First, I have to say that I am exhausted!!! Then I will tell you that if you follow the trail to the left, first, you will probably have a better day than I did (trail according to Alltrails). Actually,  I would completely recommend not going on the other part of the lollipop, at all. The trail, in places, is kind of dangerous,  there are places that are very steep that has skree, fine, loose powder dirt, and small rocks that you have to navigate over. I did watch other people clammer up the mountain just fine, but I have bad ankles, and really have to pick the placement of each step. The view both all the way up, and from the top, was obscured by smoke from all the ????.  There is a mountain bike loop through the area, but I did not see any on or close to this trail. Also, I was told from another hiker that was coming up, as I was headed down, that if you hiked over a ways, towards the lifts, that you could have taken the lift down. Wish I would have talked while I was up higher on the trail, I might have taken that way down.