Backpacking the Indian Peaks Wilderness

In late July of last year, I flew out to Colorado with my girlfriend and 2 of our friends to backpack 30 miles in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. It was my first trip out west since early 2019, and only my second time backpacking outside of the east coast. This trip marked the highest elevation at which I’ve ever hiked. It packed 7800 ft of elevation gain over 3 days. And, despite some rain, it was gorgeous.

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Backpacking the Catskill Escarpment Trail

Way back in June of 2020 my friends and I backpacked the Catskill Escarpment Trail in New York. It was what we in the business like to call an “overnighter”, which means we spent just one night on the trail. It was roughly 23 miles, most of which we’d be completing on the first day due to our varying schedules.

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Prep for Windows 11: Convert to GPT, Enable UEFI & Secure Boot

So I just wrote this guide up to help someone online and I figured I might as well post it here in case it helps someone in the future! Windows 11 will have some specific requirements to install that Windows 10 did not, including requiring Secure Boot. Most PCs made after 2013 have this as a standard thing, but it may not be enabled for you. Here’s how you can check and how you can make sure your PC is ready for Windows 11, which comes out in October of 2021.

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Backpacking the AT in Harriman & Bear Mountain State Parks

Back in April, a group of us decided to backpack 20 miles along the Appalachian Trail just over the NJ-NY border in Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks. This is a decent portion of the AT through NY, starting near Route 87 and going all the way to the Hudson River. Here is the full trip report.

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Favorite Games I Played During 2020

As you already know, when a pandemic happens, you get a lot of free time. You can only bake so much bread. For me, “so much” was zero. I baked zero bread. Instead, I went through some of my backlog of video games! Here are my favorites that I played in 2020, in no particular order:

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