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The actual hike took us 7 hours and 10 minutes, but that includes several breaks and 1 hour at the top where this picture was taken. We hiked it October 18^th 2011 after all the snow was finally melted. There was still several feet of snow in late August this year when I last attempted the hike.

The Colonel Bob Trail is still closed due to the damage from the 2007 storm. The new trail to use is Upper Pete's Creek Trail; it's shorter but steeper.

If you're wanting to learn how to turn your Google Plus about page images into a banner, you're in the right place. This is not an automatic solution to do all the work for you, this requires some photo editing. If you're not comfortable with that, send me the picture you want or get a friend with Photoshop to help you, it's very quick and easy. Plus, this method won't require your Google account username/password or add any advertising watermark to your banner when it's done.

Yes, you can connect your laptop to your TV without wires. Not only that, but it is incredibly easy to do so.

If you want to be able to watch Blu-ray discs on your computer, you'll need a Blu-ray drive such as this. Just so you know, some discs still have protection which I've experienced that stop them from playing on a computer anyway. I haven't tried using the software that comes with this drive yet to see if it works that way though. At any rate, I picked up one of these drives from Newegg.com so I could watch Blu-ray movies on my computer, and here is the unboxing of an LG Super Multi Blue.