Fallout New Vegas: Is there any way to get to Freeside without running into Deathclaws?

Lol, it took me a while, but there's a path you can take just a bit further down the road to Freeside, but don't go too far, and if you have companions, they'll attack them on sight if they're on aggressive, so make sure to make them passive, and then you cut through the country side and make your way to Neil's shack and you can do Black Mountain's quest, which gives good exp.