A relaxing morning (Day 520) cooking in the airfield. I’ve found the control hut to be the best spot for it: the sheltered place between the two buildings shields you from the wind from two directions, and the opened doors mean that if the wind blows straight through from either direction, at least two fires will keep going.

  • Rob BosOPM
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    9 months ago

    Airfield favourite base: the cave under the lake island. Clear lines of sight to everything, sheltered outdoor spot for mass cooking, not far from the fishing huts, central to stick spawns east and west and on the island. Shelters north, northeast, northwest, and southeast for stick gathering.

    Definitely need a couple of breadcrumb trails to cross the ice, but those don’t take too long. And you have to be keenly aware of when you last killed the bear…

    • xanna@mastodon.ie
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      9 months ago

      @rbos yeah, that sounds like a great spot. I haven’t spent enough time there to have settled on a favourite base. Cargomaster’s is good, but everywhere is so far away.

      In my current run I have long cattail breadcrumb trails around HRV, from Starsteps to the scrub brush cave to Valley View. Took ages but very useful in a blizzard, I’m proud of my creation!

      • Rob BosOPM
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, the travel times in FA make everything harder and a little more tedious, and any given round trip requires planning and some recovery afterwards.

        Well done with the breadcrumb trails! I get soooo lost in HRV, it’s a great region but I’ve only spent a cumulative maybe 40 days in it, most of that in the cave a little east (I think) of Stairsteps Lake. I think that’s the scrub brush cave you mentioned.

        • xanna@mastodon.ie
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          9 months ago

          @rbos That’s my central base in HRV but I find that level of the map to be sooo hard to internalise for some reason. The charcoal map is no help, either. I’m really taking my time there rn so I can really get to know it.

          • Rob BosOPM
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            9 months ago

            Super easy to get turned around there, yeah. The breadcrumbs are a great idea. I liked Monolith Lake the most out of the areas that I briefly visited in HRV while doing Faithful Cartographer. Good food supply, pretty scenery, easy to navigate. And with the new fishing system, there may be some reasonably sheltered spots for a hole in the ice. But I’ve found those really hard to use in interloper. Fishing badly needs places where you can reliably have a fire for 24-48 hours straight.