human
Make a concise location description of a foreboding scene outside a forest with stones, a streambed, and driftwood.
assistant
The ancient highway has become almost impassable. Its double tracks are so deeply rutted, the rocky outcrops are reminiscent of crooked teeth in an open maw. A dried streambed intersects the road's trenches and winds north toward the lake, its passage marked by a jumble of stones and pieces of driftwood. To the south and west, the forest is a dense, impenetrable wall of green.