Shortcut from Dun Morogh to Searing Gorge / Badlands

When I was a low level Paladin I wanted to collect as many flight paths as I could, the trickiest was Thorium Point, Searing Gorge. I did this at about level 12. I just re-traced it as I realised it's a bit quicker to get to the Badlands too, than the run to, and then through, Loch Modan. Well, it might be quicker, it might not, but it's certainly more fun!

Start at 78,50, head up the path (1). Follow it up to about 80, 40 then head right (2). You're heading along that ridge you can see stretching right in (3). In (4) you can look down and see some nice buildings. Don't get sidetracked, head kind of up and right to 82,58 (5). There's a little slope here that you should go round to the left of, not right, or you'll slip to the valley floor.

At 81,65, which is kind of straight on and left a bit (6), you can just see Searing Gorge in the distance. Head down veering left a little bit, carefully, as there are some steep falls around. head for 88,0 (7) which is a safe place to drop down from.

There's quite a big area to roam around in here (9), and you can drop down either in the Badlands (anywhere in the north really), Loch Modan (valley of kings), or Searing Gorge.

Don't ride down the spine between Searing Gorge and Badlands without due care and attention, or you'll fall in this hole (10) and have to hearthstone it out!

If you head west as far as you can, you'll find a place to drop down into Searing Gorge. Keep going west and stay as high up as you can to the north. Eventually you'll come across a small flat snowy area with some machines in it. It's deserted, so don't worry. Drop down into it and out the western exit. Follow the path down and you'll reach Thorium Point shortly. I didn't pull any mobs on the way down, but might have been lucky!

Once there, the flight master is kind of through the camp to the left a bit.

WoW Airport, easy route?

Bored, I decided to try and get to the Airport, finding my own way. I recently discovered that holding down both mouse buttons and jumping with the space bar at the same time gets me up a lot more tricky hills than moving forward with the w does. So, new thirst for wandering about mountains arose in me.

So, out of Ironforge, I leap from the graveyard along the ledge from the entrance and hug the mountains, heading north as much as I can. There's no path and I eventually fall back to the bottom. A bit further on, about 61,43 is a path leading upwards again. It's pretty simple to just follow this path up, zigzagging as you go, there's only one way up, and you get so far until you come to a big white wall, which seems impossible, like this (see left).

I couldn't get up this, but if you venture slightly to the west, there's an identical, snowy wall that you can get up, if you try really hard. It took me just a minute the first time, and about 5 the next time - running with mouse buttons and jumping - it is possible, really!

Here's me looking back at the slope, once up.



Once up, just head down the slope to the east and you'll end off on a frozen lake-bed where lots of low-level (7) trolls are running about, chased by Dwarves with guns, mainly.



Run on and you'll find some buildings, the planes, plenty of guards, some of whom will talk to you, and some buildings. There's also a flight path area, but no flight master as yet.



There's also an interesting tunnel that's currently blocked off but seems to head towards Ironforge:



I headed down to a hidden farm area after this (see next entry).