That's the one that takes the narrow channel and glows bright white. Usually what happens is that lightning comes down and hits the ground, and the electricity spreads out in all directions. It's like a splash. It may find that easier than traveling through the ground. Or, if you're standing where both legs are the same distance from the strike, then both legs are the same voltage and not much current passes through the body.
Lightning can do some funny things.
Silicon Valley tech geeks in outfits made from filament light. A staged opera with a cast of hundreds, set in front of a mystical clay temple. Artfully arranged and luridly uplit cow heads and meat chunks. And further away, where population, and therefore potential injuries, are thinner, a man in a cobbled-together metal suit with a birdcage on his head tempts fate, standing next to an active Tesla coil, letting the jolts of lightning lick him and fragment into tendrils only a few inches from his face. He holds a hot dog aloft in his right hand, cooking it.