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Rules described as a narrative

Your an intrepid hiker searching for Sasquatch.

You have made your way to the Cascadian wilderness with no given trail to follow. You start at the very top center of the area you were told to explore. You will need to forge your own trail, but be careful, each step taken must be orthogonally adjacent and the difference between the digits of each step must be at least 4.

You will find mountains, trees, creeks (thin blue lines) lakes (blue circles), and the ocean (blue cells). You can not travel through the mountains, trees, lakes, or the ocean. You can travel through creeks, but the difference between the digit in the creek and the digits on the path must be at least 5.

You don't want to get your feet too wet, so you can't take two consecutive steps in a creek. You don't want to do to much back tracking, so the path can not take up a full 2x2 set of cells

Mountains and trees are taller than anything around them, because of this the digits in these cells are larger than the digits in the orthogonally adjacent cells. Likewise, lakes have a lower elevation than the cells around it, and so their digits are lower than the orthogonally adjacent cells.

Creeks travel from mountains to lakes, and because water travels downhill digits along a creek will always decrease in numbers as they move from mountains to lakes. Mountains and lakes can have any number of creeks attached to them.

Strawberries can also be found around this area. They are exclusively found between digits where one of them is double the other.

And normal sudoku rules apply

Rules described in the traditional manner:

Regular sudoku rules:

Place the digits 1-9 in every row, column, and box

Black Kropki Dots:

Strawberries act like Black Kropki dots. The digits on either side of a strawberry must have a ratio of 2:1

Dynamic Fog:

Fog will revealed along a set path

Maximum cells:

Trees and mountains act as maximum cells. Orthogonally adjacent digits to one of these objects must be smaller than the digit in the object

Minimum cells:

Ponds act as minimum cells. Orthogonally adjacent digits to one of these objects must be larger than the digit in the object

Thermometer:

Thin blue lines act as thermometers, with their bulbs being at a lake and the tips being at a mountain.

Hidden Whisper Line Path:

There exists a hidden path that goes from the cell in r1c5 and the Sasquatch which is hidden in the grid. For most of the path, it acts like a Dutch whisper line (adjacent cells along the line must have a difference of at least 4). But if it crosses a blue line then at the point where crosses and the two adjacent cells on the line act instead like a 3 cell German whisper line (adjacent digits on the line must have a difference of at least 5). The path can not cross mountains or trees or lakes or go into column 1. No 2x2 section can be covered by the path and no two adjacent digits on the path can be on a blue line