If you do decide to take that route, it’s especially rewarding for a melee/unarmed character. You can pick up Chance’s Knife as well as the unique Love and Hate spiked knuckles, which are both absurdly powerful. Especially if you use the weapon binding ritual and Rushing Water. Those two weapons alone can last you the whole game.

If you’re going for speed, the “hard” way isn’t exactly difficult to sprint through. The deathclaws in Deathclaw Quarry are literally in the quarry and would require going out of your way to the left of the road to encounter them.

Just watch out for RNG cazadore spawns at the narrowest part of the trail. 😬

That’s great news! I’m a HUGE fan of chest hair.

That reminds me of this John Oliver video, transcript:

Normally the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, not through any black people who happen to be living nearby!