Talk:Crest of Artorias/@comment-25173123-20140910044340

Could the fog door simply be bypassed by killing the Hydra and going up the ladder via the back route? Is there something blocking the back route too? I never traveled the ladder route until much later in game.

If so then Dark Root could be accessed quite early in game by defeating Hydra. I will have to check this out in NG+.