Hi, I'm Phil Schmidt, and welcome to my blog! Here I share my ponderings, wanderings and doings.
A lot of stones, one of which I didn't want
Between the Canadian border and the Minnesota-Wisconsin border lies the 310-mile-long Superior Hiking Trail. Audrey and I started hiking this trail from the northern terminus overlooking the Canadian border on September 10th. She left the trail at Grand Marais five days later, I continued solo from there. By September 30th …
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After getting off the Appalachian Trail in 2024, having plenty of time to ruminate on that experience, I began to contemplate doing a thru-hike of the Superior Hiking Trail as a prelude to and practice for a possible return to the Appalachian Trail in 2027. In the past 6 months …
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This post is a continuation of my previous post. Lots of alternative energy content here. Enjoy!
For a middle-school science project I built a solar hot air collector similar to the one in this picture. I used tin cans, not pop cans as shown in …
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