Just a tip, there's a cave along the base of the mountains where you can clear away the branches by pouring water on it. This leads to a grotto where you can find a water bottle that always stays full, saving you trips to find more water.
You get better score for more efficient solving, i.e. fewer steps, pushes, making fewer mistakes or unnecessary steps. The perfect score is 1200 points, it's extremely difficult to get the full score though. The conditions each room to get 1200 points is listed in the updates tab (to the right of this comments section). But you can still get an A (although not perfect) even if you choose the easier version of Room 4.
It's extremely refreshing to see someone really understand what the idea of the road less traveled actually means. Most people take it to mean that when there are two paths/choices you should take the one that most people don't take. However, in Robert Frost's poem it's actually mentioned that both paths are pretty much the same, it's only later after the decision is made that meaning is attributed to the choice. The real meaning of the poem is to illustrate that choices are meaningless.
It's still going to be a thing, eventually. (Though not on here, obviously!)