We had to hike this. We hike all the time and have recently taken to trail running. My husband is taller and thinner than I, but I am in fairly good shape, hiking shorter peaks regularly. This trail kicked us both (and moreso me) in the butt with a pair of steel toe boots. It was incredibly challenging but so much fun. There was a kid in a Superman shirt ahead of us and when I reached about 150 feet from the top (which I thought was the top) and hubby said, see, its just up where Superman is! I was thinking 10 feet away, saw Mr. superman way up off in the distance, And I very seriously exclaimed, "I'm done, theres no ******* way! Have fun Honey!" A girl heading down in a blue tank top heard me and said, "But you're so close, you have to do it!" And that did it. After a few minutes' rest I made it to the top of that beast, and I lived to tell the tale. It was incredibly killer, but the challenge of actually making it all the way to the top, as well as the technical challenge of the boulder climbing part of the trail made the journey a whole heck of a lot of fun on the way up, and even more fun on the way down, as we grabbed tree trunks, and swung and jumped from and between boulders, bounding our way down the mountain.