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Hi there. My name is Lubos Brieda. I was born in Slovakia, but I moved to the states when I was 14. I am a graduate of Virginia Tech, where I studied Aerospace Engineering, with the concentration in plasma physics modeling. You can read up on my research here. I now reside in the sunny (but windy!) Lancaster, CA, working on a similar research for the Air Force Research Laboratory. I am a class A certified chainsaw and crosscut operator, and am involved with trail maintenance on the PCT. Besides hiking, I also like riding my motorcycle and brewing beer. I have two cats.
My biggest hobby (or perhaps an obsession?) is highpointing. I am currently up to 35. I was hoping on being done with the midwest by now, but all I managed this year was Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. I just simply ran out of vacation between the trip to India and the 17 day through-hike of the JMT. I was hoping that some business travel opportunity will come up that would take me out there, but that's not looking too likely. I think I just need to bite the bullet and make it back once and for all.
The pictures from this website can be used freely for any non-comercial purposes. Vast majority of pictures were shot using Minolta Maxxum 5 using the Tamron XR-DI 28-300mm lens on Fuji Reala ISO100 film. Older photos are quite blurry, but that's because they were scanned from prints using a standard flatbed scanner. Newer stuff is loaded directly from photo CDs. Do you like any of my pictures or did you find some information particularly interesting? Send me a small donation using the box in the top left corner. Any questions? Shoot me an email:
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