Hi Tom, well, from the trailhead which is basically by the locked gate to the microwave tower that is next to the firetower which is owned by American something or other. The parking is just on the shoulder of the road, you follow I believe a yellow blazed trail through the ORAK ruins, then you cross a woods road and then the trail starts to get skinny here and up. However, since you have to go by the American something or other company's microwave tower there and the American company needs road access, you can literally walk the paved road (for most part) up to the microwave tower, then you can pick up the yellow trail again and follow that to the firetower. Once you hit the American microwave tower, you're on top of the ridge and it's a flat woods road walk to the firetower.
I think it would be doable for anybody in decent shape. Even the actual trail which branches off the paved road in about 1/2 mile or so from the trailhead isn't rugged. It's mostly a woods road until you get past the ORAK ruins and then past the woods road.
Jay
