Episode Transcript
[0:00:28 – 0:00:29] SPEAKER_00: There you go.
[0:00:29 – 0:00:33] Adam: Welcome to episode 10 of Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:33 – 0:00:34] Adam: I’m Adam.
[0:00:34 – 0:00:35] Adam: I’m Eric.
[0:00:35 – 0:00:36] Adam: Thanks for joining us.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:46] Adam: We are brought to you by Clearwater Historic Lodge and Outfitters on the Gunflint Trail, and also by Castle Danger White Pine IPA.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:52] Erik: Every beer plants a tree.
[0:00:53 – 0:00:57] Adam: I think you just planted a tree on the floor right here.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:59] Erik: I planted a watery tree on your carpet.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:01] Erik: Good job.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:01] Adam: Oh, boy.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:02] Adam: That looks like a good one.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:03] Erik: Yeah, it is good.
[0:01:03 – 0:01:05] Erik: It is a delicious IPA.
[0:01:05 – 0:01:05] Erik: Quite piney.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:13] Erik: Proceeds go to restoring the North Shore with the beautiful, majestic white pines.
[0:01:14 – 0:01:36] Erik: and uh we’ve had some long episodes recently our goal is to keep this one under an hour good luck so what are we starting with pup date yeah let’s do pup date uh last episode we revealed that i had just gotten a puppy natalie and i adopted a beautiful alaskan husky and uh we’ve got a name
[0:01:37 – 0:01:38] Adam: Husky McHuskface.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:40] Adam: It was not Husky McHuskyface.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:44] Adam: Sadly, that did not finish as the best name, but…
[0:01:45 – 0:01:48] Adam: It was alluded to in the previous episode, and we went with Arrow.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:56] Adam: It is the first lake that Natalie and I ever camped on together, and it’s a huge lake.
[0:01:56 – 0:02:01] Adam: It’s just north of Rose up in Ontario, and technically not Quetico.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:02] Erik: No, it’s a monstrosity, though.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:06] Adam: A lot of people feel like anything in Canada north of the Boundary Waters is Quetico.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:13] Adam: There’s a big section where the other side could feature logging or cabins or motorboats might be over there, but…
[0:02:13 – 0:02:19] Adam: Arrow is a very beautiful lake, and there’s a nice little campsite down there and a nice beach.
[0:02:20 – 0:02:22] Adam: Yeah, just a large lake.
[0:02:22 – 0:02:26] Adam: So it follows with the theme of large lake names for our pets.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:27] Adam: Agnes is our cat.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:30] Adam: That is a Quetico Lake.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:35] Erik: I’ve never been a huge fan of the sentiment on steroids.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:37] Erik: It’s this on steroids.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:39] Erik: But that’s the first thing that comes to mind.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:42] Erik: It’s like Arrow Lake is like Clearwater on steroids.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:44] Adam: No, it’s a monster lake.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:52] Erik: It’s like four times as wide and like 10 times as long, but it still has the crazy, like, it’s like got six sets of Palisades going down the whole thing.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:54] Erik: It’s like, this should be a national park.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:55] Erik: This is an amazing lake.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:56] Adam: It is crazy.
[0:02:56 – 0:03:07] Adam: And then my favorite part is when you’re coming in from Rose on the Arrow River, you just kind of come through a couple bends and then all of a sudden you are like under the first Palisade.
[0:03:07 – 0:03:10] Adam: It sneaks up on you somehow, and then you’re in the lake.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:16] Adam: And the water goes, it’s very clear water, and you can see way down, and it just keeps going.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:20] Adam: And your mind races, how deep is this lake?
[0:03:20 – 0:03:29] Erik: Yeah, you come around that little Arrow River, as it were, and you’re kind of like right under this huge cliff, rock face, and you’re like, wow, this is beautiful.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:36] Erik: And then you get out past that cliff, and then it’s just as far as the eye can see, this long, narrow, cliff-ridden…
[0:03:37 – 0:03:37] Erik: Lake.
[0:03:38 – 0:03:39] Erik: It’s just incredible.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:40] Adam: It’s a great name for a dog.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:42] Adam: She’s the biggest dog in the litter by far.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:47] Adam: She was born on the coldest, darkest night in winter, and she’s doing very well.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:50] Adam: We got her in the kennel training program right now.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:57] Adam: She is currently sleeping in the kennel, doing very well, and she can already sit for treats.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:58] Erik: I saw that.
[0:03:58 – 0:03:58] Erik: That was impressive.
[0:03:58 – 0:04:01] Adam: Yeah, so I don’t know.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:08] Adam: We haven’t been able to start canoe training yet, but we’re still hopefully on track to bring her with us on our Frost River trip in May.
[0:04:08 – 0:04:14] Adam: So that’s the first goal, but we’re going to hopefully get some open water where we can at least get her out for a little canoe ride.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:17] Adam: So looking forward to it.
[0:04:17 – 0:04:21] Adam: It’s a big challenge with a pup, but I think we’ve been pretty fortunate.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:23] Adam: She seems to be a good old girl.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:28] Erik: And with that, we took a week off.
[0:04:28 – 0:04:31] Erik: I’m going to try to articulate the question here.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:33] Erik: I’m going to try to throw you off.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:34] Adam: See if you can guess this.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:35] Adam: It was surprising to me.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:39] Adam: I got to do better than the space station answer from last episode.
[0:04:39 – 0:04:40] Adam: That was embarrassing.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:51] Erik: Well, you know, I asked a bunch of people that question and more people were closer to your guess than the actual answer of 220 miles over the surface of the earth.
[0:04:51 – 0:05:09] Erik: This week, I want to know how many colors could you use on a map of the world so that no other color had to touch itself on the borders of countries, if that makes any sense at all?
[0:05:09 – 0:05:14] Adam: So I need how many countries there are, and we need more colors than that.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:17] Adam: But only for the countries that really touch each other, though.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:18] Erik: Right.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:22] Adam: So let’s say there’s 350 countries out there.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:24] Adam: I’m probably way off, but…
[0:05:25 – 0:05:30] Adam: Let’s say a lot of them are islands, so they’re not touching anybody, so they can repeat colors.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:30] Adam: Is this right?
[0:05:30 – 0:05:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:34] Erik: So that’s basically how few colors can you use without any one country.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:35] Adam: You’re trying to get the fewest number.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:36] Adam: It’s not how many.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:37] Adam: Yeah, exactly.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:40] Adam: The question at first, you think there’s going to be a lot of colors.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:43] Adam: When you really think about it, it’s probably not that many.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:46] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:47] Adam: Europe’s probably an issue.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:51] Erik: There’s a lot of… Yeah, Europe and Africa is where it gets a little tricky.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:51] Erik: Africa.
[0:05:52 – 0:05:56] Adam: I’m going to say you can get away with 13 different colors.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] Adam: That’s my final answer.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:58] Erik: 13.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:02] Erik: I mean, I think that sounds like a reasonable guess.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:10] Erik: But I think outside of maybe a couple of technicalities, as far as I could tell, where I saw this originally is four.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:12] Erik: Which is crazy.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:13] Erik: It doesn’t make any sense.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:19] Erik: But when you start looking at it, like how many countries actually border more than four other countries?
[0:06:19 – 0:06:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:30] Erik: So I guess maybe we’ll link to a random map with countries colored with four different colors.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:30] Erik: There it is.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:31] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:33] Erik: I mean, it really only boils down to it.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:34] Adam: That makes a lot of sense.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:38] Adam: I’m glad I didn’t go with, like, my initial when you were asking the question, I was like, it’s probably 300.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:40] Adam: One for every country.
[0:06:40 – 0:06:42] Adam: One for every country, but that’s not the way it’s actually worded.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:44] Adam: Very good.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:48] Erik: I guess, yeah, I’m glad that I worded it well enough that you were able to kind of understand it.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:54] Erik: And then do we want to just quick get our fact checker out of the way for this week?
[0:06:54 – 0:06:56] Adam: Yeah, and it’s a border dispute.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:57] Adam: We’re talking borders.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:59] Adam: Yeah, borders to borders.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:00] Erik: Borders to borders.
[0:07:00 – 0:07:00] Adam: Fact checker.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:05] Erik: Fact checker.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:12] Erik: Leading off with fact checker, and I think the biggest fact checker from last week was the question about the Continental Divide.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:12] Erik: Yes.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:15] Erik: Specifically the Laurentian Divide in Cook County.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:17] Erik: We heard from somebody on Reddit.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:22] Adam: Yeah, Laurentian divides the Superior Watershed from the Hudson Bay.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:29] Adam: And you will find that in Cook County and Lake County and St. Louis, it looks like, is the three there.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:30] Erik: Yes.
[0:07:30 – 0:07:32] Erik: I think it was the Temperance…
[0:07:33 – 0:07:35] Adam: Temperance to Cherokee?
[0:07:35 – 0:07:38] Erik: Yes, that portage is also a divide.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:44] Erik: I think why the north to south lake is so significant is because it’s on the Canadian border.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:45] Adam: It’s on the border.
[0:07:45 – 0:07:53] Adam: It’s the northernmost of those height of land portages, but they are all height of land portages in their own right, and that is a nice distinction.
[0:07:54 – 0:08:05] Erik: Yeah, it kind of angles down like from that north-south lake portage at about a 45-degree angle through Cook County, and then it meets up with Lake County and continues even farther south.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:13] Erik: I mean, there’s parts of Lake County where, I mean, there’s very little watershed in Lake County.
[0:08:14 – 0:08:18] Erik: More than 50% of the county flows north still, which is kind of surprising.
[0:08:18 – 0:08:21] Adam: Yeah, very steep shoreline there at the big lake, but…
[0:08:21 – 0:08:28] Erik: Yeah, and then we also were able to, we were talking about there was a place where we thought maybe it flowed four different ways.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:33] Erik: There’s a place in St. Louis County, the three-way continental divide.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:35] Erik: There’s a sign.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:36] Erik: Yeah, there is a sign.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:38] Erik: It’s on Highway 53.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:41] Erik: I don’t necessarily think that that’s exactly where the divide is.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:43] Erik: Close enough.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:49] Erik: It does designate the flowages of three different watersheds, which is pretty cool.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:50] Adam: It is pretty cool.
[0:08:51 – 0:09:04] Erik: You get Hudson Bay through the Rainy River and Red River Valley to the north, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence out to the Atlantic, and then obviously the Mississippi River down to the Gulf to the south.
[0:09:05 – 0:09:10] Erik: All three of those, there is one place where, you know, depending on…
[0:09:10 – 0:09:15] Adam: I wonder if there’s a portage over there where you can just show up with a canoe and kind of walk a loop.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:18] Adam: So you’ve gone through all three and then get back in your car.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Erik: Yeah, and then just say you’ve done it all.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:26] Adam: Now, when we were first talking about this before we figured out where that exact point was, I was like, I really would like to go see that.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:28] Adam: It’s on 53 just south of Virginia.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:29] Adam: I’ve been there.
[0:09:30 – 0:09:30] Adam: Good enough.
[0:09:31 – 0:09:31] Erik: Yeah, good enough.
[0:09:31 – 0:09:32] Adam: Checked that one off.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:33] Erik: Checked it off.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:36] Erik: I think that’s enough of a fact checker on that.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:36] Adam: Thank you.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:39] Erik: Yeah, that definitely jogged some thoughts.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:41] Erik: I was like, well, it’s just probably on that one spot.
[0:09:41 – 0:09:42] Adam: I love looking at watershed maps.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:51] Adam: I can seriously just look at this sort of thing on a micro level all the way down to each creek and then zoom out like this to see the full watersheds.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:51] Adam: I love it.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:53] Adam: I love looking at these kinds of things.
[0:09:53 – 0:10:00] Erik: We’ll add a little link in the show notes to a map and some of the links that we found that were interesting to us.
[0:10:01 – 0:10:04] Erik: But the main focus of this week is Pine Lake.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:06] Adam: The big old pine lake.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:07] Adam: Another big lake.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:07] Adam: Yes.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:09] Adam: You can name a pet after this one.
[0:10:09 – 0:10:09] Adam: Pine.
[0:10:09 – 0:10:11] Adam: Pine would be a great pet name.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:12] Erik: Be a good name for a cat.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:13] Adam: Sure.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:14] Erik: Or like a squirrel.
[0:10:14 – 0:10:17] Adam: Maybe if you had a pet rabbit, you can name it Pine.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:21] Erik: Yeah, or one of those random rodents that people feel necessary to keep.
[0:10:21 – 0:10:23] Adam: That would have been my springing on you question this week.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:25] Adam: We were talking about it at work.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:29] Adam: What is the most rodent-y rodent and the least rodent-y rodent?
[0:10:30 – 0:10:33] Adam: and then whether or not rabbits were rodents and so forth.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: But it turns out there’s a lot of rodents.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Erik: What’s the most rodent-y rodent?
[0:10:37 – 0:10:37] Erik: Rat.
[0:10:38 – 0:10:38] Erik: Well, yeah.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:46] Adam: We figured prairie dogs, but then we figured out that flying squirrels are actually still a rodent, and they’re so cute, and they can fly.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:47] Adam: So they’re the least rodent-y rodent.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:49] Adam: They’re flying, and they have huge eyes.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:50] Erik: They’re so cute.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:52] Erik: They’re still kind of ratty to me, though.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:54] Erik: I would go with prairie dog or…
[0:10:54 – 0:10:55] Adam: Yeah, prairie dogs in there.
[0:10:55 – 0:10:59] Adam: We definitely had prairie dog high up on the least rodent-y.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:04] Adam: And let’s be honest, we’re just saying, like, which is the cutest rodent and what is the ugliest rodent to you?
[0:11:04 – 0:11:06] Adam: And that’s a personal question.
[0:11:06 – 0:11:07] Erik: That is very personal.
[0:11:07 – 0:11:23] Erik: Without getting too far off track, Pine Lake is probably up there with Mountain in terms of the largest lakes east of the Gunflint Trail in the Vento unit of the Boundary Waters, the eastern section of the Boundary Waters.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:27] Erik: And it’s got a whole lot going on.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:32] Adam: Most importantly, it’s got access to Stump Lake.
[0:11:32 – 0:11:38] Erik: Yes, we did talk about the person who had spent some time.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:45] Adam: We were looking at that portage last episode, and now we have the map out, and that is an incredible climb up into Stump.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:48] Erik: Yeah, it says it’s 150 rods.
[0:11:48 – 0:11:48] Erik: Who knows?
[0:11:48 – 0:11:56] Erik: I mean, there’s not very many people who are taking that portage into stump, so I cannot imagine that it is a very accurate description.
[0:11:56 – 0:12:01] Erik: But one of my favorite lakes, honestly, just in terms of its…
[0:12:02 – 0:12:29] Erik: view the feel what you can do off of it the fishing um it’s a premier lake um in the eastern boundary waters and i would put it up there and argue against it with just about any lake in the boundary waters huge lake you know you’ve got that wind factor very uh few opportunities to hide from the wind uh long east to west lake what do you say maybe 10 miles long yeah
[0:12:30 – 0:12:31] Adam: That sounds right.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:33] Erik: Maybe a mile wide at its widest.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:34] Adam: Yeah, it’s just long and narrow.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:37] Adam: It funnels the wind effectively in either direction.
[0:12:37 – 0:12:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:40] Adam: And sometimes in both directions.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:41] Erik: Sometimes in any direction.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:48] Adam: And I love it because it’s on the Clearwater Loop, but honestly, you could call that the Pine Loop.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:48] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:54] Adam: Because, well, but the Clearwater Loop, you can take the inside turn, but it’s a formidable lake.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:59] Adam: In a great spot, like with neighboring lakes are also amazing.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:02] Adam: Highly sought after.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:05] Adam: If you’ve never been, you should put this one on your list.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:09] Erik: If you’ve never been, I mean, it’s a massive lake that’s to be kept in mind.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Erik: It’s a 2100 acre lake roughly.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:14] Erik: Uh, yeah, it’s huge.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:21] Erik: Uh, it’s not one of those huge as in like, this is like an ocean and it’s just one of those big sag or basswood or Lac La Croix lakes.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:24] Erik: But, uh, it’s just one of those from one end to another.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:30] Erik: There’s very, very rarely do you get that length of distance down a lake that you can see.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:33] Erik: I mean, you can almost see from one end to the other straight down.
[0:13:34 – 0:13:34] Erik: Um,
[0:13:35 – 0:13:38] Adam: Yeah, if you’re in the right spot, you can pretty much see the whole way.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:41] Erik: Yeah, which can be a little daunting when you’re paddling.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:48] Adam: Yeah, if you come into that and you can see how far it is and then you have any sort of headwind, it can be a little bit of a challenge to the mind.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:52] Erik: Yeah, even if you don’t have a headwind, though, it’s like… Yeah, it’s a long time to be in the…
[0:13:52 – 0:13:55] Adam: If you’re just trying to paddle it without…
[0:13:55 – 0:14:02] Adam: If you have no intention of stopping at one of these beautiful campsites and you know that going in, that’s part of your plan for the day.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:02] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:11] Adam: Then, yeah, when you first get onto it and you can kind of see it, like your arms, you can hear your arms and shoulders just let out a collective, oh, no.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:18] Erik: We were out there last fall doing basically a dead calm Bostrom Classic run.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:22] Erik: Started at Clearwater, ran down to… Bostrom Classic.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:24] Erik: The John Lake inside loop.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:26] Adam: Yeah, we did the inside loop, north to south.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:28] Erik: I mean, it was pretty much…
[0:14:28 – 0:14:30] Erik: Calm all day, maybe a light south wind.
[0:14:30 – 0:14:38] Adam: Yeah, we had a little bit of a haze from wildfire up north of us, and it was dead calm, so it was weird with the haze.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:43] Adam: It was a clear day, but the sun was kind of red all day, and it was just a long day.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:50] Adam: We intended to see how fast we could do that southern loop, and we did burn it down, but
[0:14:51 – 0:14:56] Erik: We got Clearwater, West Pike, East Pike, John, McFarland, and then, yeah, we were about halfway down Pine.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:57] Erik: Pine going back east to west.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:58] Adam: Arms started really creaking.
[0:14:58 – 0:15:00] Adam: I was really seasoned up, and I don’t know.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:04] Adam: We made it finally down Pine, and then we had a soothing soak in Johnson Falls.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:06] Erik: A rejuvenating soak in Johnson.
[0:15:06 – 0:15:08] Adam: And after that, I felt perfect.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:10] Adam: I was back to 100% charge after an hour of sitting in the Falls.
[0:15:14 – 0:15:37] Adam: yeah then we burned it home down caribou little caribou now you have video that’s one of my favorite videos ever fun yeah from the back seat yeah so time lapse you want to start with campsites on pine or let’s do let’s talk about how you get to pine yeah let’s do the access routes and then we’ll get into the campsites in the second half so we’ve already covered caribou off of clear water and then we do have a
[0:15:38 – 0:15:43] Adam: A small episode for Little Caribou will release for Patreon subscribers only at a later date.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:48] Adam: It’s an exclusive VIP Little Caribou episode.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:55] Adam: And then from there, it’s an 80-rod portage downhill over a little creek with a nice little bridge.
[0:15:56 – 0:16:06] Adam: And you come in at the very west end of Pine, just north of the Johnson Falls River Creek that’s coming in at the very end of the lake there.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:09] Erik: And that’s entry point 62 from Clearwater.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:10] Adam: That would be a 62.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:13] Adam: And then you can also reach it from East Bearskin.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:15] Erik: 64.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:16] Adam: That’s 64.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:20] Adam: Yeah, we’ve got our F-14 out laid on the table in front of us.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:23] Adam: And we’ve discussed this one previously.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:34] Adam: You come from Alder then into Canoe North, and then you take the nasty, twisting, one of the weirdest and longest portages you can find.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:35] Erik: Yeah, we talked about that one last week.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:36] Erik: Canoe to Pine.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:37] Erik: One of those tough portages.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:39] Adam: One of the worst ones out there.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:42] Erik: Probably the third hardest way to get to Pine.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Erik: 64 out of this Paris Pine.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:45] Adam: Seriously, yeah, just to avoid that one.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:50] Adam: But it’s a way in and kind of a, you know, you get a merit badge if you do complete that portage.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:51] Adam: It is a way in.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:53] Adam: You may want to challenge yourself and just do it.
[0:16:54 – 0:16:56] Adam: And so that’ll get you to the west end.
[0:16:57 – 0:17:00] Adam: And then coming from the east…
[0:17:02 – 0:17:05] Adam: You can take Entry Point 68.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:08] Adam: It’s a Pine Lake entry via McFarland Lake.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:14] Adam: There’s one of those a day, and that’s a nice option if you want to just go to Pine and kind of base camp.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:24] Adam: There’s a two-rod portage from McFarland, which is you can basically just either paddle up it or pull your canoe through the gentle stream that connects the two lakes.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:32] Adam: The only disadvantage here is you have to paddle McFarland, which is one of my least favorite lakes in the Boundary Waters.
[0:17:33 – 0:17:37] Adam: I just don’t like going through McFarland because you’re in the wilderness and then you have to go through McFarland.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:44] Adam: If you’re doing the loop, especially that way, the Booster Classic route, then all of a sudden you’re seeing pontoon boats.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:54] Erik: It is not technically in the Boundary Waters, so you can continue on that loop, though, officially with a permit.
[0:17:54 – 0:17:58] Erik: You’re not supposed to exit the wilderness and then re-enter.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:00] Erik: You can’t do that, but as long as you’re…
[0:18:00 – 0:18:06] Erik: you know, continuing on your path through McFarland, you can exit and reenter.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:07] Erik: I mean, there’s really no other way.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:12] Adam: It’s just a little jarring when you go through that way, but as an entry point to pine, no problem there.
[0:18:12 – 0:18:18] Adam: It’s a short paddle in from the, uh, the entry point, uh, landing up McFarland.
[0:18:18 – 0:18:23] Adam: And then it’s kind of a cool little thing to pull your boat up that little stream going into pine.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:25] Adam: There’s a, there is a campsite right there too.
[0:18:25 – 0:18:25] Adam: And
[0:18:26 – 0:18:33] Adam: If you ever wanted to have a bocce ball tournament, that would be the official place of the Boundary Waters bocce tournament open.
[0:18:33 – 0:18:37] Erik: Beach, volleyball, or bocce can be had.
[0:18:37 – 0:18:40] Adam: I’m sure somebody has done this, but I’ve never seen it.
[0:18:40 – 0:18:42] Erik: It looks like somebody might even bring a lawnmower out there occasionally.
[0:18:43 – 0:18:44] Erik: Yes.
[0:18:44 – 0:18:45] Erik: Or at least they should more often.
[0:18:45 – 0:18:46] Erik: It’s getting a little overgrown.
[0:18:46 – 0:19:10] Adam: there is one more way technically and there’s a crazed portage coming down from the west pike to east pike portage and the border route trail basically that comes down to the technical border route campsite midway down the lake and that is a beast of a 317 up and over the hill you do not want to be going north south in this section of the boundary waters no i would
[0:19:10 – 0:19:39] Erik: highly recommend you ignore that portage yeah it’s more of a delete it from your maps access to the border rot trail day tripping it’s nice that it’s there so you can get up and uh sure and like hit the border rot trail go to some of those vistas specifically that one over west pike but yeah yeah i mean unless it’s an emergency or you’re just i mean or you need to cut the trip short somehow yeah then you can you can do that you can do it it’s not impossible decrease your paddling mileage if need to be but yeah
[0:19:39 – 0:19:40] Erik: It’s not fun.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:40] Adam: No.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:43] Adam: Then we’ve got a couple little side lakes we have to discuss.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:54] Adam: Previously, we’ve talked about Stump, and that is there, kind of down at the east end on the south side, going up and over the ridge into Long and Stump.
[0:19:55 – 0:19:56] Adam: It looks to me to be one lake.
[0:19:56 – 0:19:57] Erik: It seems like one lake to me.
[0:19:57 – 0:20:02] Adam: I’ve always not understood why that one’s called Two Lakes, but there’s one campsite up there.
[0:20:02 – 0:20:04] Adam: We’ve heard reports of good walleye fishing.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:08] Adam: Could be an interesting destination if you’re willing to go up the hill
[0:20:09 – 0:20:27] Adam: and then there’s gadwall and veil in the mid section there kind of up and you can i love how when you’re paddling this lake you can see the little saddle up the hill where those two lakes are sitting hills yeah it’s pretty neat so it is they’re both reputably pretty nice uh stream trout fishing lakes
[0:20:28 – 0:20:30] Erik: But the portages are no longer maintained.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:31] Erik: Keep that in mind.
[0:20:32 – 0:20:33] Erik: They were rough to begin with.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:45] Erik: Um, and on any, uh, any new fisher map that you find or, um, any forest service person that you talk to, they will tell you that those portages are no longer maintained.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:48] Erik: Um, and that’s a good thing and a bad thing.
[0:20:48 – 0:20:54] Erik: If you ask me, you can get up there and probably still find some pretty good fishing.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:57] Erik: Um, there’s, uh,
[0:20:57 – 0:21:01] Adam: The one time we were going to try and go to Vail with Brother Andrew is up.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:04] Adam: And we were, this is the trip we stayed on Little Caribou.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:07] Adam: And we had, we were like, we’re going to go to Vail.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:10] Adam: And we paddled all the way down Pine and got to Vail.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] Adam: And it looks good.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:13] Adam: It looks good.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:14] Adam: And we’re like paddling up to the portage.
[0:21:14 – 0:21:16] Adam: And right as we’re like, we see it finally.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:17] Adam: And there’s a canoe there.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:18] Adam: I’m like, wow.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:21] Adam: Well, somebody must be coming down from a morning fish up there.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:25] Adam: And because we didn’t see anybody paddling the whole time.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:30] Adam: Like, so, you know, we would have seen them in a big aluminum canoe, right?
[0:21:31 – 0:21:35] Adam: But no, they were somehow just sitting there and were just then going up the portage.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:37] Adam: So they’re like, well, no, we’re going up to fish Vail.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:39] Adam: And Vail is not a big lake.
[0:21:39 – 0:21:40] Adam: You don’t want to share that.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:43] Adam: So we just ended up fishing back our way.
[0:21:43 – 0:22:03] Adam: to johnson falls and we caught about 25 smallmouth bass yeah there’s some smallmouth um so then we had a soak in johnson falls you’re seeing a pattern here your trip to pine should always include a soak in the falls yes but we’ll get to that at the end that’s dessert yeah so i think that covers all the portages
[0:22:03 – 0:22:27] Adam: i think it does i don’t know if there’s any other way to get in there unless you’re a madman and you can somehow find a way in from fault off of the crocodile river and if you do i would argue like this crazy portage from east pike down to mcfarland it’s like literally right where at the end of mcfarland like that’s almost another way down but again north to south avoid it’s also not on maps anymore and no longer maintained not recommended at all
[0:22:27 – 0:22:33] Erik: No, so I think we’ve got a pretty good history of going west to east.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:36] Erik: Probably going to have to… That’s how we’ve always done it.
[0:22:37 – 0:23:04] Erik: probably gonna have to go a little bit faster just because there’s 10 of them i don’t know in general i think we can say they’re mostly good but oh i would say before we even start talking about them in general this lake offers the best campsites for sure uh there’s a couple of stinkers but overall there are some uh some of my favorites absolutely um the first one um speaking of stinkers um
[0:23:05 – 0:23:08] Erik: Cue the Price is Right loser noise.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:09] Adam: There you go.
[0:23:09 – 0:23:10] Adam: Keep paddling.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:11 – 0:23:16] Erik: If you can even find this campsite, I, for the longest time, was not able to find this campsite.
[0:23:19 – 0:23:21] Erik: First campsite on the lake, you’d think it’d be right there.
[0:23:21 – 0:23:23] Erik: Hey, nope.
[0:23:23 – 0:23:24] Erik: It doesn’t exist.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:28] Erik: The only time I was ever able to find it is when there was another canoe on the shoreline
[0:23:29 – 0:23:34] Erik: And the landing is basically, it looks just like any other boundary water shoreline.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:38] Erik: Some craggly rocks, some red pines, some loose roots.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:42] Erik: And if there wasn’t a canoe there, I would have never been able to find it.
[0:23:43 – 0:23:49] Erik: You have to hike up kind of at a weird angle, like a switchbacky trail.
[0:23:49 – 0:23:51] Adam: Yeah, you kind of got to billy goat it up there.
[0:23:51 – 0:23:54] Erik: Yeah, and then you kind of get up to this angled…
[0:23:54 – 0:24:04] Erik: It’s nice and open, but it’s all at like a 60-degree angle, so it’s all just a little slopey, and you can’t really see the lake.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:14] Erik: You know, it’s fine if you can find it and you can get up in there, but considering what’s down the lake from here, I gave it a…
[0:24:15 – 0:24:32] Adam: I would say the only reason to use this would be if you’re going east to west, and this is then the last campsite you would find, and all the other campsites were taken, and you just can pretty much bet that little caribou is going to be taken, and it’s the end of the night.
[0:24:32 – 0:24:33] Adam: Well, then, sure, take it.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:34] Adam: It’s not that bad.
[0:24:34 – 0:24:37] Adam: But if you’re going the other way, just keep going.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:38] Adam: Don’t even think about this one.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:39] Adam: You just cross it off.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:43] Erik: Yeah, the last sentence of my review is, avoid if you can find it.
[0:24:44 – 0:24:45] Adam: That’s tricky.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:48] Adam: Yeah, it’s hard to avoid something that’s hard to find.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:52] Erik: Yeah, number two, just on the way, maybe a little under a half mile.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:58] Erik: I would say it’s your quintessential Boundary Waters site.
[0:24:58 – 0:25:03] Erik: Pretty average, nothing really wrong with it, but nothing really special about it.
[0:25:03 – 0:25:05] Erik: It’s a little cramped, a little buggy.
[0:25:05 – 0:25:07] Erik: It’s kind of right across from a little loon island.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:09] Erik: That can be cool, especially in the spring.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:12] Erik: But there’s really no fishing off the site.
[0:25:13 – 0:25:15] Erik: A couple of small tent pads.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:24] Erik: Not much more to really say about the second site, especially, again, considering what is down the line.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:26] Erik: They just kind of keep getting better and better.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:31] Adam: Yeah, it’s worth your while to paddle to the midsection of this lake if you’re planning to stay.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:36] Erik: Yeah, if you can get to the middle of Pine, you’re going to be in some good campsite territory.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:39] Erik: Campsite 3, just past 2, obviously.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:42] Erik: Another roughly half mile down the lake, probably in total.
[0:25:43 – 0:25:44] Erik: Two and a half miles down the lake.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:47] Erik: This is kind of when the campsites start getting nice.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:50] Adam: Yeah, like if you’re pulling in late and this one’s open, just take it.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:53] Adam: This is a very good campsite.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:56] Erik: This is the one that we would always kind of go for.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:58] Adam: Yeah, like you’re going in late, you can just…
[0:25:58 – 0:26:07] Adam: kind of plan to bypass one and two and kind of aim for three and if three is not there then you got a little bit farther down but then there’s a series of nice campsites
[0:26:08 – 0:26:10] Erik: This is the first nice, decent one that’s available.
[0:26:11 – 0:26:12] Erik: It’s got an excellent landing.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:23] Erik: You know, your classic gentle sloping granite slab into the lake, which doesn’t make for great fishing, but it makes for easy everything else.
[0:26:23 – 0:26:26] Erik: A couple of nice tent pads.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:28] Erik: Fire grade area is nice.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:29] Erik: You can kind of see the lake.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:33] Erik: Just generally above average campsite.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:37] Erik: I wouldn’t say it’s anything spectacular, but it is a nice spot.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:45] Erik: You got a bunch of nice rock area to kind of spread out and a couple of nice big boulders that you can sit on right down by the lake.
[0:26:45 – 0:26:54] Erik: And the farther down the lake you get on Pine, the better sunset action you get because you get more of a view to the west.
[0:26:54 – 0:26:54] Adam: Good point.
[0:26:55 – 0:27:02] Erik: So, uh, past that one, campsite four is the only campsite on the south side of the lake.
[0:27:02 – 0:27:03] Adam: Yep.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:05] Adam: It’s a prestigious campsite.
[0:27:05 – 0:27:06] Erik: Yes.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:22] Erik: Which is, um, I would say a better than average site if you were with, um, a small group because there is definitely a little bit of a, it’s a little bit small.
[0:27:23 – 0:27:24] Erik: But it’s very nice.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:27] Erik: There’s not much room to work with.
[0:27:27 – 0:27:33] Erik: You’ve got this kind of like ash bog swamp right in the back of the campsite.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:37] Erik: But the main campsite itself has like these beautiful big white pines.
[0:27:37 – 0:27:38] Erik: Oh, it’s gorgeous.
[0:27:39 – 0:27:45] Adam: Yeah, you’re kind of almost on this little island that’s just barely connected to the land behind it by that little bog.
[0:27:45 – 0:27:52] Adam: So it’s like you’re on your own little knoll out on the south side of the lake, which you’re the only one on the south side of the lake.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:54] Adam: You’ve got great views of the north here.
[0:27:54 – 0:28:00] Adam: You’ve got views down to the west and the east because you’re out on this little knob.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:03] Erik: Probably the only spot you’d ever be able to get any northern light action on pine.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:04] Adam: Yeah, for sure.
[0:28:05 – 0:28:08] Adam: And then you’re right on the doorstep to Vail there as well.
[0:28:09 – 0:28:11] Adam: Vail would be just to your east, 62 rods.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:17] Adam: There may be a path right over to that portage now that I’m thinking about it.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:20] Adam: Maybe that explains the mystery people we ran into there.
[0:28:20 – 0:28:25] Erik: Yeah, I kind of walked through the woods a little bit and was able to get over to that portage from this campsite.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:29] Erik: Yeah, the only real negatives, like I said, it’s a little small.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:31] Erik: Hammocks, you’ll have no trouble.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:36] Adam: We hammocked the night we spent there for sure.
[0:28:36 – 0:28:37] Erik: We did.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:43] Erik: The access to decent firewood can be tricky because of that little kind of lowland ashy.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:44] Adam: And get some elsewhere.
[0:28:44 – 0:28:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:55] Erik: But, you know, I think that’s definitely a topic for an eventual podcast is some firewood strategery that we have.
[0:28:55 – 0:29:00] Erik: And it doesn’t really make much of a difference for me at this point if there is firewood right out the back of the camp.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:03] Erik: I don’t typically walk right out of the back of the camp for firewood anymore.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:05] Erik: But keep that in mind.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:09] Erik: If you’re getting in late, you’re not just going to be able to run out into the back of the campsite.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:13] Erik: You’re probably going to end up running into nothing, really.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:15] Erik: Kind of aldery ash swamp.
[0:29:16 – 0:29:16] Erik: White alder.
[0:29:17 – 0:29:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:18 – 0:29:20] Erik: This campsite is a nice one.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:24] Erik: Really one of the nicer ones on Pine.
[0:29:24 – 0:29:30] Erik: Just across from campsite number four on the north side of the lake, number five, is another excellent spot.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:31] Adam: Five’s a beaut.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:34] Adam: A minus overall, absolutely.
[0:29:34 – 0:29:35] Erik: Yeah, it makes that…
[0:29:35 – 0:29:37] Adam: This is crawdad camp, no?
[0:29:37 – 0:29:38] Erik: Crawdad camp, it is.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:44] Erik: It makes that little sloping rock landing on campsite number three look like nothing because it’s just a huge…
[0:29:45 – 0:29:49] Erik: I mean, over half the campsite is just this beautiful slab.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:50] Erik: I slept on those rocks one night.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:55] Erik: You did, next to a clanking little tin pot full of… All the crawdads kept me up all night.
[0:29:55 – 0:29:56] Erik: Crawdads that we caught the night before.
[0:29:57 – 0:29:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:57 – 0:29:57] Adam: Yep.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:04] Erik: You know, up in the campsite itself, it’s not necessarily anything grand.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:07] Erik: It’s, I would say, above serviceable.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:10] Erik: Plenty of tent pads, plenty of hammock action.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:16] Erik: But that accessibility to the lake with that nice sloping rock.
[0:30:16 – 0:30:21] Erik: And then just, especially in the summer when you can, you know, that rock just bakes in the sun.
[0:30:21 – 0:30:24] Erik: And then you can just kind of sit down there at night, watch the stars.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:26] Adam: Dry gear out on those hot rocks.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:29] Erik: The sun hits that nice and early.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:38] Erik: So if you get any kind of condensation in the night, A minus, three tent pads, A plus landing, B, fire, great area.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:39] Erik: Campsite number five on the north side.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:40] Erik: Pine five.
[0:30:40 – 0:30:41] Adam: Thumbs up all day.
[0:30:41 – 0:30:42] Erik: Yep.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:43] Erik: Moving on.
[0:30:43 – 0:30:45] Erik: Campsite six, another really nice spot.
[0:30:46 – 0:30:56] Erik: It’s, I would say, probably the most boundary waters feeling campsite where it’s just kind of those nice evenly spaced red pines areas.
[0:30:57 – 0:31:00] Erik: A nice piney duff floor to the forest.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:01] Adam: Yeah, it’s got that feel to it.
[0:31:02 – 0:31:09] Erik: But with that kind of comes a little bit of a lack of view of the lake, especially from up in the camp area.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:17] Erik: There’s not like the big sloping rock slab driveway, as it were, like a couple of the other campsites we’ve talked about.
[0:31:18 – 0:31:19] Erik: But the campsite itself is really nice.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:24] Erik: And if you’re working with tents, this might not be the best spot.
[0:31:24 – 0:31:34] Erik: I mean, there’s two solid tent spots, but the number of hammock spots in this campsite are pretty much unlimited because it’s almost like a plantation of pines in there.
[0:31:35 – 0:31:42] Erik: Nice, uh, nice and evenly spaced, not shrubby or overgrown, um, B overall campsite.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:55] Erik: Um, uh, the next campsite number seven down, I think is my favorite campsite on the lake, which is, is unfortunate for me because it’s a little bit too far away to get to in a day.
[0:31:55 – 0:31:55] Erik: Um,
[0:31:56 – 0:32:00] Erik: But I think it’s an unassuming campsite on the map.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:08] Erik: You would look at it and just down to the south and west, there’s like this other point, which you would be like, well, that’s where the campsite should really be.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:13] Erik: But this campsite is basically what that campsite or what that point looks like.
[0:32:14 – 0:32:22] Erik: It’s kind of this jutting rock out into the lake, but it still offers nice and protected terrain.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:51] Erik: uh shorelines on both the west and the east um with i mean i don’t even know if i counted all the tent pads and it was basically behind where the fire grade area is it’s just this wide open flat wooded area for both hammocks and and tents i don’t i mean i think you probably think from this spot you can see like the entire way down either way either you know you can see the entirety of the lake from here yeah this is dead center
[0:32:52 – 0:33:04] Erik: Yeah, no, and it’s got that thing where your fire grade is kind of right out a little bit in the open, but not too much.
[0:33:05 – 0:33:14] Erik: It feels like you’re camping on a lake, which that first campsite, to a certain extent, the second one, and then the sixth one.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:20] Erik: they’re all right, you know, but for me, if I’m camping in the boundary waters, I want to be like, I’m camping on a lake.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:21] Erik: There’s water right there.
[0:33:22 – 0:33:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:22 – 0:33:23] Adam: I love this kind of site.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:26] Adam: This is definitely one I would stop at.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:26] Erik: For sure.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:39] Erik: And it’s not as expansive as that number five spot we were talking about with that big, long, sloping rock, but it’s got a pretty amiable landing.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:41] Erik: Nothing’s going to trip you up.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:43] Erik: You’re not going to break an ankle getting out of the canoe.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:46] Erik: Pretty much a perfect landing, if you ask me.
[0:33:46 – 0:33:47] Erik: Perfect fire grade area.
[0:33:48 – 0:33:51] Erik: And then behind it is endless space to spread out with
[0:33:52 – 0:34:02] Erik: With hammocks, tents, and even if the weather gets nasty, you can kind of hole up and not be so out in the open.
[0:34:03 – 0:34:04] Erik: Campsite 8.
[0:34:05 – 0:34:07] Erik: Just down around the corner.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:08] Erik: I think this is Botchie Ball Court.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:10] Erik: No, we’re not to Botchie Ball Court yet.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:10] Erik: No, no.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:13] Erik: Just one down from Botchie Ball Court.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:20] Erik: Yeah, this is another pretty basic site.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:20] Adam: Pine Acres.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:21] Erik: Pine Acres.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:25] Erik: Again, yeah, one of those old red piney groves.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:27] Adam: You could set up a badminton court in here.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Erik: You could.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:28] Erik: You could still.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:29] Erik: It’s a little slanty.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:31] Adam: Throw the shuttlecock about.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:32] Erik: Yeah, throw it about.
[0:34:34 – 0:34:44] Erik: I would say that it’s pretty typical, though, especially on this Vento unit, Clearwater side, where you don’t have too many of those big points to work with.
[0:34:45 – 0:34:46] Erik: You kind of end up on these flat shorelines.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:55] Erik: So it’s kind of this cleared pine, about an acre of cleared pines kind of feel.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:56] Erik: A little bit slanty.
[0:34:56 – 0:34:59] Erik: I mean, no issue whatsoever if you have hammocks.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:03] Erik: Maybe a little slanted if you’re working with tents, but…
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Adam: Just put your head uphill.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:08] Adam: Yeah, exactly.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:08] Adam: Fine.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:12] Erik: Relatively above average landing.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:12] Erik: Very great.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:14] Erik: A little bit above average.
[0:35:14 – 0:35:18] Erik: B minus for campsite number eight.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:19 – 0:35:22] Erik: Now we’re on to beach volleyball camp.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Erik: This is when the…
[0:35:23 – 0:35:25] Adam: This is where we always go for spring break.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:26] Erik: Party horns.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:27] SPEAKER_01: Kegs.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:29] SPEAKER_01: Roman candles.
[0:35:35 – 0:35:35] Erik: Black cats.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:37] Adam: Black cats.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:38] Erik: What else is there?
[0:35:38 – 0:35:40] Adam: We’re going to bring out the cornhole boards.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:41] Erik: Beer bongs.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:43] Erik: I mean, geez, look at that picture.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:44] Erik: It’s like a grass field.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:45] Adam: Somebody does mow this.
[0:35:45 – 0:35:47] Adam: There’s got to be some sort of old guy out there.
[0:35:48 – 0:35:49] Adam: Some old man will run McFarland.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:51] Adam: McFarland that takes care of this beautiful turf.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:55] Erik: Comes over with Roundup and sprays all the weeds out of the corners.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:58] Adam: I would say in episode 90, we’re going to probably do best…
[0:35:59 – 0:36:21] Erik: grassy fields of the boundary waters this will be on that list for sure i’ll do a live recording we’ll have it we’ll just have it be uh because it’s we should do a picnic here it is like right on the edge of the boundary waters so we’ll just you know we’ll have people kind of matriculating in and out and we’ll do a live recording slash bocce ball tournament out here yeah first annual we’ll
[0:36:22 – 0:36:22] Erik: First annual.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:23] Erik: It’s crazy.
[0:36:23 – 0:36:25] Erik: I mean, it’s a… Bocce camp.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:32] Erik: It’s a fine spot, but it’s on this weird little… You gave it an overall B, but you should just change that to overall bocce.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:33] Erik: Bocce.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:35] Erik: Add in lower… O-C-C-E.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:36] Erik: Extra, extra lowercase.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:38] Erik: Extra, extra lowercase.
[0:36:38 – 0:36:39] Erik: Occe.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:40] Erik: Occe.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:48] Erik: It’s between Pine and McFarland, which, you know, you can like see a cabin on the north side of the campsite.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:49] Adam: I just don’t look that way.
[0:36:50 – 0:37:11] Erik: just focus on the bocce balls um and you probably hear and maybe see some motorboats but you know if you’re camping here i don’t think you’re really caring so much about seeing a pontoon yeah it’s got nice big pines in it uh it’s got a huge grassy knoll area for like i mean the landing literally has like an escalator built into it to bring you up to camp
[0:37:12 – 0:37:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:13 – 0:37:16] Erik: I mean, you could have like a bluegrass festival up in this campsite.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:18] Erik: Blue Ox 2019.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:21] Erik: We’ll get our friends together on that one.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:25] Erik: So yeah, overall, B, Achi.
[0:37:25 – 0:37:28] Erik: Landing, B, Achi Plus.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:34] Adam: The Bachi court is off the charts.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:35 – 0:37:37] Erik: Unlimited tent pads, though I do say four plus.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:43] Erik: I don’t think there would be any problem with nine people plus sleeping here.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:47] Erik: Yeah, you kind of got to just see it to believe it.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:48] Erik: It’s just a goofball campsite.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:51] Adam: You could play like a game of soccer in here.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:57] Erik: Yeah, if you wanted to practice your chipping, your short game, you come out to campsite nine.
[0:37:57 – 0:38:00] Adam: We could set up a disc golf hole on this campsite pretty easy.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:03] Erik: You got any packable disc golf nets that we could bring out?
[0:38:03 – 0:38:06] Adam: We can bring out the whole metal cage if we want.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:09] Adam: There’s a zero-rod portage into this campsite.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:12] Erik: Oh, yeah, we’ll just drive it around and bring it over.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:13] Adam: Bring it over on the pontoon.
[0:38:13 – 0:38:15] Erik: You don’t even have to break that net down.
[0:38:16 – 0:38:19] Erik: The last campsite, number 10, on the far east end.
[0:38:19 – 0:38:20] Erik: It’s a butte.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:26] Erik: Yeah, there are eight campsites on the north shore, one on the south shore of Pine.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:28] Erik: and one on the east shore.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:29] Erik: It’s out on a little point.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:31] Erik: It’s got beautiful views to the west.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:36] Erik: I mean, about as good as sunset view potential of any campsite.
[0:38:37 – 0:38:41] Erik: I mean, it looks massively down the west end of the lake.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:47] Erik: You don’t really get any more of an expansive view than from a campsite like this.
[0:38:48 – 0:38:49] Erik: It’s got a nice landing.
[0:38:49 – 0:38:54] Erik: It’s got an incredible, again, view, which makes the fire-grade area…
[0:38:55 – 0:38:57] Adam: Is this the best site on the lake?
[0:38:57 – 0:38:58] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:38:58 – 0:38:59] Erik: I think the only thing that I mentioned…
[0:38:59 – 0:39:03] Adam: It’s a little close to the entry point over there at McFarland, but…
[0:39:03 – 0:39:07] Erik: It’s a little close to that entry point, and then just how prevalent the west winds are.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:08] Erik: Sure.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:12] Erik: I could see this getting a little hairy in any kind of… You could get trapped down there for a week.
[0:39:12 – 0:39:14] Erik: any kind of a little wind situation.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:23] Erik: Although the nice part about that would be, you know, your summer light breezes keeps the bugs off.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:28] Erik: And if you set up around that fire grate just right, you wouldn’t have to worry about having fire, smoke,
[0:39:29 – 0:39:30] Erik: In your face all night long.
[0:39:30 – 0:39:43] Erik: But if you get any gales coming in, it’ll be a chilly night and you’ll probably be struggling to get out of this campsite because it is basically on the far east end of a 10 mile.
[0:39:43 – 0:39:44] Adam: You got to respect the big water.
[0:39:45 – 0:39:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:47 – 0:39:56] Erik: But I think the view from this campsite is second to none on the lake and probably arguably one of the best in the area.
[0:39:57 – 0:39:57] Erik: Yes, sir.
[0:39:57 – 0:39:58] Erik: I agree.
[0:39:58 – 0:40:01] Erik: Especially if you get that sunset cracking at the end of the night.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:04] Erik: I don’t think you can argue that.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:10] Adam: Either way, you got to get to Pine and get one of these campsites and just, yeah, at least got to spend one night out here.
[0:40:10 – 0:40:11] Erik: Spend some time on Pine.
[0:40:11 – 0:40:12] Adam: Put it on your short list.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:14] Erik: Beautiful campsites on Pine.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:16] Erik: And that’s it.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:17] Erik: There’s 10 of them.
[0:40:17 – 0:40:32] Erik: I mean, with the three entry points and relative popularity, even though there are 10 campsites, it does get a little busy, especially because there’s Johnson Falls on the west end, which…
[0:40:33 – 0:40:35] Erik: I don’t know if we’re necessarily going to get into.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:38] Erik: I think we’ll have an episode on Johnson Falls.
[0:40:38 – 0:40:40] Adam: We probably should have its own episode for it.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:43] Adam: I mean, we’ve talked about it a few times already in this episode.
[0:40:43 – 0:40:44] Erik: Yeah, it’s been mentioned.
[0:40:45 – 0:40:47] Adam: People should definitely check that out as well.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:51] Erik: It’s a huge part of going out onto Pine, for sure.
[0:40:52 – 0:40:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:53 – 0:40:56] Adam: You can’t go to Pine without a stop at Johnson Falls.
[0:40:56 – 0:40:56] SPEAKER_00: No.
[0:40:58 – 0:40:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:58 – 0:41:02] Erik: And so with that, we’ll move on to fishing.
[0:41:03 – 0:41:05] Erik: I think we should probably touch on fishing.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:12] Erik: And the lake, like I said, is well over 2,000 acres, which I think I’ve mentioned in the past.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:17] Adam: Intimidating water can be tricky to fish that kind of big, deep lake like that in a canoe.
[0:41:17 – 0:41:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:22] Erik: That’s always been one of the things I talk to people about when they ask me about playing.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:25] Adam: The main success I’ve had is with smallmouth in the summer.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:29] Adam: Easy is just throwing anything out there and you’ll catch one.
[0:41:30 – 0:41:32] Adam: And then, of course, the crawfishing.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:40] Adam: And we did do pretty well on the crawdads, although I think Scott got most of them, and I was mostly scared of them pinching me.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:43] Adam: But there’s a lot of crawfish, so…
[0:41:43 – 0:41:44] Adam: Keep that in mind.
[0:41:45 – 0:41:48] Adam: But as far as fish, got a few burbot.
[0:41:49 – 0:41:49] Adam: Very few.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:52 – 0:41:53] Adam: Three total burbot caught.
[0:41:53 – 0:41:54] Adam: Three total burbot.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:57] Adam: What year is this sample from?
[0:41:57 – 0:41:57] Erik: 2016.
[0:41:57 – 0:41:58] Adam: Pretty recent.
[0:41:58 – 0:42:00] Adam: I imagine they net this one pretty regularly.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:04] Erik: I think this is probably the most recent survey we’ve discussed.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:07] Adam: Does have some small cisco.
[0:42:08 – 0:42:08] Erik: Tons, though.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:11] Adam: Nothing over nine inches.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:13] Erik: No, which isn’t really going to affect you.
[0:42:15 – 0:42:17] Adam: And a couple big lake trout.
[0:42:17 – 0:42:23] Erik: Yeah, it’s always a question we get whether or not there are lake trout in here, and there definitely are.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:32] Erik: I don’t think that they’re as prevalent in this lake as they are in the West Pike Clearwater mountain areas, but…
[0:42:32 – 0:42:34] Erik: I think there’s lake trout in here.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:38] Erik: Obviously the nets have proven that and I’ve heard of people catching them down here.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:43] Adam: Yeah, I saw a picture on Reddit of a lady had caught a huge lake trout and claimed it was from pine.
[0:42:43 – 0:42:45] Adam: It was a really nice fish.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:47] Adam: And I was, yeah, I totally believed it.
[0:42:47 – 0:42:47] Adam: It looked like it.
[0:42:49 – 0:42:50] Adam: But I’ve never caught a lake trout in there.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:53] Erik: I’ve never really tried.
[0:42:54 – 0:43:02] Erik: I’ve caught bass and walleye, although it’s funny that there aren’t any northerns sampled in here.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:04] Erik: I’ve caught northerns in pine before, too, so…
[0:43:06 – 0:43:14] Erik: And the status of the fishery report says that it was originally supported by lake trout and northerns as its only native game fish.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:15] Adam: There’s some northerns still in there.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:16] Adam: There has to be.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:17] Adam: They just didn’t catch any.
[0:43:17 – 0:43:17] Adam: It’s too big.
[0:43:17 – 0:43:19] Erik: It’s connected to McFarland.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:22] Erik: The way it’s connected to all those lakes, there’s definitely northerns in there.
[0:43:22 – 0:43:27] Adam: Remember when we were in crawdad camp and those yahoos showed up right at sunset, really close to shore?
[0:43:27 – 0:43:30] Erik: They went paddling by about six feet off our campsite.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:31] Adam: Yeah, where’s the lake trout at?
[0:43:31 – 0:43:33] Adam: Well, they’re not six feet from our campsite.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:35] Adam: Get out of here.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:36] Adam: That’s funny.
[0:43:36 – 0:43:37] Erik: I always love it when that happens.
[0:43:38 – 0:43:41] Adam: So we got some whitefish in here, a lot of whitefish.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:43] Adam: Wow.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:44] Adam: Geez.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:47] Adam: I think we should go here for some whitefishing in April maybe.
[0:43:47 – 0:43:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:50] Adam: Could hike it in from McFarland.
[0:43:50 – 0:43:52] Erik: There’s like 130 of them caught over 15 inches.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:53] Adam: That’s insane.
[0:43:53 – 0:43:54] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:43:54 – 0:43:55] Erik: 182 caught total.
[0:43:55 – 0:43:55] Erik: Wow.
[0:43:55 – 0:43:56] Adam: I had no idea.
[0:43:56 – 0:43:57] Adam: That’s great.
[0:43:57 – 0:44:02] Erik: There’s an incredible number of smallmouth netted too, considering that’s one of the notes you always hear about smallmouth.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:03] Erik: Yeah, it’s hard to net them.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:05] Erik: Is that usually they’re underrepresented.
[0:44:05 – 0:44:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:44:06 – 0:44:09] Adam: When I was in there with my brother, we just slayed.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:09] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:12] Adam: We could have been thrown like a bare hook over the side of the canoe.
[0:44:12 – 0:44:14] Adam: I think we would have been catching smallmouth that day.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:15 – 0:44:16] Adam: There’s a ton of them in here.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:19] Adam: And we got some white sucker and, as you said, walleye.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:20] Adam: Pretty good walleye.
[0:44:21 – 0:44:30] Adam: Yeah, when we went through the last time and stayed on the south side, we did bring some leeches and tried some, but did not have any success.
[0:44:31 – 0:44:36] Adam: But they’re in there, and then it looks like a lot of little tiny perch were caught as well.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:38] Adam: So, yeah, it’s a big lake.
[0:44:38 – 0:44:44] Adam: You’re going to have a wide variety in there, especially when it’s that easily connected to Lake McFarland and John, too.
[0:44:45 – 0:44:47] Adam: I mean, they’re all basically one big lake.
[0:44:48 – 0:44:52] Erik: It’s tough to fish the lake because you’re pretty much limited.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:58] Adam: Yeah, I’m intimidated, and I honestly haven’t fished it a ton just because it’s like, well, usually on that kind of trip you’re just trying to paddle a bunch.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:10] Adam: I’ve never done it where we’ve just gone to pine and sat there and tried to fish other than when I was there with Brother, and we just came down from Little Caribou for like a day fishing a deal there.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:14] Adam: But, yeah, there’s plenty of fish to be had in there.
[0:45:14 – 0:45:17] Adam: It’s a big lake, so you’ve got to imagine there’s got to be some real monsters in there.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:27] Erik: Yeah, I think that’s the general gist of things happening in pine at this point.
[0:45:27 – 0:45:38] Erik: It sounds like the walleyes have kind of been declining for unclear reasons, maybe because of the smallmouth.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:42] Erik: They didn’t claim to have caught any northern pike, but I mean, I’ve caught them in there.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Erik: There has to be pike in there.
[0:45:45 – 0:45:46] Adam: I like the line about the whitefish.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:53] Adam: Abundant and could have provided some good fishing to those who could figure out how, when, and where to catch them.
[0:45:53 – 0:45:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:45:54 – 0:45:54] Adam: Dig.
[0:45:54 – 0:45:59] Adam: Yeah, they are tricky.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:00] Erik: That’s why you have to net them.
[0:46:00 – 0:46:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:02 – 0:46:09] Erik: The only other thing of note about pine is it is one of the infested lakes in the area with spiny water flea.
[0:46:09 – 0:46:09] Erik: Ah.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:11] Erik: Yeah, clean your lines off.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:36] Adam: and uh keep them out of caribou and clear water please pine final thoughts must see must see you have to go and that’s the reason we had to get to it we had a couple people asking about pine and it is absolutely must see yeah i would put it on if you haven’t been there i’d put it on your list of like your top five that you need to get to yeah um
[0:46:36 – 0:46:44] Erik: I think I’ve been there every year since I’ve been up here, which is over 10, easily over 10 now.
[0:46:44 – 0:46:49] Erik: And there is still a level of excitement that I get every time I come down from Little Caribou.
[0:46:49 – 0:46:49] Erik: Right.
[0:46:49 – 0:46:54] Erik: You’re plunging down and you drop the canoe and then you kind of just take one step out into the lake.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:54] Erik: You get a look right away.
[0:46:55 – 0:46:58] Erik: And you look down to the east and it’s just this expansive landscape.
[0:46:58 – 0:47:20] Erik: it’s like looking down uh like just an incredible like mountain valley vista except it’s filled with water both sides beautiful jagged and on top of that it’s got the my favorite waterfall experience in the boundary waters and like a really great you can swim anywhere in the lake but like to go swim in the
[0:47:20 – 0:47:26] Adam: in Johnson Falls is one of the greatest things you can do, and that’s all included in your new vacation to Pine Lake.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:31] Adam: We’re going to have to get to Johnson Falls later, as we promised to keep this episode under an hour.
[0:47:31 – 0:47:32] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:47:32 – 0:47:38] Adam: So we’ll do a side episode for that for our Patreon supporters, and that is free, of course.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:39] Adam: We’re just joking.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:40 – 0:47:41] Erik: We’re definitely not on Patreon.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:42] Erik: We’re never going to charge.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:44] Erik: We’re not charging anybody for this.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:44] Erik: But…
[0:47:45 – 0:47:48] Adam: Yeah, that one deserves its own episode anyway, and I don’t want to rush it.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:48] Adam: Right.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:54] Erik: I think if we were to try to get to Johnson Falls right now, it would be a rush, and I think it can be.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:57] Erik: We have plenty of good stories about it, just describing how to get there.
[0:47:58 – 0:47:59] Erik: It’s a standalone thing.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:00] Erik: For sure.
[0:48:01 – 0:48:05] Erik: And Pine is, I mean, we could have really stretched this into two, but I think we did a pretty good job.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:06] Adam: Well, I guess we will.
[0:48:06 – 0:48:11] Adam: It’ll be everything about Pine and then Johnson Falls, which is about how you should divide it.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:12] Adam: It’s that important.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:15] Adam: But absolutely, get down there.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:18] Adam: Get up there for most of you probably.
[0:48:19 – 0:48:19] Erik: Most likely, yeah.
[0:48:19 – 0:48:20] Adam: Get after it.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:23] Adam: It’s a beaut, and you’ve got to see this one.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:26] Adam: So I’m glad we got to it in the first 10 episodes, as it should be.
[0:48:26 – 0:48:27] Erik: Yeah, it’s perfect.
[0:48:28 – 0:48:30] Erik: I’m really glad that it ended up being episode 10.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:34] Erik: 10 campsites, 10 out of 10 lake in general campsites.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:36] Adam: That’s the name of this episode, 10 out of 10.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:38] Erik: Yep, 10 out of 10.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:40] Erik: And, yeah, Pine-like.
[0:48:41 – 0:48:45] Erik: I think, unless you have any final thoughts, theories?
[0:48:45 – 0:48:47] Adam: No, let’s hear from you, though.
[0:48:48 – 0:48:52] Adam: We always like to hear from you guys, so hit us up at tumblehomecast at gmail.
[0:48:53 – 0:48:57] Adam: We’re always on Facebook and rbwca on Reddit.
[0:48:58 – 0:49:02] Adam: We’ll be trying to post some more questions and get a little dialogue and chatter going with you all.
[0:49:03 – 0:49:06] Adam: We’re also on Instagram now, tumblehomecast.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:12] Adam: We got some nice maps and pictures of buttless chaps on there for you to check out.
[0:49:12 – 0:49:14] Erik: Videos of brats on the fire.
[0:49:14 – 0:49:19] Adam: Yeah, we’ll be putting up this nice video of this brat fry we did last night.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:22] Adam: Lake trout season is just ending here.
[0:49:22 – 0:49:28] Adam: A couple more times out there and got to catch some lakers last night and fry some brats on a cedar fire.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:30] Adam: So a video of that will be there.
[0:49:30 – 0:49:32] Adam: But, yeah, I think that does it for us.
[0:49:33 – 0:49:38] Erik: Yeah, we got the worst month of the year coming up in April.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:44] Adam: A lot of agate picking and, you know, training the pup.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:46] Adam: It’s a good month to train a pup.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:48] Erik: It’s a perfect month to train a pup.
[0:49:48 – 0:49:48] Erik: There’s a lot of free time.
[0:49:48 – 0:49:50] Erik: There’s nothing else to do.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:52] Adam: You could go white fishing on pine, though.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:53] Adam: White fishing never closes.
[0:49:54 – 0:49:56] Adam: And there’s still plenty of ice right now, at least.
[0:49:56 – 0:49:57] Adam: There’s three feet.
[0:49:57 – 0:49:59] Erik: Bring a chainsaw, cut a big hole, drop a net.
[0:50:00 – 0:50:06] Erik: Consult your local whitefish guide slash deerskin glove maker.
[0:50:07 – 0:50:08] Adam: And with that…
[0:50:08 – 0:50:11] Adam: Happy paddling and good netting.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:11] Adam: Good netting.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:13] Adam: Good netting.
