The terrain that they traveled over became less flat and more full of rocks. Walker caught himself wondering how he ended up around rocky and mountain like terrain so often. It wasn't innately bad, but came with some frustration while traveling. Simply because there was the fact that he would find himself needing to step over or travel over rocks all the time. Adjust his course due to larger boulders. Or just the fact that it's stopping to climb something here and there.
This didn't prevent him from realizing that more and more of the rocks and boulders around had evidence that there were different ores within them. They all had the bits of crumbly rockers around the edges that showed corrosion from natural forces leaving behind the tougher ores. He also noticed that to their left there were tree like rocks sprouting from the ground.