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Lightning
I am sitting in bed watching a storm roll through as I write this. I feel as though everyone underestimates lightning to some degree. I see it now with my daughter as I try to teach her the old adage, “if thunder roars, head indoors.” I had my own experience recently with lightning, getting caught…
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Protected Areas of Colorado
I wanted a big map of all the different protected areas in Colorado – think National Parks, State Parks, Wilderness areas, etc. I could not find such a map, at least one that is easy to use or view. So I made it with Google Maps. You can view it here. #AtLeast100 #100DaysofIndieWeb #2023 #Colorado…
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Torreys Peak by way of Kelso Ridge
I did my first 14er (14,000 foot mountains, the term typically refers to those found in Colorado). It was Torreys Peak, but I was coaxed into doing it the semi-hard way: by taking the Class 3 route over Kelso Ridge. It was a fun time with a little bit of scrambling over scree fields, a…
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Carpenter Peak
Today I hiked up Carpenter Peak, which is a ~7100ft mountain in the Colorado front range. It is accessible via Roxborough State Park. I have been to this state park before, but last time I was here I was kind of underwhelmed with the trail we chose. Carpenter Peak turned out to be a good…
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Setting up Lemmy on a Digital Ocean Droplet
No, not that Lemmy. RIP. I’m not going to write a whole background on why I chose to spin up my own Lemmy instance. Needless to say, this past eight months has been a lot of fun learning about federated internet resources, including my foray into Mastodon and then Akkoma. Long story short, Lemmy is…