Trouble Time

You take the longer way but you eventually make it, you knock on the doorbell, no reply. You ring the doorbell, no reply. He's not home and you can feel this ominous prescense coming closer. You have never felt this scared before so you instinctively start running again. Your only choice now is to run back to your place. However, you need to run through the forest to get back. There is a faster way but you will need to scale down a ledge.
Do you go through the forest or scale down the ledge?