Severely burnt out after seven years working in DFIR consulting, and at the onset of the pandemic, I needed an excuse to get me outside away from people and computers. I ended up diving deep into a hobby I never thought I'd get into: exploring abandoned mines.

Six years into this, I've spent hundreds of hours studying maps, tagged coordinates of over 10,000 tunnels, researched how to do this as safely as possible, almost gotten stranded in the wildness twice, hiked over 50 miles entirely underground, taken explosives training which aided me in helping with an EOD mission at a mine, and found a small cross-section of hackers also into this hobby who introduced me to an amazing community of passionate explorers.