there?
Here’s a baseless guess: someone dumped something big on the trail there for awhile and a path formed from the detour and never went away
The real path is the one that floods. When it’s wet, people use the desire path to avoid the puddle.
The main path has a puddle there after rain. Source: British.
Uk too my thoughts were this is a regular horse riding route. Horses hate these paths and will move to the side making more
Looks like a bike track. Maybe that spot tends to be very muddy after rain, and therefore bikers drive around it?
it looks like there could have been metal posts at these spots, maybe a fence to only let pedestrians through, and cyclists started going around
This was my hypothesis as well, but I didn’t detect any position where a gate might have been. I’m quite sure the two spots you indicated are leaves.
