New route
The day a few years ago when we first explored this route as a possible hike, I tried to go around the left side, but stayed too high up on the rock side and ended in impossibly thick shrubbery. On the way back I scared myself slipping of f the narrow ledge I was following with one foot, but managed to get back up on it. That resulted in a minor injury that bothered me a few weeks.
Two weeks before this hike, Anu, a person in charge of the area who was hiking with us, tried the left side below the rock face and found it easy going. Most people went that way this day.