http://gridrunneradventures.com Grid Runner Adventures Around The World - How To's and instructions Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://gridrunneradventures.com/bolan-with-a-bite/ http://gridrunneradventures.com/fly-fishing-intro/ http://gridrunneradventures.com/blood-knot/ Every invention is the effect of a need. The portable solar water heater was brought on by a need (or a want I haven't figured that out yet) to have warm/hot water on my Caneoing the inside passage trip spring 2009. [caption id="attachment_138" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Flat Copper Coil"][/caption] I started ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/portable-solar-water-heater/ It never fails... any time you build something solar powered or buy anything with the label of solar, the sun does not show for days! I finished my new portable solar water heater over this last weekend. [caption id="attachment_131" align="alignright" width="286" caption="under 12 inch solar collector"][/caption]I cannot wait to test ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/hiding-sun/ I have been loosely mentioning a proposed solar collector that I will build for this trip in previous posts. Like many things, I build a mock-up in Second Life® (Second Life® is a 3d virtual world where the sky is the limit! you can build anything you can think of, ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/portable-solar-collector/ Hello all, and welcome to my first review! I recently bought a 12v dynamo from freeplayenergy.com. It is built to charge cell phone's and other such electronic devices when other power sources are not available. When I was researching this product online I searched EVERYWHERE and could not find any of ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/freeplay-12v-dynamo/ The planning stages for a trip of this undertaking are immense! There are many things to consider, right down to insulating the aluminum pipes in the hull of my canoe to quiet them down from wave slaps. (The canoe I will be using for this trip is a Coleman Scanoe ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/not-really-preparations-not-really-plans/ Inventory for this trip consisted of: 1 framed backpack of unknown age (formerly a rental pack from REI of Seattle) 1 sleeping bag 1 2 man domed tent (couldn't find my hammock tent at the time) 1 hobo knife/fork set 1 popcan stove 1 heiny pot 5 piece aluminum cookware set (hiking cookware) 1 stainless steel french press ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/the-north-country-trail-inventory/ Late spring 2008 I hiked a section of the North Country Trail, north of Mellen Wisconsin. What a great little town. I drove several hours to get there after work one night to have an early start the next morning. Oh the things you do when you hold down a ... http://gridrunneradventures.com/the-north-country-trail-the-towns-folk/