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It takes an hour to refuel the convoy vehicles and prepare for the next stage of your journey. You are to take over as scout now that the colony is about to push deeper into the mountains. The increasing altitude and the unpredictable thermal air currents here make it too dangerous for Rickenbacker to continue in his role as air scout.

Five miles out from Kent, you cross a dry watercourse once known as the Salt Draw and begin a slow climb into the Apache Mountains. To your left you can see a high ridge, known locally as the Black Peak, and it is here that you sight something that makes you suspicious. A glint of sunlight is reflecting repeatedly at a point near the crest of this ridge.

If you possess a CB Radio, turn to 30.

If you wish to stop your roadster and investigate these reflections, turn to 304.

If you choose to ignore them and continue along the freeway, turn to 210.