human
Make a concise location description of a gloomy scene outside a wilderness volcano with rocks, cart ruts, and a narrow path.
assistant
Cart ruts in the dust and ash approach the narrow footpath, showing another route taken by heavier traffic. Faint marks on the rocks that bulge out of the frozen lava rills show where someone has labored to widen the path, but this work was clearly in vain. The path, still barely a sliver of ground, hugs the tracks in the narrow space.