Solar Blogging [in the woods]

Joel Johnson over at BoingBoing is camping in the woods for a week–er, four days–in Harriman State Park in New York, with the intention of blogging using only solar power while he’s out. Sounds like fun to me. Keep up with his progress (or lack thereof) at BoingBoing.net as well as his Twitter account. He also has a Flickr account, so maybe he’ll photolog his journey as well.

This is an interesting project to me, and finally gave me reason enough to get a Twitter account of my own, even though I’m not much for texting…we’ll see how it goes. Follow me, or friend me if you like, on Twitter (as with every other social networking service on the internets) I am mattmitchell8. 

I’ve got two headlamps from Coghlan’s, the 0843 and the 0841.

I’ve got my Amazon Kindle with a copy of Walden on it. (Which I’ve never read.)

Got my knife. Got good socks. Have lightweight, silkie thermals for the evening. Have the most beat-up ball cap around. Have sunscreen. Have fire. Have cables, spare batteries, and trash bags just in case I need to cover something up.

Got my tent, the Hubba Solo, again on multiple recommendations from readers. I haven’t set it up yet, which means that it’s a certainty it will be missing parts or that I’ll have to do so in a freak Hudson Valley hurricane. Oh well — it’ll be good comedy, right?

I’ve got my camera and the Gorilla Pod.

I’ve got rhythm.