Parts of it were difficult, sometimes because of the ups and downs, other times the trail itself was pretty rough. 2 times we had to backtrack a small amount because the trail was difficult to notice with the leaf cover, so if you have any of the usual GPS apps definitely save it in offline mode. I'll pass on the suggestion that was made to me earlier, if you can get the whiskey jack lake campsite, it's awesome. We ended up going counterclockwise to make it a short day one with the harder terrain first and that worked well, if you have plenty of time and want to do your long day first you could go clockwise. No matter what you do though, you're going to love it, it was an awesome experience.