Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

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Embrace your inner mountain goat, and learn to carefully slide down to the next ledge. The cape made very little difference to me because I was already used to getting back down safely. (Disclaimer: my wisplight was doubled in range, so if you can't see below you enough to find a safe path down, then yeah, complaints are fully justified.)

Slide down? With the cape? Nooooooo! :-)

Seriously, that, and what the OP describes is the exact opposite of my preferred method of travel in ML. Like someone else mentioned, the baddies are near ground level, also, the mist doesn't extend to the tops of the tall rocks, so you can see the terrain. Not all the ground, but you can see the other peaks and use them as navigation markers. You can also often just hop between them using the cape.

Many of the peaks are also the diagonal rocks, which are relatively easy to find and normally some of the highest peaks.

The biggest danger, of course, is water. Sometimes you can see the hare swimming in the water through the mist, but if all you see is mist and you're not familier with it, you have to assume it's water, and you have to estimate a worst case of where you are going to land and how far you might have to swim after.

That brings up another question that maybe someone can answer. Has anyone analyzed the tradeoff between using stamina to glide father and using stamina to swim? My assumption is that if you "run" while gliding over water that it uses less stamina than if you had to swim the extra distance, but I don't know that for sure. Of course, it depends on skill level, but I wonder if there's a rule-of-thumb.