This happens when I run on fresh snow as well. When I go by the next day and a lot has melted, I find a trail of white footprints stamped into my original path.
The original joke definitely had its moments, but it's wild how some memes just refuse to die. It's like everyone keeps dragging it back out for another round!
OH! this is a really cool example of a phenomenon that mammoths used to cause. Basically they’d compact so much snow with their trails that it altered the climate.
Based on a quick search it seems like the compacted snow insulates the soil and keeps it cooler. But your question also reminded me of a cool thing I've learned about. Snow and ice have high albedo (which just means they're really reflective) , so when you have a lot of snow and ice cover on the Earth it reflects a lot of heat from the sun which cools the planet. That then allows more snow and ice to form which then cools the Earth even more because the Earth's albedo increases, and that all keeps going in a positive feedback loop until other factors change the Earth's climate.
I haven't looked too much into the mammoth thing yet so I have no idea if this was happening on a large enough scale for it to significantly impact the climate. But I'm curious if the snow taking longer to melt due to compaction caused the environment to stay cooler for longer because the periods of high albedo lasted longer. I'm thinking maybe this wouldn't work if the time scales for melting from compacted vs uncompacted snow were too short for it to have any effects beyond the few extra hours (or days?) it would take the packed snow to melt (compared to geologic timescales, which can be hundreds or thousands to millions or billions of years).
Also less fun fact: albedo works in the reverse way too, so the rapid acceleration of modern climate change is getting even more sped up with every minute the ice caps keep melting away.
Ultimate desire path deterance now
In trying to trample down that patch of snow, they only strengthened its resolve.
Fuck yeah
🤘🏼
We call the anti-trails.
A cute example of why grooming ski trails keeps the snow a lot longer
nice example of a kind of photo negative; I think if you develop this ice, you get a path!
This happens when I run on fresh snow as well. When I go by the next day and a lot has melted, I find a trail of white footprints stamped into my original path.
They still walk there, but they used to too
I highly doubt that anyone would want to walk on a slippery line of ice when you could just walk on the grass right next to it
One of the few times when that stupid joke obviously doesn’t work but he just had to post it.
I mean the original was a fantastic joke. Reddit beat it to death and has been fucking the corpse for the past decade.
i also choose this guy’s dead joke
Jesus christ that analogy lol
Very true
It really was, I mean it still is but..
I don’t know ball 😭😭😭😭
The original joke definitely had its moments, but it's wild how some memes just refuse to die. It's like everyone keeps dragging it back out for another round!
Sometimes, in these situations, the grass is a muddy mess!
I believe that’s turf field so it wouldn’t be muddy. But rain soaked and sloshy, definitely.
Yeah sloshy is bad, too!
Better to walk in muddy mess than to slip and fall into it.
This is called a risky desire path!
sometimes, yeah
Counter Point: snow go crunch when steppy
Ignore this reply, I didn't get the reference
I see your Mitch Hedberg joke
am I missing something here?
Mitch Hedberg, “I used to do drugs”
OH! this is a really cool example of a phenomenon that mammoths used to cause. Basically they’d compact so much snow with their trails that it altered the climate.
Is that because the compacted ice would take longer to melt, and it releases the moisture over a longer period instead of one quick spring thaw?
Based on a quick search it seems like the compacted snow insulates the soil and keeps it cooler. But your question also reminded me of a cool thing I've learned about. Snow and ice have high albedo (which just means they're really reflective) , so when you have a lot of snow and ice cover on the Earth it reflects a lot of heat from the sun which cools the planet. That then allows more snow and ice to form which then cools the Earth even more because the Earth's albedo increases, and that all keeps going in a positive feedback loop until other factors change the Earth's climate.
I haven't looked too much into the mammoth thing yet so I have no idea if this was happening on a large enough scale for it to significantly impact the climate. But I'm curious if the snow taking longer to melt due to compaction caused the environment to stay cooler for longer because the periods of high albedo lasted longer. I'm thinking maybe this wouldn't work if the time scales for melting from compacted vs uncompacted snow were too short for it to have any effects beyond the few extra hours (or days?) it would take the packed snow to melt (compared to geologic timescales, which can be hundreds or thousands to millions or billions of years).
Also less fun fact: albedo works in the reverse way too, so the rapid acceleration of modern climate change is getting even more sped up with every minute the ice caps keep melting away.
I noticed this every year In my yard as a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing
No it shows where Jack Frost walked, idiot.
Ice one!
Looks like everyone used to stumble drunkenly to the right and then back again at that certain point up ahead.
Pretty sure someone spawned a snow golum and it walked away.
This could be a very beautiful photographer with some adjustments to angle and lighting