Hidden Dwarf farm, from the airport, Wetlands

After a trip to the Airport (see last article) I decided to try and get to a farm you can see when you're flying from Ironforge to Menethil Harbour, Wetlands, high up in the mountains. I searched for this in vain from the bottom up.

Follow a north-west path towards the harbour from the fligh-path area at the Airport, steadily making your way downwards. You should come to an area with a few bears and a waterfall. The bears are aggressive, but pretty low level.



Now head down the waterfall, following its path. I fell here and survived with 1 heath point! Then I fell again and died as it was just too far. A point here - a death means a very, very long run from Wetlands through Dun Algaz... Takes forver... I think that if you follow the side of the waterfall, and try and remain higher as you descend, there might be a way down without the death.



Okay, once down, there are a load of Dwarves, farmers mostly, wandering about, a few buildings, some cattle, hay bales, a lake, and a signpost that says 'This way' and 'This way'.





There are also some odd targets that some guards are shooting at.

If you follow one of the paths you come to a tunnel which isn't blocked off. It's quite short and ends very abruptly with nothing but sky. You can't see anything beyond the edge, and I didn't have the courage to jump off and see what was there with my main char! Perhaps taking a low level alt there might be worthwhile sometime?



Further west in this pretty large area you come to a lake which is at the top of Dun Algaz. I remember trying to get to this from that side once, and failing, as you can see some grunts on top of the hill there. Well, now you can go and kill them. Lovely.



There isn't anything else to see or do up there yet, but there are some great views!

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).