Solar Power! The Suntactics sCharger-14.

On October 15, I'm taking off on a two-month camping trip to southern Utah and Arizona. I'm going to be tent camping the whole time, in some of the most remote and desolate country in the lower 48 states. Off the grid.

So how am I going to keep my iPad and my Samsung phone charged?

With solar power, of course. I have acquired the Suntactics sCharger-14 to keep my electronics running. The photo shows one of my tests on the back porch. In full sunlight, it charged my Samsung phone from 63% to 89% in an hour and fifty minutes. It took my iPad from 37% to 65% in about an hour. You put a white cloth over the device you're charging to keep it from getting fried.

And it is extremely compact. It looks big in the picture, but it folds in half, and each of the wings is only about as thick as a piece of poster board. Very backpackable.  The Suntactics sCharger-14 is $230 on Amazon - a lot of money for a poor man, but I think it will be worth it for two months of charged-up electronics in the desert.