Telephone wire insulators nailed into pine trees, old Japanese sake bottles by the wayside, a large area of level ground, a neatly-built wall of shale fragments, and scars left behind by cuts made to harvest pine resin, were all key clues in rediscovering the trail.
尋覓過往人文活動留下的痕跡也是步履古道的樂趣之一，釘在二葉松上的礙子（電線的電阻），路旁老舊的日本酒瓶，一塊突兀平整的開闊空地、嵌合整齊劃一的頁岩殘牆，以及汲取松脂的刻痕等人為設施，都是成功尋得古道的關鍵。