Lonely Path — Northern Tract

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The Northern Tract of the Lonely Path Pines is dark and gloomy. Only narrow shafts of light beam through the branches above, and everything else is illuminated only by the glow of sunlight filtered through pine needle. The path goes straight for as long as you can see until, finally, it begins to shift to the left — east — and out of sight.

To the east of the road, a natural spring bubbles out of the ground, a gout of water jetting a good four feet into the air before splashing down on a flat rock to begin its run alongside the road. The natural fountain sits about thirty feet off the path, but you can hear it clearly in the darkness.

To the west of the road, a giant tree — an Elder Pine — lays at a forty-five degree angle, its fallen trunk wedged into the split of another Elder Pine over a hundred yards away. The trunk of this tree is massive, some of the oldest timber in the forest. It would take ten men holding hands to reach around it.

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