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The party skirted round the top of the Woods of Chaos until we reached 112.052/113.052 where we would have the shortest route through the forest to our intended exit point at 112.061. We had good hunting on our way to the forest.
Our first night in the forest was disturbed by rustling in the forest canopy - two humanoid type figures, smaller than humans but larger than monkeys, who fled when spotted. We woke Garaf to get some more magic-mouths that we could put up in the trees. 
Our first day's travel through the forest was extremely slow going - just 5 miles in the whole day - so that evening as we were about to make camp we did some calculations: We reckoned that we had about 9 days of travel at this rate through the forest, and only 5 to 6 days of supplies. Normal hunting techniques in the forest wouldn't work (though there was a DM hint that we could do something easily!), so instead Joshua used a Commune with Nature to find some deer about a mile away, fly there as an owl with an Animal Invis on him, transform back and cast Hold Animal on them. From a group of 5 deer he managed to Hold, then slaughter, an adult doe and a yearling. The party meanwhile tramped through the forest to join him - where we made camp. We butchered the animals the next day which would provide sufficient food to get us all the way through the forest. The doe that we slaughtered had been pregnant. The CwN had also shown up isolated pockets of one or two "people" scattered around the forest. 
We set off around midday the following day, but started making much faster going as Francis found some deer trails to follow. The foraging was also quite fruitful (pun intended.) That night we were again disturbed by a simian/humanoid in the branches that scarpered once a Magic Mouth was triggered.
We carried on the next day making good progress until we walked headlong into an ambush . . .