Over several years, he’d applied himself to translating that vision into a plan by poring over maps and pulling down hundreds of satellite images from Google Earth. Slowly he added in new layers of detail—noting terrain features, measuring distances, estimating travel times—until the plan came to fruition in the form of a seven-hundred-mile course that was overlaid against a fifty-seven-day itinerary. He knew the escarpments and hollows where he would camp, the ledges that would enable him to make forward progress, and the geological breaks that would permit him to shift from one layer of rock
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Oh, ok. This is a dude who actually knows what he's doing. Did not expect Pete to know a guy who actually knows what he's doing.
