ctf-writeup/LA CTF 2023/hike to where

hike to where

Where was this photo taken? I think it used to be in the original photo, but someone cropped it out!

The flag is lactf{location}, where location is the name of the POI that this person hiked up to, all lowercase and replacing spaces with underscrolls. Use the google maps name of the POI: for example, if the solution is the UCLA Bruin Bear statue, this is the google maps location, and the flag would be lactf{bruin_statue}.

Please note: contacting anyone or any organization beyond official LA CTF support channels regarding this challenge is against the rules. Please be respectful of those who are involved in this challenge.

About the Challenge

We were given a people image and we need to know where this photo was taken.

How to Solve?

First, I tried to find a hiking or backpacking event in America but found nothing. However, when I searched in Google Images using the keyword ucla computer science, I found a person named Carey Nachenberg.

After that i tried to googling about Carey Nachenberg hiking event and I found this event

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/peaksprofessorsatucla/792649

And i tried to submit the flag using that event name and luckily its correct

lactf{skull_rock}