Investigating poor Willard's last notes is easy enough--you find a laptop and several physical notebooks in his truck, and after Soph gives the dead scholar an appropriate memorial (that also conveniently ruins future use of a certain altar), you move on.  Alex gives you two solid options--north out of Cortez along Route 145 or due east along Route 160.<br/><br/>"Both lead us up into the mountains, but 145 takes us closer to Denver.  Whether we want to go that way is another matter.  But on the far side of the mountains we ought to be able to pick up our friend in Kansas just fine and from there figure out our next move."<br/><br/>A much-folded and worn road map from Willard's papers leaves a few more mysteries.  There are symbols scrawled onto the map here and there, recognizably drawn from the man's notes.  It isn't very clear what he meant by each (his handwriting was atrocious) but there was something of interest in the Gunnison Gorge area.  Another glyph lies between Center, Del Norte, and Monte Vista...and perhaps out of mischief Willard had sketched a magical circle around the resulting triangular marking.<br/><br/>