054: Top Ten Wilderness Waterfalls

Episode Transcript

[0:00:00 – 0:00:00] UNKNOWN: Ooh!
[0:00:26 – 0:00:32] Erik: And welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:33 – 0:00:34] Erik: Broadcasting.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:58] Erik: live from i don’t even know what you what do we we didn’t discuss the studio we didn’t discuss the studio before i hit record it’s game on we’ll get into that um we are sponsored by clearwater historic lodge and canoe outfitters and i’m jumping all over the place i’m here joined by adam hello adam
[0:00:58 – 0:01:22] Erik: hello good to be here good to have you we are sponsored by clearwater lodge and historic outfitters well i think i botched that yeah you botched we’re just botching this whole start what is this like episode 54 season 2 episode 2 0202 we are here uh talking waterfalls this week rankers are back
[0:01:23 – 0:01:29] Erik: But before we get to rankings, we’ve got to shout out the listeners on Patreon.
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[0:01:32 – 0:01:35] Erik: Also, of course, as always.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:36] Erik: Hello, friends.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:38] Erik: Hello, friends of the show.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:43] Erik: We’ve got a couple of sponsors in the form of beers here.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:46] Erik: These were hand-delivered.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:49] Erik: That’s the best way.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:55] Erik: The only true way to get auto pop and a wheeler status in our hearts.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:57] Adam: Hopping a Wheeler for life.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:02] Adam: A good friend, Tyler, stopped by the show, dropped these off.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:04] Adam: What do we got here?
[0:02:04 – 0:02:05] Erik: These are some wackies.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:06] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:09] Erik: This is a grain belt southwest cerveza.
[0:02:10 – 0:02:13] Erik: Mexican-style lager with natural lime flavor.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:17] Erik: I think I’ve got the better of the two just in terms of our tastes.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:19] Erik: What are you working with over there?
[0:02:20 – 0:02:23] Adam: This is a Badger Hill Badger Snack.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:26] Adam: Did you see this on the side?
[0:02:26 – 0:02:28] Erik: It’s a badger snack.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:31] Adam: That’s a peanut butter milk stout.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:33] Erik: I will try that.
[0:02:33 – 0:02:36] Erik: I don’t know if I will try more than a sip.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:40] Erik: Let’s get these things cracking.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:44] Erik: Ready?
[0:02:44 – 0:02:45] Erik: Your thumb’s all brown.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:47] Erik: I can tell it’s a dirty, dirty stout.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:50] Adam: That’s a badger snack.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:51] Erik: Cheers, my friend.
[0:02:51 – 0:02:52] Erik: It’s been a while.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:53] Adam: Try Tasty Ammo.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:58] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:00] Erik: That’s rich.
[0:03:00 – 0:03:01] Erik: I could drink about a thousand of those.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:03] Erik: That’s a rich one.
[0:03:03 – 0:03:04] Erik: I got the Southwest Cerveza.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:08] Erik: I don’t imagine I could drink much of the peanut butter milk stout.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:10] Adam: Just gotta drink it real slow.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:11] Erik: Savor it.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:12] Erik: I can smell it.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:19] Erik: Oh, boy.
[0:03:19 – 0:03:20] Adam: See, I got them in the right order.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:21] Adam: See?
[0:03:21 – 0:03:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:22 – 0:03:23] Adam: They go well together.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:24] Erik: They actually kind of do, weirdly enough.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:27] Adam: It’s the ying to my yang, my friend.
[0:03:28 – 0:03:30] Erik: I actually don’t mind that peanut butter milk stout.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:30] Erik: I’m usually not one.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:31] Erik: I mean.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:32] Adam: Is this one also?
[0:03:32 – 0:03:33] Adam: This is a grain belt.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:35] Adam: This is a Minnesota beer.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Adam: And I got a badger snack.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:38] Erik: But it’s brewed in Minnesota.
[0:03:38 – 0:03:39] Erik: That doesn’t make any sense.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:40] Erik: Badger state.
[0:03:41 – 0:03:41] Erik: Come on.
[0:03:41 – 0:03:42] Erik: Where is this from?
[0:03:43 – 0:03:44] Erik: Shakopee.
[0:03:44 – 0:03:45] Adam: Shakopee.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:47] Adam: Well, I was in the badger state last week.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:48] Erik: Oh.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:53] Adam: Took a rundown visit mom last week.
[0:03:53 – 0:03:54] Erik: That’s so nice of you.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:54] Adam: And brother.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Erik: For mom’s day.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:58 – 0:03:59] Adam: It was really nice.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:04] Adam: We looked through a bin of my old kindergarten artwork.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:06] Adam: Oh, that’s right.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:09] Adam: Found a bunch of fun things in there besides the art.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:18] Adam: So found like a 1994 Michael Jordan calendar in mint condition.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:18] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:23] Adam: And like July was him shooting a jumper with like fireworks in the background.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:26] Erik: That’s how the NBA worked in the 90s.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:28] Adam: It was pretty rad.
[0:04:28 – 0:04:28] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:30] Adam: Found a lot of baseball cards.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:36] Adam: I have about 1,700 Robin Young cards, it looked like.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:38] Adam: All Robin Young.
[0:04:38 – 0:04:46] Erik: Do you remember those, this is completely off topic, but we got to get kind of warmed up in the show here before we really delve into the content.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:51] Erik: Those little baseball milk top caps that were kind of metal.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:57] Erik: It was like a mini baseball card except it was a rounded top thing.
[0:04:57 – 0:04:58] Erik: Those are cool.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:03] Erik: So originally they came as the top of milk that you would peel off?
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Erik: Is that the thinking?
[0:05:04 – 0:05:09] Erik: Or were they like tin pogs is what they seemed like.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:10] Adam: Yeah, you could play pogs with them.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:14] Adam: That was when pogs were big too back in the early 90s.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:15] Erik: Oh, pogs.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:17] Erik: Have we ever talked about pogs on the show?
[0:05:17 – 0:05:21] Adam: We have not delved into pogs or pog terminology.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:25] Erik: I don’t think people come here for our thoughts on pogs, but…
[0:05:26 – 0:05:28] Adam: So, yeah, it was a nice trip down to Wisconsin.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:29] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:32] Erik: It’s kind of like traveling forward in time going south.
[0:05:33 – 0:05:34] Erik: I’m sure it was green…
[0:05:34 – 0:05:34] Adam: It was.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:38] Adam: There was people mowing their lawns, and it was pretty warm.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:40] Adam: Pretty nice down there, I’ve got to say.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:46] Adam: However, it always puts me a little at unease after I get past Eau Claire.
[0:05:50 – 0:06:16] Adam: once i turn it east out of shipwreck falls it uh it really opens up you know there’s just a lot less tree down there yeah you’re out of the woods at that point for real and it always uh makes me a little uneasy now after being up here all these years and then i did when i got home i saw like a forested forestry map of north america it was our forest cover map of north america and yeah it kind of ends just uh
[0:06:17 – 0:06:19] Adam: After you get south of Highway 8, really.
[0:06:19 – 0:06:20] Adam: Yeah, no, that’s funny.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:23] Adam: Yeah, you’re kind of out of the woods down there, and I don’t like it.
[0:06:23 – 0:06:24] Erik: It’s too open.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:25] Erik: It’s too open.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:29] Adam: I saw a coyote just running on the field near Wausau.
[0:06:29 – 0:06:31] Erik: Coyote in the field near Wausau.
[0:06:31 – 0:06:33] Erik: It sounds like a Bon Iver song.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:33] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:36] Adam: I mean, it was a nice visit, but that drive is a little rough for me.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:38] Erik: I mean, it’s funny though.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:52] Erik: Like you had the exact opposite feelings of somebody that, uh, for reasons I was in North Dakota talking with somebody and, and they were like, yeah, I lived in the UP for two years and I hated it.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:52] Erik: Hmm.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:54] Erik: Too many trees.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:55] Erik: Too many trees.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:58] Erik: Well, they were from North Dakota.
[0:06:58 – 0:07:01] Adam: They felt like it was claustrophobic.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:05] Adam: But I am from eastern Wisconsin, and I should have been used to that.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:06] Adam: That’s where I grew up.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:08] Adam: But now I prefer the tree.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:10] Adam: I’ve evolved.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:11] Erik: Yeah, you can grow.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:12] Adam: Yeah, I’ve grown.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:13] Adam: I like trees.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:14] Erik: You’ve grown, truly.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:31] Erik: so before we get some nice birding going on here at uh oh yeah we haven’t talked about the studio question calling this just studio question mark for now i don’t know i mean studio judgment based on how the audio is going to sound in here
[0:07:33 – 0:07:45] Erik: It’s not Studio K, and it can’t be Studio K because there’s already a Studio K. Studio V. Yeah, it’s Studio V. Studio V. It’s got a nice ring to it.
[0:07:46 – 0:07:47] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:49] Adam: I think we ought to do a show or two here.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:51] Adam: Yeah, it hasn’t spoken to us yet.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:52] Adam: It will let us know.
[0:07:52 – 0:07:54] Adam: It’s like anything.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:55] Erik: Yeah, like anything.
[0:07:55 – 0:07:56] Adam: The name will let you know.
[0:07:56 – 0:07:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:57 – 0:08:05] Erik: And if you’re listening for the first time, just go back and you can probably piece together where we actually are.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:08] Erik: But we’re not going to go into any more detail on that.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:09] Erik: We are where we are.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:12] Erik: We’re recording and we’re talking waterfalls.
[0:08:13 – 0:08:14] Erik: One more shout out.
[0:08:14 – 0:08:20] Erik: I feel like last time I listened to our last episode, I said shout out about 25 times in the show.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:23] Adam: I said um a lot in the last one.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:25] Erik: Oh, well, I didn’t really notice that.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:26] Erik: I don’t notice ums as much.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:27] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:28] Adam: I did for this one.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:28] Adam: I don’t know why.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:38] Erik: Well, there is some video of us saying um and shout out out there, but there’s some technical difficulties on that.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:46] Erik: I think for now what we’re doing with the video from last episode is going to throw it up on Patreon for our pop in the wheelers.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:48] Erik: Yeah, they can laugh at us.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:50] Erik: And they can laugh at us and see.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:53] Adam: That’s rare footage there.
[0:08:53 – 0:08:54] Adam: It is rare footage.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:55] Adam: First ever footage.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:56] Adam: Yeah, first ever.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:57] Adam: Shot during a show.
[0:08:58 – 0:09:01] Erik: And so since we’re not in Studio K, we won’t be doing any video.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:02] Erik: Probably for this week or the next week.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:06] Erik: But we do have some news for potential video.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:07] Erik: Maybe at the end of the show.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:09] Erik: In the field video and audio.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:11] Erik: Plans are being made.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:14] Erik: One more shout out before we get to…
[0:09:16 – 0:09:16] Erik: Rankers.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:18] Erik: We do really.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:20] Adam: Balls rankers.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:24] Erik: Yeah, we have to.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:27] Erik: This is kind of a special shout out.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:36] Erik: So this person came up to actually buy some used canoes from Clearwater about a week ago.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:41] Adam: And I thought that was a fair deal on some good canoes.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:43] Erik: Very fair deal.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:46] Erik: Clearwater would never do anything but a fair deal.
[0:09:46 – 0:09:48] Adam: You know, that’s where all the best canoes come from.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:49] Adam: Well, they’re all gone now.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:50] Erik: I sold them all.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:51] Erik: They’re gone.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:56] Erik: But, so I was just expecting it to be a, cause I had sold a few here, a few there.
[0:09:56 – 0:09:58] Erik: One guy bought like six or seven of them.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:02] Erik: Uh, and there was just a couple of left, a couple of them left.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:02] Erik: And, uh,
[0:10:04 – 0:10:08] Erik: He actually called and was like, hey, I’m coming up and I’m going to get those last two canoes.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:09] Erik: What kind of canoes are they?
[0:10:10 – 0:10:10] Erik: Can you say?
[0:10:10 – 0:10:11] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:11] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:13] Erik: I mean, I don’t think this is going to like.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:15] Erik: I was just curious.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:19] Erik: Yeah, Spirit 2 and Aquatico Sewers River or Sewers River Aquatico 17.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:20] Erik: Hmm.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:24] Erik: So 50, 50, 50, 50.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:28] Erik: Um, so he called and he was like, I’m coming up.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:28] Erik: I’ll be there about one.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:29] Erik: Are you going to be around?
[0:10:29 – 0:10:30] Erik: I have something for you.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:36] Erik: And it was kind of one of those things where at this point now I’m just like, ah, it must be some beer.
[0:10:38 – 0:10:43] Erik: I’m bringing some beer and which, you know, I, I’m trying not to take that for granted.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:44] Erik: That’s amazing.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:47] Erik: The amount of beer we’ve been going to your head.
[0:10:47 – 0:11:09] Erik: yep it is oh it’s just some beer whatever but that’s he has raised the bar uh so he showed up and he presented us with an incredible like all one piece of wood carved like etching of the depth chart of clearwater lake it’s magnificent
[0:11:09 – 0:11:10] Erik: Yeah, it’s like, I don’t know.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:11] Erik: He can shout.
[0:11:11 – 0:11:19] Erik: He can get back to us and let us know, but it’s like black walnut or… As soon as I saw it, I said, like, what is that, mahogany?
[0:11:19 – 0:11:22] Adam: I don’t know anything about mahogany.
[0:11:23 – 0:11:27] Adam: But it looks very dark and lush, darkly grained.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:30] Erik: Very, very darkly grained, darkly stained.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:32] Erik: Just a fine piece of art.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:34] Erik: It’s going in Studio K.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:36] Adam: Studio K is getting all sorts of…
[0:11:36 – 0:11:38] Adam: It’s getting tricked out.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:40] Adam: Adornments.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:41] Erik: Adorned.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:42] Erik: I mean, it’s just amazing.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:52] Erik: It was just another one of those moments along this crazy road of this podcast where I was just taken aback by the, you know…
[0:11:53 – 0:11:57] Erik: I mean, we must be putting something good out into the world because we’re getting some amazing things back from people.
[0:11:57 – 0:11:58] Adam: This is park love.
[0:11:58 – 0:11:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:01] Adam: This is the essence of the park.
[0:12:01 – 0:12:02] Adam: It’s the love.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:04] Adam: And it was from… We’re feeling it.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:06] Adam: Yeah, and we hope you’re feeling it.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:07] Erik: Yeah, we are.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:14] Erik: I’m excited to go talk about waterfalls and what our plans are for this summer.
[0:12:15 – 0:12:21] Erik: Some trips we’ve just kind of developed in the last few days, but that was an amazing gift, and that was from Steve.
[0:12:22 – 0:12:24] Adam: Yeah, that’s Voyager Company.
[0:12:24 – 0:12:25] Adam: Journey with meaning.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:29] Erik: Yeah, Voyager Company, Journey with Meaning.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:36] Erik: He made it sound like he’s in the business of those machines that can make those.
[0:12:37 – 0:12:42] Erik: So he has one at his disposal that he was talking to me about.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:46] Erik: you know, what he kind of, what lakes he likes to do with those.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:53] Erik: And then the potential of doing like the elevation, not just the, not just the depth.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:56] Erik: And I was like, I’ve always wanted to get like a, that would be amazing.
[0:12:56 – 0:12:57] Erik: Like a Vento unit.
[0:12:57 – 0:12:58] Erik: Yes.
[0:12:58 – 0:12:59] Erik: Reliefs that you see at like national parks.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:00] Erik: Like a table.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:01] Erik: Oh yeah.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:07] Erik: I was like, Oh man, if you can get something like that going, I, you know, could put a little model train in there.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:09] Erik: No, wait, wait, wait.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:15] Erik: A little model boost from train when he used to have the, uh, have a little model canoe and a little tiny track that would travel around.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:16] Erik: Exactly.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:16] Erik: That’d be cool.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:17] Erik: You could do both.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:22] Erik: You could do the depth chart and the elevation and then pour like blue epoxy.
[0:13:25 – 0:13:26] Erik: You wouldn’t even have to go into the park.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:28] Erik: You could just stare at your sweet map table.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:30] Adam: We need one of those.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:30] Adam: I know.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:31] Adam: In the studio.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:33] Erik: All right.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:38] Erik: Well, I remember a few years ago, I was just like kind of pipe dreaming and looking into what that means.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:40] Erik: Because you see those at like national parks all the time.
[0:13:41 – 0:13:42] Erik: Grand Canyon one is.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:45] Erik: Multi-million, like multi, not million, thousands of dollars.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:46] Erik: Billions.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:48] Erik: Tens of thousands of dollars.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:49] Adam: I’m getting the goose shivers.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:51] Erik: So thank you, Steve.
[0:13:51 – 0:13:53] Erik: That’s amazing.
[0:13:54 – 0:13:58] Erik: We did Claire’s laser artwork for us.
[0:13:58 – 0:14:00] Erik: We threw that up on the Facebook page this week.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:03] Erik: We will definitely get the picture of the Clearwater Lake.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:07] Erik: Amazing gift to the studio.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:10] Adam: You know, I believe it’s still there.
[0:14:10 – 0:14:19] Adam: There’s a really nice, in the hallway of Clearwater Lodge, there’s like a big map of Clearwater Lake with the elevation or the depths shown there.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:20] Adam: And that kind of style.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:22] Adam: Exactly.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:24] Adam: Like a handmade one or something.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:24] Adam: That was crazy.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:46] Erik: When he brought that, I was, I didn’t actually bring him into the lodge to show him that, but I told him, I’m like, there’s a real old school one where it was, you know, same form, exact like form and everything, except it was from the days where you had to take like an exact, an exacto knife and like cut out a piece of cardboard in like varyingly different layers.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:46] Erik: So yeah,
[0:14:47 – 0:15:10] Erik: um i think there’s just as much you know craft work or craftsmanship and artwork i always love that thing yeah we get questions on that all the time oh yeah i can just sit and stare at that thing yeah there’s a good story you know me i’m a map starer yeah yeah i am as well um there’s a really good story about uh that kind of work that i’ll tell some other time um but
[0:15:11 – 0:15:18] Erik: I think we’ve got all of our… Do we have all of our ducks in a row before we move on?
[0:15:18 – 0:15:21] Erik: We’re going to start with counting down our waterfalls.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:34] Erik: But before we get to the actual numbers, maybe just a little talk on just kind of the concept, the draw, the… You know, why is it even a thing?
[0:15:34 – 0:15:35] Erik: You know, we kind of like to…
[0:15:36 – 0:15:39] Erik: I like to explore a little bit more.
[0:15:39 – 0:15:40] Erik: You know, we had the episode…
[0:15:41 – 0:15:45] Erik: last year, just on why, you know, why do you, why is the boundary waters even a thing?
[0:15:46 – 0:15:47] Erik: Like what at, at its core?
[0:15:48 – 0:16:01] Erik: And like one step even further in that question is like, you know, you look on, you know, Clearwater’s website or a lot of other outfitters websites, and you can fill out forms where it asks, like, what do you want to go out and see?
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Erik: Or what are you looking to do?
[0:16:03 – 0:16:06] Erik: And, you know, like some of the big ones are like fishing vistas and
[0:16:07 – 0:16:32] Erik: um smaller lakes like wildlife uh remoteness but like almost inevitably like waterfalls is always kind of on that list for like a thing that people want to go and see and even if it’s not in the boundary waters waterfalls is like it’s just one of those things it’s like a destination now that you grouped it together with some other ideas like that i mean really waterfalls are like a liquid vista
[0:16:33 – 0:16:34] Erik: Yeah, Liquid Vista.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:35] Erik: Wow.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:44] Erik: I mean, just for searching purposes, it’s going to be hard not to title the episode Top 10 Waterfalls, but we’re going abstract.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:45] Adam: Liquid Vistas.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:47] Adam: Just came to me.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Erik: That’s what they are like.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:54] Adam: You just mentioned how people like to go, you know, it’s very similar in the way you’re drawn to a vista as the way you’re drawn to a waterfall.
[0:16:56 – 0:17:00] Adam: And, you know, I think there’s a similar pull between rocks and then water.
[0:17:00 – 0:17:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:03] Adam: We’re really yinging and yinging.
[0:17:03 – 0:17:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:07] Erik: You could pair the Vista episode with this one.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:10] Adam: We should have a previously on.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:11] Adam: Previously on.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:13] Erik: A really like, yeah.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:18] Adam: And then you kind of call back to some of these other episodes that have relevance to the current episode.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:25] Erik: You know how much work that would be for me to go back, pull us talking from last summer and then like underlie it under us talking?
[0:17:25 – 0:17:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:30] Erik: You’re just obsessed with the beginning of that last Game of Thrones episode.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:32] Erik: I am, yeah.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:39] Erik: But it is one of those things where it’s like, I mean, maybe it’s just as simple as like, yeah, I don’t know.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:44] Erik: It’s just a thing to go and see that’s like more different than just like, hey, look it, there’s a lake or there’s a pond.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:48] Adam: It’s water in the greatest kind of motion.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:51] Erik: I hate waves.
[0:17:52 – 0:17:54] Adam: I don’t like wind when I’m paddling as much.
[0:17:54 – 0:18:03] Adam: But to see water moving in a current and then tumbling over rocks, it’s like a vista with moving water on top of it.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:03] Adam: It’s great.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:08] Adam: Honestly, I think I’m talking myself into that waterfalls are better than vistas.
[0:18:08 – 0:18:09] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:18:09 – 0:18:16] Erik: Well, there might be, like we talked about last episode or the one before, unpopular opinion or controversial opinion.
[0:18:16 – 0:18:16] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:18:17 – 0:18:18] Erik: That one’s more debatable.
[0:18:18 – 0:18:22] Adam: Yeah, I mean, like with a vista, you can see out across the earth.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:23] Adam: Yes.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:27] Adam: With a waterfall, you can see into the dark heart of the earth.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:30] Erik: Yeah, the dark heart of the earth.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:32] Erik: Yeah, there’s that.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:33] Adam: I don’t know if it’s…
[0:18:34 – 0:18:35] Adam: This badger snack is working.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:37] Erik: Apparently, it’s working.
[0:18:37 – 0:18:41] Erik: It’s really got your descriptive language working.
[0:18:42 – 0:18:54] Erik: Just, you know, for me, I think it’s like vistas are kind of like the accomplishment, like getting to that point and here is your reward.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:55] Erik: And it’s…
[0:18:56 – 0:19:16] Erik: that’s, you know, I think that speaks to a lot of people, but I think the waterfalls or something about waterfalls that are like really sensory and make you like, you can contemplate at on the top of a Vista, but like, I almost get more out of like the journey to the Vista.
[0:19:16 – 0:19:16] Erik: Like,
[0:19:16 – 0:19:33] Adam: yeah a lot of waterfalls do have a pretty decent journey to them right i guess but i i see the point of like usually it’s a big climb involved yeah but i get to this i spend i feel like i spend more time at the waterfall once i’m there and it’s like especially if you can like swimming
[0:19:33 – 0:19:57] Erik: yes the swimming and then like camping like next to one and that is i we didn’t set any parameters for our rankings and we can talk about that as we get into them but i feel like that’s some of the ones that i ranked higher were based on the experiences that i’ve had near them versus like well that one just looks cool you know i mean and there’s some that do have like a
[0:19:59 – 0:20:08] Erik: something about the way that you can interact with them, you know, tangibly that’s, you know, there’s something that needs to be said for that.
[0:20:08 – 0:20:23] Erik: But I think I weighted mine much more heavily towards like the experiences, like anything on this show, the experiences that I’ve had are at or around them versus ones that just look big or are tall or whatever, you know?
[0:20:24 – 0:20:24] Erik: So,
[0:20:25 – 0:20:26] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:20:26 – 0:20:31] Erik: It’s just still one of those things that I’m always amazed at the draw.
[0:20:32 – 0:20:34] Erik: I don’t think I have any ranked from the North Shore.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:37] Erik: We talked about that last week, how we were going to break that up.
[0:20:37 – 0:20:38] Erik: Sure, sure.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:41] Erik: But I mean, it’s a huge part of people who come up here.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:49] Adam: I think I got 12 right now on my list and I don’t even, I’ve got like kind of my top three in a firm top three.
[0:20:50 – 0:20:50] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:50 – 0:20:53] Adam: And then the rest of them, I’m just going on feel today.
[0:20:53 – 0:20:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:53 – 0:20:55] Erik: Well, I mean, I don’t see how it unfolds.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:58] Adam: Are we going to do ours first and then read the reddits?
[0:20:59 – 0:21:00] Erik: I have not even been on the reddit.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:01] Erik: I haven’t very excited for reddit.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:01] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:02 – 0:21:03] Erik: Uh, haven’t even glass.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:04] Erik: I think I saw like, I didn’t.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:07] Adam: I’ve not, I got no spoilers on the reddits.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:08] Erik: So no spoilers.
[0:21:08 – 0:21:11] Erik: Well, let’s take a quick little, so we’re going to start at the 10.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] Adam: For each of us?
[0:21:12 – 0:21:12] Adam: Yes.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:16] Adam: And then work our way down to our ones, and then we’ll read the Reddits after that?
[0:21:16 – 0:21:17] Erik: I think that’s the way we should do it.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:18] Adam: Ooh, this is exciting.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:19] Erik: It’s very exciting.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:23] Erik: And before we get to that excitement, we just have to take a quick little break that doesn’t mean anything to you.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:25] Adam: So I can finish my rankings, actually.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:27] Adam: I need to really work a little bit on my rankings right now.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:29] Erik: Just a little second cram session.
[0:21:29 – 0:21:29] Erik: Whew.
[0:21:31 – 0:21:58] Erik: successful drum roll and we’re back we’re gonna start with we’re back i’m ready for the second half of the show who knows this might be this is actually uh a three act show so this is the start of the second the second act yes hopefully the third act being the uh the listeners and maybe they’re gonna blow some minds and maybe we’ll adjust some rack one intro yes act two
[0:21:59 – 0:22:22] Erik: falls rankers falls rankers second rankings show ever sounds more like a wind ranker uh i gotta work on that that’s not yeah not liquid enough not liquid enough no i don’t know i don’t i don’t know if i want to hear you try to make it more liquid either let’s just go with what we’ve got for safety we’re gonna just we’ll amplify that in post
[0:22:23 – 0:22:27] Adam: All right, we’re going to start out with some honorable mentions that didn’t make our top tens.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:27] Adam: Yes.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:28] Adam: I’ll start.
[0:22:29 – 0:22:29] Adam: Basswood Falls.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Adam: Oh, okay.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:38] Adam: Honorable mention, just because the portage around it is too long and flat.
[0:22:39 – 0:22:42] Adam: How could it be a really good waterfall if the portage is so flat?
[0:22:42 – 0:22:43] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:44] Adam: That’s nonsensical.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:49] Adam: I think for most of it, it’s like you don’t get to see that much of it.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:54] Adam: It’s a huge falls from I just haven’t seen most of it, let’s be honest.
[0:22:55 – 0:22:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:22:55 – 0:23:00] Adam: So I’m just going on lower and seeing the bottom of it and then kind of like, yeah, that’s where it goes.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:00] Adam: Sure.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:05] Adam: At the top after seemingly being on that portage for half a day.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:07] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:11] Adam: It’s a really nice falls, but it’s only an honorable mention due to those.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:13] Adam: But I don’t know.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:13] Erik: For you.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:14] Erik: For me.
[0:23:15 – 0:23:22] Erik: I’m honorable mentioning Chatterton, which is just one of those real nice ones.
[0:23:23 – 0:23:27] Erik: I have it in here, but it’s crossed off.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:29] Erik: It was in the preliminary list, but Chatterton.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:55] Erik: yep um like the heart of quetico between chatterton and russell it’s just kind of one of those spend some time real pretty looking it’s more of a rapids like a heavy rapids that might be why i booted it but okay okay yeah um i can’t argue with that one yeah it’s it’s not on my list so i’m definitely not gonna argue my other one i’m the other one
[0:23:57 – 0:24:02] Adam: I’m a little nervous about just putting it as honorable mention, but I’m going to put Rose Falls as an honorable mention.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:04] Adam: Too busy.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:06] Adam: Go in the winter.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:09] Adam: Now, Rose Falls in the winter, you might have something there.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:12] Adam: I’m talking a full year.
[0:24:13 – 0:24:22] Adam: I’m ranking them based on all four seasons, and Rose Falls is a beautiful place to visit, but it’s got way too many people there every time you’re there.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:23] Adam: You rarely get it to yourself.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:27] Adam: And for me, a waterfall is best when you’re enjoying it by yourself.
[0:24:28 – 0:24:35] Adam: That said, some of the other ones on here, I’m going to be a hypocrite on because you will see people at those other ones too.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:38] Adam: But Rose Falls seems to be the most popular one I’ve ever been to.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:39] SPEAKER_00: Yes.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:46] Erik: So if there’s any ones that you go and honorable mention that I know are going to be in my top 10, which both of yours have already been.
[0:24:47 – 0:24:53] Erik: We can talk a little bit more in depth, but I just got a couple more honorable mentions.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:56] Erik: Mueller Falls, honorable mention.
[0:24:56 – 0:24:56] Adam: You?
[0:24:57 – 0:24:58] Adam: Yeah, no, I will join you.
[0:24:58 – 0:25:02] Adam: I will second the motion to make Mueller Falls an honorable mention.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:03] Adam: It didn’t make my top 10 list.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:06] Adam: And I was looking at it, though.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:07] Adam: It’s a fine falls.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:11] Adam: And we’ve also it’s one that we’ve paddled to together.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:14] Adam: And I think we’ve talked about it a little bit previously on the show.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:22] Erik: But just to give you an idea, it’s the between Ogish Kamunsi and Gabamichigami.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:24] Adam: I’m glad you took the names of the lakes.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:26] Adam: I cannot say either of those.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:29] Erik: And Agamok specifically and Mueller.
[0:25:29 – 0:25:30] Erik: Agamok and Mueller.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:32] Erik: And yeah, I think the only reason it was…
[0:25:32 – 0:25:33] Erik: I mean, it’s fine.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:33] Erik: It’s cool.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:37] Erik: It’s like this kind of quick rushing gorge with a sweet bridge over it.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:44] Erik: But outside of that, the main reason I thought of bringing it up was because it was involved in that big day trip.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:46] Adam: Yeah, it was a really cool day trip.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:49] Adam: And that’s a crazy day trip if you really look at a map and think about that.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:50] Adam: And that was…
[0:25:51 – 0:25:57] Adam: we actually had paddled a couple miles in the morning to get back to land and then drive up and do that day trip.
[0:25:57 – 0:26:01] Adam: So we already had a couple miles in the tank before we even departed Round Lake.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:05] Adam: Yeah, we departed from Round.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:06] Erik: Yeah, up through Brandt.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:07] Erik: Yes.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:08] Erik: Yes.
[0:26:08 – 0:26:16] Adam: So, yeah, that was a really good day trip, and I would say it did involve some swimming, too, which usually would amplify my grade for a waterfall.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:18] Erik: Yeah, it was kind of like…
[0:26:18 – 0:26:19] Adam: I don’t know how it’s not on my list.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:21] Adam: I can’t talk myself out of this.
[0:26:21 – 0:26:23] Erik: It was a little buggy and kind of…
[0:26:23 – 0:26:24] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:26:24 – 0:26:25] Erik: It was a nice fall.
[0:26:25 – 0:26:32] Erik: We were also kind of sleep-deprived because we had been coming from a really early start, and we thought we were seeing daytime auroras.
[0:26:32 – 0:26:34] Adam: We were just like… We were seeing daytime auroras.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:36] Adam: I’ll stand by that statement.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:36] Adam: KK29.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:36] Adam: KK29.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:40] Erik: Do you have any other honorable mentions?
[0:26:41 – 0:26:41] Adam: No, I don’t think so.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:46] Adam: I think everything else I’ve got written down here, I’m going to go ahead and rank.
[0:26:47 – 0:26:48] Erik: Well, just two more for me.
[0:26:49 – 0:26:51] Erik: Eddie Falls between Eddie and the South Arm of Knife.
[0:26:51 – 0:26:56] Erik: That’s always kind of an underappreciated spot because it’s way off that portage.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:58] Erik: I almost forgot about Eddie.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:19] Erik: yeah eddie all right you can like hear it at night if you’re in the on the south armor knife um and i kind of cheated a little bit here and just put down the granite river because i don’t think any of them specifically are like there’s nothing wrong with that i totally agree you’re just gonna rope them all together
[0:27:19 – 0:27:25] Erik: Yeah, none of them are, like, they speak out, but that whole experience is, like, kind of worth it.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:28] Adam: A lot of cool moving water to be around, but, like, none of them really stand out.
[0:27:28 – 0:27:29] Adam: It’s more of a team effort.
[0:27:30 – 0:27:30] Adam: Exactly.
[0:27:30 – 0:27:32] Adam: But, like, the first one…
[0:27:32 – 0:27:33] Adam: I think, what’s the first one?
[0:27:34 – 0:27:35] Adam: It’s not a team sport, though.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:42] Erik: I think the first one’s, like, Bald Rock Falls or something, and that one’s, like, just because it’s the first one… On the Granite?
[0:27:42 – 0:27:43] Erik: On the Granite River, yeah.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:46] Erik: There may or may not be a name of the first one that you have to portage around.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:47] Adam: Like, right after…
[0:27:48 – 0:28:10] Adam: magnetic yeah the first one yeah but anyway there’s your honorable mentions on kadook and now it’s time what’s that we’re gonna get ranker copyrighted this is gonna be our falls cabaret yes and uh first up
[0:28:12 – 0:28:13] Adam: Where are we going to go?
[0:28:13 – 0:28:13] Adam: Ten.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:14] Adam: Ten.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:15] Adam: Do your ten.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:21] Adam: I’m going with the Cadence River Canyon Falls, specifically the second falls up from the big lake.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:24] Adam: And this one is best in the winter.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:25] Erik: Ah.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:32] Adam: And it’s also on the Cadence River, which is the home river, as you dear listeners surely know.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:41] Adam: And so, yeah, I put a tiny little slot canyon, barely waterfall ahead of Rose Falls.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:41] Erik: Wow.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:42] Adam: I did it.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:46] Adam: And it’s a pretty big slap in the face to Basswood, too.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:48] Adam: But it’s my home river.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:51] Adam: It’s not that impressive, but it’s pretty darn cool.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:57] Adam: The hike up the canyon in the winter, it’s unlike anything else you can almost encounter.
[0:28:57 – 0:29:01] Adam: It is unlike anything else you can encounter in the state of Minnesota.
[0:29:01 – 0:29:03] Erik: That’s worth a lot, that experience of walking the river.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:06] Adam: You get to kind of go up a little mini falls.
[0:29:06 – 0:29:11] Adam: There’s a little cave almost where clearly people have been having bonfires.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:21] Adam: And last time I was in there, honestly, there’s a family coming up when we were going down and it was kind of late afternoon and they were going in there like we’re have a fire and roast some weenies and marshmallows in there.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:22] Adam: I was like, all right, cool.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:41] Erik: Yeah, not to talk about it for too much longer, but I did feel like when I was in there, actually for the first time just this last late winter, I said more times than I can ever remember to Tori, the geologist’s wife, that it didn’t feel like Minnesota in there.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:42] Erik: Right.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:46] Erik: It felt like you’re walking almost through, like you said, like a slot canyon.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:47] Adam: It feels like you’re out west a little bit.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:48] Adam: It’s crazy.
[0:29:48 – 0:29:49] Adam: But also in a rainforest.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:49] Erik: Right.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:55] Erik: like really red rocks and just like really tight, like steep hills.
[0:29:55 – 0:29:58] Erik: It didn’t feel like, I mean, it’s an amazing hike in the winter.
[0:29:58 – 0:29:59] Adam: It’s pretty cool to have that in the backyard.
[0:30:00 – 0:30:00] Erik: Yes.
[0:30:00 – 0:30:05] Adam: It’s certainly like one of the greatest feathers in the cap for our neighborhood over here on the shore.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:09] Adam: That Cadunce River Canyon is really a national treasure.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:10] Adam: It’s cool.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:15] Adam: And you can also hike up it in the summertime, just wet footing it up there.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:20] Erik: Yeah, after the flood stage goes down a little bit, you can just go for a nice cooling walk.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:26] Adam: They always say when you don’t have any more puddles in your driveway, then you can go maybe and do that.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:28] Adam: So you just got to be a little careful.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:32] Adam: There’s some slippery rock in that second waterfall.
[0:30:32 – 0:30:35] Adam: You’re going to need ice climbing gear or something in the winter.
[0:30:35 – 0:30:39] Adam: I know people go up it, but I’m not comfortable trying to clamber up that second one.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:45] Erik: That massive one on the way, on the left when you’re going up, that’s like a 150 foot.
[0:30:45 – 0:30:51] Adam: It’s just a cool experience to get down underneath there when it’s all frozen up and you’re just, oof, that’s church.
[0:30:52 – 0:30:55] Adam: That’s as much of a church as I can get into these days.
[0:30:55 – 0:30:55] Erik: All right.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:57] Erik: Oh.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:58] Erik: Well, my number 10.
[0:30:58 – 0:30:58] Adam: What?
[0:31:00 – 0:31:01] Adam: Are you ready for my number 10?
[0:31:01 – 0:31:02] Adam: Yeah, I’m ready.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:10] Erik: I’m going with Curtain Falls, which is between Crooked and Iron on the border route.
[0:31:11 – 0:31:11] Erik: Nice.
[0:31:11 – 0:31:13] Erik: Something about the…
[0:31:14 – 0:31:16] Erik: It’s not even an optical illusion.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:19] Erik: It’s just the way that it looks when you’re like next to it.
[0:31:19 – 0:31:26] Erik: You can kind of be off at this like really interesting angle where you can be at eye level with the lake.
[0:31:27 – 0:31:29] Erik: And then it’s all like kind of just running off.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:32] Erik: It just gives you like this really like…
[0:31:33 – 0:31:33] Erik: It’s like that’s…
[0:31:34 – 0:31:39] Erik: like a super tangible experience for like how water works.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:46] Erik: And we were there, like I’ve been there a couple of times, but the last time was, um, on that last big Quetico trip with page.
[0:31:46 – 0:31:49] Erik: And it was actually like super low water year.
[0:31:49 – 0:31:54] Erik: And it was still just like, you could tell like, this is like a huge transition from,
[0:31:54 – 0:32:03] Adam: Yeah, I think that’s another big thing with waterfalls is that it always represents like a very real transition in the landscape.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:05 – 0:32:06] Adam: For whatever reason.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:08] Adam: But there’s always kind of this divide.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:18] Erik: Yeah, I always had this thing that I was trying to work on that I never got completely figured out, which was kind of this, like, parable.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:33] Erik: I used to write a lot more than I do now about, like, the life of a person and, like, the life of a river and how you can kind of judge the part of that person or that river on, like, how it acts.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:38] Erik: And then, like, you know, when it calms down in later stages and then, like, it’s in, like, this…
[0:32:38 – 0:32:44] Erik: like kind of stressful, like early stages where like things are going, you know, it’s still like figuring itself out.
[0:32:44 – 0:32:47] Erik: I was never able to hammer it out in anything that I was ever proud.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:49] Adam: Solid start though.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:52] Erik: So let’s do your nine.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:54] Adam: Okay.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:55] Adam: Um,
[0:32:57 – 0:33:11] Adam: I’m going to go with Havasmoke Portage Falls, which I’m going to also do a grouping on this one as my nine seed that includes the Keats Lake Trio of the Havasmoke Portage Falls group.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:17] Adam: The Snake Falls, and the Split Rock Falls, all around Keats Lake.
[0:33:17 – 0:33:20] Adam: The Keats Lake Trio, that’s my number nine.
[0:33:21 – 0:33:28] Erik: I contemplated Have a Smoke, and I didn’t put it on there because I just felt like it was more specific to…
[0:33:29 – 0:33:41] Erik: And every time I’ve been there, I think we’ve stopped for a selfie of us smoking or not smoking, pretending to smoke or maybe smoking, but always like going through the act of like making it more of a ceremony than anything else.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:44] Adam: Well, I think, you know, ceremony in life is important.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:52] Adam: And yeah, the one time I was there, it was like middle of the day, perfect time for a long, you know, nice lunch break there.
[0:33:53 – 0:33:56] Adam: Kind of got out and stretched and had a smoke.
[0:33:56 – 0:33:56] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:33:57 – 0:34:21] Adam: and uh also this one is really like heart of the park kind of stuff yeah keith’s lake you’re in there and so you deserve some like a cool trio of waterfalls a lot of moving water in that section um i don’t know it just felt very lively and i enjoyed it so it made my list and has a really great name obviously so have a smoke so that’s my number nine
[0:34:21 – 0:34:25] Erik: My nine is one of your honorable mentions.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:27] Erik: I’m going with Rose Falls.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Erik: Nice, nice.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:30] Erik: And it’s kind of a backyard thing.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:35] Erik: It’s also more or less like what’s around it.
[0:34:36 – 0:34:49] Erik: I’m not downplaying it for any real reason other than I just don’t think there’s much you can do with it besides go to it and stand next to it and say, hey, look, there’s some water falling over a cliff.
[0:34:50 – 0:34:53] Erik: The vistas around it, those are some of my top five views.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:54] Erik: That’s true.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:55] Adam: The vistas are incredible.
[0:34:55 – 0:35:01] Adam: It’s almost better for the vistas there than the waterfalls, which completely contradicts my earlier statement.
[0:35:01 – 0:35:04] Adam: The vistas are bigger than that waterfall, though.
[0:35:04 – 0:35:06] Erik: That’s the thing.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:11] Erik: As a destination, Rose Falls might be one of the top places to go.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:14] Erik: If you want to have an afternoon of wilderness fun…
[0:35:15 – 0:35:19] Erik: and just everything that the Bosch waters can offer kind of rolled up into one.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:28] Erik: I don’t know if there’s anything that can beat that, but just as a falls, it’s kind of, you know, you can’t really swim in it.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:30] Erik: It’s awkward to get down into it.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:33] Adam: If you get down in it, you get some really nice spray action.
[0:35:33 – 0:35:34] Adam: Lots of spray.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:36] Adam: It’s very lush in that one too.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:36] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:40] Adam: The crevasse it’s in is there’s some really big trees too.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:42] Adam: Plus Rose Lake is awesome.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:44] Adam: Yeah, just the area itself.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:48] Adam: Rose is one of the prettier lakes up there, I would say.
[0:35:48 – 0:35:54] Erik: Yeah, and I think that’s kind of why I bumped it into my top 10, just because of some of the area highlights.
[0:35:54 – 0:35:58] Erik: But the falls itself are… Sure, yeah.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:18] Adam: i get you i don’t know i get it it’s but this is falls ranker yeah not an area ranker that said i just gave keats lake trio a nine spot myself so i mean this is not a this isn’t being like transcribed onto wikipedia how many other uh top 10 waterfall rankings have there ever been
[0:36:18 – 0:36:18] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:36:18 – 0:36:20] Erik: Do we have a Wikipedia page at this point?
[0:36:20 – 0:36:22] Erik: Rojo Ryder, get to work on that.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:22] Erik: Help.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:23] Erik: True fan of the show.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:25] Adam: We need you.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:26] Adam: All right.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:27] Adam: We’re at eight.
[0:36:27 – 0:36:28] Adam: We need a scribe.
[0:36:28 – 0:36:36] Adam: If you can’t tell, I still haven’t ranked my top seven or so.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:38] Adam: I’m going to go with…
[0:36:38 – 0:36:43] Adam: This one’s not in the Boundary Waters, so that’s the only reason it’s going to go this high on the list.
[0:36:44 – 0:36:44] Adam: But…
[0:36:45 – 0:36:47] Adam: It is high falls.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:50] Adam: It is the highest falls in the state.
[0:36:50 – 0:36:55] Adam: And I know we said earlier, like, yeah, it doesn’t really matter if it’s a really high waterfall.
[0:36:55 – 0:37:00] Adam: If it’s, you know, just being high waterfall doesn’t make you the best waterfall.
[0:37:00 – 0:37:01] Adam: So.
[0:37:01 – 0:37:02] Erik: Well, I mean, it is still…
[0:37:03 – 0:37:04] Erik: It’s not just high.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:05] Erik: It’s also like…
[0:37:06 – 0:37:11] Erik: There’s part of it that seems more attached to the boundary waters than any of the other ones.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:16] Adam: Well, it’s where most of the water from the Vento all ends up going over that thing.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:20] Adam: It’s crazy how it all just gets funneled over this massive…
[0:37:21 – 0:37:48] Adam: border waterfall right there there’s canada on the other side it’s where the two nations come together yeah and uh a true powerhouse of the great lakes watershed pigeon falls yeah i like high falls on the pigeon river i like it for that reason um it’s pretty easy hike to get to for one uh if you’re coming up specifically to look at waterfalls then you need to go all the way up and see pigeon falls oh yeah
[0:37:49 – 0:37:50] Adam: It’s a pretty easy get.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:53] Adam: You know, you just got to drive almost all the way to the border.
[0:37:53 – 0:37:55] Adam: It’s literally like the last left before you.
[0:37:56 – 0:38:04] Adam: If you don’t turn left and go to see Pigeon River and the High Falls, then you’re going to go across the actual Pigeon River and you’re going to be in Canada.
[0:38:04 – 0:38:06] Erik: You’re going to get harangued by a border patrol officer.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:09] Erik: Yeah, no, along those same lines, there was one.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:13] Erik: It ended up just even getting dropped from my honorable mention, but that was Partridge Falls.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:23] Erik: Yeah, that’s also… Just because it’s right along that same Pigeon River, but we’ve had experience with actually camping next to it, and it is still kind of that…
[0:38:23 – 0:38:24] Erik: I burned popcorn there.
[0:38:25 – 0:38:26] Adam: It haunts me to this day.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:28] Adam: I haunted that pot to this day.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:30] Adam: That pot never recovered.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:31] Erik: That pot is gone.
[0:38:32 – 0:38:47] Erik: But, like, just that, like you said, like, the whole, like, vento unit, but then even beyond, like, I just like taking that moment to think about, like, you just focus on a part of water and just, like, think about its…
[0:38:49 – 0:38:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:51] Adam: It’s almost like a time machine in that way.
[0:38:51 – 0:38:52] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:52 – 0:39:03] Erik: Like, man, all the water that like you just sitting at clear water, looking out at that water, not that it happens very quickly, but it will eventually make it down Partridge Falls, down High Falls and out to Lake Superior.
[0:39:04 – 0:39:04] Erik: Crazy.
[0:39:04 – 0:39:06] Erik: And then out into the ocean.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:09] Erik: So that was your eight?
[0:39:10 – 0:39:11] Erik: Yeah, I guess that’s eight.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:11] Erik: All right.
[0:39:12 – 0:39:16] Erik: My eight’s basswood wheelbarrow, the whole complex through there.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:22] Erik: And I think that for me, I get what you’re saying where it’s like, yeah, you don’t actually really get to see it that much.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:24] Adam: It’s a tough, yeah, it’s a tough seer.
[0:39:24 – 0:39:26] Erik: Yeah, just in terms of what it looks like.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:32] Erik: But I don’t know, wheelbarrow, the way it kind of goes around that island and like splits and comes down for your landing.
[0:39:33 – 0:39:39] Erik: The whole thing like just kind of heightens because like you can just get the sense of like there’s a lot going on in here.
[0:39:39 – 0:39:42] Adam: No, there’s huge boulders strewn about everywhere.
[0:39:42 – 0:39:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:42 – 0:39:44] Erik: And it’s like, it’s basically like.
[0:39:44 – 0:39:45] Erik: It’s chaos.
[0:39:45 – 0:39:50] Erik: It’s basswood flowing into like crooked iron and then into Lac La Croix.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:53] Erik: It’s like kind of the start of something.
[0:39:53 – 0:39:54] Erik: It’s the connector.
[0:39:54 – 0:39:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:54 – 0:39:55] Erik: The big connection.
[0:39:56 – 0:39:56] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:39:56 – 0:39:59] Erik: It just, there’s a, that one’s definitely a feeling.
[0:40:00 – 0:40:02] Adam: Even though you can’t see it, you’re right.
[0:40:02 – 0:40:03] Adam: You can feel it.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:07] Erik: Yeah, you can tell that you’re around something great.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:16] Erik: And I haven’t done this, but there are multiple opportunities to go down and hike in and either camp or just go down and get to some of those.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:18] Adam: Sure, that would be interesting to try that.
[0:40:18 – 0:40:19] Adam: I would be down.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:24] Erik: Some of those side trails off of that highway mile-long portage.
[0:40:24 – 0:40:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:24 – 0:40:25] Erik: Seven?
[0:40:27 – 0:40:27] Erik: Seven.
[0:40:29 – 0:40:29] Adam: Save it.
[0:40:30 – 0:40:36] Adam: This one also not technically in the park, but close enough.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:40] Adam: This is Bridal Veil Falls on Gunflint Lake.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:42] Adam: Coming down from Crab, I believe.
[0:40:43 – 0:40:45] Erik: Yeah, you take the Crab Lake spur trail that goes up.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:51] Erik: Well, the actual falls, I think, is created from some overflow off of Crab Lake.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:54] Adam: Yeah, I think it’s Crab Creek we’re going to go with.
[0:40:54 – 0:40:54] Adam: Crab Creek.
[0:40:55 – 0:40:57] Erik: Off of Crab Lake into Gunflint.
[0:40:57 – 0:41:03] Adam: Yeah, Crab Lake flowing north into Gunflint, so it’s on the south shore of Gunflint Lake.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:16] Adam: The easier approach, and I’ve done this one as well, is to just boat on over with a motorboat from anywhere on Gunflint, and then you just land in this little bay, and it’s a real easy hike up.
[0:41:17 – 0:41:23] Adam: You go past a cedar tree on that trail that is at least 1,000 years old.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:25] Adam: I’m going to go.
[0:41:25 – 0:41:26] Adam: Yeah, absolutely.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:28] Adam: It’s a huge old cedar tree.
[0:41:28 – 0:41:28] Adam: Very cool.
[0:41:29 – 0:41:43] Adam: And then you come to the base of this, uh, falls and it’s kind of, it’s, uh, the way it’s spread out over the top of this like long cliff and then just evenly the water is falling along the whole expanse.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:44 – 0:41:47] Adam: And then into this like cascade of Boulder at the bed of it.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:49] Adam: Um, don’t, uh,
[0:41:50 – 0:41:54] Adam: super wide and just crazy, especially for how like little that Creek is.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:54] Adam: Yes.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:57] Adam: No, it’s just spreads out and then perfectly falls that way.
[0:41:57 – 0:42:01] Adam: And that’s, that’s another one where time is just perfectly worn away.
[0:42:01 – 0:42:06] Erik: This just to spoil and continue the conversation is the bridal veil is my five.
[0:42:07 – 0:42:32] Erik: and may as well piggyback them together then that makes sense it’s just one of those places that you can it’s one of the one of the few that you can really get into for whatever that means like you can like cross the main like creek that comes down oh yeah and like walk in this huge boulder path basically just walk around waterfalls is coming over and depending on how much water there is it’s always changing um
[0:42:33 – 0:42:40] Erik: It’s just a super unique spot that I don’t think it’s not even on Fisher maps.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:41] Adam: Fisher doesn’t list it.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:46] Adam: I had to go to my Nat Geo, and that does list it, which is odd.
[0:42:48 – 0:42:50] Adam: I’m not sure on the McKenzie if that lists it or not.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:55] Adam: I didn’t check the McKenzie before I came over, but I definitely looked on the Fisher and the Nat Geo, and there’s just nothing.
[0:42:56 – 0:42:58] Adam: Fisher barely even shows a creek.
[0:42:58 – 0:43:01] Adam: It’s like a dashed gray line going through there.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:09] Erik: Every map has its own forte and the specifics of waterfalls and some of the higher details.
[0:43:09 – 0:43:11] Erik: Definitely not one of Fisher’s strong points.
[0:43:13 – 0:43:19] Adam: I believe you started to explain the alternate route in the Crab Lake Spur Trail.
[0:43:20 – 0:43:25] Erik: Yeah, so that’s the way we send in most of the folks that want to go and see it during the summer.
[0:43:25 – 0:43:25] Erik: That’s a cool hike.
[0:43:26 – 0:43:27] Erik: It’s a good hike, yeah.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:32] Erik: It’s a little blown over and kind of burned from the blowdown and the Ham Lake fire.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:34] Adam: Did get multiple ticks on that trail one time.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:39] Erik: It is pretty ticky, but it does provide with… Good warbler birding.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:41] Erik: Yeah, combo vistas on the way.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:43] Erik: You’re up on this ridge over Gunflint.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:45] Erik: You can see like north and south almost.
[0:43:45 – 0:43:47] Adam: Yeah, you get up on the Bald Rock on there.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:57] Erik: Yeah, it’s basically you take the Crab Lake Spur Trail, which hooks up to the Border Route Trail, and there’s a little spur that even cuts that off further to get you closer.
[0:43:58 – 0:44:02] Erik: I think it’s about 10 miles, 11 miles round trip.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:04] Adam: Yeah, it’s a pretty good hike.
[0:44:05 – 0:44:09] Adam: My parents were up one time, and we’re like, yeah, let’s go do that hike.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:11] Adam: And they’re like, how long is the hike?
[0:44:11 – 0:44:13] Adam: I go, it’s a couple miles.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:14] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:36] Adam: a couple more than a couple they were pretty upset at me by the end of it especially we got we’re covered in ticks covered in ticks and that was like 10 miles adam yeah but it was a cool waterfall but what are you thinking no i’m just kidding around but they were a little miffed they’re like i think you’re a little off on the distance estimate adam yeah yeah like you think i don’t know i guess it was a little farther than i i thought yeah
[0:44:37 – 0:44:42] Erik: So yeah, we got both of our lists have bridal veil on them.
[0:44:42 – 0:44:43] Erik: So that’s cool.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:44] Adam: So that’s fun.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:47] Adam: You can come at it from the top and then like clamber down.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:51] Adam: Or you can take a motorboat over and clamber up.
[0:44:51 – 0:44:55] Adam: Yeah, it’s an alternate approach scenario.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:59] Erik: So that was your seven and my five.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:02] Erik: So my seven is Twin Falls.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:04] Erik: It’s at the base of the Malign River.
[0:45:05 – 0:45:10] Erik: It’s the last big falls that dumps into LLC Lac La Croix.
[0:45:11 – 0:45:15] Erik: This is, I think, one of the few ones that I’m pretty sure you haven’t been to.
[0:45:15 – 0:45:16] Adam: I have not seen this one.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:23] Erik: And the main reason that this one’s there is because there’s like a campsite, like literally halfway down the falls.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:29] Erik: It’s kind of like Partridge Falls where you’re just like camping, like very close to the falls.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:36] Erik: But this one’s like halfway down the falls, like you’re having a fire and you can just like look over and see like massive falls.
[0:45:36 – 0:45:38] Erik: And then at the bottom of the falls is this like
[0:45:39 – 0:45:57] Erik: huge pool of probably some of the warmest water in the area at whatever time of year so the wildlife is always like extreme for like birds and stuff i’m just assuming but when we were there tons of like geese and swans and ducks and we just got to spend a lot of time there
[0:45:58 – 0:46:09] Erik: And it was just like it kind of splits around an island, kind of like a falls that I think we’re both going to talk about at some point, but to a much grander scale.
[0:46:09 – 0:46:10] Erik: And we weren’t on the island.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:12] Erik: We were off over on the shore.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:18] Erik: But that one’s an awesome spot, especially because of the experience that we weren’t expecting to find it.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:20] Erik: It was just like, I guess we got to go around these falls.
[0:46:20 – 0:46:21] Erik: And it was kind of late in the day.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:24] Erik: And it was like, oh, let’s just camp here.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:25] Erik: This is an amazing spot.
[0:46:25 – 0:46:26] Adam: So very cool.
[0:46:26 – 0:46:27] Adam: Very cool.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:30] Adam: Yeah, that’s…
[0:46:33 – 0:46:34] Erik: So six then.
[0:46:34 – 0:46:35] Erik: We’re moving on to six.
[0:46:35 – 0:46:36] Erik: Getting down there.
[0:46:37 – 0:46:39] Adam: I got to think about this for a second here.
[0:46:39 – 0:46:39] Erik: Hold on.
[0:46:39 – 0:46:41] Erik: Oh, I can do my six.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:43] Erik: If that’ll help in any way.
[0:46:43 – 0:46:44] Erik: I can’t prepare it, Adam.
[0:46:45 – 0:46:46] Adam: Oh, I remember.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:52] Adam: I just wanted to say, though, too, like at Rose Falls, kick back to Rose Falls just for a second.
[0:46:52 – 0:47:00] Adam: There’s obviously like what used to be a large campsite right in like off to the right east of the falls.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:02] Adam: Yeah, like on your way up to the vista.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:08] Adam: And you could tell that was like an amazing site and they had to shut it down due to the trampling issues that were going on.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:11] Adam: So it’s always neat when you get to camp right in a campsite.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:12] Erik: Actually camp there.
[0:47:12 – 0:47:14] Erik: It doesn’t happen in the Bon Jovi if ever.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:16] Adam: Did I say you can camp right in a campsite?
[0:47:16 – 0:47:18] Adam: You can camp right in the middle of a waterfall is what I meant.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:20] Adam: Folks.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:21] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:47:21 – 0:47:23] Adam: Now I’m starting to think maybe… Oh, no.
[0:47:23 – 0:47:24] Adam: I see what I did here.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:24] Adam: Okay.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:25] Adam: I was a little confused.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:27] Adam: I was like, I seem to be missing one.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:28] Adam: Hmm.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:30] Adam: I got to make a choice here.
[0:47:30 – 0:47:31] Adam: So we’re going to six.
[0:47:32 – 0:47:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:32 – 0:47:34] Adam: I’m going to go ahead and…
[0:47:35 – 0:47:37] Erik: I like your strategy of ranking on the fly.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:38] Erik: This is fun.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:40] Erik: This is very stressful.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:43] SPEAKER_00: I’m going to go with Silver Falls.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:43] Adam: What?
[0:47:43 – 0:47:44] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:45] Adam: I’m going to go with Silver Falls.
[0:47:46 – 0:47:49] Adam: It’s not my top three, but it’s really high up there.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:51] Adam: I guess that’s coming in at six.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:51] Erik: Man.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:53] Adam: And this one’s five over here.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:55] Adam: And that one’s four.
[0:47:55 – 0:47:56] Adam: All right.
[0:47:56 – 0:47:58] Adam: I finally completed my rankings, friends.
[0:47:58 – 0:47:59] Adam: Thanks for bearing with me.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:48:01 – 0:48:05] Erik: So we doubled down on the bridal veil when you had yours early.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:05] Erik: Yes.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:11] Erik: I will ask if you can concede your Silver Falls discussion for when it comes up in mine.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:11] Adam: Absolutely.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:14] Adam: I’m not prepared to discuss it anyway, so we’ve got to move on to your six.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:17] Adam: We’ll come back to Silver Falls, obviously, later.
[0:48:17 – 0:48:20] Adam: It’s contentious that it’s not in the top five, obviously.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:31] Erik: Yeah, so my six is Louisa, between Louisa in Quetico and Agnes, and it’s specifically for the bathtub.
[0:48:32 – 0:48:38] Adam: Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and say I also have this one ranked much higher, and we should defer until we get there.
[0:48:38 – 0:48:39] Adam: We’re going to trade off.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:40] Adam: We’ll trade off deferrals.
[0:48:40 – 0:48:43] Erik: Well, let me just say my five is Bridal Veil.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:45] Erik: Okay, we already covered that.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:45] Erik: Yep, do your five.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:50] Adam: Okay, we’re going on to my five is… You said this before about the Granite River.
[0:48:51 – 0:48:56] Adam: Maybe it is also on the Granite River, but I’m talking about the Bald Rock Falls on the Falls Chain.
[0:48:57 – 0:48:58] Erik: That’s kind of where I got confused.
[0:48:58 – 0:49:00] Erik: Yeah, there’s just so many falls in my head.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:02] Erik: I just threw one out that popped into my brain.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:06] Adam: I guess I’m going to go ahead and just say for my five, it’s the Falls Chain.
[0:49:06 – 0:49:07] Adam: Everybody should visit.
[0:49:08 – 0:49:13] Adam: It’s a pretty easy get for a Quetico trip going on a cash bay.
[0:49:14 – 0:49:17] Adam: And just the entire falls chain is…
[0:49:18 – 0:49:18] Adam: You’ve got to see it.
[0:49:18 – 0:49:19] Adam: It’s amazing.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:34] Adam: But my favorite of the falls train was the Bald Rock Falls, which I believe, if I’m looking at the map correctly, we had a nice picnic here, and then we kind of drifted around underneath them, and I believe we did some nice photos underneath there.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:37] Erik: The first picture that shows up on Clearwater.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:42] Adam: I think this is on Clearwater’s website, yeah, where I got my blue zebra shirt on.
[0:49:42 – 0:49:43] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:49:43 – 0:50:10] Erik: eagle-eyed viewers you’ll spot the blue zebra shirt this is bald rock falls on the falls chain you gotta get there i’ll have more to say on the falls chain but you not to say that you have to stop but there’s we’re not done with the falls chain all right so four then moving on to four okay my four is rebecca falls hey for the longest time oh four and four is also rebecca falls yes
[0:50:10 – 0:50:12] Erik: First time we’ve matched up, I think, ever.
[0:50:13 – 0:50:15] Erik: But I had to look it up.
[0:50:15 – 0:50:17] Erik: I was like, is it Mickery Falls?
[0:50:18 – 0:50:18] Adam: I looked it up, too.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:21] Adam: I had to get out the crisp bar and make sure I had it right.
[0:50:21 – 0:50:23] Adam: But it is Rebecca Falls.
[0:50:23 – 0:50:26] Erik: In between Iron and Mickery.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:27] Erik: Mickery.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:28] Adam: Mickery.
[0:50:29 – 0:50:32] Erik: And it’s just one of those spots.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:34] Erik: Like the falls themselves are.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:35] Adam: There’s definitely a power vortex there.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:38] Erik: The falls themselves are cool.
[0:50:38 – 0:50:42] Erik: Like there’s the one main side, the north side.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:47] Erik: So basically it’s like the river, the lake, whatever you want to call it happening.
[0:50:47 – 0:50:49] Erik: It splits around this island.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:58] Erik: And kind of in the same way that the twin falls I was talking about earlier, except it’s a little smaller in terms of the water flow.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:00] Erik: It’s not – he’s gushing like –
[0:51:01 – 0:51:28] Erik: huge waterfalls um rebecca falls has got like one side which is like pretty typical kind of brambling rocks down but then there’s that one the southern side which is like this crazy little like strip of water running against like a vertical wall very tiny ribbon of water yeah and you get to camp right on the tip of that island where both of those flowages of water come in
[0:51:28 – 0:51:33] Adam: Yeah, it’s one of the best nights of sleep I’ve ever had in my life.
[0:51:34 – 0:51:35] Adam: Absolutely.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:42] Adam: Yeah, the dual stream waterfall babblings of Rebecca Falls.
[0:51:42 – 0:51:50] Adam: And we had like a fine cone fire of like a large piece of cedar that had been hollowed out.
[0:51:50 – 0:51:51] Adam: Chimney fire, yeah.
[0:51:51 – 0:51:52] Adam: Chimney fire.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:53] Adam: Yes.
[0:51:54 – 0:51:57] Adam: And we also had a fine feast.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:23] Erik: around that fire um yeah and i remember i’ve got i have multiple like really crazy like kind of those sorts of pictures where you set up the long exposure and you don’t really expect much and then you flip it on you’re like whoa like one was on the north side of the the rapids coming down was like perfectly aligned with like a shooting star mm-hmm
[0:52:24 – 0:52:42] Erik: you know you can’t plan for that it just happened but the way that it like is aligned it’s like it’s like at a perfect 45 degree angle for what how the water is flowing so it’s just everything that night was like working out yeah it was just a magical magical night of camping and uh
[0:52:43 – 0:52:44] Adam: Can’t say enough about it.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:54] Adam: If you end up in that neck of the woods, make sure you stop by Rebecca Falls and, you know, honestly, just get the campsite there if you’re going to be on the Quetico.
[0:52:54 – 0:52:57] Erik: I think there might be a site on the other.
[0:52:57 – 0:52:59] Erik: Because we landed on the upper side of the island.
[0:52:59 – 0:53:01] Adam: Yeah, we were at first like, this looks okay.
[0:53:01 – 0:53:04] Adam: And then we kind of walked down below and found the real site.
[0:53:04 – 0:53:06] Adam: So make sure you wander.
[0:53:06 – 0:53:08] Erik: Yes, walk over to the Mickery side.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:10] Adam: The Mickery side is the best side.
[0:53:10 – 0:53:12] Erik: Yeah, so both of our fours are aligned.
[0:53:13 – 0:53:13] Erik: That’s fun.
[0:53:14 – 0:53:16] Erik: Are you ready for your three or do you want me to do mine?
[0:53:17 – 0:53:21] Adam: Yeah, I can do my three, and I’m pretty sure you’re not going to have this one.
[0:53:21 – 0:53:23] Erik: All right.
[0:53:24 – 0:53:26] Adam: This one’s, I don’t know, kind of a wild card.
[0:53:27 – 0:53:31] Adam: Added it pretty late onto the list, and then it went all the way up to three.
[0:53:32 – 0:53:38] Adam: Just because of the swimming alone, it’s the Onion River, and this is almost to the tunnel.
[0:53:38 – 0:53:40] Adam: This is really sick that this made three.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:43] Adam: So that’ll tell you how cool it is.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:50] Adam: It’s a lot like if you mixed the canyon of the Cadence River I was talking about way earlier in the show.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:51] Adam: That’s the start of the hike up.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:53] Adam: And this is right off of 61.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:55] Adam: Plus, it’s pretty easy to get there.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:59] Adam: But also, it’s a pretty good work once you get out of the car.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:01] Adam: But I mean, the access is superb.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:03] Adam: It’s really underrated.
[0:54:03 – 0:54:04] Adam: Not a lot of people know about this.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:07] Adam: I shouldn’t even be talking about it, honestly.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:17] Adam: But then you’re walking up Bear Rock, going straight up like moving water, Bear Rock, out of a canyon, and then you come to this beautiful pool beneath a waterfall.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:24] Adam: And it’s literally like a hot tub where you can basically look out and see Lake Superior while you’re in the hot tub.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:26] Adam: I mean, it’s not hot.
[0:54:26 – 0:54:27] Adam: It’s really cold.
[0:54:27 – 0:54:27] Adam: It’s a cold tub.
[0:54:28 – 0:54:34] Erik: Never actually swam in it, but the Onion River is kind of pretty similar to what you were talking about earlier with the Cay Dunce.
[0:54:34 – 0:54:35] Erik: Yeah, yeah.
[0:54:35 – 0:54:36] Erik: Super canyoning.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:39] Erik: It doesn’t feel like Minnesota when you’re in there.
[0:54:39 – 0:54:39] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:40 – 0:54:44] Adam: And, yeah, just the swimming hole at the top is really great.
[0:54:44 – 0:54:45] Adam: So icing on the cake for that one.
[0:54:46 – 0:54:51] Adam: And then you can continue up beyond the swimming hole and keep going until you get to like the snowmobile trail bridge.
[0:54:52 – 0:54:57] Adam: And then you get off and then there’s like a trail, an easy trail walk back down to the parking area.
[0:54:58 – 0:55:05] Adam: So I think that’s just one where it deserves a shout out and maybe it didn’t deserve to get all the way up to three.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:09] Adam: I was heavily waiting waterfalls you can swim in.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:10] Adam: You have to understand.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:13] Adam: And this one has got the best swimming hole of any,
[0:55:14 – 0:55:40] Adam: besides a few maybe yeah well i mean i get where you’re coming from hold off for sure i mean it’s got a really good swimming hole so yeah and uh so yeah it’s an easy one to check out on your way up to or leaving any boundary waters trip like coming out of like even sawbill you can hit that um no i mean yeah but it’s pretty close it’s anything coming up to the north shore you’re gonna go right by this yeah and so it’s worth a stop if you’re going by on a hot day
[0:55:41 – 0:55:44] Adam: Really easy, one hour, one and a half hour.
[0:55:44 – 0:55:45] Adam: You make it wherever you want to make it.
[0:55:45 – 0:55:47] Erik: There’s some jumping rocks.
[0:55:48 – 0:55:48] Erik: Oh, my.
[0:55:48 – 0:55:50] Erik: There’s all kinds of stuff going on up in there.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:52] Erik: All right.
[0:55:54 – 0:55:55] Erik: So that’s my three.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:56] Erik: That’s your three.
[0:55:56 – 0:55:59] Erik: Well, I kind of cheated again to a certain extent.
[0:56:00 – 0:56:06] Erik: I’ll tell you what my favorite one is, but kind of along the same lines as the bass would.
[0:56:08 – 0:56:32] Erik: wheelbarrow the complex as it were i’m just i i feel like the the falls chain just as a whole is just kind of an experience that you need to have it’s awesome absolutely it’s like it you don’t even feel or notice the pain of paddling and portaging because you’re just surrounded by movement
[0:56:34 – 0:57:00] Erik: and it’s dynamic yeah you can just you just feel the the life of the park in the in the falls chain um i think there are every one of them is different uh you talked about bald rock falls and that’s a really cool place to spend some time exploring looking around like it’s super easy to walk around because it’s just like this like it says it’s just like this wide earth yeah
[0:57:01 – 0:57:19] Adam: um i think my favorite falls is canyon falls which is the one that comes down into kenny kenny uh i think we did swim in kenny on that and that was in the middle of uh october no early october at that point but the weird point was we were swimming in october yeah beneath the falls
[0:57:20 – 0:57:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:20 – 0:57:26] Erik: And I think that there are multiple different ways to kind of portage around that, but it just feels really wild.
[0:57:26 – 0:57:31] Erik: It almost feels like you’re out in like the Colorado mountains or something because it’s got that canyony feel.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:33] Erik: Kind of like we’ve been talking about.
[0:57:33 – 0:57:34] Adam: A lot of drop over a short distance.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:35] Adam: Super.
[0:57:35 – 0:57:36] Adam: There are a lot of.
[0:57:36 – 0:57:39] Adam: a lot of portages, it’s like a lot of short portages, but it can be tough.
[0:57:40 – 0:57:43] Adam: A lot of times where we were doing it, we were hitting it like earlier in our trip.
[0:57:43 – 0:57:45] Adam: So really heavy packs.
[0:57:45 – 0:57:48] Adam: But like you said earlier, you didn’t, you didn’t really feel it.
[0:57:48 – 0:57:49] Adam: You know, you just, you got to camp.
[0:57:50 – 0:57:51] Adam: You’re like, Holy moly.
[0:57:51 – 0:57:55] Adam: Like we just went through a whole series of pretty rocky and steep portages.
[0:57:55 – 0:57:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:56 – 0:57:58] Adam: And then you just soothe those muscles and the,
[0:57:59 – 0:58:02] Adam: Calm waters of Kenny Lake and Canyon Falls.
[0:58:02 – 0:58:02] SPEAKER_00: Kenny.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:06] Adam: My favorite in there besides Bald Rock was Coco Falls.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:07] Adam: Coco’s good?
[0:58:07 – 0:58:08] Adam: Yeah, Coco’s a good one.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:13] Erik: Is Coco the one that Paige ran in the solo and was up on the ridge?
[0:58:13 – 0:58:14] Erik: No, no.
[0:58:14 – 0:58:15] Erik: What’s that one?
[0:58:15 – 0:58:16] Adam: That was way up by like Bisque.
[0:58:17 – 0:58:18] Adam: No, no, no.
[0:58:18 – 0:58:19] Erik: That was on the false chain for sure.
[0:58:19 – 0:58:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:20 – 0:58:20] Adam: Oh dear.
[0:58:20 – 0:58:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:21 – 0:58:25] Erik: No, that was, um, that was little falls right before Coco.
[0:58:25 – 0:58:26] Erik: Okay.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:31] Erik: It was kind of like that slight, like kind of S turn and then just like a little V at the end.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:33] Adam: I remember it clearly now.
[0:58:34 – 0:58:34] Erik: Okay.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:37] Erik: We’re down to the top two.
[0:58:37 – 0:58:38] Erik: Top two.
[0:58:38 – 0:58:39] Erik: I’m sneaking a peek.
[0:58:39 – 0:58:41] Erik: I think we’re going to align on one more here.
[0:58:41 – 0:58:42] Adam: Oh, good.
[0:58:43 – 0:58:43] Adam: So are we on to two?
[0:58:44 – 0:58:44] Adam: Yes.
[0:58:44 – 0:58:46] Adam: Johnson Falls.
[0:58:47 – 0:58:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:52] Adam: Party horn.
[0:58:52 – 0:58:53] Adam: Johnson Falls.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:55] Erik: Number two.
[0:58:56 – 0:58:58] Adam: Somehow not number one, but it is number two.
[0:58:59 – 0:59:03] Erik: And that’s the home region.
[0:59:03 – 0:59:04] Erik: Home Falls.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:09] Adam: Pretty much Home Falls because obviously we ranked it well above Rose Falls.
[0:59:09 – 0:59:13] Adam: Johnson Falls is the true Falls of the Vento.
[0:59:13 – 0:59:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:14 – 0:59:15] Erik: And for many reasons.
[0:59:15 – 0:59:16] Adam: It’s the heart of the Vento.
[0:59:17 – 0:59:17] Erik: Yes.
[0:59:18 – 0:59:24] Erik: It’s got everything going for it except for the ability to camp next to it.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:25] Erik: Truly.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:27] Erik: That’s a rarity.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:29] Adam: You could bring some hammocks and, you know.
[0:59:29 – 0:59:31] Erik: You could illegally camp next to it.
[0:59:31 – 0:59:34] Adam: Gorilla camp next to it, but we don’t recommend that.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:36] Adam: Just enjoy it as a beautiful destination.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:43] Adam: There’s plenty of A-plus campsites surrounding this falls, and it is kind of in the heart of that Vento.
[0:59:43 – 0:59:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:44 – 0:59:45] Adam: You’ve got to paddle a ways to get there.
[0:59:45 – 0:59:49] Adam: It’s a long day trip, or you’ve got to kind of plan it into your trip.
[0:59:49 – 0:59:50] Erik: Yeah, exactly.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:51] Erik: It is a day trip.
[0:59:51 – 0:59:52] Erik: It’s a longer day trip.
[0:59:52 – 0:59:54] Erik: It’s on the west end of Pine, I’m sure.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Erik: You’ve got to earn it.
[0:59:55 – 1:00:01] Adam: I think you’ve got to earn this one a little bit more than some of the other easy ones we’ve thrown out earlier.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:23] Erik: yeah it is that’s as a day trip you definitely have to earn that and it’s just i don’t know there’s there’s something about it it seems like there’s more of a micro climate going on in there than just about any other falls like absolutely damsel flies and mint growing like it’s fairies yeah little fern gully what’s her name the fairy from fern gully
[1:00:23 – 1:00:26] Erik: Not the bat, not Robin Williams, but the little girl.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Adam: I got nothing.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:29] Adam: I’ll have to Google that one.
[1:00:29 – 1:00:29] Adam: Fern gully?
[1:00:29 – 1:00:30] Adam: Come on.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:30] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:34] Erik: But anyway, it’s just like it’s because it warms up earlier.
[1:00:34 – 1:00:38] Erik: So these things, these other plants and this life is growing in a different way.
[1:00:39 – 1:00:40] Erik: So there’s that.
[1:00:40 – 1:00:41] Erik: It just smells amazing.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:42] Erik: There’s ferns.
[1:00:42 – 1:00:44] Erik: And then it’s just beautiful.
[1:00:44 – 1:00:44] Erik: Mosses.
[1:00:44 – 1:00:50] Erik: The way that it comes over that first cliff and then the pool below it is perfect for swimming.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:53] Adam: One of the, yes, absolutely great swimming.
[1:00:53 – 1:00:55] Erik: And then you’ve got the second.
[1:00:55 – 1:00:56] Erik: You go one more level up.
[1:00:56 – 1:00:58] Adam: A lot of people don’t even go to the second one.
[1:00:58 – 1:00:59] Adam: They’re like, this is the one.
[1:00:59 – 1:01:00] Adam: Yeah, there’s a second one.
[1:01:00 – 1:01:01] Adam: Oh, there’s a bonus waterfall.
[1:01:02 – 1:01:03] Erik: Multi-tiered action.
[1:01:03 – 1:01:04] Erik: Yes.
[1:01:05 – 1:01:11] Erik: And the upper one is fun too because, again, it’s got like a nice deep swimming pool.
[1:01:12 – 1:01:14] Erik: And it’s a little bit…
[1:01:14 – 1:01:24] Erik: It’s a little bit easier to like get into the water, but then you can kind of just have some fun walking around on the rocks and looking above where the first one comes down.
[1:01:25 – 1:01:25] Erik: Yeah.
[1:01:25 – 1:01:29] Erik: Or the first one that you would have seen goes over the edge.
[1:01:30 – 1:01:31] Erik: And then it’s always different.
[1:01:32 – 1:01:47] Erik: You know, you go there late in the fall and it’s like, it’s moving like, like a little bit slower where you can actually walk up onto the, the little ledge where the first falls comes down and get like a little bit of that, like back massage from the water.
[1:01:47 – 1:01:50] Adam: Obviously you can kind of get underneath them when they’re raging.
[1:01:50 – 1:01:50] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:50 – 1:01:50] Erik: Yeah.
[1:01:51 – 1:01:52] Adam: And be safe about it.
[1:01:53 – 1:02:02] Erik: Or if it’s going super fast, you can kind of go around the edge and do like the Goonies make out with your boy or girl scenario under the waterfall there.
[1:02:03 – 1:02:04] Adam: Waterfall privacy.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:04] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:05 – 1:02:09] Erik: But most of the time in the spring, I wouldn’t recommend like trying to climb up under the Goonies.
[1:02:09 – 1:02:10] Erik: Is that called doing the Goonies?
[1:02:11 – 1:02:12] Adam: It’s called doing the Goonies.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:13] Adam: I gotcha.
[1:02:14 – 1:02:15] Adam: Is it not a last of the Mohicans?
[1:02:16 – 1:02:19] Adam: It’s not as romantic as the Goonies.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:21] Erik: Do you think the Goonies scene is romantic?
[1:02:21 – 1:02:23] Adam: I don’t think either of them really are, now that we’re talking about it.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:25] Erik: Just awkward teens in the Goonies.
[1:02:26 – 1:02:32] Adam: We’ve got to check back with this on what’s the best romantic scene from cinema involving a waterfall.
[1:02:32 – 1:02:35] Adam: It’s clearly not the Goonies or Last of the Mohicans.
[1:02:36 – 1:02:38] Erik: Yeah, add us, Tumble Home Cast on Twitter.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:40] Erik: What’s the most romantic waterfall scene in any movie?
[1:02:40 – 1:02:42] Erik: We’re going to bring the Twitter back into this.
[1:02:42 – 1:02:43] Erik: I guess, yeah.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:44] Erik: We’ve got to get that romance.
[1:02:44 – 1:02:46] Erik: Borderline neglected Twitter account.
[1:02:47 – 1:02:48] Adam: Poor Twitter.
[1:02:48 – 1:03:02] Erik: yeah who cares twitter can die honestly for what that thing brings to the world mostly just all right we’re getting off on a tangent johnson falls so just when you think that’s enough waterfalls then you can keep climbing
[1:03:03 – 1:03:04] Erik: And there’s another one.
[1:03:04 – 1:03:09] Erik: And then just when you think that’s as far as you can go, there’s one more level.
[1:03:09 – 1:03:14] Erik: And you can hike up to the ivory ponds.
[1:03:14 – 1:03:15] Erik: The ponds of ivory.
[1:03:16 – 1:03:21] Erik: Which are just like right above all of that quick drop.
[1:03:22 – 1:03:24] Erik: It almost seems…
[1:03:26 – 1:03:30] Erik: incomprehensible when you go up there and you don’t see a moose.
[1:03:30 – 1:03:32] Erik: It’s like, this is perfect moose country.
[1:03:32 – 1:03:33] Adam: Why isn’t there a moose here?
[1:03:33 – 1:03:35] Adam: They should just have a couple chained up there.
[1:03:36 – 1:03:38] Erik: Just chained up.
[1:03:39 – 1:03:42] Erik: The T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed moose.
[1:03:43 – 1:04:07] Erik: steep little climb past that last set of falls and then you get to this moose pond and then if you kind of cut back down and follow the river along there is actually like this really extra super secret lagoon that is like kind of carved out of the rock and it the amount of water that goes over to the the top set of falls is actually like it’s very narrow but then it just spreads out and
[1:04:08 – 1:04:12] Erik: And that’s kind of a fun, cool place to explore as well.
[1:04:12 – 1:04:12] Erik: Top lagoon.
[1:04:12 – 1:04:13] Erik: You can swim in there.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:14] Erik: Yeah.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:18] Adam: There’s three swimming spots with the top one being… Multi-swimming possibilities.
[1:04:18 – 1:04:20] Erik: Not as swum in as Afton.
[1:04:22 – 1:04:45] Adam: correct we’ve always talked about just having like a whole episode on johnson well we’re gonna do it for sure we’ll just we need to get some field audio yes make the people truly understand but uh yeah you mentioned it too the pond that this all flows out of is a pretty shallow pond and then another shallow pond kind of feeds the ant yeah and so the water is always a balmy
[1:04:45 – 1:04:46] Erik: It’s always warm.
[1:04:46 – 1:04:47] Adam: A balmy waterfall.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:49] Adam: That’s what it really is.
[1:04:49 – 1:04:50] Adam: It’s good for swimming early in the year.
[1:04:50 – 1:04:52] Adam: It’s good for swimming in the middle of the year.
[1:04:53 – 1:04:54] Adam: It’s good for swimming late in the year.
[1:04:54 – 1:04:55] Erik: All year long.
[1:04:55 – 1:04:56] Adam: Always good swimming at Johnson Falls.
[1:04:56 – 1:05:06] Erik: Besides, like, the whatever the acronym is, the CFS, cubic feet per second, can be a little bit of…
[1:05:07 – 1:05:09] Erik: It can be a little intense in the spring.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:09] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:10 – 1:05:14] Erik: Where you might want to not be just like jumping in and expecting to not be swept away.
[1:05:14 – 1:05:15] Adam: Hang on to your butts.
[1:05:16 – 1:05:16] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:16 – 1:05:17] Adam: Hang on to a rock.
[1:05:18 – 1:05:19] Erik: At the very least, hang on to a rock.
[1:05:19 – 1:05:20] Erik: Tip a toe.
[1:05:21 – 1:05:42] Adam: great overall place to bring a bag of wine yeah spend some time slap the bag throw it around a little lounge on the rocks yeah that’s not spray engulf you that’s not one that you just check off your list that one’s you go you just spend some time yeah live the falls there yeah that’s a that’s a hot falls
[1:05:42 – 1:05:43] Erik: For sure.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:47] Erik: We’ve collaborated more or less on two now.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:48] Erik: That’s good.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:51] Erik: I’m looking forward to hearing some ones.
[1:05:52 – 1:05:56] Erik: Obviously, I know that our ones are different because I think we’ve both said our number ones.
[1:05:57 – 1:05:57] Erik: We already have.
[1:05:58 – 1:06:02] Erik: And we’ll do our number ones and then really excited to see some other ones.
[1:06:02 – 1:06:03] Erik: Maybe we’ve missed one.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:04] Erik: I’m sure we have.
[1:06:04 – 1:06:08] Erik: But do you want to do your one first or do you want me to do mine?
[1:06:09 – 1:06:10] Adam: No, I’ll go for it.
[1:06:10 – 1:06:11] Adam: It’s Louisa Falls.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:12] Erik: Yes.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:16] Adam: From Louisa Lake going down into Agnes.
[1:06:17 – 1:06:18] UNKNOWN: The bathtub.
[1:06:18 – 1:06:24] Adam: This is a real special whirlpool in the middle of two dynamic waterfalls.
[1:06:24 – 1:06:24] Adam: Yeah.
[1:06:24 – 1:06:27] Adam: Of two of my favorite lakes I’ve ever paddled.
[1:06:28 – 1:06:29] Adam: Yeah.
[1:06:29 – 1:06:35] Adam: And another one where we hit it in October and we’re able to, it was so nice in the early October season.
[1:06:36 – 1:06:36] Adam: We swam.
[1:06:36 – 1:06:38] Adam: We were able to still swim in the whirlpool.
[1:06:38 – 1:06:42] Adam: And this one is a real one where you’re kind of in the pool halfway down.
[1:06:42 – 1:06:45] Adam: You got a waterfall coming straight down on you.
[1:06:45 – 1:06:51] Adam: And then you’re kind of looking and you can just see out through the woods out onto the lake of Agnes below.
[1:06:51 – 1:06:52] Erik: Like halfway.
[1:06:53 – 1:06:59] Adam: And we’re sitting in there and it’s like, I believe we took the canoes down first and just parked them and then came back up and swam.
[1:06:59 – 1:07:03] Adam: So we, did we just leave them at the top?
[1:07:03 – 1:07:03] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:07:03 – 1:07:04] Erik: It’s an extremely steep portage.
[1:07:04 – 1:07:11] Adam: I don’t even remember the portage, but I just remember the one part I remember about the portage is it goes right by, like just straight downhill.
[1:07:11 – 1:07:15] Adam: And you’re almost like grabbing onto trees with a canoe on top, trying to get down it safe.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:17] Adam: I couldn’t imagine doing that where it was raining.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:20] Adam: It was a really steep portage.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:26] Erik: Yeah, I think we were sitting in the bathtub when some folks went by going uphill.
[1:07:26 – 1:07:30] Adam: One of the few people we saw on that trip was while we were sitting in the whirlpool.
[1:07:31 – 1:07:32] Adam: They just went by going up.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Adam: We kind of just gave a nod.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:37] Adam: They didn’t stop, and we didn’t really say anything.
[1:07:38 – 1:07:41] Adam: We were so immersed into our trip by day five or so there.
[1:07:42 – 1:07:43] Erik: About four or five.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:43] Adam: Four or five.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:48] Adam: And we just unexpectedly saw these people and weren’t really prepared to speak.
[1:07:48 – 1:07:50] Adam: We were just so immersed in our experience.
[1:07:50 – 1:07:52] Erik: It was kind of unexpected too.
[1:07:52 – 1:07:54] Erik: I don’t think it was like, hey, we’re going for the bathtub.
[1:07:54 – 1:07:55] Erik: We’re going to go take a dip.
[1:07:55 – 1:07:58] Adam: No, I mean, it was kind of like noted and somehow it was noted.
[1:07:58 – 1:08:05] Adam: Like we knew it was maybe a thing, but we didn’t really, it wasn’t like anticipating it being like one of the greatest highlights of that entire trip.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:12] Erik: Yeah, and then the other part about that is, yeah, we had that amazing trip down Louisa in the sun, just gorgeous paddling.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:17] Erik: And then when we got down onto Agnes, we hooked up the canoes and sailed north.
[1:08:17 – 1:08:20] Adam: What a great day, and then ended up on Agnes that night.
[1:08:20 – 1:08:22] Erik: On another amazing sight, yes.
[1:08:23 – 1:08:23] Adam: One of many.
[1:08:23 – 1:08:24] Adam: Great day.
[1:08:24 – 1:08:29] Adam: It was, again, we hit that kind of middle of the day, a beautiful day, and just…
[1:08:29 – 1:08:30] Adam: All time.
[1:08:31 – 1:08:35] Adam: That is my favorite waterfall swimming hole I’ve ever been in.
[1:08:35 – 1:08:36] Adam: Yes.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:39] Adam: And so, yeah, that’s another one where you’ve got to earn it.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:46] Adam: It’s not that deep into Quetico, but it’s a pretty good trip to get up to that fall.
[1:08:46 – 1:08:47] Adam: So highly recommended.
[1:08:48 – 1:08:50] Adam: It’s doable, but it’s elite.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:52] Erik: It is elite level.
[1:08:52 – 1:08:53] Erik: It’s your number one.
[1:08:53 – 1:08:54] Erik: That’s my number one.
[1:08:54 – 1:08:58] Erik: My number one is Silver Falls.
[1:08:58 – 1:08:58] Erik: Nice.
[1:08:59 – 1:08:59] Erik: Yes.
[1:08:59 – 1:09:02] Erik: Between Saginaw and Saginaw.
[1:09:02 – 1:09:03] Erik: Yeah.
[1:09:06 – 1:09:25] Erik: uh yeah i mean it’s just everything rolled up into one but like i said in the beginning i think i really waited it because of the feeling that you get and it’s so associated with and i’ve mentioned this in the past that that step into cuetico it’s the gate
[1:09:26 – 1:09:30] Erik: It’s the gateway to my favorite place on earth.
[1:09:32 – 1:09:33] Erik: I love the Boundary Waters.
[1:09:33 – 1:09:35] Erik: It’s probably the second favorite place.
[1:09:36 – 1:09:43] Erik: But there’s just something about Cuetico that you really get that first initial like, all right, we’re up on Sag.
[1:09:43 – 1:09:45] Erik: I get that anticipation.
[1:09:45 – 1:09:48] Erik: Cache Bay, whatever that throws at you.
[1:09:48 – 1:09:50] Erik: You get into the little narrows that come around the corner.
[1:09:50 – 1:09:53] Erik: You get that few minutes of kind of…
[1:09:54 – 1:09:56] Erik: All right, there’s never really wind back up in here.
[1:09:57 – 1:09:59] Erik: And then you kind of hear it off in the distance.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:00] Erik: You can hear it, yes.
[1:10:00 – 1:10:02] Erik: And then you just know.
[1:10:02 – 1:10:04] Erik: And then you land at that little beach.
[1:10:04 – 1:10:08] Erik: The portage itself keeps the riffraff out.
[1:10:08 – 1:10:10] Erik: We talked about it in the Lost Boys series.
[1:10:11 – 1:10:12] Erik: It’s not an easy portage.
[1:10:12 – 1:10:14] Adam: Talked about it on the Man Chain recap.
[1:10:14 – 1:10:16] Erik: It’s a doozy.
[1:10:16 – 1:10:17] Erik: Previously on Tumble Home.
[1:10:17 – 1:10:19] Erik: Previously on Tumble Home.
[1:10:19 – 1:10:22] Erik: The first couple steps, you got to really heave your way up the steps.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:26] Erik: I mean, if you’ve never portaged before, I mean, I can’t even imagine.
[1:10:27 – 1:10:28] Erik: Are they all going to be like this?
[1:10:28 – 1:10:31] Erik: If you have portaged before, even then it’s like, oh, my.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:38] Erik: There’s no, like, they’re not taking any advantage of, like, the lay of the land.
[1:10:38 – 1:10:40] Erik: And it might be because they can’t.
[1:10:40 – 1:10:41] Erik: But it’s just like, yeah, you’re going over this boulder.
[1:10:42 – 1:10:44] Erik: And you’re going to drop down this six-foot cliff.
[1:10:44 – 1:10:45] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:45 – 1:10:51] Erik: The whole time you’re next to these raging falls slash rapids.
[1:10:51 – 1:10:53] Adam: It’s a multiverse of rapid.
[1:10:53 – 1:11:02] Erik: I think even if you pulled them away from the feeling of being the gateway to Quetico would still be a stunning set of falls.
[1:11:04 – 1:11:05] Erik: And I don’t know.
[1:11:05 – 1:11:07] Erik: They just feel like they’re the first ones that…
[1:11:07 – 1:11:12] Erik: I mean, there’s Sag Falls and there’s the Granite River and some other falls that flow north.
[1:11:12 – 1:11:20] Erik: But for me, it feels like the first one that’s really like, all right, we’re flowing to the Hudson Bay now.
[1:11:20 – 1:11:21] Erik: It’s ultra powerful.
[1:11:21 – 1:11:22] Adam: Yeah, and it does.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:23] Adam: It just…
[1:11:23 – 1:11:24] Adam: It’s ushering you north.
[1:11:25 – 1:11:26] Erik: Yeah, it’s a feeling.
[1:11:26 – 1:11:33] Erik: It’s like a rite of passage to entry into Quetico.
[1:11:33 – 1:11:38] Erik: I feel like everybody should have to do a Silver Falls portage to get to Quetico.
[1:11:39 – 1:11:42] Adam: Yeah, they should just put the ranger station right there.
[1:11:43 – 1:11:44] Adam: Actually, no, don’t do that.
[1:11:44 – 1:11:45] Adam: Leave it where it is.
[1:11:45 – 1:11:50] Adam: But I agree that you’re not really in Quetico until you’ve gone past the falls.
[1:11:51 – 1:11:53] Adam: If you’re going in that way, I’m saying.
[1:11:53 – 1:11:56] Erik: Yeah, and every trip I’ve ever taken has always started with that.
[1:11:56 – 1:11:58] Adam: That’s our gateway.
[1:11:59 – 1:12:04] Erik: And it happens to be next to a stunning set of falls.
[1:12:04 – 1:12:08] Adam: Even if you get a tow, it’s on top of a pretty long paddle, too, to achieve it.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:13] Adam: If you don’t take a tow, it’s on top of like a long day on the water.
[1:12:13 – 1:12:16] Erik: Yeah, if you don’t take a tow, you’d be lucky just to get beyond Silver Falls.
[1:12:16 – 1:12:22] Adam: Yeah, that’s basically what you want to do is like leave, get down below the falls and find somewhere to camp.
[1:12:22 – 1:12:24] Adam: That’s your first day and that’s a hell of a day.
[1:12:25 – 1:12:28] Adam: You mentioned how you can hear it coming up to it.
[1:12:28 – 1:12:33] Adam: As soon as you kind of move around that bend into the narrows, you can hear that.
[1:12:33 – 1:12:38] Erik: Yeah, you can hear it on the way in and then down on Sagina Gans.
[1:12:38 – 1:12:39] Adam: You can hear it for a long ways off.
[1:12:40 – 1:12:46] Erik: That first campsite I’ve camped at to start a trip, and we’ve camped at it to finish a trip, and we’ve always talked about it.
[1:12:46 – 1:12:48] Erik: The grassy knoll.
[1:12:48 – 1:13:03] Erik: The grassy knoll site, which I’ve never really been around enough waterfalls at that, maybe at that distance to know, but you can almost hear it breathing, right?
[1:13:04 – 1:13:04] Erik: You can.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:06] Erik: Where the falls.
[1:13:06 – 1:13:07] Adam: I’m glad we got to this.
[1:13:07 – 1:13:09] Erik: Get louder and then they get quieter.
[1:13:10 – 1:13:13] Erik: Maybe it’s because we’re just far enough away so it’s not just one big din.
[1:13:13 – 1:13:15] Erik: You’re right in the perfect acoustic shadow.
[1:13:15 – 1:13:18] Erik: But we’re right in that, yeah, that shadow where it’s like.
[1:13:19 – 1:13:20] Erik: It roars.
[1:13:20 – 1:13:21] Erik: It feels like there’s more.
[1:13:21 – 1:13:22] Erik: It is breathing though.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:25] Adam: There’s more water going over the falls right now.
[1:13:25 – 1:13:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:13:27 – 1:13:28] Erik: And there’s that too.
[1:13:28 – 1:13:32] Erik: It’s like I’ve camped below it in another unique spot.
[1:13:32 – 1:13:38] Erik: Like the falls below the Malign River, the Twin Falls campsite is amazing because you’re like right there.
[1:13:38 – 1:13:38] Erik: You’re next to it.
[1:13:39 – 1:13:40] Erik: But it’s almost like…
[1:13:41 – 1:14:04] Erik: too close too close to fully appreciate it yeah yeah so the the spot there’s one little if you’ve been through here i mean everybody probably knows what this campsite is the little grassy knoll just below those falls right around the corner and yeah you get a little bit of that living breathing falls that you get to listen to all night so that’s my number one yeah well struck
[1:14:05 – 1:14:05] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:06 – 1:14:13] Erik: I think we, I mean, I would be shocked if there was one on Reddit here that is like, I didn’t even think of that one.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:15] Erik: But it’s possible.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:18] Adam: They’re all going to be voting for Chatterton Falls.
[1:14:18 – 1:14:19] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[1:14:19 – 1:14:24] Erik: But I’m looking forward to seeing what some of our fellow paddlers and listeners have to say.
[1:14:24 – 1:14:31] Erik: And with that, we will cut to our second break in preparation for the third act.
[1:14:31 – 1:14:32] UNKNOWN: Act three.
[1:14:40 – 1:14:42] Erik: Digital Reddit.
[1:14:44 – 1:14:44] Erik: Welcome back.
[1:14:46 – 1:14:53] Erik: We’re going in fresh and we’re reading your responses on the question of the week, which is…
[1:14:53 – 1:14:54] Erik: Enough from us.
[1:14:54 – 1:14:54] Erik: What do you guys got?
[1:14:55 – 1:14:59] Erik: What are some of your favorite BWCA slash Quetico waterfalls?
[1:15:01 – 1:15:01] Erik: Ready to start?
[1:15:02 – 1:15:02] Adam: Yeah, let’s hit it.
[1:15:05 – 1:15:05] Erik: All right.
[1:15:08 – 1:15:14] Erik: Good luck with that.
[1:15:14 – 1:15:17] Erik: Jesus.
[1:15:19 – 1:15:20] Adam: White Jesus.
[1:15:20 – 1:15:20] Adam: 17.
[1:15:20 – 1:15:21] Adam: Five points.
[1:15:21 – 1:15:22] Adam: Five points.
[1:15:22 – 1:15:25] Adam: I thought Louisa Falls on Agnes in Quetico was beautiful.
[1:15:26 – 1:15:28] Adam: The campsite on it was pretty great, too.
[1:15:28 – 1:15:30] Adam: And then somebody immediately seconded.
[1:15:30 – 1:15:32] Adam: I will second that motion.
[1:15:32 – 1:15:34] Adam: And we’ve obviously also thirded and fourthed it.
[1:15:35 – 1:15:41] Erik: I didn’t notice that there was ever a campsite on it, though, but that, I mean, we didn’t really explore the grounds.
[1:15:41 – 1:15:43] Adam: Yeah, we were hitting it in the middle of the day.
[1:15:43 – 1:15:46] Adam: We weren’t looking to camp, but only five points.
[1:15:47 – 1:15:52] Adam: Yeah, and was it on, I guess it’s on Agnes.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:55] Adam: Yeah, I mean, I’m surprised.
[1:15:55 – 1:15:58] Adam: It is named Louisa Falls, but is it on Agnes?
[1:15:58 – 1:15:59] Erik: I guess it is.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:00] Erik: It’s in between.
[1:16:00 – 1:16:03] Adam: The lake it flows into is the home lake.
[1:16:04 – 1:16:10] Erik: I’m surprised there’s any responses here at all after you were bashing the questions of the folks on RBWCA last week.
[1:16:12 – 1:16:13] Erik: Was I?
[1:16:13 – 1:16:15] Erik: Yeah, you were making fun of the mountain house guy.
[1:16:15 – 1:16:17] Erik: Oh, yeah, well.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:18] Erik: Deserved.
[1:16:19 – 1:16:20] Adam: It was deserved.
[1:16:21 – 1:16:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:16:22 – 1:16:23] Erik: We’re not going to get in a mountain house.
[1:16:24 – 1:16:25] Erik: No.
[1:16:26 – 1:16:28] Erik: Acts of kindness.
[1:16:29 – 1:16:32] Erik: Chatterton Falls is spectacular.
[1:16:32 – 1:16:36] Erik: Both the portages around it are each kind of a doozy, though.
[1:16:36 – 1:16:36] Erik: Oh, yes.
[1:16:37 – 1:16:37] Erik: Yeah, they are.
[1:16:37 – 1:16:39] Erik: Excellent use of doozy.
[1:16:40 – 1:16:40] Erik: Chatterton.
[1:16:41 – 1:16:42] Adam: And we’re right.
[1:16:42 – 1:16:43] Adam: Chatterton got on the board anyways.
[1:16:43 – 1:16:44] Adam: It fought through.
[1:16:44 – 1:16:45] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:16:45 – 1:16:46] Adam: It’s a good falls.
[1:16:46 – 1:16:49] Erik: I hope you haven’t seen that yet.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:50] Erik: I haven’t seen anything.
[1:16:50 – 1:16:53] Erik: Okay, because I’m going to scroll down to the response to this.
[1:16:53 – 1:16:53] Erik: Okay.
[1:16:53 – 1:16:57] Erik: And it may be the best Reddit username I’ve ever seen.
[1:16:57 – 1:16:57] Adam: Oh, boy.
[1:16:58 – 1:17:04] Adam: Anyways, the next comment in is from our good friend, Planet Sedna.
[1:17:04 – 1:17:05] Adam: Three points.
[1:17:06 – 1:17:09] Adam: Not a paddler, but Rose Falls is my favorite.
[1:17:09 – 1:17:13] Adam: Right off the Border Route Trail, beautiful views up there of Rose Lake.
[1:17:14 – 1:17:20] Adam: Yes, and you’ve brought up the points, but we didn’t really note that it is a stop on the Border Route Trail itself.
[1:17:20 – 1:17:23] Adam: And honestly, of the Border Route Trail, it’s got to be one of the highlights, right?
[1:17:24 – 1:17:25] Adam: So you think about it that way, too.
[1:17:26 – 1:17:31] Adam: Once you’re up on the vistas around Rose, the crowds fade away.
[1:17:31 – 1:17:32] Adam: Top notch, top notch.
[1:17:32 – 1:17:33] Adam: Yeah, they’re kind of just, you know.
[1:17:34 – 1:17:47] Adam: sitting on the main part of the falls but there’s a lot more to it than just the falls like any of these so yeah good and fair point and uh well said all right and we have a recap or a reply from captain boostrum
[1:17:49 – 1:17:51] Adam: Captain Bostrom.
[1:17:51 – 1:17:51] Erik: Is this my brother?
[1:17:52 – 1:17:53] Erik: Yeah, it might be.
[1:17:53 – 1:17:54] Erik: I don’t think he’s on Reddit.
[1:17:54 – 1:17:55] Adam: Nah, he’s probably not on anything.
[1:17:55 – 1:17:56] Adam: One point.
[1:17:56 – 1:17:56] Adam: Agreed.
[1:17:57 – 1:17:58] Adam: Great stop while hiking the border route trail.
[1:17:59 – 1:18:03] Adam: Also, not a Boundary Waters waterfall, but Devil’s Kettle is fun.
[1:18:03 – 1:18:04] Adam: Where does the water go?
[1:18:04 – 1:18:05] Adam: Yeah.
[1:18:05 – 1:18:05] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:18:06 – 1:18:06] Adam: Nobody knows.
[1:18:07 – 1:18:08] Adam: We didn’t mention that one.
[1:18:08 – 1:18:10] Adam: Didn’t they pump a bunch of ping pong balls in there?
[1:18:11 – 1:18:16] Adam: Ping pong balls, green dye, Volkswagen Beetles.
[1:18:18 – 1:18:18] Adam: Yeah, you never know.
[1:18:19 – 1:18:21] Adam: This probably goes into a chasm.
[1:18:22 – 1:18:34] Adam: Probably some millennia, like, Oh, billions of years from now, ancient aliens are going to find all those ping pong balls and really scratch their enlarged craniums.
[1:18:35 – 1:18:36] Erik: That makes sense.
[1:18:37 – 1:18:40] Erik: H H X Stein.
[1:18:40 – 1:18:42] Adam: You’re doing a really good job of scrolling here.
[1:18:43 – 1:18:47] Erik: I’ve always been a big fan of Lower Basswood Falls and Curtin Falls.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:48] Adam: Nice.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:50] Adam: Shout out to Curtin Falls.
[1:18:50 – 1:18:51] Erik: Yeah, we’ve talked about both of those.
[1:18:52 – 1:18:52] Erik: Both solid.
[1:18:52 – 1:18:57] Erik: Right on one of the more main, major flowages.
[1:18:57 – 1:19:01] Erik: You got that kind of border route flowage, the Malign River flowage.
[1:19:01 – 1:19:02] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:19:02 – 1:19:09] Erik: That’s kind of why they call it the Hunter’s Island Loop because technically all that land within the lower unit of Quetico is an island.
[1:19:10 – 1:19:10] Erik: Truly.
[1:19:10 – 1:19:11] Adam: It truly is.
[1:19:13 – 1:19:15] Adam: Aldi won two points.
[1:19:16 – 1:19:21] Adam: Lower Basswood is the only waterfall I’ve seen in the B-Dub, so it has my vote.
[1:19:22 – 1:19:24] Adam: I’d like to scoot over to Curtain Falls here soon.
[1:19:25 – 1:19:25] Erik: I like that.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:27] Erik: I like that kind of response.
[1:19:27 – 1:19:27] Erik: Scoot.
[1:19:27 – 1:19:29] Adam: We got a scoot and we got a doozy.
[1:19:29 – 1:19:31] Adam: Reddit’s really hitting it at the double O’s.
[1:19:32 – 1:19:32] Adam: Nice.
[1:19:32 – 1:19:34] Erik: I’d like to scoot over to Curtain Falls here soon.
[1:19:35 – 1:19:36] Erik: I heard it’s a real doozy.
[1:19:36 – 1:19:38] Erik: It’s like somebody sitting at the bar talking about going to get a bite or something.
[1:19:39 – 1:19:40] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:40 – 1:19:41] Erik: DJ Wilco.
[1:19:42 – 1:19:45] Adam: Oh, holy moly.
[1:19:45 – 1:19:46] Adam: This is a study.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:47] Erik: We got a big one.
[1:19:47 – 1:19:47] Erik: Hmm.
[1:19:48 – 1:19:52] Erik: By what criterion would I rank a favorite waterfall?
[1:19:53 – 1:19:53] Adam: Boy, oh boy.
[1:19:53 – 1:19:54] Erik: We’re going to get schooled here.
[1:19:55 – 1:19:55] Erik: And we are.
[1:19:55 – 1:19:57] Erik: This requires some sober reflection.
[1:19:58 – 1:20:00] Erik: Tipsy reflection may also help.
[1:20:00 – 1:20:05] Erik: Some of the key ingredients, in my honest opinion, of ranking a waterfall would be, I like this.
[1:20:05 – 1:20:06] Erik: This is great.
[1:20:07 – 1:20:10] Erik: One, raw power and undeniable awesomeness.
[1:20:10 – 1:20:11] Erik: Ha ha ha!
[1:20:11 – 1:20:13] Erik: Two, recreation.
[1:20:13 – 1:20:15] Erik: Examples, swimming and hiking merriment.
[1:20:16 – 1:20:18] Adam: He or she has it very highly weighted as well.
[1:20:18 – 1:20:20] Adam: Our friends here know what they’re talking about.
[1:20:21 – 1:20:22] Erik: Three, mystique.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:27] Erik: A waterfall that has Jewel of the Nile slash Temple of Doom type wonder about it.
[1:20:28 – 1:20:30] Erik: Oh, we didn’t consider this, but fishing, yes.
[1:20:31 – 1:20:32] Adam: Oh, yeah, moving water.
[1:20:32 – 1:20:33] Erik: Four, fishing.
[1:20:33 – 1:20:39] Erik: We all know that the fishies love the natural aeration a good waterfall provides.
[1:20:39 – 1:20:54] Erik: indeed this is great uh dj wilco you want to start a third bonjour podcast you’ve got a really good consideration for some outlines here yeah this is well structured all of the things we are not organized
[1:20:55 – 1:20:58] Erik: Each waterfall has its own unique charm.
[1:20:58 – 1:21:00] Erik: It provides the adventuring paddler.
[1:21:00 – 1:21:09] Erik: Based solely on the waterfalls I have seen in person, strictly inside the BWCA, I would give top marks in the categories to these.
[1:21:10 – 1:21:14] Erik: Number one, Curtain Falls for its exceeding awesomeness.
[1:21:14 – 1:21:14] Erik: Yes.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:17] Erik: Two, Johnson Falls for recreation.
[1:21:18 – 1:21:22] Erik: Bridal Falls or Bridal Veil Falls for mystique.
[1:21:22 – 1:21:26] Erik: Concealed in the forest canopy and providing the thrill of discovery.
[1:21:26 – 1:21:27] Erik: Nice.
[1:21:27 – 1:21:29] Erik: And Sag Falls for fishing.
[1:21:29 – 1:21:30] Erik: Yeah, very good.
[1:21:31 – 1:21:37] Erik: No respectable sag walleye can resist the sweet, sweet oxygenated joy of the waters below the falls.
[1:21:37 – 1:21:39] Adam: Don’t they put like a buoy out in front of it?
[1:21:40 – 1:21:42] Adam: Don’t they kind of turn that season off down there?
[1:21:42 – 1:21:44] Adam: There is some spring restrictions for walleye.
[1:21:48 – 1:21:49] Erik: Spawning grounds.
[1:21:49 – 1:21:50] Adam: I can agree.
[1:21:50 – 1:21:52] Adam: That’s got to be a good spot year round.
[1:21:52 – 1:21:52] Erik: Yeah.
[1:21:52 – 1:21:53] Erik: Isn’t it?
[1:21:53 – 1:21:54] Erik: This is very well said.
[1:21:54 – 1:21:55] Erik: This is very well written.
[1:21:56 – 1:21:59] Erik: This is, I mean, you did some work here, DJ Wilco.
[1:21:59 – 1:22:00] Erik: This is great.
[1:22:00 – 1:22:00] Erik: I love this.
[1:22:01 – 1:22:09] Erik: Of the three, I would have to give Johnson Falls the top billing as its combined score of all categories would be higher than the others.
[1:22:10 – 1:22:18] Erik: Special mention has to go to Sag Falls simply because unlike most BWCA waterfalls, you can spend an afternoon riding a sturdy canoe.
[1:22:19 – 1:22:20] Erik: No, not a rental, Eric.
[1:22:21 – 1:22:28] Erik: Or kayak over the falls and judge who has the best garage sale style wipeout at the bottom.
[1:22:29 – 1:22:30] Adam: It’s a garage sale.
[1:22:30 – 1:22:32] Erik: One of my fondest memories.
[1:22:33 – 1:22:33] Erik: Wow.
[1:22:33 – 1:22:33] Erik: Wow.
[1:22:34 – 1:22:38] Erik: That’s some amazing free content that we just got to read on our podcast.
[1:22:38 – 1:22:39] Erik: Thank you, DJ Wilco.
[1:22:40 – 1:22:44] Adam: That was also written in iambic pentameter and in 3X.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:44] Erik: Yeah.
[1:22:45 – 1:22:46] Adam: Very nicely structured.
[1:22:46 – 1:22:50] Erik: I very much like the way that that was all phrased in every way, shape, and form.
[1:22:50 – 1:22:52] Erik: I agree with all of your conclusions.
[1:22:52 – 1:22:58] Erik: If only we put half of the amount of work into this show, what it could sound like that we did that DJ Wilco does.
[1:22:59 – 1:23:00] Erik: Very nice.
[1:23:00 – 1:23:02] Erik: Hey, that’s what we’re looking for, other listeners.
[1:23:03 – 1:23:03] Adam: Come on.
[1:23:03 – 1:23:04] Adam: Be like DJ Wilco.
[1:23:04 – 1:23:04] Adam: Be more like DJ.
[1:23:05 – 1:23:06] Adam: So anyways, two points?
[1:23:06 – 1:23:08] Adam: Only one day ago, sure.
[1:23:08 – 1:23:13] Adam: But I think we can go ahead and award one extra point for each act of that response.
[1:23:14 – 1:23:15] Adam: Yes, I will.
[1:23:15 – 1:23:17] Adam: So DJ Wilco is now up to five points.
[1:23:18 – 1:23:19] Adam: Only one day ago.
[1:23:19 – 1:23:20] Adam: Solid entry.
[1:23:21 – 1:23:24] Adam: Front runner for episode MVP.
[1:23:25 – 1:23:26] Adam: Way to go, DJ Wilco.
[1:23:26 – 1:23:29] Erik: Ooh, we got some things here that I have not seen mentioned before.
[1:23:29 – 1:23:31] Erik: Looking forward to you reading this.
[1:23:31 – 1:23:31] SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
[1:23:32 – 1:23:32] Erik: This is somebody new.
[1:23:32 – 1:23:33] Adam: Okay.
[1:23:34 – 1:23:35] Adam: Next entry.
[1:23:36 – 1:23:38] Adam: MN4U, friend of the show.
[1:23:39 – 1:23:39] Adam: One point.
[1:23:40 – 1:23:45] Adam: My favorite waterfall hangout in context was at Eddie Falls on the South Arm of Knife.
[1:23:46 – 1:23:48] Adam: Good friends and a memorable trip for all.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:55] Adam: Another favorite is Earl’s Falls on the Gunflint Trail, just south of the Seagull Ranger Station on the west side.
[1:23:56 – 1:24:04] Adam: Earl Cipher, owner of the Ham Lake Fire Casualty Superior North Outfitters, has a little stream waterfall in his namesake.
[1:24:05 – 1:24:05] SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
[1:24:06 – 1:24:10] Adam: The best hikes out of Grand Marais are up the Cay Dunce and Devil’s Track Rivers.
[1:24:10 – 1:24:12] Adam: Go check out the waterfalls.
[1:24:14 – 1:24:15] Erik: And thank you for the show.
[1:24:16 – 1:24:16] SPEAKER_00: Nice.
[1:24:16 – 1:24:17] Erik: Thank you.
[1:24:18 – 1:24:31] Erik: Yeah, those Earl’s Falls was kind of a fun discovery, not to associate necessarily the casualty of a wildfire to a fun discovery of a waterfall.
[1:24:32 – 1:24:39] Erik: Because the Superior North Outfitters was essentially destroyed in that fire, which is a shame.
[1:24:40 – 1:24:45] Erik: But that falls was kind of one of those things where you’re like, oh, hey, there’s a little falls there now.
[1:24:46 – 1:24:55] Erik: And there’s also like a little old school church building that nobody knew was there that only exposed itself because some trees came down.
[1:24:55 – 1:24:56] Adam: So, yeah.
[1:24:56 – 1:24:57] Erik: Yeah.
[1:24:58 – 1:25:23] Adam: thanks for that little uh i like the note of the devil’s track river uh hike as well that’s another good winter one yeah properly grouped with the cadence there uh yeah that’s a fun one middle of winter when it’s real real cold yeah take a take a stroll up that there’s a real treat at the end and so kind of a longer version a longer and slightly water wider version of the cadence
[1:25:24 – 1:25:34] Erik: Yeah, and it’s not like the Earl Falls is just kind of like, you know, the ones that are just like right off the side of the Gunflint that you can see right before you get to the guard station or whatever.
[1:25:35 – 1:25:40] Erik: Not necessarily a Boundary Waters Falls, but, you know, we didn’t hold ourselves to that.
[1:25:40 – 1:25:41] Erik: No, we did not.
[1:25:41 – 1:25:42] Erik: So, yeah.
[1:25:42 – 1:25:43] Erik: Thank you.
[1:25:43 – 1:25:46] Erik: Min for you, Curtain.
[1:25:46 – 1:25:47] Erik: This is from Cyclones30.
[1:25:50 – 1:25:52] Erik: Curtain Falls takes my vote.
[1:25:52 – 1:25:56] Erik: Large enough to ground almost shakes and great fishing.
[1:25:57 – 1:25:57] Erik: Large enough.
[1:25:58 – 1:25:59] Erik: The ground almost shakes.
[1:25:59 – 1:26:00] Erik: Got it.
[1:26:00 – 1:26:00] Erik: Yes.
[1:26:01 – 1:26:01] Erik: Oh, yes.
[1:26:02 – 1:26:03] Erik: Followed by lower basswood.
[1:26:04 – 1:26:05] Erik: Curtain Falls.
[1:26:06 – 1:26:09] Erik: Curtain Falls is, I think, getting some serious votes here.
[1:26:09 – 1:26:10] Erik: Big time.
[1:26:10 – 1:26:15] Erik: Yeah, there’s a Curtain Falls for its exceeding awesomeness before the ground shaking.
[1:26:15 – 1:26:19] Erik: Yeah, it’s an awe-inspiring falls.
[1:26:19 – 1:26:20] Erik: It’s just grand.
[1:26:20 – 1:26:21] Erik: You know, it’s wide open.
[1:26:23 – 1:26:30] Erik: Yeah, if that’s the way you want to weight your judgment and your ratings, it’d be tough to argue against Curtain.
[1:26:32 – 1:26:34] Erik: Got a nice little long one here for you again.
[1:26:36 – 1:26:39] Adam: Jacob Becker, one point, one day ago.
[1:26:40 – 1:26:45] Adam: Men, I joined the Reddit just to follow along with your questions of the week.
[1:26:45 – 1:26:49] Adam: Lots of good info in this, our BWCA community, and I’m glad I did it.
[1:26:50 – 1:26:55] Adam: As for waterfalls, I’m pretty new to the BWCA in general, and have yet to see one in the park.
[1:26:56 – 1:27:06] Adam: However, the missus and I are heading out on Memorial Day until that Friday from Cross Bay, and I’m wondering if there are any smaller ones in that area you’d recommend to check out.
[1:27:06 – 1:27:08] Adam: Never heard of any down there.
[1:27:09 – 1:27:10] Adam: We haven’t finalized her route yet.
[1:27:11 – 1:27:12] Adam: Long Island on day one for sure.
[1:27:13 – 1:27:14] Adam: Maybe day trips them thereafter.
[1:27:15 – 1:27:18] Adam: She is 16 weeks pregnant and we’ll see how it goes.
[1:27:18 – 1:27:24] Adam: Maybe frost, maybe Cherokee, Brule, Cam, Vesper, Town Lakes, maybe even a day trip to Winchell.
[1:27:24 – 1:27:33] Adam: Thanks for reading the response and even more so thanks for all the awesome shows keeping me dreaming of the Northwoods year round.
[1:27:34 – 1:27:34] Adam: Jacob, thank you.
[1:27:34 – 1:27:36] Erik: Very nice, Jacob.
[1:27:36 – 1:27:49] Erik: Yeah, I mean, I don’t think you’re going to encounter anything in that area that compares to Curtain Falls or Silver Falls or big, massive forms of moving water.
[1:27:49 – 1:28:03] Erik: But basically, entering in that Cross Bay Lake between there and Long Island, there’s going to be a very strong sense of moving water with almost every portage going around some falls.
[1:28:04 – 1:28:04] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[1:28:04 – 1:28:06] Adam: You’re going to get a lot of, like, neat little falls.
[1:28:06 – 1:28:08] Adam: You’re kind of following that system all the way up.
[1:28:08 – 1:28:09] Erik: Yeah.
[1:28:09 – 1:28:15] Adam: I’m not sure if Long Island is where you kind of start moving south into the frost system there.
[1:28:15 – 1:28:24] Erik: No, it’s between Long Island and whatever is just south of Long Island.
[1:28:25 – 1:28:29] Erik: Yeah, it is some weird name like that where it’s, like, Gregory.
[1:28:31 – 1:28:33] Erik: For sure, before you get down to, like, Cherokee.
[1:28:34 – 1:28:53] Erik: i was just there yeah you were just there yeah it’s down so you put in the the the section of water gordon gordon gordon that’s right i’m so embarrassed yeah so gordon a lot of beaver dams in that area those count as waterfalls too yeah we haven’t talked about all the beaver dam waterfalls
[1:28:53 – 1:28:53] Erik: No.
[1:28:54 – 1:28:58] Erik: And those don’t, I mean, those speak for themselves, but I don’t know if they’re necessarily.
[1:28:58 – 1:28:59] Adam: You can walk right through them.
[1:29:00 – 1:29:00] Erik: Yeah.
[1:29:01 – 1:29:13] Erik: So, I mean, I think that even like the first portage you take, you’re going to be like unloading your gear and your canoe next to like some substantially moving water just on Cross Bay Lake.
[1:29:13 – 1:29:21] Adam: They didn’t say if they’re going to try fishing, but you’re in like prime time to get to Frost Lake and try for some lakers, no?
[1:29:22 – 1:29:23] Erik: I would think so, yeah.
[1:29:23 – 1:29:26] Erik: And Long Island is a good lake trout lake.
[1:29:27 – 1:29:29] Erik: Day trip down to Winchell.
[1:29:29 – 1:29:29] Adam: Don’t get zapped.
[1:29:29 – 1:29:30] Adam: Don’t push it too hard.
[1:29:30 – 1:29:31] Adam: That’s my advice.
[1:29:32 – 1:29:37] Erik: You might run into some nice lake trout or massive northerns down on Winchell.
[1:29:39 – 1:29:48] Erik: There is a little kind of secret waterfall that comes down into Winchell from the south side of the lake from an unnamed lake.
[1:29:48 – 1:29:49] Adam: Secret waterfall.
[1:29:50 – 1:30:03] Erik: It’s not, I mean, it’s pretty comparable to, I don’t know, nothing that we’ve talked about, but, you know, a little bit of that kind of 10 to 12 foot kind of spillway over some rocks.
[1:30:03 – 1:30:04] Adam: Those are always neat.
[1:30:04 – 1:30:07] Adam: Those are kind of some of my favorite things to stumble upon.
[1:30:07 – 1:30:09] Erik: Because those can be a little bit more just kind of like.
[1:30:09 – 1:30:10] Erik: It’s your little waterfall.
[1:30:10 – 1:30:11] Erik: It’s not like a packed down trail.
[1:30:11 – 1:30:13] Erik: You can just name it after yourself or your future child.
[1:30:13 – 1:30:17] Erik: Yeah, it’s not like Rose, you know, where you’re like, hey, this is beautiful.
[1:30:17 – 1:30:19] Adam: There’s almost a waterfall for every paddler out there.
[1:30:19 – 1:30:20] Adam: 10 people here.
[1:30:20 – 1:30:20] Erik: Yeah.
[1:30:20 – 1:30:25] Erik: So, but, yeah, Cam Vesper Town.
[1:30:25 – 1:30:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:30:26 – 1:30:34] Erik: If you’ve listened to the episode of the last year, the Circus Comes to Brule episode, we kind of review that area.
[1:30:34 – 1:30:34] Erik: Yeah.
[1:30:34 – 1:30:35] Erik: It’s amazing.
[1:30:35 – 1:30:36] Erik: It’s beautiful.
[1:30:37 – 1:30:39] Erik: It’s worth the trip.
[1:30:40 – 1:30:45] Erik: But the portages are, they’re a doozy if they’re wet, especially.
[1:30:46 – 1:30:49] Erik: Very rocky, very angular, very ankle-breaky.
[1:30:50 – 1:30:50] Adam: For sure.
[1:30:50 – 1:30:51] Adam: Tough landings.
[1:30:51 – 1:30:55] Adam: We’ll give you one extra point for the response, and thank you.
[1:30:55 – 1:30:58] Erik: Yeah, thanks, Jacob, for letting us know what you’re up to.
[1:30:59 – 1:31:01] Erik: Northbound underscore paddlers.
[1:31:02 – 1:31:03] Adam: I like how you say the underscores.
[1:31:03 – 1:31:05] Erik: Hey, they put it in there.
[1:31:06 – 1:31:07] Erik: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.
[1:31:08 – 1:31:09] Adam: Are you not allowed to just have a space?
[1:31:10 – 1:31:10] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:31:10 – 1:31:12] Erik: I think you are allowed to just have a space, but…
[1:31:12 – 1:31:13] Erik: Sorry for interrupting.
[1:31:14 – 1:31:15] Erik: You shut me.
[1:31:15 – 1:31:24] Erik: Devil’s Cascade makes for an interesting detour when going through the Paulson Lakes when heading to Shell or Oyster…
[1:31:28 – 1:31:30] Erik: That’s a new one to me.
[1:31:31 – 1:31:32] Erik: Northbound Paddler.
[1:31:33 – 1:31:33] Adam: Stomped us.
[1:31:34 – 1:31:34] Adam: Get back to me.
[1:31:35 – 1:31:39] Erik: That’s up off the Echo Trail.
[1:31:39 – 1:31:40] Erik: Hoo-wee.
[1:31:40 – 1:31:45] Erik: Up in the very remote, distant regions from where we are.
[1:31:45 – 1:31:46] Adam: As far away as we can get.
[1:31:46 – 1:31:46] Adam: Yeah.
[1:31:47 – 1:31:48] Adam: We’ll still be in the Boundary Waters.
[1:31:48 – 1:31:49] Erik: We don’t get there very often.
[1:31:49 – 1:31:49] Erik: Yeah.
[1:31:49 – 1:31:54] Erik: But I do see some fun words and quotes down here coming up next.
[1:31:55 – 1:32:01] Erik: Not to disparage or comment or anything, Northbound Paddler, but we don’t have as much experience about the Devil’s Cascade.
[1:32:01 – 1:32:02] Adam: We’ll take your word for it.
[1:32:03 – 1:32:03] Erik: Yes, thank you.
[1:32:04 – 1:32:06] Adam: Checking it out next time I’m up that-a-way.
[1:32:06 – 1:32:10] Adam: Tfro26, one point.
[1:32:12 – 1:32:13] Adam: Nine hours ago.
[1:32:13 – 1:32:14] Adam: Way to get in.
[1:32:14 – 1:32:17] Adam: I like these ones at the end that always just sneaking it in.
[1:32:18 – 1:32:19] Adam: You know, we’re going to be recording.
[1:32:19 – 1:32:20] Adam: Better get your answers in.
[1:32:21 – 1:32:26] Adam: If I had to pick one, it would have to be the falls that flow from Eddie into the South Arm of Knife.
[1:32:28 – 1:32:35] Adam: They’re not the most majestic falls by any means, but I’ve made a pit stop at them on many trips, so they have a special sentimental value in my heart.
[1:32:36 – 1:32:42] Adam: A close second would have to be the myriad of falls you encounter as you hike up the Cadence River.
[1:32:43 – 1:32:50] Adam: Grab a six-pack and some friends, and the water from these falls allows for a perfect shower beer on a scorching July afternoon.
[1:32:51 – 1:32:52] Adam: Shower beer?
[1:32:52 – 1:32:54] Adam: Well struck, T-Fro.
[1:32:54 – 1:32:55] Adam: Well struck.
[1:32:55 – 1:32:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:32:56 – 1:32:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:32:57 – 1:32:57] Adam: Absolutely.
[1:32:57 – 1:32:59] Adam: Yeah, it’s a good one.
[1:33:00 – 1:33:03] Adam: Four seasons, that Cayetans River can be a lot of fun.
[1:33:03 – 1:33:04] Adam: You can also fish there.
[1:33:05 – 1:33:11] Adam: And the beach where it rumbles into the big lake is also a fine sitting spot.
[1:33:13 – 1:33:16] Adam: But yeah, Eddie is getting a lot of love as well.
[1:33:16 – 1:33:19] Erik: Surprising amount of love on the Reddit.
[1:33:19 – 1:33:22] Erik: And I threw it up there on the honorable mention.
[1:33:22 – 1:33:28] Adam: Isn’t this where you really blew those Boy Scouts’ minds with your short shorts?
[1:33:29 – 1:33:31] Adam: Is this the portage where we pass that troop of Boy Scouts?
[1:33:31 – 1:33:33] Erik: It was in that general vicinity.
[1:33:33 – 1:33:34] Adam: Or was it like the next portage after?
[1:33:34 – 1:33:40] Adam: We had caught them at Eddie and were kind of traveling with this armada of Boy Scouts.
[1:33:40 – 1:33:44] Adam: And Eric was flaunting very short shorts.
[1:33:44 – 1:33:46] Erik: I was shirtless and I was just wearing me undies.
[1:33:47 – 1:33:48] Adam: Oh, it wasn’t even shorts.
[1:33:48 – 1:33:50] Adam: You were just in your underwear.
[1:33:50 – 1:33:51] Adam: It was that hot.
[1:33:51 – 1:33:53] Erik: Underwear and Chacos.
[1:33:53 – 1:33:57] Adam: And then the scout leader was amazed that we had a three-person canoe.
[1:33:58 – 1:33:59] Erik: They put seats in those middle parts.
[1:33:59 – 1:34:00] Erik: A third seat.
[1:34:01 – 1:34:02] Erik: A third seat.
[1:34:03 – 1:34:07] Adam: No comment on the man just standing there in the sexy underwear.
[1:34:07 – 1:34:09] Adam: Tight underpants.
[1:34:09 – 1:34:12] Adam: So, Eddie, yeah, good little system in there.
[1:34:12 – 1:34:17] Adam: And, you know, we always have a soft spot in our hearts for the South Arm of Knife.
[1:34:17 – 1:34:21] Erik: How is the soft spot in our hearts for running into the scout groups as well?
[1:34:21 – 1:34:24] Adam: You got to show them what their future holds.
[1:34:24 – 1:34:25] Erik: Yeah.
[1:34:25 – 1:34:26] Erik: This is the last comment.
[1:34:27 – 1:34:29] Erik: And this one is, I love it that it’s last.
[1:34:29 – 1:34:32] Erik: Unfortunately, only nine hours ago.
[1:34:32 – 1:34:35] Erik: Maybe because of that, it is on the bottom of the list.
[1:34:36 – 1:34:39] Erik: But one falls that I completely forgot about.
[1:34:39 – 1:34:39] Erik: Oh.
[1:34:40 – 1:34:47] Erik: Obsidian 9-2, my favorite, is a smaller waterfalls hidden off the portage between Bruhl and Vernon.
[1:34:48 – 1:34:54] Erik: There is a trail coming off the portage that leads to it, as well as a trail coming from a campsite on Vernon.
[1:34:54 – 1:35:00] Erik: The falls are maybe 10 feet tall, but having them tucked away from the trails and lakes has a special feel to it.
[1:35:01 – 1:35:09] Erik: I have stayed at the campsite on Vernon twice now, and both times I spent extended time sitting out near the falls reading and enjoying the sounds.
[1:35:09 – 1:35:14] Erik: Also, there is a shelf under the main falls where you can go sit under the water.
[1:35:14 – 1:35:15] Adam: Oh, that sounds very romantic.
[1:35:16 – 1:35:18] Adam: Yeah, I totally forgot about that spot.
[1:35:18 – 1:35:19] Adam: Just like Goonies.
[1:35:20 – 1:35:21] Erik: Goonies kitchen.
[1:35:21 – 1:35:25] Erik: I came to there last year on the guided trip that I took.
[1:35:25 – 1:35:25] Adam: Oh, that’s right.
[1:35:25 – 1:35:26] Adam: You did stay there.
[1:35:26 – 1:35:27] Adam: I’ve never stayed at that campsite.
[1:35:28 – 1:35:34] Adam: But yeah, I did kind of think about that when I was generating my real hodgepodge list.
[1:35:35 – 1:35:36] Adam: So I’m glad somebody got that one on there.
[1:35:36 – 1:35:37] Erik: Yes, I’m glad.
[1:35:37 – 1:35:41] Erik: We would have been remiss if we would have forgotten that one.
[1:35:42 – 1:35:48] Erik: It is a great opportunity if you want to avoid the hustle and bustle of Brule Lake.
[1:35:49 – 1:35:50] Erik: Just portage on down to Vernon.
[1:35:51 – 1:35:52] Erik: It’s so quiet down there.
[1:35:52 – 1:35:57] Erik: And those falls, they go right by that campsite, that first campsite on Vernon.
[1:35:58 – 1:36:00] Erik: Really good fishing on Vernon.
[1:36:00 – 1:36:00] Adam: There you go.
[1:36:00 – 1:36:01] Adam: There’s another factor.
[1:36:02 – 1:36:03] Erik: Yeah, another factor.
[1:36:03 – 1:36:06] Erik: And yeah, it’s not quite as accessible.
[1:36:06 – 1:36:10] Erik: You kind of got to work to get into those falls, but they’re there and they’re cool.
[1:36:11 – 1:36:15] Erik: And thank you, Obsidian, for keeping me from forgetting.
[1:36:15 – 1:36:19] Erik: That would have been a disappointment if I would have forgotten that those ones are falls.
[1:36:20 – 1:36:20] Erik: Thank you.
[1:36:21 – 1:36:23] Adam: Well, there’s probably more falls out there.
[1:36:23 – 1:36:24] Adam: There probably are, I’m sure.
[1:36:24 – 1:36:27] Adam: We didn’t get them all, but that’s the thing with the Boundary Waters.
[1:36:27 – 1:36:30] Adam: So many falls, so little time.
[1:36:30 – 1:36:30] Erik: Yep.
[1:36:31 – 1:36:33] Adam: What will we find next in the park?
[1:36:34 – 1:36:35] Adam: Who knows?
[1:36:35 – 1:36:41] Adam: There’s lots out there, and that’s the, like I’m saying, you can never know what’s around the next corner.
[1:36:42 – 1:36:44] Adam: There was one in that Cam Vesper loop.
[1:36:45 – 1:36:48] Adam: It was just like a spigot of water coming out the side of a rock.
[1:36:48 – 1:36:49] Adam: Remember that one?
[1:36:50 – 1:36:50] Adam: Is that a falls?
[1:36:51 – 1:36:51] Adam: I think it was.
[1:36:52 – 1:36:53] Erik: I mean, it is water falling.
[1:36:53 – 1:36:54] Adam: Yeah, but it was goofy.
[1:36:54 – 1:36:56] Adam: I’m just like, that’s not a map.
[1:36:57 – 1:36:58] Adam: How many people have seen this?
[1:36:58 – 1:36:59] Adam: Pretty wild.
[1:37:00 – 1:37:02] Erik: Just all sorts of funny things like that you’ll find.
[1:37:02 – 1:37:06] Adam: So I think that wraps it up.
[1:37:06 – 1:37:11] Adam: And we really appreciate all the responses from our good friends on BWCA Reddit.
[1:37:13 – 1:37:17] Erik: Yeah, we got to get back into the habit of trying to throw it up on Facebook a little bit more.
[1:37:17 – 1:37:21] Erik: But the folks on Reddit have been very great so far.
[1:37:21 – 1:37:24] Erik: And that, I think, is going to wrap up.
[1:37:26 – 1:37:28] Erik: the falls rankers episode.
[1:37:29 – 1:37:33] Erik: And next week we’re going to be doing a lake review.
[1:37:34 – 1:37:38] Erik: And I think by then we’ll have a good idea on maybe what we want to do for a question of the week.
[1:37:39 – 1:37:46] Erik: If we’re going to do one, but I think maybe we’ll finish with unless you’ve got anything else.
[1:37:46 – 1:37:47] Erik: No, I have nothing else.
[1:37:47 – 1:37:55] Erik: Talking about how we are potentially making a big audible on a trip for the year.
[1:37:56 – 1:38:00] Erik: I think we still want to try to get to the Grand Portage this year, but some things have…
[1:38:02 – 1:38:19] Erik: Aligned opportunities have been presented for a little extra time for one of the one of the first times in a long time that I can think of for more than a two day trip to occur here.
[1:38:19 – 1:38:21] Adam: Yeah, it’s pretty rare, so we’ve got to take advantage.
[1:38:21 – 1:38:27] Adam: I don’t feel like we need more than a night or maybe two to attack the Grand Portage.
[1:38:28 – 1:38:28] Adam: Right.
[1:38:28 – 1:38:30] Adam: I think we get there any time in June, we’re going to make it.
[1:38:31 – 1:38:36] Adam: So it’s still on the roster for trips this year, and that can be just a real quick one.
[1:38:36 – 1:38:40] Adam: But, yeah, we’ve got a block of time kind of opening up in front of us here.
[1:38:41 – 1:38:47] Adam: And so we’ve kind of set our sights a little higher as far as mileage, new water.
[1:38:48 – 1:38:49] Erik: New water, mileage.
[1:38:49 – 1:38:51] Adam: Definitely been looking at the map a bunch.
[1:38:52 – 1:38:56] Adam: So, yeah, we’ve got something big kind of stirring.
[1:38:56 – 1:39:01] Adam: And I think this will be a fun way we can get out with the new video technology we’ve got.
[1:39:02 – 1:39:06] Adam: We get out and do some field recordings.
[1:39:06 – 1:39:07] Erik: Get those birds recorded.
[1:39:07 – 1:39:33] Adam: i know we said in the previous episode like you shouldn’t go out and try and throw your 14 speed driver on your first trip um you know ease into them a little bit but i don’t know when you’re looking at four days on the calendar or wide open it’s hard not to shot yeah it’s hard not to just start gazing off the map a little bit and well we can get all the way over there maybe or yeah down here so uh
[1:39:34 – 1:39:34] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:39:34 – 1:39:36] Adam: Maybe we’ll just leave it at that for now.
[1:39:36 – 1:39:38] Adam: Um, it’s not a sure thing.
[1:39:38 – 1:39:46] Adam: Um, but I think we got some, I think we can say that with confidence that we’re going to be putting on some miles here by, uh,
[1:39:47 – 1:40:16] Adam: end of the month or early june hopefully so big big show coming up and some really good field audio in the future for our listeners so yeah get into some hopefully some places that i’ve never been you’ve never been and uh not that that’s what it’s about you know blacking out that lake on the map but you know there’s something about that it’s always cool to see new waters and that just makes me think like how many waterfalls are out there in this this loop we kind of starting to formulate in the head yeah i bet we’ll see a few things uh
[1:40:16 – 1:40:24] Adam: a couple of bit of moving waters and I don’t know, there’s really something to be said for getting to a lake you’ve never been to before.
[1:40:24 – 1:40:25] Adam: It’s really a special thing.
[1:40:25 – 1:40:29] Adam: I mean, when you find a good spot that you want to go back to year after year, that’s cool too.
[1:40:29 – 1:40:35] Adam: But to get to new water, it’s always, I think in the heart of all BWCA paddlers.
[1:40:35 – 1:40:36] SPEAKER_00: Oh, for sure.
[1:40:36 – 1:40:42] Erik: Yeah, and I don’t know if there’s anything else that we can say on that, but I think it’s most likely going to happen.
[1:40:43 – 1:40:48] Erik: We are, at this point, all we’ve been doing is just telling a bunch of lies to people.
[1:40:48 – 1:40:50] Erik: We’re going to get that video going.
[1:40:50 – 1:40:52] Erik: That’s a work in progress.
[1:40:52 – 1:40:53] Erik: We’re going to be doing the Grand Portage.
[1:40:54 – 1:40:57] Erik: It might be a little farther off than we originally anticipated.
[1:40:58 – 1:41:01] Erik: But I feel like there’s anything that I’m most confident about.
[1:41:01 – 1:41:03] Erik: It’s that this bigger trip might happen.
[1:41:04 – 1:41:16] Erik: And I can’t think of the last time a four-day trip opened itself up to me in the June, July, August season.
[1:41:16 – 1:41:41] Adam: yeah it’s gonna be a really prime time for trying some fishing too and usually when i’m going for mileage it’s like well just you know not gonna plan for as much fishing but i think we got the rare opportunity to do a lot of miles and get some fishing and probably get it after some lake trout that time of year it’s gonna be real good stuff so do just a little bit of everything and we’ll let you know we’ll keep you up to date on that but uh
[1:41:43 – 1:41:44] Erik: Oh, boy.
[1:41:44 – 1:41:45] Erik: Do we want to finish with anything else?
[1:41:46 – 1:41:46] Erik: No.
[1:41:47 – 1:41:47] Erik: No.
[1:41:47 – 1:41:49] Adam: You don’t want to find us.
[1:41:49 – 1:41:52] Adam: I went on my road trip down to Wisconsin this weekend.
[1:41:52 – 1:42:01] Adam: I was listening to a couple older episodes on the drive down, and I just stumbled upon a phrase I used to use a lot more, so I wanted to go out on that.
[1:42:01 – 1:42:04] Adam: So we’ll just go ahead and say thank you for listening.
[1:42:04 – 1:42:07] Adam: It’s been a real pleasure talking waterfalls with you.
[1:42:08 – 1:42:09] Adam: I’ve been Adam.
[1:42:09 – 1:42:10] Erik: I have been Eric.
[1:42:10 – 1:42:14] Erik: This is… Before you do your phrase, it’s not tumble time?
[1:42:14 – 1:42:15] Adam: No, it’s not tumble time.
[1:42:15 – 1:42:16] Adam: All right, good.
[1:42:16 – 1:42:18] Adam: Not until you listen to the episode.
[1:42:18 – 1:42:25] Adam: Right now, this is Ben Tumblehome coming to you live from Studio V until otherwise named…
[1:42:26 – 1:42:27] Adam: Thanks for listening.
[1:42:28 – 1:42:28] Adam: Happy paddling.
[1:42:29 – 1:42:33] Adam: And remember, life is precious, and every day is a miracle.
[1:42:34 – 1:42:34] Adam: That’s right.
[1:42:35 – 1:42:36] Erik: I forgot about that.
[1:42:36 – 1:42:38] Adam: I was listening to that episode, and it’s like, oh, yeah.
[1:42:39 – 1:42:39] Adam: I forgot about that.
[1:42:39 – 1:42:40] Erik: It was so funny.
[1:42:41 – 1:42:42] Erik: What was the other one?
[1:42:42 – 1:42:44] Erik: Paisley Adiera or whatever.
[1:42:44 – 1:42:46] Adam: Paisley Adiera.
[1:42:46 – 1:42:48] Adam: That’s what I thought you were going to do.
[1:42:48 – 1:42:50] Adam: That’s like an anchovy scone.
[1:42:52 – 1:42:53] Adam: With cream cheese, I think.
[1:42:54 – 1:42:54] Adam: And olives.
[1:42:55 – 1:42:56] Adam: It’s a really… Anchovy scones?
[1:42:56 – 1:42:59] Adam: Yeah, anchovy, olives, and cream cheese.
[1:42:59 – 1:43:00] Adam: On a scone.
[1:43:00 – 1:43:01] SPEAKER_00: In a scone?
[1:43:02 – 1:43:03] Erik: Paisley diary.
[1:43:04 – 1:43:08] Adam: To remember Boulder and Adam for ever and ever.
[1:43:08 – 1:43:10] Adam: Boom, leave those out.
[1:43:10 – 1:43:12] Adam: The chip chip music’s gonna be silent.
[1:44:08 – 1:44:14] Adam: A lonely mother gazing out her window, staring at a son that she just can’t touch.
[1:44:15 – 1:44:18] Adam: If at any time he’s in a jam, she’ll be by his side.
[1:44:19 – 1:44:21] Adam: But he doesn’t realize he hurts her so much.
[1:44:23 – 1:44:28] Adam: But all the praying just ain’t helping at all, because he can’t seem to keep himself out of trouble.
[1:44:30 – 1:44:33] Adam: So he goes out and he makes his money the best way he know how.
[1:44:34 – 1:44:36] Adam: Another body laying cold in the gutter.
[1:44:37 – 1:44:37] Adam: Listen to me.
[1:44:39 – 1:44:41] Adam: Don’t go chasing waterfalls.
[1:44:42 – 1:44:45] Adam: Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.
[1:44:46 – 1:44:51] Adam: I know that you’re going to have it your way, or nothing at all, but I think you’re moving too fast.