I really liked the journey and the transition zones. I spent 3 or 4 days hanging around the train depot, hunting, sewing, and reading books.
I dumped a ton of firewood and sticks at the Train Depot and kept going. I was trying to let it ride and push through straight to the airfield, to take advantage of my good luck with the wolves.
On my way through, I saw a wolf at the 3 red train cars and another at the waterfall, after you go down the really long set of stairs onto the frozen river.
I'm fairly certain that the waterfall is supposed to be a wolf spawn and I just got really lucky. I'm also still a little puzzled by the four wolves at the Maintenance Shed when there were at least 3 wolf carcasses in the same general area. In any case, I didn't encounter any more wolves for days. I was actually living at the airfield for a couple days before I finally encountered any wolves.
The Long Dark - Stalker Day 50
I left the trailer in the morning and continued heading for the airfield. It's easy to find since there are actually "airport this way" road signs all the way there, like there would be in RL, which was pretty immersive. I found a battery in the truck at the trailer, but I left it because it was too heavy and I wanted to be able to sprint. Plus I had no idea how close or far I was from the airport. I knew that I would need a battery at the airport to fix the radio tower, but I was hoping to find a battery at the airport, which I did end up finding, along with all the other stuff needed to fix the tower. Again I also dumped a bunch of firewood so I could sprint, which ultimately ended up being unnecessary because I made it all the way to the airport without encountering a single wolf. I also had beautiful weather for the entire trek. A couple snowfalls and some brief periods of high winds, but no bad snows and no blizzards at all. Seems the RNG Gods really wanted to welcome me to Forsaken Airfield.
Holy crap the airport is overwhelming... its so wide open and you can see everything in every direction for miles. There are so many structures to explore and so much loot. It was pretty confusing to know where to start. I opted to locate an indoor base with a bedroom first, as most of the structures are not warm "indoor" structures with their own loading screens, despite you being able to enter them and close the door behind you. So once I tried out the hangar, I realized that was going to be the base. So I found a bedroom and then start sorting my storage, and using the spraypaint to mark all the important locations, storage, food, bed, etc. I like to put all my stuff in designated area and inside containers so that I can access it from the container menu rather than spreading everything out on the floor where you have to hover over it to see what it is, and actually pick it up to check the condition. Putting stuff in containers also lets you access it easily in the dark.
The hangar itself is also pretty overwhelming. I've been there for a few days and I still haven't finished looting it.
I did find a hammer in the basement with the forge. I just left it by the forge with all my coal since I found a second hammer in the Air traffic control tower. The hangar reminds me a little of Carter Dam and Hibernia Processing in that there is so much to explore and a ridiculous amount of loot to find, boxes and crates to open/break down and overall just tons of stuff to do.
Once I got myself situated, I fixed the radio tower, which was easy since I'd found all the necessary parts by then. Then I climbed up the ridiculous number of stairs to the top of the Air Traffic Control tower to get the Handheld-Shortwave radio, which of course, starts the mini-mission, which was awesome, and immediately made the trek out there feel worth it.
I got an aurora the first night after fixing the tower and finding the shortwave, but the shortwave didn't pick up anything for some reason. I walked all around and there was nothing on either channel. However, a couple nights later, it did pick up a signal and I was able to locate a buried cache
.. which was mostly just full of flares
, but still, it was really cool to use the shortwave and see how it works. Also, using the shortwave, I finally encountered a pack of aurora wolves with their glitchy howling and glowing green eyes... terrifying. It was also hard to tell the wolves from the lights of the runway so there were some tense moments trying to make it back to the hangar. I thought that going for the cache was going to end up costing me my life, but I was able to make it back. Now I've started rabbit hunting the bunnies nearby and hijacking them from the wolves.
The big downside to the airport, is that although there is a kitchen, there seemed to be no wood burning stoves anywhere, so I had to cook my rabbits outdoors in the open small hangar nearby the large hangar.
However, as I type this, It just occurred to me that the forge in the basement of the hangar doubles as a wood stove 
. Now that I've done a lot of looting, I think I am ready to start exploring and mapping some of the surrounding region and start looking for a rifle. If I can find one, I can look for deer. If not, I will have to try find saplings and craft a bow and arrows since I didn't bring any. If I can do that, I will stay out here and just keep exploring and looting for a few weeks. If I cant find any of that, I will have to head back to Broken Railroad when the bunnies run out.
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