Gart Ironside owned and maintained a sky platform at the Farrow Ridges. He had once flown phraxvessels and built up a fleet of skyships to transport phrax crystals from the mines in the Eastern Woods to Great Glade. Having so made a great fortune and he lived an opulent live in the best quarter of Great Glade, New Lake. He lost everything in "the great swindle" and returned to the Deepwoods to a small platform at the Farrow Ridges, providing phraxvessels like the Xanth Filatine with water and Deepwoods goods.