The Ironforge Airport

Have any of you ever been running around Ironforge possibly dueling and possibly have seen this early ghostland on the map? Well I know I did and I was extremely curious after I found out the tunnel to it was blocked (confirmed) with snow and there were no quests to be obtained there. Well, being the explorer I am, I found a way into it. It almost makes you almost think the Explorer achievement should be for things like this and not just silly continents.

The following is a small tutorial on how to get to the wonderful Ironforge Airport and how to find some eerie things on top of Ironforge. Things you will need are as follows:

- A mage or a level priest with slowfall or levitate

- Preferably a mount

To begin, run to the front of Ironforge as shown below and follow the trail also shown (straight forward from my character down below):

Hop the little safety rail in place and pop slowfall/levitate, mount back up, and jump to here:

Take a left once you land on the ridge and keep climbing up and up and up. Eventually if you keep trying to climb to the highest point, you will come across (the middle of IF on your map) an Ironforge banner with a lone guard protecting it:

Now from here, if you want, you may start popping slowfall, mounting (and then using it every time before its time is up, doesn't matter if you aren't mounted after the first jump) and you can jump slightly towards the left of the flag where it is clear no hills are and you can actually fly all the way to the wetlands like so:

But if you want to, you may drop from the IF banner towards the right and continue on working you way closer and closer to the Airstrip by judging your distance on the map. It will be clear you are near the right place when you come to a huge field of grey stone surrounded by snow. Pop slowfall on that and jump down. Congratulations! You are now in the airstrip. I didn't screenshot this portion because you should experience the abandoned helicopters, or the random pet trainer standing in the middle of a lake with two friends. Make sure to check out the tunnel blocked with snow, and the tower whose steps were raised by the devs so they cannot be manually jumped (hence the mount to jump it). And if you really want to, run to the way south of the airstrip and enjoy the instantly spawning trolls that come in waves (as soon as you kill one, another pops up). They also drop good loot, I got some greens (after only killing about 4 waves) and the trolls are only levels 3-7. I cannot help but figure that is why the GMs used to instantly kill you if you attacked the trolls. The feeling of being in an abandoned Dev playground is quite an eerie feeling.

Enjoy exploring! I'm going back for another look!