Easy path, Babcock

I had the good fortune of working on the trail creation crew at the Babcock Ridge preserve, an area I've trekked and written about numerous times over the past few years. And while my recent health woes have kept me from completing the job of actually laying out and marking a finished path, I was at least there in spirit. Thus, this sign, which I discovered, to my surprise and absolute delight, when I followed the trail markers up the ridge this afternoon. On an earlier walk, I'd told the leaders of the crew that I thought the route they'd blazed might be a bit too steep for all but the hardiest and most able-bodied hikers. I guess they took my advice to heart and came up with a gentler alternative. I, on the other hand, stuck to the older, more direct, straight uphill, and decidedly less easy route. No one will be surprised.