Ah the ol' desire path strikes again!

In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.

I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.

My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.

These are called desire paths.

I heard Finnish municipalities do studies when it's newly snowed to check where the desired footpath goes by looking at tracks in the snow. It avoids that issue in the image

For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.

I have a hobby of doing the opposite: making undesirepaths.

During large snowfalls, I often need to bring out the shovel and make a path, both from my house and in front of it towards the main road. I like to add turns and bends, just enough to confuse and lightly annoy, but not enough for people to consider stepping into deep snow or making their own path.