Hi, I'm Phil Schmidt, and welcome to my blog! Here I share my ponderings, wanderings and doings.
Can't help being drawn to it
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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Growing up in the country in the 1970's, with lots of outdoor space and no nearby neighbor kids to play with, forced my siblings and me to find ways to entertain ourselves. I was curious and always looking for fun and cool things to do. I can't really say where …
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