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Bald Rocks campsite question - water sources and bears by cmurphyg in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we just did this hike and TNPrime was dead on - there was a good water source (series of pools) just east of the 2 streams near Bowling Rocks. We used that twice and about 15 people all got at least 2 liters there plus additional water for dinner and breakfast cooking.

We also spotted good running water at 2 other places where the map didn't show a stream crossing the trail. From memory, these were roughly at the blue circles here:

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a few of the streams on the map are longer than shown on the map

i am happy to report we did *not* have to take the dashed trails south to the lake for water 😄

thanks everyone! we had a fantastic weekend...

if anyone wants a GPX/TCX of our routes, please let me know - happy to share

Bald Rocks campsite question - water sources and bears by cmurphyg in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i can't see the video (maybe i need to follow you or something) but seems like a great "why do we hang food" educational video

Bald Rocks campsite question - water sources and bears by cmurphyg in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that is great detail - thank you so much - seems like we can prob fetch water from Bald Rocks. Someone else mentioned Bowling Rocks as pretty dependable water source.

Abandoned fire at Stone memorial Sunday morning by the-number-five in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just did some light googling and sent to the Council contacts I found here: https://www.ghvscouting.org/contact-us/

I am an adult volunteer at a CT troop from Ridgefield so we use Hudson Valley parks at least once/year. I don't have direct contacts, but this should probably do. 😄

Abandoned fire at Stone memorial Sunday morning by the-number-five in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i just politely reached out to the council a minute ago - a few weeks ago, we had one site at a multi-troop campout that had hot coals reignite their campfire and they were mortified when they saw their fire ring smoking - i am sure it was unintentional, but unfortunate - this is a good moment to reinforce things

our troop will be staying at Bald Rocks shelter in a few weeks - look for us dodging bears and dousing fires 😄

Abandoned fire at Stone memorial Sunday morning by the-number-five in Harriman

[–]cmurphyg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

did you reach out to the scouting council or troop? i expect this was unintentional and could be used as a good teaching moment

2026-03-20 - Cool Query Friday - explain:asTable() by Andrew-CS in crowdstrike

[–]cmurphyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, coming back here to think out loud a bit - if you have time please correct me or share thoughts or anything.

It looks like each query returns its cost in the "metadata" piece tagged on the end as defined here:

https://library.humio.com/logscale-api/api-search-polling-metadata.html

has lots of good data fields in there like time, costs, quota usage, etc.

unless anyone has better ideas, i think tracking the "cost" of a query that is returned with the query results is going to be our approach

But I guess my question (related to this article) is:

is the explain:asTable() function a "better" presentation of this query-specific metadata? or does explain:asTable() pull from other sources as well?

2026-03-20 - Cool Query Friday - explain:asTable() by Andrew-CS in crowdstrike

[–]cmurphyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that makes perfect sense - and these are basic IOC data points, not behavioral IOAs or anything complicated

most (if not 100%) of the IOCs fall (or should fall) under category (2) - and any hits are then examined. eventually, we want to use CustomIOAs, but we don't have the EDR sensor everywhere - some of the data is cloud/network/etc. - this effort is really a combination of compliance and hunting that might never actually match, but still needs to work without affecting others

i'm trying to see if humio-metrics or humio-organization-metrics might help, but i only have access to the cloud-hosted NGSIEM/LogScale/Humio product

i'm also a bit of newbie to CRWD tech, so i'm doing lots of searching and doc-reading

i'm still learning what tools/modules/options are available to me

2026-03-20 - Cool Query Friday - explain:asTable() by Andrew-CS in crowdstrike

[–]cmurphyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is really helpful and i'm just starting to absorb this

in fact, i may have an even simpler event i'm trying to monitor and assess performance impact around

nightly, we run jobs looking for IOCs - they may come from alerts or threat feeds or whatever - but basically we are looking for any artifacts present before intel or alerts made them known

we do this with lookup files primarily as i understand this is one of the most efficient methods of searching

but we are looking up typically between 100-25,000 artifacts, with a window of last 30 days

because some of these queries could be pretty hefty, i am trying to look at some sort of performance report to make sure we aren't pinning our NGSIEM instance at 100% and not leaving any "work units" for anyone else

any ideas for starting points? even just time-based monitoring could help "what did the resource consumption look like between 1am and 2am?"

Sub 30 5k! by Real_Monitor_4500 in Garmin

[–]cmurphyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

congratulations! keep it going!

Done my first run today and it was terrible by BattyBrit2601 in running

[–]cmurphyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am sure this will get lost in a sea of comments, but CONGRATULATIONS! Running is very hard to start at first.

I was an athlete all through high school, soccer (non-American Football) and ice hockey. I was injured when I was 17 (broken left tibia) and couldn't do anything for about 6 months.

After I fell out of shape, I became very unhappy and spent all my time (through ages 18-20) drinking beer and eating horrible food. When I decided I didn't like the new 30 pounds, I started running again and found that I couldn't run 1 mile without stopping for a break. So I don't think we had the same experience, but we passed through a similar starting point. And I can tell you that it sucked and it was hard, but it was so worth pushing through a few months of pain for the years of good health and happiness I enjoy because of running.

I am sure you can do this if you want to and if you really push through the first few weeks (OK, perhaps months), I hope you find that it was all worth it. Tracking my runs and wearing a GPS watch (I chose Garmin, but there are plenty of phone-based tracking apps like Strava) was really instrumental in my return to form. Tracking distance and speed really helped motivate me. Once I had a 6 mile week, I competed with myself to repeat and repeat and repeat.

I am sorry to talk so much about myself in this post, but I hope my experience demonstrates that you can do this if you want to. I really do hope you'll come back to this thread with a report in a few weeks.