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Scrap Path

About a week ago I said I'd upload a photo of a very humble stairway, and here it is. Its treads are made of scraps of wood and the handrail is a thin wisp of a tree trunk, an improvement over the original rope. I don't know how long the stairs have been here or been in this form. I imagine that years ago it was just a dirt path. Then, probably, someone brought in the wood scraps so that the path was still useful in the rainy season.

These stairs are a shortcut, bypassing a hairpin turn roughly 100 meters to the right of where I stood to take this picture.

8 comments:

  1. Thanks but I'll go the long way.
    Wow!

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  2. Follow the brown step road, follow, follow, follow.....

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  3. Charming! In the middle of a sophistcated city of a million and a half people.

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  4. I love this! I'm not sure I'd want to climb it (it looks very steep), but I would enjoy looking at it each day.

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  5. Hopefully there was a sign announcing the weight limit ? Doesn't look like it would stand up to too heavy a load...
    :-)

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  6. It's only a little troubling to go up the stairs and feel them bow beneath me.

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  7. You are brave.
    I'd rather go up than down.

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