human
Write a detailed description of a depressing scene outside a wilderness woods with thorny growths, a stream, and leaves.
assistant
Slanting distinctly down and to the south, the trail is eroded by a series of runoffs that have destroyed any chances of travel by carriage, firmly rooting such activity to the past. Clumps of weeds and thorny growths mask footfalls and jagged stones, and though they preserve some areas of the trail, the places barren of such plant life become shallower with every rain shower. From beyond the veils of leaves and brush, the whispers of a trickling stream betray the destination of those washouts.