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nebriv

Cybersecurity by day. Tinkering, trail notes, kitchen experiments, and the occasional trip by night. @nebriv in most places.

Currently finished the Catskill 3500 challenge earlier this year, working on the Adirondack 46ers now. (still) dreaming about property up north. cooking and building more. → /now
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39 entries

Most entries are field notes. A few are chapters. Newest first. Older entries settle to the bottom.

035 2026
Giant + Rocky Peak Ridge + Bald Peak Traverse A one way ticket to a hot ridge traverse
One way hike, dropped off and picked up, crossing over Giant, Rocky Peak Ridge and Bald Peak
TRAIL day hike
034 2026
Big Slide Mountain ADK 46er #1 · The Brothers loop
First Adirondack High Peak. 8.5 miles, muddy and wet, 41 degrees at the summit. Amazing views. Definitely one of my favorites so far.
TRAIL day hike
033 2026
OPNSense, WireGuard, and a quietly stable DNS lab notes · 12 min
Replacing the router brain. Notes for the next person doing the same in their basement.
WROTE note
032 2026
Panther Mountain (winter) W01 · last peak of the 3500
The last hike for the Catskill 3500 Club. Panther Mountain in February, fully snow, 8-9 groups on trail. It felt easier than summer.
TRAIL day hike
031 2026
Slide Mountain (Winter) 33 peaks + 4 winter · finished Feb '26
Every Catskill peak over 3,500 ft, plus four required winter summits. About a year of weekends. On to the 46ers.
TRAIL 1 year
030 2025
North Dome & Sherril Aborted Attempt BEARS!!
Mama Bear and two cubs spotted at the signage.
TRAIL day hike
029 2025
Fir, Big Indian, Eagle 16.5 miles · first bear
Total slog. 16.5 miles through a green tunnel, three peaks, saw a bear. Most boring hike so far.
TRAIL day hike
028 2025
Table & Peekamoose Table · Peekamoose
Trail notes from Table and Peekamoose, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
027 2025
Blackhead Range Blackhead · Black Dome · Thomas Cole
Only planned to do Blackhead but ended up doing all three. Snow flurries, good scrambles, weather changing every twenty minutes.
TRAIL day hike
026 2025
Sugarloaf Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from Sugarloaf Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
025 2025
Panther Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from Panther Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
024 2025
Plateau Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from Plateau Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
023 2025
Slide Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from Slide Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
022 2025
West Kill Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from West Kill Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
021 2025
Balsam Lake Mountain Catskill 3500
Trail notes from Balsam Lake Mountain, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
020 2025
Vly & Bearpen Vly · Bearpen
Trail notes from Vly and Bearpen, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
019 2025
Windham High Peak The first intentional 3500 climb
Brief trail notes from Windham High Peak, part of the Catskill 3500 challenge.
TRAIL day hike
Ch. 4 2025

Hey - What's that orange cannister?

renewed hiking goals

Started the Catskill 3500 challenge in 2025, finished in 2026, on to the 46ers.

TRAIL 2 years
018 2022
The home lab k3s on Proxmox · four VLANs · 3D-printed rack
Proxmox, TrueNAS, a K3s cluster on four Raspberry Pis, OPNSense, and way too many services. The rack is 3D-printed.
BUILT ongoing
Ch. 3 2020

Indoors

the pandemic, games, and personal projects

PLACEHOLDER — the pandemic chapter. Less travel, more building, games filled the gap.

BUILT 3 years
017 2019
Holey Cheese Trip! Geneva & Madrid · Apr 2019
JFK to Geneva via Madrid. A350, priority pass lounges, and the free Swiss transit pass.
TRAVEL note
016 2019
The Great Amtrak Escape, Day Three Aug 24, 2019
Denver to Utah on the California Zephyr. The 6.5-mile tunnel, rafters mooning the train, and the Milky Way.
TRAVEL note
015 2019
The Great Amtrak Escape, Day Two Aug 23, 2019
Chicago layover, the California Zephyr, a steak dinner, and entering territory I've never been to.
TRAVEL note
014 2019
The Great Amtrak Escape, Day One Aug 22, 2019
NYC to Chicago on the Lake Shore Limited. Sleeper car, boxed pasta, and racing the sunset west.
TRAVEL 4 days
013 2019
Solo to Mexico City, Day Four Feb 11, 2019
Sunday wandering. Lost cafe, enchiladas suizas, and navigating the Metro to a new neighborhood.
TRAVEL note
012 2019
Solo to Mexico City, Day Three Feb 10, 2019
A food tour through Oaxacan restaurants, a speakeasy behind a walk-in freezer, and Chinese New Year tacos at midnight.
TRAVEL note
011 2019
Solo to Mexico City, Day Two Feb 8, 2019
Chapultepec Park, the National Museum of Anthropology, and accidentally finding a vegetarian cafe.
TRAVEL note
010 2019
Solo to Mexico City, Day One Feb 7, 2019
First real solo international trip. Interjet out of JFK, street tacos for $1.50, and figuring out the metro without Spanish.
TRAVEL note
Ch. 2 2016

By Plane, Train and Automobile

Seattle → Portland → Klamath Falls → Redwoods → SF · Jan 2016

The trip that started it all. Boeing factory, Amtrak through Oregon, a Fiat 500 on Route 66, redwoods, and Alcatraz.

TRAVEL 8 days
009 2016
The Museum AMNH · Sec Eng → Sr → Manager
Joined the American Museum of Natural History as a Security Engineer. Still here. Now running the program with a two-person team.
WORK 10 years
008 2013
Flank Steak with Cilantro Lime Sauce kitchen notes · 2 min
Cilantro lime marinade on flank steak with cast iron green beans. iPhone photos included.
WROTE note
007 2013
Gobby Syncing With Google Drive lab notes · 4 min
Wiring up a collaborative editor to Google Drive for CTF prep with inotifywait and Grive.
WROTE note
006 2013
Outlook Security Signature Randomizer fun script · 2 min
PowerShell script that gives you a random infosec job title in your Outlook signature.
BUILT note
005 2013
Getting Printer Info From a Print Server Cluster lab notes · 3 min
WMI won't talk to clustered print servers. Registry spelunking and PowerShell to the rescue.
WROTE note
004 2013
CTF Engine project update · 2 min
PHP CTF engine I started for the CNIS Club. Hack job at first, then Bootstrap saved it.
BUILT note
003 2013
EMail - A New Frontier lab notes · 3 min
Setting up postfix, dovecot, and postfixadmin on a VPS. A week lost to port 25 blocking.
WROTE note
002 2013
Moving Up - Switching to a VPS lab notes · 3 min
Ditching shared hosting for DigitalOcean VPS nodes. Five bucks a month and full control.
WROTE note
Ch. 1 2010

Champlain College

Burlington, VT · BS Networking & Infosec

Four Vermont winters, a degree in networking, and a minor in digital forensics. Where the security itch started.

WORK 4 years
001 2009
Overheard At Four Rivers community quote board
Quote board I built for my high school on benvirgilio.com. Submit overheard quotes, vote, flag, search, admin approval queue. PHP/MySQL.
BUILT project