I was cured of my fondness for spears in the mountains. Doesn't matter how good they are if they go sailing off into the sunset never to be seen again or if you need to play inventory manager on a steep slippery slope with wolfies nipping at your heels & drakes blasting you.

I am quite fond of frost caves and hunt them out. The gear is very good and they remind me a bit of jumping puzzles in GW2. Its easy to just block in the front for a mini base, you get iron, bronze plus the other mats in there and as a bonus I have almost always found silver very close though usually guarded by one or even 2 golems roaming about. But that's ok cuz there are also drakes overhead and one will need many many frost arrows for the rest of the game as it stands now. So, don't zip through the mountains too fast or hope for more mountains.