The trail was constructed with the utmost care. We tried to follow an old USFS connector, but that trail had mostly disappeared. So basically this is a new trail. All the rock work is new, and there's a lot of it, necessary for the crossing of Alpine Canyon. The Forty-Step Staircase might be the biggest of its kind in the Gabes.
I checked on this trail yesterday. It's doing well, apart from being a little overgrown.
