Road shower.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

Joel Cotton, a retired Colorado Mountain College computer science professor and avid climber and windsurfer, hikes Utah's White Rim Trail almost every year. "It's pretty dirty and hot," he says - too dirty and hot, in fact, for standard hanging solar showers. So Cotton designed a rack-mounted solar shower for his support vehicle and started selling them last year.

Users can pressurize the Road Shower's four-gallon reservoir with a hand pump; it mounts to most standard ski...