You know those roads where if you turn to hard/late, then you’ll end up dropping 2000 ft off a cliff? Yeah my brain cannot comprehend how they were made. I know most trails are made by people/horses constantly walking over it. But the fact that these trails are almost perfectly made for transportation, and are just casually on the side of a mountain confuses me.
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In the memoir “Green Mountains” by Bernard O’Reilly, there’s a passage that describes this.
Bernard and his brothers are trying to build a road to their mountaintop farm.
It talks about he and his brothers climbing out onto the cliff face with dynamite in their pockets.
Then jamming a stick in, lighting it and climbing back.
Then boom.
Then move forward with picks and shovels to clear the mess and even things out.
And then climb out again.
(TBH, Green Mountains is crazy read, as the first half is about O’Reilly’s role in an airliner crash and the second half is about building a hotel nearby. If you’re interested in a wiki hole, it’s a good one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Airlines_of_Australia_Stinson_crash)
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