Beyond the Hole in the Wall

As you pass through the hole in the wall, you begin
to see what used to be a road. Though now it is little more than a large expanse
of broken, dull blacktop with what appears to be various tools for repair scattered
around.

You guess that
the materials were at one time for use to maintain this road. You look to
the battered road, and sigh.

You could climb
over the harsh terrain, but...the town a ways back may hold another way.
So will you...
Trek
through the rough road?
or
Head
back?