Puzzletober 2024: Ridge

Finding that my jump was slightly too short, adrenaline helped me pull a Yoshi maneuver off the motorcycle to barely cross the gap. This same strategy cannot apply to the geological marvel in front of me: cliffs that jut up from the earth and evoke images of grand blocky terrain. The only way forward is a thicket to the south, so before I press onward, I ought to try a vantage point from the slanted ridge to see if the canopy is as protected as the ground.

Rules: This puzzle takes inspiration from Plateaus by Obvious and Mountain Climbers by Hempuli.

• Stack some n x n x 1 square prisms in the grid, which lay square-side-up. No squares at the same height should be adjacent, but every square should be supported against gravity by at least part of a square on the layer directly below it. There are many ways to stack the squares, so their specific locations are not required for the solution.
• The grid is a top-down view. Numbers reveal the altitude of the highest square in the column, with 0 being no squares.
• The solution will be a path that enters the grid from the top and exits out the bottom. The path doesn't intersect itself in top-down view and doesn't travel beneath squares. The path may move from one square to another only if the highest altitudes differ by at most one.
• White circles are flags that must be passed through. Black circles are boulders that cannot be passed through.

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