The Long Dark: Episode 2 – Sidequest: Mystery Lake Supply Caches Walkthrough & Guide.
The Long Dark: Mystery Lake Supply Caches Walkthrough
As with the Milton supply caches, you can’t access these until you find the note/directions to the specific cache. You’ll get an achievement if you find all of these caches and had previously found all the caches in Episode 1.
Alan’s Cave Cache
You gain access to this cache by finding the note on one of the office desks in the Carter Dam.
Alan’s Cave can be found off the left side of Mystery Lake when your back is to the Camp Office. Follow the river until you reach an open area filled with trees. From here, you want to leave the river (circled in red) and follow the path through the snow (black arrow)
Eventually you will reach a hunter’s blind. Turn left and the cave will be directly in front of you. The supply cache is near the back wall, between the trees.
Clearcut Cache
To unlock this cache, find the following note inside one of the lake cabins below (the one where my icon is on the map). It’s unlocked, so you don’t have to worry about finding the key.
The cache itself is at the Clearcut. You can get there by following the railroad until you reach the Loading Area. There will be a yellow sign on your left that indicates another road. Just follow that road, past the logging trailers, until you see a colorful sign on your left. Clearcut will be on the right. You can also look for the radio tower on clear days; Clearcut is in the same area as that tower.
The cache can be found near a tree stump between two log piles.
Rail Tunnel Cache
You unlock this cache by finding the illegible note in the Forestry Lookout (Mystery Lake).
To get to the cache, head to the Rail Tunnel, where you leave Mystery Lake to get to Forlorn Muskeg. The cache is next to the big rock pictured below. You can see the tunnel entrance in the top left.
Forlorn Muskeg Cache
To unlock this cache, go to the Broken Railroad region and follow the railroad as if heading to the Maintenance Yard. However, you want to keep following the railroad past the Yard. You’ll find a note in the truck below.
To get to the cache, head to the Forlorn Muskeg region. When leaving from the Broken Railroad region, follow the railroad but look to your right. The cache is next to the root section of the circled tree in the picture. I’ve also added other pictures with the Spence Family Homestead (left) and broken train (right) in the distance to help you orient yourself.
Broken Railroad River Cache
This cache is unlocked by finding the bloody note next to the body in Forlorn Muskeg. You’ll find the body leaning beside the train car, on the Broken Railroad end of the Muskeg.
In the Broken Railroad, head to the frozen lake. You want to go under the fallen tree that leads to the Yard. The cache will be buried in a snowbank.
Hunting Lodge Cache
You unlock this cache by finding the note on the Hunting Lodge (Broken Railroad) outside stairs.
The cache itself is close to the Hunting Lodge (check the map for more details). Leave the Lodge from the front door (where you found the note) and then just go straight over the hill from there. The cache will be under a half-fallen tree (the black arrow points towards the Hunting Lodge).
This cache has some Mukluks, so I would definitely recommend it if you didn’t complete the sidequest: One Last Thing in Episode 1. It also has a note that will trigger the “Aurora Hatch” sidequest.