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[0:00:04 – 0:00:05] UNKNOWN: Woo!
[0:00:41 – 0:00:46] Adam: Welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:47] Adam: My name is Adam.
[0:00:47 – 0:00:52] Adam: Joining me here in the beautiful Tumble shed tonight is my best man, Eric.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:53] Adam: Hello, Eric.
[0:00:53 – 0:00:54] Adam: Hi, hi, hi.
[0:00:54 – 0:01:02] Adam: We’re here by the big map, and it’s nighttime, and it’s very cold, and it’s a real delight to be with you here in the shed.
[0:01:03 – 0:01:06] Erik: As always, I was really enjoying…
[0:01:08 – 0:01:15] Erik: Last week’s episode, as far as you were concerned, but just moments ago’s episode, as far as I’m concerned.
[0:01:16 – 0:01:25] Erik: And just kind of getting back into just the classic reading of trip reports, kind of what this show is all about.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:34] Erik: And yeah, it had me like pre-nostalgically missing being able to come in here and do this with you on a regular basis, so…
[0:01:34 – 0:01:57] Adam: it’s a great it’s a really great ritual yes to have this time in the shed uh it’s one like in a life of uh i would say semi-chaos having like uh having something on your schedule that you can always count on is really a treat it is and i will miss it i’m going to miss it greatly um
[0:01:59 – 0:02:02] Adam: It’ll be nice to have a break from it, too, you know?
[0:02:02 – 0:02:02] Adam: Yeah, right.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:06] Adam: And then we’ll come back fresh, you know, in the springtime or whenever.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:07] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:08] Adam: Probably the springtime.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:10] Erik: If I come back.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:12] Erik: You never know.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:13] Erik: Those hot air balloons are dangerous.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:15] Adam: You never know which way the wind’s going to blow.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:17] Erik: It’s whatever way the wind blows.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:34] Adam: But, yeah, no, it’s been really, it’s just been wonderful, like, getting the shed all set up like this and having these sessions to get together and talk about the park and the community, everybody’s commentary and input into the show.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:37] Adam: I mean, that’s what makes the show what it is these days.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:41] Adam: So huge shout out to the Patreons, everybody on the subreddit.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:43] Erik: You shout out to everybody.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:46] Adam: Even the people on Instagram, the picture app.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:48] Erik: Hit me in the DMs.
[0:02:48 – 0:02:50] Erik: So many different times.
[0:02:50 – 0:03:00] Erik: We’re not going to spend our last episode with you here bloviating over how grateful we are for the 20th time.
[0:03:01 – 0:03:01] Erik: We are.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:03] Erik: We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:04] Erik: You know that.
[0:03:05 – 0:03:08] Erik: Although we probably would still be having these conversations.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:09] Erik: It’s amazing to know that there are
[0:03:11 – 0:03:21] Erik: at least a thousand people or so out there getting some kind of enjoyment out of listening to us read what you have to say and, uh, and vice versa.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:23] Erik: So thank you again for being there.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:26] Erik: That’s really all it, I think needs to be said.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:27] Adam: This is episode 217 of tumble home.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:36] Adam: Tonight’s Tomahawk Outdoor Calendar Fact of the Night for November 22, 2022.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:38] Adam: The earth is rigid.
[0:03:38 – 0:03:40] Adam: The waterways are hard and blue.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:45] Adam: Sunset is at 4.20 p.m. Let’s get back into it.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:47] Erik: We do have a sponsorship.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:47] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:48] Adam: No, I’m sorry.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:50] Adam: We got ahead of ourselves.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:53] Adam: I got pretty charged up about that fact of the night.
[0:03:53 – 0:03:54] Adam: That’s pretty charging.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:55] Adam: I’m charged.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Adam: Not triggered.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:57] Adam: Charged.
[0:03:57 – 0:04:00] Adam: No, I have some sort of electricity inside of me right now.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:01] Erik: Is there an opposite of triggered?
[0:04:02 – 0:04:03] Erik: It should be charged, right?
[0:04:03 – 0:04:04] Adam: I guess it would be.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:05] Erik: Calmed.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:06] Adam: I’m calmed.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:07] Adam: I’m be-calmed.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:08] Adam: I’m be-calmed.
[0:04:08 – 0:04:09] Adam: I like putting the B in there.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:10] Adam: Be-calmed.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:12] Erik: It’s one of my favorite Brian Eno songs.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Erik: Be-calmed.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:15] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:20] Erik: You’ve got one of the two sippers over there for me because I did bring mine.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:22] Erik: You’ve already lost it.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:22] Erik: My God.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:24] Adam: What happened?
[0:04:27 – 0:04:27] Erik: They’re over here.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:30] Adam: Oh, yeah, I got them over here.
[0:04:30 – 0:04:31] Adam: I’m sorry.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:31] Adam: They’re there.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:33] Adam: They’re behind the computer.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:38] Erik: Thanks again, Anthony, Ash Pottery, for allowing us to…
[0:04:39 – 0:04:42] Adam: These things are honestly…
[0:04:44 – 0:04:45] Adam: Just beautiful.
[0:04:45 – 0:04:46] Adam: Yours has been sitting in here.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:47] Erik: Works of art.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Erik: Beautiful works of art.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:50] Erik: And yours has been kind of the go-to.
[0:04:50 – 0:04:51] Erik: We’ve been sharing it.
[0:04:51 – 0:04:56] Erik: And then I was like, I’m bringing over this corker tonight that needs – we need to cheers.
[0:04:56 – 0:04:59] Erik: We can’t like pour each other a sip and then go back and forth.
[0:04:59 – 0:05:03] Erik: And I was so happy when I opened up my cupboard and it was just right there in the front.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Erik: I was just like, oh.
[0:05:05 – 0:05:09] Erik: one of those things I was like kind of anticipating having to look for.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:10] Erik: And it was just right there.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:12] Erik: Front row lip of the cupboard.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:15] Adam: It’s one of those things where it’s a matching set, but they’re not matching.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:15] Adam: Does that make sense?
[0:05:16 – 0:05:19] Erik: Same shape, different colors, entirely different vibes.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:22] Erik: But perfect little sizes, I think.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:25] Adam: They go very well together.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:35] Adam: And, yeah, it’s, yeah, again, just a long line of, like, wonderful delights as part of being part of this show.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:36] Adam: Yes.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:47] Erik: The gifts, both physical and emotional and metaphysical, that have been returned to us from this show have still…
[0:05:49 – 0:05:49] Erik: Still amazes me.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] Erik: So, again, thank you.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:59] Erik: And thank you to Brad for this season, year, not show…
[0:06:00 – 0:06:04] Erik: culminating sponsorship is what we’re going to have tonight.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:06] Erik: Seems appropriate.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:10] Erik: This is a Balvenie Caribbean cask.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:20] Erik: It’s a single malt scotch whiskey aged 14 years in rum casks.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:22] Erik: Thank you, Brad.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:23] Erik: What?
[0:06:24 – 0:06:26] Erik: 14 years?
[0:06:26 – 0:06:26] Erik: 14 years.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:28] Erik: Where were you 14 years ago today?
[0:06:28 – 0:06:28] Erik: Uh,
[0:06:31 – 0:06:32] Adam: Probably working at the newspaper.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:35] Erik: I got to get it one more time a little closer to the mic.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:37] Erik: There it is.
[0:06:39 – 0:06:40] Erik: Thanks again, Brad.
[0:06:40 – 0:06:42] Erik: We’ve had some scotch whiskey from you in the past.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:46] Adam: Beer grease has gone by.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:47] Adam: True connoisseur here.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:59] Erik: It might not necessarily be an all-in-one go amount in the shooter there.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:00] Adam: Yeah, I understand.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:02] Adam: The neighborhood dogs are getting pretty excited.
[0:07:02 – 0:07:05] Adam: So, you know, there’s something in the air right now.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:06] Adam: Cheers, Adam.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:08] Adam: Eric, and to you, too.
[0:07:20 – 0:07:20] Erik: Wow.
[0:07:25 – 0:07:28] Erik: That is dangerously smooth, man.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:32] Adam: That feels like sitting by a campfire.
[0:07:32 – 0:07:33] Adam: That’s nice.
[0:07:33 – 0:07:37] Adam: Where did you say this is from?
[0:07:37 – 0:07:39] Erik: Balvenie.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:40] Adam: I never heard of that part of Wisconsin.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:41] Erik: Balvenie?
[0:07:42 – 0:07:43] Adam: Balvenie, Wisconsin.
[0:07:43 – 0:07:44] Adam: Balvenie.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:46] Adam: I got a real nice quick trip there in Balvenie.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:48] Adam: I think I’m thinking of Bellevue.
[0:07:50 – 0:07:56] Erik: Yeah, no, this is from the Balvenie Maltings in Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland.
[0:07:59 – 0:08:00] Erik: That’s why it’s a scotch whiskey.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:02] Erik: Oh, that makes sense.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:03 – 0:08:11] Erik: The Balvenie Distillery has been owned by the same independent family for five generations.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:29] Erik: Nowhere else will you find a distillery that still grows its own barley, that still malts its own traditional floor maltings, that still has coopers to tend to the casks and a coppersmith to tend to the stills.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:30] Erik: I love the word tend.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:34] Erik: A lot of tending going on over there in Scotland.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:38] Adam: I hope we’re tending to this podcast properly.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:43] Erik: It’s just like that meme where it’s the guy standing with the stick just poking at the stool.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:43] Erik: Do something.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:44] Erik: We’re tending.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:51] Adam: I mean, hell, they got their own Cooper.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:52] Adam: I mean, what more do you need to know?
[0:08:52 – 0:08:52] Erik: Right.
[0:08:54 – 0:09:03] Adam: I highly doubt many of these craft breweries in the States are having their own cooperage on site, but nobody knows how to tend anymore.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:04] Erik: Tending, it’s key.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:07] Adam: I would like to tend more.
[0:09:07 – 0:09:09] Adam: You need to get more tending skills.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:15] Erik: Tending skills, it’s a little bit of a dark horse life skill.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:17] Erik: Easier said than done to tend.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:26] Adam: I always tell people, I try and encourage people to drop out of school, and I also would tell young people now, try and learn a craft.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:28] Erik: Learn a craft.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:34] Adam: Anything, and become a master of that, and your life will be richer.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:35] Adam: Honestly, if I could go back…
[0:09:36 – 0:09:41] Adam: And I would not, I would, if I, you know, there’s the thing, you know.
[0:09:41 – 0:09:42] Erik: The scotch is already coming out.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:48] Adam: It is, you know, because everything I’ve done in my life has led me to this point.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:49] Adam: So would I change it?
[0:09:49 – 0:09:50] Adam: No, I would not.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:57] Adam: But if I could give a piece of advice to people and if I could like, maybe I should still do this, but learn a craft.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:58] Erik: You can always learn a craft.
[0:09:59 – 0:09:59] Adam: You could.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:00] Adam: It’s never too late to learn a craft.
[0:10:00 – 0:10:01] Adam: It’s never too late.
[0:10:01 – 0:10:08] Adam: Like paddling a canoe nicely, learning how to set up a tent properly, how to split kindling right.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:11] Erik: Just getting better at little things, that’s enough.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:13] Erik: But yeah, I get what you’re saying.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:14] Erik: The learning of a craft.
[0:10:14 – 0:10:15] Erik: I wish I would have…
[0:10:16 – 0:10:18] Erik: If I could go back and heed your advice, it probably would be that.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:30] Erik: And not necessarily to greatly change the trajectory of where I am now, but maybe just to have one extra thing in my back pocket besides starting a unicycle club at a university that I didn’t get any passing grades at.
[0:10:32 – 0:10:34] Erik: Maybe it would have been something I could have done a little bit differently, but…
[0:10:36 – 0:11:03] Erik: happy with where i am grateful for everything that i have and yeah um we’ve got a lot of responses to the question of the year to get to here you know there’s going to be some side tangents so there always is if we want to get out of here before new year’s we should probably get cracking hey all right uh play the drop
[0:11:04 – 0:11:07] Erik: I didn’t get the soundboard set up yet.
[0:11:07 – 0:11:12] Adam: That’s going to be the first thing I put on the soundboard next year.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:13] Adam: Perfect.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:26] Adam: That is very nice.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:27] Erik: It is.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:29] Erik: It’s a perfect night for something like that.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:37] Adam: Yeah, I dressed way warmer this week too, so I’m feeling a lot better despite it being a little cold, but the heaters are doing a great job in here.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:40] Adam: The tumble shed has never felt nicer.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:52] Erik: No, it’s only going to feel better as the scotch continues to impact the night in just the inner warmth, not in anything that you’re going to be able to tell.
[0:11:52 – 0:11:54] Erik: I am sure of that.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:57] Erik: You want me to start?
[0:11:57 – 0:12:01] Erik: There is a voicemail, but we’re going to just smatter it in there when we get sick of reading.
[0:12:01 – 0:12:02] Erik: How’s that?
[0:12:02 – 0:12:06] Adam: Yeah, I need to sometimes take a break from reading, and that’s a good time to listen.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:07] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:09] Erik: We’re going to start with the responses.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:10] Erik: Once again…
[0:12:12 – 0:12:15] Erik: No Squatchos will be consumed on my part.
[0:12:15 – 0:12:20] Erik: You’re going to have to tune in next year to find out if Squatchos are consumed.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:27] Erik: We did not get to the requisite 1,000 followers on the subreddit, rtumblehomecasts.
[0:12:27 – 0:12:28] Adam: Here’s a new tactic.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:31] Adam: I don’t want 1,000 followers on the subreddit.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:33] Adam: And if we get there, then we’re going to start kicking people off.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:35] Adam: Wow.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:36] Adam: That’s insane.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:37] Adam: I don’t mean it.
[0:12:37 – 0:12:38] Erik: Tell your friends.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:38] Erik: Tell your family.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:40] Erik: Sign up.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:41] Adam: Is that edgy?
[0:12:42 – 0:12:42] Adam: Don’t do it.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:44] Adam: Please sign up.
[0:12:44 – 0:12:44] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:44 – 0:12:45] Adam: We love you all.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:46] Adam: Please sign up.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:49] Adam: And it’s more fun with the more people we get on there.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:50] Erik: Buy my product.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:51] Adam: No, don’t buy anything.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:53] Adam: We don’t have anything for sale.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:55] Erik: That quote always comes to mind.
[0:12:55 – 0:13:01] Erik: There was an old infomercial back in the day and the guy would end the infomercial every time by just going, buy my product.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:04] Adam: How can you say no to that?
[0:13:05 – 0:13:05] Erik: All right.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:06] Erik: I guess I will.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:09] Erik: I’ll buy the squeegee wand that can reach the top of my…
[0:13:09 – 0:13:10] Adam: I feel a little bad for this guy.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Adam: I guess I’ll buy it.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:21] Erik: It’s going to be a long time before any of the experiences we’re going to recap tonight are experienced again, so enjoy it while you can.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:24] Erik: And then start back over from one.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:27] Erik: Episode 001 of Tumble Home.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:29] Erik: My name is Eric, recording from Cabin 7.
[0:13:31 – 0:13:39] Erik: Four years ago, going to tell you all about the ins and outs of the Boundary Waters, take you along for this wild ride, and you can relive it all over again.
[0:13:40 – 0:13:42] Erik: But for now, this is 217.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:48] Erik: Everything we know, everything we’ve learned, all of the inside jokes, they’re all here out on the table.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:50] Erik: Every card in the deck is available to you, Adam.
[0:13:51 – 0:13:52] Erik: Choose wisely.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:54] Adam: That’s a lot of pressure.
[0:13:54 – 0:13:56] Adam: I don’t have any cards in my hand at all.
[0:13:56 – 0:13:57] Erik: Okay.
[0:13:57 – 0:14:02] Erik: Well, I can’t see your hands, so whatever you’re doing down there, again, choose wisely.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:02] Adam: Okay.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:07] Erik: Cabin after long time, long time.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:08] Erik: 27 days ago.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:10] Erik: Five boxes of Franzia.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:12] Erik: I had a swing and miss year.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:14] Erik: The big trip was in August.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:18] Erik: My group headed into Cherry from Moose Lake for a five-day trip.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:21] Erik: We took a tow from Hall & Oates.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:23] Erik: That one I did change.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:25] Adam: As you should have.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:25] Erik: Yes.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:28] Erik: It’s always going to be Hall & Oates to me.
[0:14:29 – 0:14:30] Erik: And made it to the cherries.
[0:14:30 – 0:14:32] Adam: I honestly don’t know what it is anymore.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:34] Adam: I think it is Hall & Oates.
[0:14:35 – 0:14:36] Adam: I couldn’t even tell you.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:40] Adam: If you gave me three guesses as to what the real name is at this point, I don’t think I could get it.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:44] Erik: Well, that’s a competition for another trivia show.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:49] Erik: We made it to the Cherry’s Narrows campsite on day two.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:50] Erik: Cherry is awesome.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:54] Erik: We paddled a slow tour around the whole lake for the rest of the day.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:57] Erik: It’s always a beautiful thing to do to have the time to do that.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:58] Adam: Yeah, the lazy river.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Erik: Just trolling.
[0:14:59 – 0:15:00] Erik: The promenade.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:03] Erik: Trolling like it’s the outline of the state of Texas.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:08] Erik: Day three, you woke up to rain and enjoyed blueberry pancakes while we waited it out.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:12] Erik: After the rain passed, we headed to Hanson for a day trip loop.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:19] Erik: At the tippy top of the Hanson from Cherry Portage, my foot slipped down a rock face and
[0:15:20 – 0:15:28] Erik: I fell forward and my knee landed on a sharp rock edge, which cut the skin of my kneecap down into a deep gouge.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:30] Erik: The trip was over.
[0:15:33 – 0:15:38] Erik: I carry a substantial first aid kit and back at camp we cleaned and bandaged my knee.
[0:15:38 – 0:15:41] Erik: It took us a day and a half to get to the Ely emergency room.
[0:15:42 – 0:15:51] Erik: We were obviously disappointed, but we were grateful for the experience and thought process of what would we have done if it had been worse.
[0:15:52 – 0:15:56] Erik: My other big trip to Ely this year was for the Ely marathon, but I got COVID.
[0:15:57 – 0:15:57] Erik: Damn it.
[0:15:58 – 0:16:20] Erik: that’s an interesting choice to make the drive up to ely for a marathon that’s fun luckily i went on two trips in june and september to fall lake and caribou slash deer weekend trips make the itch worse but they are a great way to scout new entry points ain’t that just the way oh no we’ve got three takeaways here and i see a phrase i’m not
[0:16:23 – 0:16:24] Erik: All right, three takeaways.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:29] Erik: The ER doctor said the knee flap had sealed and was not infected.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:32] Adam: Yeah, that’s good scoutmanship there.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:36] Erik: Love it when you got a knee flap that keeps from being infected.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:39] Adam: You had good camp glue application there.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:45] Erik: Since it had been over 24 hours, he did not do stitches and instead layered some glue on the wound.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:46] Adam: There you go, the glue.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:46] Adam: Just glue it up.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Adam: Everything in life can be fixed with glue.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:51] Erik: Rubber cement comes with a brush.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:53] Erik: I got a bill for $1,200.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:55] Erik: Thank gosh for insurance.
[0:16:55 – 0:16:56] Erik: What?
[0:16:56 – 0:16:56] Erik: We’re not going there.
[0:16:57 – 0:16:58] Erik: Who has insurance?
[0:16:58 – 0:16:59] Erik: We’re not going there.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:03] Adam: We’re not going to talk about the healthcare situation in this country, Eric?
[0:17:03 – 0:17:04] Erik: That was $1,200.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:05] Erik: Thank gosh.
[0:17:07 – 0:17:09] Erik: Two, first aid supplies used.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:10] Erik: Buy a canoe for $1,200.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:10] Erik: Right?
[0:17:11 – 0:17:14] Erik: I would rather my knee flap get infected.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:16] Erik: No.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:18] Adam: Oh, it’s a good thing we have 13 aircraft carriers.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:19] Adam: Thank God.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:21] Adam: Or whatever it is.
[0:17:24 – 0:17:25] Old Canoe Guy: Stay on task.
[0:17:27 – 0:17:28] Erik: Get back.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:28] Erik: Get with it.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:29] Erik: First aid supplies used.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:30] Erik: Jolly rancher.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:33] Erik: And lay back to stop the nausea.
[0:17:33 – 0:17:35] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:36] Erik: Just something to distract yourself.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:37] Erik: That’s a good idea.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:38] Adam: Yeah, it is.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:42] Erik: Large gauze pad and tape on the portage to stop the bleeding.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:43] Erik: Saline spray.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:44] Erik: Latex gloves.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:44] Erik: Q-tips.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:45] Erik: Two by two gauze pads.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:49] Erik: This guy’s got like a… That sounds like a serious first aid kit.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:51] Erik: Still going.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:56] Erik: Steri-Strips, XL Band-Aids, Athletic Wrap, Ibuprofen, and whiskey.
[0:17:57 – 0:17:57] Erik: There you go.
[0:17:58 – 0:17:58] Erik: Yes.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:01] Erik: New pair of gear this year was a quality pair of goggles.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:03] Erik: Why?
[0:18:04 – 0:18:06] Erik: It was awesome to dive around at camp in rocky outcrops.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:07] Erik: All right.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:09] Erik: Stop throwing fish carcasses from camp.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:25] Adam: uh yeah yeah i bet with those goggles it’s probably a massacre scene down there yeah you don’t want to see that yeah it’s probably not something you want to dive on no no place on earth you want to go for a scuba right in front of a campsite on an entry point lake
[0:18:26 – 0:18:29] Erik: I thought you were saying, like, woods goggles for, like, hunting for wood.
[0:18:29 – 0:18:35] Adam: I thought they were talking about, like, chemical, like, you know, laboratory goggles.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:41] Erik: Yeah, no, that’s honestly been, like, sometimes I’ll wear my sunglasses into the woods when I’m, like, going for wood.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:41] Erik: For protection.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:43] Erik: Just to keep from getting scratched.
[0:18:43 – 0:18:46] Erik: I can see it, like, especially if it’s cloudy or darkish.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:52] Adam: That’s the only nice thing about having bad eyesight is I get to wear glasses.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:59] Adam: So when I’m working in the woods, I put on the big crazy ones that I got for five bucks.
[0:19:00 – 0:19:05] Adam: Or whatever from the iMart Express or… Oh, everybody knows.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:06] Erik: Classic iMart.
[0:19:06 – 0:19:07] Erik: Whatever.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:08] Erik: iMart Express.
[0:19:08 – 0:19:09] Adam: iStore.
[0:19:09 – 0:19:10] Erik: They’re not prescription.
[0:19:11 – 0:19:14] Adam: Yeah, they’re just for… Just for covering the glasses.
[0:19:14 – 0:19:15] Erik: Just for looks.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:17] Adam: Next up on the show, The Big Sag.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:18] Adam: You got two poems.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:19] Adam: I got more poems.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:20] Adam: You do?
[0:19:20 – 0:19:23] Adam: This is great.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:24] Adam: You have the best cadence for haikus.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:25] Adam: Thank you.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:27] Adam: I will try my best.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:29] Adam: Seven trips this year.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:30] Adam: Seven?
[0:19:30 – 0:19:32] Adam: Wife did not participate.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:36] Adam: Still happily wed. Two solo with dog.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:38] Adam: Five with friends and family.
[0:19:39 – 0:19:40] Adam: All trips amazing.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:43] Erik: Awesome year, guys.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:44] Adam: Thanks for the content.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:46] Adam: Thank you, Big Sag.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:49] Adam: That was a dandy of a poem.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:57] Erik: It was almost like the classic shortest story prompt that you hear always with the Ernest Hemingway.
[0:19:58 – 0:20:01] Adam: Yeah, what’s the most complex story you can tell with 10 words?
[0:20:01 – 0:20:05] Adam: Seven trips this year, none with wife, still happily married.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:07] Adam: It’s like, what?
[0:20:07 – 0:20:08] Adam: Oh, okay.
[0:20:08 – 0:20:11] Adam: I’m on the edge of my damn Heinolt couch over here.
[0:20:12 – 0:20:14] Adam: I’m playing with my foam toys.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:15] Erik: Everybody’s on the edge of that couch.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:21] Erik: Phasmata, big friend of the show, big contributor.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:26] Erik: Thank you for being a pillar of this community.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:35] Erik: I introduced my former co-worker from my days in ecological restoration to her first border waters trip.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:36] Erik: Border waters.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:38] Adam: Border waters.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:38] Adam: TM.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:41] Adam: I can’t believe you put Paul Allen in that.
[0:20:41 – 0:20:43] Adam: I can’t believe he did that evil on the border waters.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:43] Adam: I know.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:46] Adam: But, you know, he’s the one that did the evil, you know.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:47] Adam: Border battles.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:52] Erik: One of my usual B-Dub trip mates came along and gave her four-year-old her first Boundary Waters experience.
[0:20:53 – 0:20:57] Erik: The guys at Hungry Jack Outfitters shuttled us over to a topper lake entry.
[0:20:58 – 0:21:01] Adam: That’s one of those undiscovered entry points.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:03] Erik: That’s a connoisseur’s entry point there.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:04] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:21:05 – 0:21:07] Adam: The missing entry points is what some call them.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:07] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:10] Erik: It doesn’t have a number, but it counts as an entry point.
[0:21:10 – 0:21:14] Erik: Spent a couple of nights on South, and then we moved over to Rose for a couple more.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:26] Erik: My newbie’s friend’s son caught a big old bass, and if I’m not mistaken, I think they said that he had just started fishing, and that was his first catch ever.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:31] Erik: My proper herd is back with some campsite zoomies before he forgets that he is 12.
[0:21:32 – 0:21:33] Erik: So I missed enjoying.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:37] Erik: I miss joining everyone for their waterfall and overlook hike.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:39] Adam: Oh, the pupper.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:42] Erik: Oh, you’re just not as young as you used to be.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:43] Adam: You can’t be leaping and jumping.
[0:21:44 – 0:21:50] Erik: No, he is fine, but I couldn’t be sure at the time how hurt he was, so I played it safe for the rest of the day and stayed with him in camp to let him rest.
[0:21:52 – 0:21:59] Erik: I had hoped to do a Kawishawi lollipop up through Adams, Boulder, and Makwa, but I canceled it when I couldn’t find anyone to go with.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:03] Erik: I considered to solo, but I didn’t enjoy solo trips all that much.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:08] Erik: Instead, I finally got around to checking out Big Island Lake Wilderness in Upper Michigan.
[0:22:09 – 0:22:12] Erik: I found it to be very enjoyable, micro, Boundary Waters-esque.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:21] Erik: And it is almost half the drive time from my home as the B-Dub, so I will be going back much more for short weekend getaways.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:25] Erik: My friend and her husband and son love the Boundary Waters.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:32] Erik: Their excitement at Rose Falls sparked me to take them out to Johnson Falls next May when the snow melt has it raging.
[0:22:33 – 0:22:38] Erik: Hopefully, I’ll get another chance at my Heart of the Park lollipop also.
[0:22:39 – 0:22:44] Erik: Also up for consideration is a picto loop from Nina Moose to LLC and back through Rocky.
[0:22:44 – 0:22:47] Erik: And I’ve also been looking at doing something with a Brant Lake entry.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:54] Erik: The goal is at least two trips in 2023 and then something in Canada in 2024.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:56] Erik: Hopefully Waba Kimi.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:58] Adam: Waba Kimi.
[0:22:58 – 0:23:01] Erik: Rub hands frustratingly.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:02] Erik: Or excitedly.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:05] Adam: I’m clapping for some reason.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:14] Adam: Would you rather go on a trip where you’re going to see some pictographs or would you rather go on a trip where you’re going to get to go on a waterfall?
[0:23:14 – 0:23:15] Erik: In or near?
[0:23:17 – 0:23:17] Erik: That’s a tough one.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:19] Erik: I think I…
[0:23:19 – 0:23:22] Adam: I think it’s a good question which was raised by this comment.
[0:23:22 – 0:23:24] Erik: I think I lean picto just slightly.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:31] Adam: I think Eileen picked out two because, honestly, there’s bigger waterfalls all over the place.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:46] Adam: The Boundary Waters waterfalls are so obscured by wood and rock that it’s hard to really fully appreciate them like the waterfalls of the West or other regions where you get a better vista towards them.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:53] Adam: And they’re not big enough to be seen from a distance, and the access to them is limited.
[0:23:54 – 0:24:00] Adam: High Falls, though, if anybody’s in the region, go check out High Falls.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:02] Adam: It’s incredible, and it’s really easy to get to.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:06] Adam: It’s a short walk on almost a highway.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:36] Adam: yeah and that one’s a real gem you know for a real easy um waterfall but i do i think i i think i lean pictos too though yeah something about the pictos gives me gives me more of a gives me more of the snake feeling a little like yeah the ancient wisdom or uh i don’t know what i don’t know what you would call it but there is like a magical feeling about being by the picto
[0:24:36 – 0:24:44] Erik: Well, at any point in time and anywhere you’re at in the barge wires, you can potentially assume you are somewhere else that somebody has been.
[0:24:44 – 0:24:46] Erik: It is an eerie feeling.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:51] Erik: When you’re next to a picto, you know absolutely there was somebody here.
[0:24:51 – 0:24:52] Erik: Right here.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:57] Adam: I mean, all you got to do is see the handprint ones.
[0:24:57 – 0:25:01] Erik: Nothing beats… Yeah, I don’t think anything beats the handprint pictos.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:03] Erik: It’s just such a…
[0:25:03 – 0:25:03] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:25:05 – 0:25:12] Erik: Was the thought to anywhere towards the future or was it just to be more of a circle around them and in their day and age?
[0:25:13 – 0:25:21] Erik: Because to put something like that up on a rock, you must… Who knows if they thought it was going to last as long as it did, but to do something like that and be like, yeah…
[0:25:23 – 0:25:28] Erik: 200 years from now, 100 years from now, people are going to be looking right at that hand.
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] Erik: It’s going to still be there.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:34] Adam: Yeah, and the craziest thing, though, is the rock is by far the oldest part of that.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:35] Adam: Right, yes.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:36] Adam: And even that’s spooky.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:44] Adam: The whole equation with pictographs and the sort, I find it truly fascinating.
[0:25:45 – 0:25:46] Erik: I say picto.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:48] Adam: All right, I’m on Team Picto on that one.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:49] Adam: Next up on the show, Aldi1.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:50] Adam: Who?
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Adam: One month ago.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:53] Adam: Never heard of him.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:55] Adam: Great friend of the show with three boxes of wine.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:59] Adam: I went to Cummings Lake in August.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:03] Adam: Our group had a great campsite and favorable weather.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:06] Adam: It was a trip filled with games and good food.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:11] Adam: We set up a real nice frisbee golf course using our camp chairs for baskets.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:15] Adam: The site was big enough for a front and back nine.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:21] Adam: Other highlights included hearing a pack of wolves howl near our lake while a storm rolled in.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:24] Adam: One of those moments that keeps you coming back.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:27] Adam: Food highlights.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:29] Adam: Steak salad.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:32] Erik: Hey!
[0:26:32 – 0:26:34] Adam: There it is.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:37] Adam: Food highlights.
[0:26:38 – 0:26:39] Adam: Steak salad.
[0:26:40 – 0:26:44] Adam: Also, my buddy made a lentil mushroom soup served with fresh bread.
[0:26:45 – 0:26:47] Adam: Savory, warm, and full of flavor.
[0:26:48 – 0:27:12] Adam: gear highlights do-it-yourself reflector oven really enhanced our nan bread pizza did i say that right eric nan nan bread pizza you nailed it next year’s goal it’s going to be the 10th anniversary for our group do we redo our first trip question go somewhere new question try quetico oh easily third option
[0:27:13 – 0:27:18] Adam: I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone wants to do to celebrate discovering such a wonderful place.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:26] Erik: Yeah, it’s the classic Seinfeld joke where he’s out with Banya trying to decide where they’re going to go to eat.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:31] Erik: Yeah, we could go to the place that we know is good, or we could try somewhere new, but it might not be as good.
[0:27:31 – 0:27:32] Erik: Right.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:33] Erik: That’s the conundrum.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:39] Erik: But with the third option, which is never really included in that argument, is Quetico.
[0:27:39 – 0:27:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:27:39 – 0:27:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:47] Erik: Tough to not say that that would be a perfect time to 10th trip, crack into Quetico.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:48] Erik: There you go.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:49] Adam: You have to go.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:52] Erik: Aldi1, tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:56] Erik: I would love to spend my winter helping you plan a Quetico trip.
[0:27:56 – 0:27:57] Adam: Make it happen.
[0:27:57 – 0:27:57] Erik: Make it happen.
[0:27:57 – 0:27:58] Adam: Make it happen.
[0:27:59 – 0:28:00] Erik: Our ABCs are flying off the shelves.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:02] Erik: They’re giving them out in 10 minutes.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:03] Erik: Get it going.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:05] Adam: Get ears.
[0:28:05 – 0:28:06] Adam: Get ears.
[0:28:06 – 0:28:08] Adam: Before the getting is gone, as I say.
[0:28:08 – 0:28:10] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know if there’s a limit, but.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:12] Adam: Yeah, there’s a quota.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:13] Adam: Don’t wait until.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:13] Adam: There’s a quota.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:14] Erik: You don’t want to get quoted.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:17] Erik: Don’t wait until spring when everybody else is trying to get there.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:20] Erik: You can get ears in like an hour this time of year.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:21] Adam: There you go.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:22] Adam: So make it happen.
[0:28:23 Р0:28:25] Adam: Next up on the show, Jud̩ Pouzois.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:27] Erik: Friend from the north.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:38] Adam: As a listener from the north side of the border area, I had one Quetico trip only, and it was only a two-nighter, and one of those nights was spent in the Quetico campground.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:39] Adam: Don’t worry, though.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:44] Adam: I had multiple Quetico-adjacent trips and even a Wabakimi-adjacent trip.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:45] SPEAKER_01: Wow.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:47] Erik: Everything’s adjacent in Canada.
[0:28:47 – 0:28:48] Erik: Aren’t you special?
[0:28:49 – 0:28:50] Adam: Well, I like the adjacent trips.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:53] Adam: I mean, that’s for, you know, even here.
[0:28:54 – 0:28:55] Adam: Yes, we have adjacent.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:56] Adam: Just on the edge.
[0:28:56 – 0:29:02] Adam: But we can’t talk about those here because there has to be a geographical limit somewhere.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:03] SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
[0:29:03 – 0:29:09] Adam: My Quetico trip began with another tumble homey down the Baptism River of Quetico.
[0:29:10 – 0:29:20] Adam: Very few people do this river, so it was a surprise to get to the permit station at the same time as a solo paddler who was starting the same route.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:21] Adam: Oh my.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:35] Adam: After our aquatic orientation at the permit office was completed, my tumble homie and I were motivated to get to the water before the other guys so we wouldn’t be tripping over each other on the multiple portages.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:44] Adam: We got on the water quickly and paddled upstream in good time and across the Baptism Lake and then on to Trousers Lake where we stayed the night.
[0:29:45 – 0:29:52] Adam: When we paddled back the next day, we found our fellow baptism paddler on the shore of an island on the baptism lake waiting out at the rain.
[0:29:53 – 0:30:00] Adam: He told us he made a wrong turn on the river and started heading in the wrong direction and that it was four hours before he realized.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:06] Adam: He then had to camp on the Buggy Portage Trail along the Baptism River.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:09] Adam: To be honest, it’s a very easy and common mistake to make.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:14] Adam: We wished him better luck for the rest of his voyage and carried on our way.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:21] Adam: Back to our vehicle for a successful first, and only for me, Quetico trip of the season.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:23] Adam: Four boxes of wine, thank you.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:25] Erik: Yeah, thank you.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:29] Erik: I felt like that comment affected me, um…
[0:30:31 – 0:30:34] Adam: In a way that I cannot explain.
[0:30:35 – 0:30:36] Adam: Does that make sense?
[0:30:37 – 0:30:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:38] Erik: No.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:41] Erik: But if you can’t explain it, then I guess we’re at an impasse.
[0:30:44 – 0:30:57] Erik: I was thinking what came to mind for me is a discussion, which I don’t think we’ve had with the community, on river or only one way to get through.
[0:30:58 – 0:31:06] Erik: Portage etiquette, because it does sometimes come up where you’re like, I can tell we’re going to be moving faster than this group.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:08] Erik: Yeah, it came up on our last trip.
[0:31:09 – 0:31:10] Erik: When do you play through?
[0:31:10 – 0:31:12] Erik: How do you breach that?
[0:31:12 – 0:31:15] Erik: It happened to us in Quetico and we ran into like three groups up there.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:23] Adam: My advice in this situation is to just ram your boat ashore and then run past them on the portage and try and pass them.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:25] Adam: That’s what I always try and do.
[0:31:26 – 0:31:27] Adam: But don’t be rude about it.
[0:31:27 – 0:31:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:28] Adam: You got to be sly.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:35] Adam: But just go fast and people will respect your ability to get in and out of the boat quickly.
[0:31:36 – 0:31:43] Adam: You’ve seen this happen before, you know, when you got a group of new folk out there who really don’t know what they’re doing.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:48] Adam: And you come in and you throw all your packs in quick and go and they’re like, not of approval.
[0:31:48 – 0:31:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:49 – 0:31:56] Erik: Well, if there’s not anybody out there doing that, then it won’t be a cause for improvement.
[0:31:57 – 0:32:03] Erik: I never went out into the banjo bars at the beginning not noticing how well some people did it.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:09] Erik: You can clearly see the error in your ways when you’re portaging and you see somebody efficiently moving.
[0:32:09 – 0:32:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:28] Erik: So there’s a part of me in that conversation, and it’s not one that we need to have in length here, but when it comes to making that decision to pass somebody, if you can do it efficiently without getting in their way, I think it’s only going to improve everybody else’s experiences in the future because they will see it and notice, hey,
[0:32:28 – 0:32:30] Erik: We can do better.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:32] Erik: Let’s try to be as fast as these guys.
[0:32:32 – 0:32:33] Erik: Let’s consolidate.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:40] Erik: Let’s maybe delegate who’s in charge of what and get into a little bit of a groove here and do our thing.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:41] Adam: Yeah, set a good example.
[0:32:42 – 0:32:42] Adam: Don’t be rude.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:44] Erik: Yeah, obviously don’t be rude.
[0:32:44 – 0:32:53] Erik: But there are some times, though, where you do get into a bit of a pickle where it’s like, okay, they… You’re kind of with somebody who’s evenly matched, but you’re leapfrogging.
[0:32:53 – 0:32:54] Adam: Yes.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:55] Adam: Yeah, exactly.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:55] Adam: That’s tough.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:56] Adam: Then you just have to make friends.
[0:32:57 – 0:32:58] Erik: Kind of, yeah.
[0:32:58 – 0:32:59] Erik: Mind if we play through?
[0:33:00 – 0:33:04] Erik: Four hours later, you’re still just there portaging with them, paddling right alongside.
[0:33:04 – 0:33:04] Adam: Hey, Doug.
[0:33:04 – 0:33:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:33:07 – 0:33:08] Adam: No, we haven’t caught any smallies.
[0:33:09 – 0:33:10] Erik: We’re best of friends now.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:13] Erik: We haven’t even tried fishing yet.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:15] Erik: Gray with an E or are you gray with an A?
[0:33:16 – 0:33:19] Erik: E. E. Why is gray with an A a thing?
[0:33:19 – 0:33:19] Erik: Is that a name?
[0:33:22 – 0:33:22] Adam: I’m not sure.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:23] Erik: Pecan?
[0:33:23 – 0:33:23] Erik: Pecan.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:24] Erik: Pecan.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:27] Erik: Not a debate for here.
[0:33:27 – 0:33:31] Adam: I refuse to answer the nut question.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:33] Adam: Nut pronunciation.
[0:33:35 – 0:33:36] Erik: Great Panther 8, thank you for the response.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:37] Erik: 28 days ago.
[0:33:38 – 0:33:39] Erik: Edited 27 days ago.
[0:33:39 – 0:33:40] Erik: Hmm.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:41] Erik: Questions.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:43] Adam: I’m intrigued.
[0:33:43 – 0:33:45] Erik: I don’t care about your edits.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:49] Adam: You don’t have to go back through and edit the edit and be like, edited for this reason.
[0:33:49 – 0:33:51] Adam: I don’t care if he spelled something wrong, frankly.
[0:33:52 – 0:33:54] Adam: I don’t care if he spelled right or wrong.
[0:33:55 – 0:33:58] Erik: For the longest time, I didn’t understand how Reddit worked.
[0:33:58 – 0:34:02] Erik: I thought it was like, oh, you have to put in the edit note because everybody does it.
[0:34:03 – 0:34:04] Erik: But no, you can just edit it and say nothing.
[0:34:05 – 0:34:07] Adam: It still says it’s edited.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:10] Erik: I don’t need like a clarification on what you edited.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:12] Erik: It was probably something that deserved to be edited.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Erik: So thank you, Gray Panther.
[0:34:14 – 0:34:15] Erik: You did the right thing.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:16] Erik: You did the right thing.
[0:34:16 – 0:34:21] Erik: Upstanding citizen of amazing Reddit community.
[0:34:22 – 0:34:28] Erik: Paddled in at entry point 52 after spending the night and picking up our canoes at Tuscarora Outfitters.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:33] Erik: Ron liked Brant and on to Gillis.
[0:34:36 – 0:34:36] Erik: For day one.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:42] Erik: I’m trying to picture.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:47] Erik: Brant Lake.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:47] Erik: I’m trying to think.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:48] Erik: No, I’m trying to picture.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:49] Adam: You can trust us.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:52] Adam: That’s my new commercial.
[0:34:52 – 0:34:52] Adam: Yes.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:54] Adam: Brant Lake, you can trust us.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:55] Erik: No, don’t.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:56] Erik: You can never trust Brant.
[0:34:56 – 0:34:57] Erik: 1-800-BRANT with a B.
[0:35:02 – 0:35:05] Adam: 1-800-BRANT-WITH-A-B.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:08] Adam: That’s too many numbers.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:10] Erik: Brant with a B.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:16] Erik: For day one, it was a good introduction to the B-dub for three rookies.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:20] Erik: Hell, that is an insane introduction for three rookies.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:25] Erik: Strapping lads that toted plenty of gear for their seasoned veteran leaders.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:25] Adam: There you go.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:26] Erik: This guy’s got it figured out.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:31] Erik: Stayed on Gillis two nights before pushing on to Little Sag.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:36] Erik: Andy at Tuscarora recommended hitting Little Sag, and it did not disappoint.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:40] Erik: Spent two nights at a beautiful west-facing site on Little Sag.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:42] Erik: Got a couple of Lakers that cooked up nicely.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:47] Erik: It was a long, cold, wet paddle from Little Sag Tuscarora.
[0:35:48 – 0:35:53] Erik: The driving rain had us heading down, had us head down, and grinding for a campsite.
[0:35:54 – 0:35:58] Erik: We found a nice spot on a point just around the corner from the Tuscarora portage.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:01] Erik: The tarps went up quickly and the hot chocolate was made.
[0:36:02 – 0:36:04] Erik: As the rain petered out, we made our final camp.
[0:36:06 – 0:36:12] Erik: As we planned for the trip, we had been trying to avoid the mile-plus portage out of Tuscarora.
[0:36:12 – 0:36:19] Erik: Before we shoved off from Tuscarora Outfitters, we got some helpful tips, one of which was to take the portage.
[0:36:19 – 0:36:21] Erik: Again, Andy was spot on.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:28] Erik: It had length, but being relatively flat and very well maintained, this portage was a veritable highway.
[0:36:29 – 0:36:34] Erik: It also provided the best entertainment and examples of the wide variety of folks that venture into the Northwoods.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:35] Adam: That’s true.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:36] Adam: Very true.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:48] Erik: One crew was a group of five college-ish aged folks who moved easily and all were smiling and chatting with enthusiasm and brevity that comes from experience on portage trails.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:52] Erik: The next was a family of four that we met at the end of the portage into Round Lake.
[0:36:52 – 0:37:00] Erik: Their water socks, that’s in quotes, and backpacker style packs made me believe this might be their first BWCA trip.
[0:37:00 – 0:37:01] Erik: Water sock.
[0:37:01 – 0:37:02] Erik: Water sock.
[0:37:03 – 0:37:03] Erik: Remember those things?
[0:37:04 – 0:37:05] Adam: Aqua Socks.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:05] Adam: Aqua Socks.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:08] Adam: Yeah, back in Mantua, they called those Aqua Socks.
[0:37:08 – 0:37:09] Adam: Yeah, those were Aqua Socks.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:11] Adam: It could only be made in neon colors by law.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:14] Erik: Yeah, no, that was binding by Congress.
[0:37:15 – 0:37:15] Adam: It was signed into law.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:16] Adam: Yeah.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:22] Erik: There’s an old Schoolhouse Rock song about that, I think.
[0:37:22 – 0:37:24] Adam: That was what the song was about.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:27] Erik: Gotta be neon, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[0:37:27 – 0:37:31] Erik: We wish them luck with their plans to paddle to Little Sag for their first night.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:36] Erik: A pop and a wheel at Hungry Jack closed out our Gunflint Trail adventures nicely.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:37] Erik: A pop and a wheel.
[0:37:37 – 0:37:40] Erik: Been a long time since we popped and wheeled.
[0:37:40 – 0:37:43] Erik: A pop and a wheel.
[0:37:43 – 0:37:46] Erik: It was a great trip and three young men vowed they’d come back.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:49] Erik: Heck, have a trip report there.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:50] Erik: Thank you so much.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:52] Adam: I thought they were going to say they vowed vengeance.
[0:37:52 – 0:37:55] Erik: Vowed vengeance on the water sock family.
[0:37:59 – 0:38:00] Adam: I shall have my revenge.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:01] Erik: I shall have my revenge.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:02] Adam: All right.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:03] Adam: That was inspiring.
[0:38:04 – 0:38:04] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:05] Adam: Very good.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:12] Adam: The computer is actively plugged in, says it’s charging, but the percentage of the battery is going down.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:15] Adam: I told you we should have brought the seed starting mats out.
[0:38:15 – 0:38:15] Adam: Oh, God.
[0:38:15 – 0:38:16] Adam: We might need it.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:19] Adam: I have to make a run for the seed starting mats.
[0:38:19 – 0:38:21] Adam: This is a real monster.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:24] Erik: I’m going to try and turn it around so it stays plugged in.
[0:38:24 – 0:38:26] Adam: Why would anybody think I can read this much?
[0:38:27 – 0:38:28] Erik: Well, we’re here.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:30] Adam: I never learned to read.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:34] Adam: Next up on the show, Eagle98MN, great friend of the show.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:44] Adam: This looks like a real doozy, so I’m going to take a sip of the fine scotch.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:44] Erik: Nice.
[0:38:45 – 0:38:45] Erik: Mine’s empty.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:46] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:51] Adam: So I might read this and maybe take a voicemail break.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:55] Adam: Seems fair enough.
[0:38:55 – 0:38:56] Adam: Next up on the show.
[0:38:58 – 0:39:00] Adam: Three, two, one.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:06] Adam: Next up on the show, great friend of the show, Eagle98MN.
[0:39:06 – 0:39:07] Adam: 27 days ago.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:09] Adam: Two trips this year.
[0:39:10 – 0:39:13] Adam: I took my boys and my brother in at Morgan in August.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:16] Adam: We camped on Horseshoe, Big Winchy, and Gaskin.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:17] Adam: Shout out, Winchy.
[0:39:18 – 0:39:18] SPEAKER_01: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
[0:39:19 – 0:39:25] Adam: We got lucky and did all this about one week before the bear reports started coming in from that area.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:26] Erik: Because of the bear reports.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Adam: Because of the bears.
[0:39:29 – 0:39:35] Adam: Confession, I would have goblined a campsite on Hanson, but those sites weren’t all that nice anyways.
[0:39:37 – 0:39:43] Adam: We had a great time, and I love that my kids are looking forward to these annual BWCA trips after getting a few trips under them.
[0:39:44 – 0:39:51] Adam: As you look ahead to your future with the boy, Adam, it may help you to know that my son has now tripped at 7, 8, and 9 years old.
[0:39:52 – 0:39:59] Adam: He’s always had fun, and I’m super glad I started him a couple years ago, but I’d say 9 was a bit of a turning point this year.
[0:39:59 – 0:40:02] Adam: He knocked out the mile-long entry portage without brakes.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:10] Adam: and he was the one encouraging his younger brother to keep moving when the mozzies came out on that long portage.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:19] Adam: And when we hit the headwind on Winchell, he called out, all hands on deck, and grabbed his paddle and dug in from the middle seat.
[0:40:19 – 0:40:23] Adam: And I swear for the first time ever, I felt the canoe lurch forward just a little bit faster.
[0:40:24 – 0:40:26] Adam: He contributed to the team.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:29] Adam: You’re going to make me cry, Eagle.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:31] Adam: Because of the fires.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:32] Adam: Because of the fires.
[0:40:53 – 0:40:55] Erik: How did we nail that before it even came up?
[0:40:55 – 0:40:58] Adam: That reference hasn’t been mentioned in like two months.
[0:40:58 – 0:40:59] Adam: Because of the fires.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:04] Adam: Because of the… We didn’t make it this year because of the rain.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:07] Adam: Because of the rain.
[0:41:08 – 0:41:17] Adam: 3.5 inches of rain fell over a couple days, and we were forced to cut our loop far short of the goal, only making it out to Little Sag before looping back.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:24] Adam: After two days of constant rain, we arrived at Tuscarora and found a cord of split wood that had been covered by a tarp.
[0:41:25 – 0:41:32] Adam: I don’t care what Eric says, a cord of wood is a glorious sight after that much rain and abandoning it on all hope of a campfire.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:36] Adam: Tuscarora to Missing Link absolutely sucked.
[0:41:37 – 0:41:45] Adam: Every step was an adventure in mud puddles of unknown depths with lurking ankle breakers in the unseen depths of said puddles.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:49] Adam: I have no intention to cross that portage ever again.
[0:41:49 – 0:41:53] Erik: I have no intention to cross that portage ever again.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:56] Adam: Raven is just our unicorn.
[0:41:57 – 0:41:59] Adam: Two years of trying to get there have failed.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:03] Adam: We might try again next year, but we are coming from the south or west.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:06] Adam: I’m done with the eastern approach.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:06] Adam: Wow.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:10] Adam: Lest this all sound too negative, I’m still glad we did the trip.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:24] Adam: I’ve learned a lot about how my packing holds up when wet, pretty good, the limits of rain gear, well short of 3.5 inches, and strategies for ensuring I stay warm even in a cold, wet environment.
[0:42:26 – 0:42:28] Erik: Memories, they were made.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:31] Erik: Memories, they were made.
[0:42:31 – 0:42:34] Erik: It’s all about time and place when it comes to that cord of wood.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:36] Adam: Four boxes of wine.
[0:42:36 – 0:42:37] Adam: Thank you for the comment.
[0:42:37 – 0:42:42] Erik: If gravely needed, yeah, you probably don’t see the leave no trace aspect of it.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:45] Erik: But I stand by my point.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:46] Erik: It’s aggressive.
[0:42:47 – 0:42:48] Erik: Nobody needs a cord of wood.
[0:42:49 – 0:43:15] Adam: till you do we have back-to-back comments where somebody was like the tuscarora portage was fine and it was also a hellscape which i will never return to yeah well it does depend on the day on that one for sure and you’re referring my mind when you cross it yeah that is a big one when you’re on it it’s always like i’m never doing this portage yeah i know and then you get you get down there like yeah it wasn’t too bad yeah well thank you for the comment though that was a real a real gem
[0:43:16 – 0:43:17] Erik: Well, we got to finish…
[0:43:17 – 0:43:18] Adam: I had a lot of fun reading it.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:19] Erik: A lot of fun listening.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:22] Erik: We’re still doing all right.
[0:43:22 – 0:43:27] Erik: Scotch is just the perfect amount of warmth in the soul right now.
[0:43:28 – 0:43:30] Adam: I’m going to read one more and then it’s voicemail break.
[0:43:31 – 0:43:31] Adam: Okay.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:32] Adam: How’s that sound?
[0:43:33 – 0:43:33] Adam: It sounds great to me.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:36] Erik: Because I’m going to leave…
[0:43:36 – 0:43:38] Erik: I’m queuing you up for…
[0:43:41 – 0:43:43] Erik: Another potential haiku.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:44] Adam: Oh, great.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:45 – 0:43:45] Erik: Before we get there.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:47] Adam: I love it.
[0:43:47 – 0:43:49] Erik: You’ve got the cadence down at this point.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:52] Erik: I couldn’t possibly take that away from you.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:55] Adam: I’m waiting for the call from Ken Burns at this point.
[0:43:55 – 0:43:56] Erik: Walt Whitman.
[0:43:57 – 0:43:58] Erik: Amateur camper.
[0:44:00 – 0:44:01] Erik: Only one trip this year.
[0:44:01 – 0:44:06] Erik: It was my first time up the Gunflint Trail and first time driving up 61 along Superior.
[0:44:07 – 0:44:08] Erik: Really enjoyed the drive.
[0:44:08 – 0:44:15] Erik: We experienced some crazy temperature swings along 61 depending on how close to the lakeshore we were.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:17] Erik: Sounds about right.
[0:44:17 – 0:44:21] Erik: We did a three-day loop up to Winchell, up to Meads, and back out through Poplar.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:27] Erik: We called an audible on day two and decided to go up to Meads, which I hadn’t researched much at all.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:30] Erik: We missed the portage between Pillsbury and Swallow.
[0:44:31 – 0:44:31] Erik: Classic.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:32] Erik: I’ve done the same.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:33] Erik: Who hasn’t missed the thing?
[0:44:33 – 0:44:34] Erik: Who hasn’t done that?
[0:44:34 – 0:44:34] Adam: Where is it?
[0:44:35 – 0:44:36] Adam: Is it even a portage?
[0:44:36 – 0:44:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:38] Erik: It’s there.
[0:44:38 – 0:44:39] Erik: It’s mismarked.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:43] Erik: And misread the map thinking we could paddle the creek that runs between the two lakes.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:43] Erik: You cannot.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:43] Erik: God.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:45] Erik: You can’t.
[0:44:45 – 0:44:48] Erik: You end up in waist-deep water in a thicket of alders.
[0:44:48 – 0:44:52] Adam: Then you’re going to end up with a shell for a back and claws for hands.
[0:44:53 – 0:44:57] Erik: And nobody to sit around plugging up the holes later with the gloves.
[0:44:57 – 0:44:59] Adam: They won’t even tell you what the holes are called.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:01] Erik: Do they have names?
[0:45:01 – 0:45:02] Erik: Nobody knows.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:03] Adam: Turtle experts.
[0:45:03 – 0:45:04] Adam: Anyone.
[0:45:04 – 0:45:05] Erik: Anyone.
[0:45:05 – 0:45:05] Adam: Help.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:12] Erik: We got just far enough paddling that we committed and decided to push through the creek that all but disappeared.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:13] Erik: This is like, did I write this?
[0:45:14 – 0:45:16] Erik: Yeah, this is exactly what happens.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:17] Adam: Is this you from the future?
[0:45:17 – 0:45:21] Erik: Two thirds of the way up and turn into an alder choke tell hole.
[0:45:21 – 0:45:22] Erik: Are you looping us right now?
[0:45:23 – 0:45:24] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:45:24 – 0:45:27] Erik: This is shockingly accurate.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:28] Erik: Been there, man.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:29] Erik: It sucks.
[0:45:30 – 0:45:34] Erik: And then you walk back down the portage from the other side and you’re just like, oh yeah, it’s here.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:37] Erik: It’s just 50 yards to the east of where they said it was.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:44] Erik: We got through it with some bumps and bruises and came out the other end grateful that we still had some wine and whiskey left.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:52] Erik: Everyone was pretty unamused at the time, but it’s those experiences that make these trips so memorable and make me crave more.
[0:45:53 – 0:45:54] Adam: There it is.
[0:45:54 – 0:45:55] Adam: It’s about the adventure.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:57] Erik: Nutshell Amateur Camper.
[0:45:57 – 0:46:00] Erik: It’s not about the pre.
[0:46:00 – 0:46:01] Erik: It’s not about the post.
[0:46:03 – 0:46:04] Erik: It’s about the moment.
[0:46:04 – 0:46:07] Erik: It’s about the right goddamn now.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:14] Erik: And while the moment might suck, you thinking about it in advance is what keeps you thinking about it.
[0:46:15 – 0:46:19] Erik: And then the memory that kind of gets somewhat glossed over in the post is
[0:46:19 – 0:46:24] Erik: is what keeps, like, I don’t know, what else do you have to think about?
[0:46:24 – 0:46:32] Adam: Is this evidence that if you think back on a moment from your past, that it was good no matter if it was a good memory or not?
[0:46:33 – 0:46:37] Adam: It just means it made a real impression on you, I guess.
[0:46:38 – 0:46:39] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:47] Adam: But that’s the kind of stuff we live for, like if it’s the kind of impression you’re looking for when you get in the woods like that.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:55] Erik: Yeah, I mean, I think you can go into the woods and experience just about anything and take something out of it of value.
[0:46:55 – 0:47:13] Erik: But it is those moments where you think you’re in an untenable situation that is seemingly uncomfortable, usually at the very least uncomfortable at the time, become somewhat dangerous even.
[0:47:13 – 0:47:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:13 – 0:47:36] Erik: become the most memorable on the flip side which is i think why some people escalate themselves into situations of you know the heightened things you see online the adrenaline seekers the jumpers from planes you know because it is all about the we gotta do that just going regular camping in the boundary waters you get enough thrills with that i would say
[0:47:36 – 0:47:41] Erik: Yeah, I mean, everybody’s different in their levels of thrills that they need, but… One time it snowed.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:42] Adam: For instance.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:44] Erik: One time it snowed.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:47] Adam: One time I lost my sleeping bag for one night and then found it.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:50] Adam: It was wild, Eric.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:52] Erik: All right.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:53] Adam: Time for a voicemail?
[0:47:53 – 0:47:56] Erik: Time for a break and a voicemail.
[0:47:56 – 0:47:57] Erik: Let’s hear it.
[0:47:58 – 0:47:59] Old Canoe Guy: Hello, Eric.
[0:47:59 – 0:47:59] Old Canoe Guy: Hello, Adam.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:01] Old Canoe Guy: This is Old Canoe Guy.
[0:48:02 – 0:48:05] Old Canoe Guy: My beautiful bride and I spent a nice trip
[0:48:06 – 0:48:10] Old Canoe Guy: starting in late June through the Boundary Waters to New Area Wilderness.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:22] Old Canoe Guy: First day, we left our vehicle at Mood Row and got dropped off at the Moose Portage River North Entry and headed up to Aitness, where we were warned about bears, but we did not see a single bar the whole day.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:28] Old Canoe Guy: Next day, we moseyed up to Lac La Croix, where the theme of the week established itself.
[0:48:28 – 0:48:32] Old Canoe Guy: It was windy and there were some big old waves, but we made it to the
[0:48:32 – 0:48:41] Old Canoe Guy: bottle forage, and even though half of it was underwater, got through to Iron Lake, where we settled in for the day with not another soul around.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:48] Old Canoe Guy: Next day, we stopped for some nice photos at Curtain Falls because, again, no one else was around.
[0:48:48 – 0:48:55] Old Canoe Guy: But by noon, the waves were kicking up, and we decided to put in early on Crooked and found a decent enough campsite.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:57] Old Canoe Guy: First cast, I caught a nice bass.
[0:48:57 – 0:48:59] Old Canoe Guy: Next 300 or so casts, caught nothing.
[0:49:01 – 0:49:02] Old Canoe Guy: Rain started in, and
[0:49:02 – 0:49:06] Old Canoe Guy: we hunkered down for the day, but by 9 had a nice campfire.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:14] Old Canoe Guy: Next day, we moseyed across more at Crooked, encountering bigger and bigger waves, so we finally gave up and found another campsite on Crooked.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:18] Old Canoe Guy: And again, the whole day, we did not see a single person.
[0:49:18 – 0:49:19] Old Canoe Guy: It was very strange.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:25] Old Canoe Guy: We set up a bug tent, as the bugs were bad, I would say.
[0:49:26 – 0:49:30] Old Canoe Guy: Had another lovely evening around a small fire with a few cocktails.
[0:49:31 – 0:49:32] Old Canoe Guy: Next day, we
[0:49:33 – 0:49:36] Old Canoe Guy: Got all the way down to the lower bass of the fall.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:41] Old Canoe Guy: Finally saw one other canoe, but with our choice of campsites, we picked a good one.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:44] Old Canoe Guy: Went fishing that night.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:49] Old Canoe Guy: Caught a few fish, but had to bail because of, you guessed it, wind and waves.
[0:49:52 – 0:50:01] Old Canoe Guy: Next day, we headed up the Horse River, and at one point, as I was pulling our canoe through a narrow spot up the rapids, up to my waist, I was thinking, wow, I do this for fun, huh?
[0:50:02 – 0:50:11] Old Canoe Guy: But we got to Horse Lake where again by noon we had to hunker down because it was bright and sunny but very windy with some significant wave action.
[0:50:13 – 0:50:18] Old Canoe Guy: We saw no one on Horse Lake at first but by the end of the day a couple other groups had come through.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:26] Old Canoe Guy: Next night we headed out through Mood Row and the whole trip was summed up by waves and seeing very, very few people.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:30] Old Canoe Guy: Three days on Crooked and we saw one canoe with people.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:32] Old Canoe Guy: and almost every campsite was empty.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:37] Old Canoe Guy: The other thing I learned is I never did quite appreciate dead calm reflections until this trip.
[0:50:38 – 0:50:41] Old Canoe Guy: Sure could have used some a couple of evenings, but it was a good trip.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:46] Old Canoe Guy: The wind kept the bugs off us much of the time, and it was a new part of the park for us.
[0:50:47 – 0:50:50] Old Canoe Guy: And we wish you all enjoy paddling.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:51] Old Canoe Guy: Have a good one.
[0:50:53 – 0:51:01] Erik: All right, old canoe guy with the moseying tale of not experiencing other campers.
[0:51:02 – 0:51:03] Adam: Sounds nice.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:04] Adam: Fish on the first cast, too.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:06] Erik: Yeah.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:07] Erik: I’ve had that happen.
[0:51:08 – 0:51:09] Adam: Vish on the first cast.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:10] Adam: It’s an amazing feeling.
[0:51:11 – 0:51:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:51:11 – 0:51:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:51:12 – 0:51:13] Adam: All is right with the world.
[0:51:14 – 0:51:22] Adam: It really does make you feel like you’re just a god, a mere god amongst mortals.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:25] Adam: Thank you for the beautiful voicemail.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:27] Adam: I really enjoyed it.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:31] Adam: Next up on the show, Surveyor 909.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:34] Adam: That’s another haiku, I think.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:44] Adam: 2022 paddling, a haiku, field audio beer, the pride of Colorado, mouth mixers too.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:47] Adam: Did I read it right?
[0:51:47 – 0:51:48] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:51:48 – 0:51:48] Adam: I hope so.
[0:51:49 – 0:51:49] Erik: Yes.
[0:51:50 – 0:51:51] Adam: It checks out.
[0:51:51 – 0:51:51] Adam: Ding.
[0:51:52 – 0:51:52] Adam: It checks out.
[0:51:53 – 0:52:06] Adam: I am proud and humbled that the Tumble Home Field Audio of 2022 was kicked off with my beer sponsor, Bang Bang Double IPA, but also included wholesome Quaker oat mouth mixers.
[0:52:07 – 0:52:09] Adam: My family has never been so proud of me.
[0:52:09 – 0:52:10] Adam: All right.
[0:52:10 – 0:52:11] Erik: Gather around.
[0:52:11 – 0:52:12] Erik: Gather around, children.
[0:52:13 – 0:52:17] Adam: Let me tell you about the time I got these guys onto oats.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:21] Adam: Hey, I’m feeling great, by the way, ever since I got onto oats.
[0:52:22 – 0:52:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:23 – 0:52:28] Adam: You know, forget about the, no, don’t forget about the art supplies, but oats are nice.
[0:52:28 – 0:52:31] Erik: Yeah, definitely don’t forget about the art supplies.
[0:52:31 – 0:52:33] Adam: Yeah, they’re the best, but oats every day?
[0:52:34 – 0:52:34] Adam: Incredible.
[0:52:37 – 0:52:41] Adam: Back to the comment from Surveyor909, Eric.
[0:52:42 – 0:52:43] Adam: A recap of my trips.
[0:52:43 – 0:52:48] Adam: Trip one, early June, took my family to Brulee.
[0:52:48 – 0:52:51] Adam: We camped on a familiar island site.
[0:52:51 – 0:52:56] Adam: Let me say, the mosquitoes and black flies were biblical, unrelenting.
[0:52:57 – 0:53:01] Adam: Days spent in head nets and in the tent, avoiding the horde.
[0:53:01 – 0:53:05] Adam: On the final day, the wind increased out of the northwest.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:06] Adam: My wife yelled,
[0:53:06 – 0:53:08] Adam: She’s blowing a gagger.
[0:53:11 – 0:53:15] Adam: As we crept across the open waters of Brule under a gale force rage.
[0:53:16 – 0:53:27] Adam: By the beard of Zeus, we were delivered to the pullout unscathed, which is more than can be said for a solo canoeist on the approach in front of us who rolled with his dog right before the pullout.
[0:53:28 – 0:53:30] Adam: Overall trip ranking D minus.
[0:53:31 – 0:53:31] Adam: Oh,
[0:53:31 – 0:53:37] Adam: I have to take a sip for that blowing a gagger comment.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:40] Erik: Had you pre-read the Mighty Fitz?
[0:53:40 – 0:53:41] Adam: I don’t understand.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:42] Adam: This was 21 days ago.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:42] Adam: Right.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:48] Adam: Does this work out?
[0:53:49 – 0:53:50] Adam: I don’t think this works out.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:51] Adam: I think it does, actually.
[0:53:51 – 0:53:53] Adam: I think this is probably just… Part one.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:55] Adam: All right, fine.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:56] Adam: Just barely makes sense.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:57] Adam: It has to work out.
[0:53:57 – 0:54:01] Erik: If it doesn’t, and that is coincidence, this is the last episode of the show.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:04] Adam: Well, then we are truly in the Matrix.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:04] Adam: We are.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:05] Adam: We’re done.
[0:54:05 – 0:54:05] Adam: It’s glitched.
[0:54:05 – 0:54:07] Adam: All y’all are Morpheus’s.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:07] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:09] Adam: Or whatever the…
[0:54:11 – 0:54:13] Adam: Now blowing a gagger is a thing.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:14] Adam: It’s a thing.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:14] Adam: It is.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:15] Adam: Make it a thing.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:17] Adam: We’re making it a thing.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:18] Adam: We’re going to own it.
[0:54:18 – 0:54:19] Erik: Blowing a gagger.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:22] Adam: Let’s get the hashtag going, Tom Homies.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:28] Adam: Anybody out there using hashtags for stuff or just tell people you know about blowing a gagger.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:38] Adam: Every time it storms this winter, everybody out here listening needs to just lean into the next person next to them and be like, it’s really blowing a gagger out there.
[0:54:38 – 0:54:40] Erik: Yeah, open your window and yell it.
[0:54:41 – 0:54:48] Adam: Next time you drive by Betty’s Pies, just open up all the windows in your car and yell, It’s blowing a gagger!
[0:54:49 – 0:54:54] Adam: And the people in the parking lot at Betty’s Pies will be like, What in the hell is wrong with these people?
[0:54:54 – 0:54:55] Erik: Some of them will know, though.
[0:54:55 – 0:54:56] Adam: They’ll understand, though.
[0:54:58 – 0:54:58] Adam: Trip 2.
[0:54:59 – 0:55:01] Adam: Late June, my buds and I were on SAG.
[0:55:01 – 0:55:04] Adam: We encamped on an island near the Canadian border.
[0:55:05 – 0:55:06] Adam: The sight was awesome.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:07] Adam: Bugs were minimal.
[0:55:08 – 0:55:09] Adam: We caught and ate fish.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:12] Adam: We saw Starlink overhead.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:17] Adam: On the second to last day, we were on the water fishing when a gale blew up.
[0:55:17 – 0:55:20] Adam: My canoe partner yelled, she’s blowing a gagger.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:22] Adam: Shut up.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:30] Adam: As we approached open water to the north side of our island, we gazed into the maw and decided to return to camp.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:30] Adam: All survived.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:32] Adam: Overall trip ranking, A+.
[0:55:34 – 0:55:36] Adam: One interesting footnote.
[0:55:36 – 0:55:41] Adam: On both trips, my groups were visited by park rangers checking our permits and our camp.
[0:55:42 – 0:55:48] Adam: A visit on both trips could have been a bit off-putting, but in retrospect, I’m glad they stopped by.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:59] Adam: On one of the visits, after looking at our fishing licenses, the ranger exclaimed he needed to visit the latrine to survey its use, as it might be nearing capacity.
[0:56:03 – 0:56:10] Adam: Upon returning from his inspection of the brown volcano, he declared, It is cavernous.
[0:56:10 – 0:56:11] Adam: Ready for business.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:16] Adam: This made me happy.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:20] Adam: This concludes the comment, four boxes of wine.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:22] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:56:22 – 0:56:23] Adam: Surveyor 909.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:24] Adam: Wow.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:26] Erik: You truly get me.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:34] Erik: Yeah, I’ve never had any experience with a Forest Service Ranger that has warmed my heart so much as this comment.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:36] Erik: Ready for business.
[0:56:37 – 0:56:38] Erik: It’s cavernous.
[0:56:38 – 0:56:39] Adam: It is cavernous.
[0:56:42 – 0:57:05] Adam: oh my god that’s great that’s really great um it might be the my favorite thing i’ve read all year thank you very much and thank you to the ranger who said that i mean yeah you’re doing a great job out there uncredited ranger yeah it’s cavernous ready for business cavernous ranger would be the credit on the show notes cavernous ranger mysterious cavernous ranger yeah
[0:57:08 – 0:57:10] Erik: These are some great responses, everybody.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:10] Erik: Stop.
[0:57:12 – 0:57:15] Erik: DirtyDadBod523, we’re not stopping yet.
[0:57:15 – 0:57:17] Adam: We got a lot of creative people listening to this show.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:26] Erik: Just one trip this year, a six-day, five-night loop starting at Sawbill up to Cherokee, then back down through the Temperance River and Fire Chain to Sawbill.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:32] Erik: Hadn’t done much river-slash-creek paddling before, so this one was a treat.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:34] Erik: Had tons of wildlife.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:39] Erik: Saw two wolves patrolling the roadside during our drive up the Sawbill Trail.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:41] Erik: Must have been the searching for donuts.
[0:57:42 – 0:57:44] Erik: Moose were plentiful too.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:47] Erik: Watched a bull feed in Cherokee Creek for over an hour.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:52] Erik: I thought it said an hour in a day, but it says an hour on day one.
[0:57:53 – 0:57:58] Erik: And then a cow and two calves on day four while paddling down the narrow section of Jack Lake.
[0:57:59 – 0:58:09] Erik: Also had a bear encounter at our campsite on Cherokee, island site number seven, at midnight on day two, but scared it off before any damage could be done.
[0:58:10 – 0:58:13] Erik: Overall, though, solid weather and some hard portaging, but a great trip.
[0:58:14 – 0:58:15] Adam: They said there was a donut?
[0:58:16 – 0:58:19] Erik: They assumed that maybe the wolves were searching for donuts.
[0:58:20 – 0:58:21] Adam: What about bagels, though?
[0:58:22 – 0:58:23] Erik: Maybe bagels.
[0:58:23 – 0:58:25] Adam: Bagels on a beach, perhaps?
[0:58:26 – 0:58:30] Erik: Yeah, lest we forget the bagel saga.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:32] Adam: The real question.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:33] Erik: The real question of the year.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:37] Erik: A non-trip-related…
[0:58:39 – 0:58:46] Erik: Highlight was tabling slash canvassing with Save the Boundary Waters during the summer and fall with Hopalicious.
[0:58:46 – 0:58:47] Adam: Hey, there you go.
[0:58:47 – 0:58:50] Erik: Met a couple of other tumble homies while doing it, which was great.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:52] Erik: Thank you both for keeping the podcast.
[0:58:52 – 0:58:53] Erik: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:54] Erik: Thank you.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:55] Erik: We appreciate it.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:59] Erik: I’m not just glossing over it because I don’t recognize the praise.
[0:58:59 – 0:59:00] Erik: I just, you know.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:03] Old Canoe Guy: We’ll see.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:10] Erik: But I appreciate… Actually, I want to honestly know more about the tabling slash canvassing with Hopalicious.
[0:59:11 – 0:59:12] Erik: Just a touring…
[0:59:12 – 0:59:17] Adam: It’s nice that people are so appreciative of a fellow senior citizen like yourself.
[0:59:18 – 0:59:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:20 – 0:59:24] Adam: Taking time out of his day to preach the good gospel that is the park.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:32] Erik: I mean, taking all the time out of my naps, kasha, boiling techniques…
[0:59:34 – 0:59:35] Adam: You have foot baths.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:36] Erik: Oh, so many.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:43] Erik: Well, I don’t have the foot bath as much as I have the small fishes that bite the dead skins off.
[0:59:43 – 0:59:44] Erik: Oh, those are nice.
[0:59:44 – 0:59:46] Adam: Yeah, those are really nice.
[0:59:46 – 0:59:47] Adam: Those are nice, yeah.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:53] Erik: If we don’t keep this computer plugged in, it’s all over.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:58] Adam: Yeah, the battery looks to be at critical levels right now.
[0:59:58 – 1:00:02] Erik: It’s still at 50, though, but it is going down while being plugged in.
[1:00:04 – 1:00:05] Adam: Yeah, that is troubling.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:06] Adam: That is troubling.
[1:00:06 – 1:00:07] Adam: That is quite troubling.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:08] Adam: All right.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:12] Erik: Don’t look the battery level right now.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:13] Erik: Don’t look at it.
[1:00:13 – 1:00:13] Erik: Don’t look at it.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:15] Erik: It won’t go down if you don’t look at it.
[1:00:17 – 1:00:20] Erik: It’ll just go black all of a sudden, and then it’s game over, and then it’s good night.
[1:00:20 – 1:00:22] Adam: This is like nope all over again.
[1:00:23 – 1:00:25] Adam: I’m never starting another horse ranch, Eric.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Erik: Yeah, that was your first mistake.
[1:00:28 – 1:00:29] Erik: Starting one.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:31] Adam: And then another one?
[1:00:31 – 1:00:32] Adam: What are you, crazy?
[1:00:33 – 1:00:34] Adam: Next up on the show.
[1:00:35 – 1:00:37] Erik: Never look a show monkey in the eye.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:42] Erik: Gordy, no!
[1:00:45 – 1:00:47] Adam: No, Gordy.
[1:00:47 – 1:00:50] Adam: He’s so sad when he rips off the birthday hat.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:51] Adam: I was so upset.
[1:00:51 – 1:00:54] Adam: Why was the chimpanzee’s name Gordy?
[1:00:55 – 1:00:57] Adam: Now we got to change Gordy the duck’s name?
[1:00:57 – 1:00:57] Erik: No, no, no, no.
[1:00:58 – 1:00:58] Adam: I don’t think so.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:01] Erik: Gordy’s a good boy, but I love that they both have hats.
[1:01:02 – 1:01:06] Erik: Gordy the duck on a mint tooth is not soaked in blood.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:09] Adam: Is this a sign, though, at some point that Gordy may turn on us?
[1:01:10 – 1:01:12] Erik: Is Gordy 1.0, a.k.a.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:13] Erik: our Gordy?
[1:01:14 – 1:01:17] Adam: Well, we don’t really know Gordy’s origins.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:19] Adam: He is an adopted duck.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:22] Erik: But is Gordy from the movie?
[1:01:22 – 1:01:22] Erik: Nope.
[1:01:23 – 1:01:26] Erik: That is in chronological order.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:32] Erik: In fact, after our real Gordy.
[1:01:32 – 1:01:33] Erik: Okay, well, then we’ve got that.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:38] Erik: Jordan Peele deserves to send us something for that.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:39] Adam: Right.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:46] Adam: Our Gordy came along before Gordy the chimpanzee from NARP.
[1:01:48 – 1:01:53] Adam: I’m glad we established this as legal precedent.
[1:01:53 – 1:01:53] Adam: Got it.
[1:01:53 – 1:01:54] Adam: Gordy, we love you.
[1:01:56 – 1:01:58] Adam: You’re my second favorite son, at least.
[1:01:58 – 1:01:59] Erik: Well, he’s my favorite son.
[1:01:59 – 1:02:00] Erik: All right.
[1:02:00 – 1:02:01] Erik: He’s a good boy.
[1:02:02 – 1:02:03] Erik: Next up on the show.
[1:02:03 – 1:02:04] Adam: Hold on.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:04] Adam: I can’t.
[1:02:05 – 1:02:06] Adam: I just have to take a moment.
[1:02:07 – 1:02:08] Adam: There’s an emotional moment.
[1:02:09 – 1:02:10] SPEAKER_01: Cheers to you.
[1:02:10 – 1:02:14] Erik: Thank you, everyone, but specifically Brad for this.
[1:02:14 – 1:02:19] Erik: Brad for the- 14-year-old smoothest of smooth scotch.
[1:02:20 – 1:02:21] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:02:21 – 1:02:22] Erik: I can taste the tending.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:24] Erik: It was so tended to.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:30] Adam: 14 years ago, I was driving a 1986 Chevy Celebrity wagon.
[1:02:31 – 1:02:31] Adam: I’m pretty sure.
[1:02:32 – 1:02:35] Adam: So this is incredible to see how far we’ve come.
[1:02:36 – 1:02:36] Adam: All of us.
[1:02:37 – 1:02:38] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:41] Erik: 14 years ago, I was definitely in a worse place.
[1:02:41 – 1:02:42] Erik: And the park.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:44] SPEAKER_01: Huh?
[1:02:44 – 1:02:47] Adam: Everything’s gone up is what I’m saying.
[1:02:47 – 1:02:47] Erik: Oh, sure.
[1:02:48 – 1:02:51] Erik: 14 years ago, the Boundary Waters was in my life.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Erik: So I got that going for me.
[1:02:54 – 1:02:56] Adam: Yeah, I don’t think it was quite yet.
[1:02:56 – 1:03:01] Adam: I think it’s right at the edge of the threshold where I got here 14 years ago today.
[1:03:02 – 1:03:03] Erik: You worked up here in 2000.
[1:03:04 – 1:03:05] Erik: What year is it?
[1:03:05 – 1:03:07] Adam: Yeah, I guess I’ve been up here half my life, actually.
[1:03:08 – 1:03:08] Erik: What year is it?
[1:03:09 – 1:03:10] Adam: What day is it?
[1:03:11 – 1:03:11] Erik: Hello?
[1:03:12 – 1:03:12] SPEAKER_01: Anyone out there?
[1:03:15 – 1:03:35] Adam: Yeah, when you get to being around a park for literally more than half your life, when you realize it’s been more than half your life you’ve been doing little trips and adventures in this park, I guess that’s when you can go ahead and say, yeah, I guess I’m obsessed with this park.
[1:03:36 – 1:03:36] Erik: Yeah.
[1:03:37 – 1:03:42] Adam: I don’t get out there as much as I would like to these days, but I am still obsessed with the Boundary Waters.
[1:03:43 – 1:04:03] Adam: yeah no i i mean i want to get out there every day i get out there as much as i can but like you look back on it now and it’s like shit it’s been 20 years yeah 20 plus years since i’ve been coming up here now and it’s i mean that’s more than half my life that’s crazy it’s been 20 years for me for sure yeah um
[1:04:04 – 1:04:10] Erik: It’s one of those things that’s like kind of beautifully sad because we’ve come to know it and love it so well.
[1:04:12 – 1:04:19] Erik: And I think I’ve suggested this at numerous points in the past that it is, it is the Bajoran Zanquetico, my favorite place on earth.
[1:04:19 – 1:04:32] Erik: But there’s also something about it where it’s just the level of experience and knowledge that I have of a place like it.
[1:04:34 – 1:04:34] Erik: And there’s not any…
[1:04:34 – 1:04:38] Erik: There really is nothing in me that…
[1:04:38 – 1:04:40] Erik: I turned 37 yesterday.
[1:04:41 – 1:04:43] Erik: And I always joke whenever I turn a birthday.
[1:04:43 – 1:04:44] Erik: I’m like, half dead.
[1:04:44 – 1:04:45] Erik: I’m half dead.
[1:04:45 – 1:04:47] Erik: But like literally this one is half dead.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:50] Erik: By all metrics, I’m half dead.
[1:04:50 – 1:04:52] Erik: We’re going to live to be 150.
[1:04:52 – 1:04:54] Erik: But there is something about like the…
[1:04:55 – 1:05:15] Erik: gaining such an intimate and i’m not saying i’m an expert on it but i’ve been to a lot of the lakes we’ve talked about it for four years we’ve paddled a ton of ton of its waters and i love to know that i can look at a map and like picture what it looks like i would guarantee it i would guarantee there’s very few people out there who have paddled more lakes on this map than you
[1:05:16 – 1:05:39] Adam: yeah maybe just lakes in general maybe but i there’s probably some guides there’s something about crossing off the lakes and rivers with a little highlighter and this map just shows what we have paddled together but yeah i guarantee you your map alone there’s very few very very few people who have paddled this this map as much as you have
[1:05:39 – 1:06:01] Erik: okay so what you have to say like carries extra weight for sure my point though is it’s taken me until almost 40 to be able to to say that or have those memories yeah and i’m just like how many other places in the world may be like this maybe not that they are but maybe and like there’s a part of me that’s like man
[1:06:03 – 1:06:08] Erik: It would take another 20 years to become as acquainted with a place like this.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:11] Erik: And that makes me, like I said, bittersweet.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:14] Erik: Because it’s like, well, what did I miss out on?
[1:06:14 – 1:06:20] Erik: But also very grateful because of the experiences that it has provided me.
[1:06:21 – 1:06:29] Erik: So just a tiny, tiniest little grain of sand dropped on the globe of Earth.
[1:06:29 – 1:06:33] Erik: And I happened to be in an area…
[1:06:35 – 1:07:02] Erik: that i found however the way that i did through family and friends magically ended up being like probably the biggest part of my life but it also on the flip side of that is just like well how many other areas could i have like learned as like intimately as the boundary waters and but neither you or i grew up here and we both ended up here right and met each other up here
[1:07:02 – 1:07:02] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:03 – 1:07:06] Adam: And everything that’s important in our lives happened here.
[1:07:07 – 1:07:07] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:07 – 1:07:09] Adam: And I’ve never heard of Handel Lake.
[1:07:09 – 1:07:10] Adam: And it’s right down the road.
[1:07:10 – 1:07:11] Erik: It’s still there.
[1:07:11 – 1:07:11] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:11 – 1:07:11] Erik: No, yeah.
[1:07:12 – 1:07:16] Erik: And even when you think you’re like, yeah, I’ve kind of been everywhere, you read a trip report and it’s like, what?
[1:07:17 – 1:07:17] Erik: What river?
[1:07:18 – 1:07:18] Erik: Where is that?
[1:07:18 – 1:07:21] Erik: The Java Creek, you say.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:23 – 1:07:44] Erik: I think at this point I finally found myself at a bit of a why in the journey of wherever I am and is essentially why I’m making the decision to take another hot air balloon trip is because I want to, on one hand, try and find something that can maybe…
[1:07:46 – 1:07:48] Erik: be as fun to explore and to learn.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:53] Erik: I’m always trying to, like, explore through, like, travel.
[1:07:54 – 1:07:57] Erik: But it also is one of those things that I know…
[1:07:57 – 1:08:03] Erik: I think I kind of know deep down I’m going to end up coming back knowing what I already know.
[1:08:04 – 1:08:05] Erik: Which it is the best place in the world.
[1:08:06 – 1:08:07] Erik: It’s the best place on Earth.
[1:08:08 – 1:08:08] Erik: So…
[1:08:08 – 1:08:11] Erik: I’m going to go and try and prove that wrong for a while.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:13] Adam: I think travel is important.
[1:08:14 – 1:08:14] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:15 – 1:08:25] Adam: I would encourage anybody listening to this to, if you can, travel wherever it is, even if it’s like just one county over or as far away from home as you can get.
[1:08:25 – 1:08:30] Adam: I would say anytime I’ve gone on a big trip like that, it’s always paid off.
[1:08:31 – 1:08:31] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:32 – 1:08:37] Adam: And I think it’s important for people to move around too, you know.
[1:08:37 – 1:08:40] Adam: Even when we do find a place like this that’s great.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:46] Adam: And, yeah, I don’t know.
[1:08:46 – 1:08:47] Adam: I think I said this earlier.
[1:08:48 – 1:08:51] Adam: I always try and encourage people to travel when they can.
[1:08:52 – 1:09:02] Erik: Travel and service, I think, are the two prerequisites that you should have before you should be allowed to vote.
[1:09:03 – 1:09:07] Adam: Yeah, no, I got to go to Europe before I was allowed to vote.
[1:09:08 – 1:09:11] Adam: And in Europe, they let you do whatever you want, by the way.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:15] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, eating whole buckets of cottage cheese on the back of a caboose.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:17] Adam: Exactly.
[1:09:17 – 1:09:22] Adam: They let you eat as much cottage cheese as you want while looking at the world’s finest artworks.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:24] Adam: There’s no law against it.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:26] Erik: What do you got in that stick and bindle?
[1:09:26 – 1:09:28] Erik: It’s all cottage cheese, baby.
[1:09:28 – 1:09:32] Adam: Next up on the show, great friend of the show, Bob Ross Paddler.
[1:09:33 – 1:09:38] Adam: One month ago, I made my first trip to the Boundary Waters with another first-timer this year.
[1:09:38 – 1:09:48] Adam: Our trip entering on SAG and base camping on Esther has already been mostly shared here, so I’ll just share some of the lasting impressions this trip made on me.
[1:09:51 – 1:09:51] Adam: Simplicity.
[1:09:52 – 1:10:04] Adam: There is a special sense of gratification felt around a campfire when you had to paddle across the lake, plunge into the woods, find the perfect dead cedar, and then process it by hand.
[1:10:04 – 1:10:14] Adam: You gain infinite appreciation for reaching gorgeous campsite miles from where you began when you do so by the power of your own arms and legs.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:26] Adam: When you reach such a destination, after getting quite lost, then finding yourself, then continuing on using only a map and a compass, it feels more personal somehow.
[1:10:27 – 1:10:31] Adam: A journey of learning within the wider journey, perhaps.
[1:10:33 – 1:10:38] Adam: Simplicity in all these tasks gives space for that interior journey to happen.
[1:10:42 – 1:11:09] Erik: bullet point two i guess i was gonna say i think i need to have a sip or something how is this comment boiling down the entire 215 episode retrospective catalog of this show into all of its most pure forms in the most beautiful way it was exquisite i don’t even know where i am right now i’m gonna keep i’m gonna keep going
[1:11:13 – 1:11:13] Adam: Part two.
[1:11:13 – 1:11:14] Adam: Well, hopefully it holds up.
[1:11:18 – 1:11:19] Adam: Yeah, I might get crazy.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:19] Adam: Who knows?
[1:11:19 – 1:11:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:21 – 1:11:22] Erik: A bunch of off-color jokes.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:23] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:25] Erik: No, no!
[1:11:25 – 1:11:27] Adam: Exploration and freedom.
[1:11:27 – 1:11:32] Adam: When I was very young, I would tell people I wanted to be a mountain climber when I grew up.
[1:11:33 – 1:11:34] Adam: I have no idea why.
[1:11:35 – 1:11:37] Adam: Because we didn’t know any mountain climbers.
[1:11:37 – 1:11:41] Adam: I lived in the center of a dusty pancake known as Kansas.
[1:11:42 – 1:11:45] Adam: as soon as I forgot about this wild idea and moved on.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:59] Adam: In the boundary waters, I discovered a place that allowed for near limitless freedom, freedom to travel quickly to a destination or to slow down and enjoy exactly the place you are in that moment.
[1:12:00 – 1:12:05] Adam: No schedules, no stoplights, and no signs telling you to be careful.
[1:12:07 – 1:12:18] Adam: Whether you are searching for an open campsite, firewood, or the next portage, you find it because you took the time to truly search for it, not because some sign or sidewalk led you there.
[1:12:21 – 1:12:32] Adam: From high water to getting hopelessly lost to tough fishing, nothing really went as planned on our trip, but in the end, it was fully our trip, not some manufactured experience we paid for and consumed.
[1:12:35 – 1:12:43] Adam: In short, I rediscovered something that I had been dormant since those early days when I realized I would never be a mountain climber.
[1:12:45 – 1:12:47] Adam: My wild, adventurous soul.
[1:12:50 – 1:12:56] Adam: I look forward to sharing this area and sense of self-discovery with my children as they grow older.
[1:12:56 – 1:12:58] Adam: It won’t happen as I envision it.
[1:12:59 – 1:13:01] Adam: And because of that, it will be perfect.
[1:13:02 – 1:13:03] Adam: Thank you for the comment.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:05] Adam: That was majestic.
[1:13:07 – 1:13:08] Erik: Bob Ross Paddler.
[1:13:09 – 1:13:11] Erik: Anything more that needs to be said about that?
[1:13:11 – 1:13:12] Erik: That was beautiful.
[1:13:13 – 1:13:19] Erik: Yeah, that’s what it’s all about in so many ways, in every way.
[1:13:20 – 1:13:22] Erik: You nailed it.
[1:13:22 – 1:13:23] Adam: I am crying.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:24] Adam: My God.
[1:13:24 – 1:13:24] Adam: I am crying.
[1:13:29 – 1:13:31] Erik: A pair of chappers.
[1:13:34 – 1:13:39] Erik: I was lucky enough to go on two wonderful trips this season, both on the west side of the park.
[1:13:40 – 1:13:43] Erik: Here are my west side stories.
[1:13:43 – 1:13:44] Adam: West side stories.
[1:13:46 – 1:13:53] Erik: One, spring fishing trip out of Mudro with a three-night base trip on Crooked.
[1:13:54 – 1:13:57] Erik: This is an annual boys trip, and it never disappoints.
[1:13:58 – 1:14:02] Erik: Lakes, rivers, waterfalls, pictos, big water, small water.
[1:14:02 – 1:14:04] Erik: You get a bit of everything.
[1:14:04 – 1:14:11] Erik: We consistently have found all-you-can-catch walleye in the same spot for the last three years.
[1:14:12 – 1:14:13] Adam: That’s good stuff.
[1:14:13 – 1:14:13] Adam: That is.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:15] Adam: That’s the good stuff there.
[1:14:16 – 1:14:17] Adam: Don’t tell us where.
[1:14:17 – 1:14:18] Adam: No one dare ask.
[1:14:20 – 1:14:22] Adam: This year, the water… Boudreaux, though, right?
[1:14:22 – 1:14:22] Adam: Boudreaux, yeah.
[1:14:22 – 1:14:23] Adam: What part, though?
[1:14:23 – 1:14:26] Erik: South End, South End, Boudreaux, close to Crooked.
[1:14:26 – 1:14:27] Adam: Is it over by the point?
[1:14:28 – 1:14:30] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:31 – 1:14:34] Erik: Where’s that tip ripper point at?
[1:14:35 – 1:14:39] Erik: This year, the water levels were up three plus feet during the spring.
[1:14:40 – 1:14:42] Erik: Yeah, that’s one of those things that has been…
[1:14:43 – 1:14:43] Adam: That’s nasty.
[1:14:44 – 1:14:49] Erik: It has not come up in so many comments, but it has been kind of a through line.
[1:14:50 – 1:14:54] Erik: That Quetico trip I took where there was just like the whole flooded side of an island.
[1:14:54 – 1:14:57] Erik: Come hell or high water.
[1:14:59 – 1:14:59] Erik: It was high water.
[1:15:00 – 1:15:01] Erik: Three plus feet during the spring.
[1:15:01 – 1:15:05] Erik: And by gosh, the fish were not where they were supposed to be.
[1:15:05 – 1:15:06] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:15:06 – 1:15:07] Adam: They’re in the trees.
[1:15:07 – 1:15:09] Erik: Yeah, they’re just stuck up in the trees.
[1:15:09 – 1:15:10] Erik: They’re in my tent.
[1:15:10 – 1:15:11] Adam: Like Mrs.
[1:15:11 – 1:15:14] Adam: I seen to bronze back at the bronze volcano.
[1:15:14 – 1:15:16] Erik: They’re right up at the base of the bronze volcano.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:18] Adam: They’re in the volcano.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:20] Adam: I tell you, they’re thick as thieves, Eric.
[1:15:21 – 1:15:22] Erik: Thick as thieves with that volcano.
[1:15:23 – 1:15:27] Erik: My canoe partner and I broke from the group and paddled a couple of hours along the border.
[1:15:28 – 1:15:34] Erik: We had just turned around an island and were heading back when we decided to let the western breeze drift us down a channel.
[1:15:35 – 1:15:36] Erik: Western breeze.
[1:15:37 – 1:15:43] Erik: We ended up finding the fish and the only way we could catch them was to let the wind blow us over the same spot over and over again.
[1:15:43 – 1:15:46] Erik: That’s a classic Stu Osthoff technique.
[1:15:46 – 1:15:48] Adam: Somebody said it’s blowing a gagger.
[1:15:49 – 1:15:50] Erik: Only a few people have ever said that.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:52] Erik: Until now.
[1:15:53 – 1:15:55] Erik: It’s going to be common nomenclature.
[1:15:56 – 1:15:57] Adam: This is a real Schumacher.
[1:15:57 – 1:15:57] Adam: Yep.
[1:15:58 – 1:16:05] Erik: That was the highlight of the trip, being challenged to find out where the fish went and eventually finding them after some hard work.
[1:16:06 – 1:16:06] Erik: Trip two.
[1:16:08 – 1:16:13] Erik: Late September couple’s trip out of the Little Indian Sioux entry point.
[1:16:14 – 1:16:20] Erik: We did a big loop from Little Iron, Finger, Pocket, Oyster, Hustler, etc.
[1:16:20 – 1:16:24] Erik: This is a beautiful, beautifully rugged area.
[1:16:24 – 1:16:28] Erik: We ended up finding a campsite where we were catching lake trout consistently from shore.
[1:16:29 – 1:16:30] Erik: I could not believe it.
[1:16:30 – 1:16:31] Erik: Oh, no.
[1:16:31 – 1:16:32] Erik: Believe it.
[1:16:32 – 1:16:33] Adam: I do believe it.
[1:16:33 – 1:16:42] Erik: The highlights from that trip were A, an amazing show by the Northern Lights, and B, three separate fish dinners of trout, northern pike, and walleye.
[1:16:43 – 1:16:48] Erik: And C, not seeing other humans for most of the trip and having multiple lakes we camped on to ourselves.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:52] Erik: Cheers, and thanks for another great season of content.
[1:16:52 – 1:16:53] Adam: Cheers to you.
[1:16:53 – 1:16:54] Erik: Cheers, a pair of chappers.
[1:17:00 – 1:17:01] Erik: Cheers.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:06] Erik: Spun it around.
[1:17:06 – 1:17:08] Erik: I think we’re all squared away.
[1:17:08 – 1:17:09] Erik: Got some more readings to do here.
[1:17:10 – 1:17:10] Erik: It’s happening.
[1:17:10 – 1:17:11] Erik: It has to happen.
[1:17:13 – 1:17:19] Adam: Next up on the show, great friend of the show, Paddle Faster, 22 days ago.
[1:17:21 – 1:17:25] Adam: One trip for me this year, 52.9 miles.
[1:17:26 – 1:17:34] Adam: Clicked by the GPS over 10 nights, but double portaging probably increases that number to over 60 easily.
[1:17:34 – 1:17:42] Adam: Went in on Stewart the third weekend of September and found the park practically deserted from day two until day nine.
[1:17:44 – 1:17:47] Adam: Had strong winds coming off the lake at a few camps.
[1:17:47 – 1:17:52] Adam: Was thankful we brought the CCS tundra tarp, which doubled as a wind whale.
[1:17:53 – 1:17:54] Adam: Wind whale.
[1:17:55 – 1:17:57] Adam: To make the fire grade area habitable.
[1:17:58 – 1:18:02] Adam: Fish were caught and released and filleted as appropriate for their size.
[1:18:03 – 1:18:04] Adam: We were blessed with robin eggs.
[1:18:04 – 1:18:05] Erik: Caught, released, and then filleted?
[1:18:06 – 1:18:06] Adam: What?
[1:18:06 – 1:18:08] Adam: As appropriate for their size.
[1:18:10 – 1:18:13] Adam: I guess that means… No, I know.
[1:18:13 – 1:18:13] Erik: It’s just…
[1:18:13 – 1:18:14] Adam: Discretion.
[1:18:14 – 1:18:15] Erik: Discretion.
[1:18:15 – 1:18:20] Adam: We were blessed with robin eggs, blue skies, and warm sunshine.
[1:18:20 – 1:18:24] Erik: I thought you were just going to say we were blessed by robin’s eggs.
[1:18:26 – 1:18:26] Erik: Some robin’s eggs.
[1:18:27 – 1:18:27] Erik: Huzzah.
[1:18:27 – 1:18:29] Erik: The trees right into the pan.
[1:18:30 – 1:18:47] Adam: At the Lac La Croix and Rocky Lake Pictos, as well as our exit day coming out of Moose and Portage River, firewood was plentiful everywhere we camped and were solidly wood gnomed by whomever had our campsite on Three Island.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:48] Adam: Who are you?
[1:18:49 – 1:18:50] Adam: Please come forward.
[1:18:51 – 1:18:52] Adam: Tell us your name.
[1:18:52 – 1:18:53] Erik: Among us.
[1:18:55 – 1:19:04] Adam: On our last night, as we were camped on the Isthmus site on Oyster, we were treated to a few hours long display from hashtag Team Aurora.
[1:19:05 – 1:19:08] Adam: Hashtag Team Aurora Borealis.
[1:19:09 – 1:19:18] Adam: And in a scrimmage match for this year’s Tumblies, they combined with some rolling clouds and staged several dramatic team photos.
[1:19:19 – 1:19:20] Adam: Oh, my.
[1:19:20 – 1:19:20] Erik: Oh, my.
[1:19:20 – 1:19:21] Erik: I can picture that sight.
[1:19:22 – 1:19:23] Erik: Oh, my.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:25] Erik: The isthmus sight on Oyster.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:27] Erik: That’s a hot one.
[1:19:27 – 1:19:27] Erik: It’s a hot.
[1:19:28 – 1:19:30] Erik: So you got a lake on one side, you got a lake on the other.
[1:19:30 – 1:19:31] Adam: Both sides.
[1:19:31 – 1:19:35] Erik: The team caches of aluminum canoes on both sides.
[1:19:35 – 1:19:38] Adam: The team is looking strong for this upcoming season.
[1:19:38 – 1:19:46] Adam: Let me tell you, the team’s coach, Sol R. Max, unfortunately could not be reached for comment.
[1:19:48 – 1:19:52] Adam: He is an elusive and wise coach.
[1:19:53 – 1:19:56] Adam: Plans are already in the works for next summer’s scout trip.
[1:19:56 – 1:20:00] Adam: We are eyeing a 100-plus miler from Ely to Atacocan.
[1:20:00 – 1:20:02] Adam: If it pans out, it’ll be my first time.
[1:20:03 – 1:20:04] Adam: In the queue, cheese!
[1:20:08 – 1:20:08] UNKNOWN: Boop!
[1:20:08 – 1:20:08] UNKNOWN: Boop!
[1:20:12 – 1:20:12] Erik: Nailed it.
[1:20:13 – 1:20:13] Adam: Nailed it.
[1:20:14 – 1:20:17] Erik: I love all the potential Quetico action.
[1:20:17 – 1:20:17] Erik: Love it.
[1:20:17 – 1:20:23] Erik: I’ll just spend literally all winter just responding to and helping out people who want to put together Quetico trips.
[1:20:23 – 1:20:25] Adam: Quetico map questions.
[1:20:25 – 1:20:30] Erik: My Quetico thirst is like, it’s vampire-esque at this point.
[1:20:30 – 1:20:35] Adam: There’s one person in this world who knows the Quetico maps as well as Eric, and it’s Eric.
[1:20:36 – 1:20:37] Adam: It’s me.
[1:20:37 – 1:20:38] Adam: It’s me.
[1:20:38 – 1:20:38] Adam: It’s me.
[1:20:39 – 1:20:40] Adam: Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s who it is.
[1:20:42 – 1:20:43] Adam: It’s me.
[1:20:43 – 1:20:44] Erik: I’m just like over here.
[1:20:44 – 1:20:48] Erik: I’m literally just staring at the Quetico side of the whole map right now.
[1:20:49 – 1:20:57] Adam: Yeah, this map’s more Quetico than B, and it is really, really nice to look at with these beautiful party lights going on.
[1:20:58 – 1:21:01] Erik: Next year, we’ll just change the whole title to the show.
[1:21:01 – 1:21:04] Erik: It’ll just be called Tumble Home, More Q Than B.
[1:21:06 – 1:21:07] Adam: And people will be like, what?
[1:21:08 – 1:21:10] Adam: But I think most people will get it, right?
[1:21:10 – 1:21:12] Erik: Yeah, they’ll have to.
[1:21:12 – 1:21:16] Adam: They’ll have gotten it if they listened to the first 217 episodes.
[1:21:16 – 1:21:16] Adam: Yeah.
[1:21:16 – 1:21:26] Erik: Yeah, you can’t just tune into a show at episode end of the show and understand why it’s so sad that the main character is dying.
[1:21:28 – 1:21:30] Erik: Same reason that you can’t just tune into 217.
[1:21:30 – 1:21:32] Erik: Well, you could probably still get some information.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:39] Adam: It’s because he got the disease from doing the thing he loved, which was the Q and the B.
[1:21:41 – 1:21:45] Adam: And that’s why he got the A and the X and Z.
[1:21:46 – 1:21:52] Adam: But why he ultimately lived, laughed, and loved.
[1:21:52 – 1:21:53] Erik: There it is.
[1:21:53 – 1:21:53] Erik: All right.
[1:21:53 – 1:21:54] Erik: Live, laugh, love?
[1:21:54 – 1:21:58] Erik: Are you still sipping on the perfume water over there?
[1:21:59 – 1:22:01] Adam: Merci, bureau crew.
[1:22:01 – 1:22:03] Adam: He’s still got the scotch, too.
[1:22:03 – 1:22:04] Adam: I’ve got the scotch.
[1:22:04 – 1:22:08] Erik: Wow, we’ve done a reasonable job on this.
[1:22:09 – 1:22:10] Adam: Yeah, it seems pretty good.
[1:22:11 – 1:22:11] Erik: It is.
[1:22:11 – 1:22:12] Adam: It’s very good.
[1:22:12 – 1:22:13] Adam: It is good.
[1:22:13 – 1:22:13] Adam: It seems pretty good.
[1:22:13 – 1:22:15] Adam: It’s making me feel really nice about things.
[1:22:17 – 1:22:17] Erik: Yeah, the 14-year…
[1:22:24 – 1:22:28] Erik: Rum cask aged scotch whiskey.
[1:22:28 – 1:22:31] Erik: I’m not even feeling the cold, my man.
[1:22:31 – 1:22:37] Adam: Do you think that island of the Scottish people is farther north than we are right now?
[1:22:38 – 1:22:39] Adam: Or are they not?
[1:22:41 – 1:22:43] Adam: The island of the Scottish people?
[1:22:44 – 1:22:45] Erik: Yeah, Scotland.
[1:22:46 – 1:22:48] Erik: Oh, it’s way farther north.
[1:22:48 – 1:22:48] Adam: You think so?
[1:22:48 – 1:22:49] Adam: Yeah.
[1:22:49 – 1:22:50] Adam: Oh, totally.
[1:22:50 – 1:22:52] Adam: Like seven miles farther?
[1:22:52 – 1:22:54] Adam: At least seven, seven, eight miles.
[1:22:54 – 1:22:56] Erik: I mean, that’s my minimum.
[1:22:56 – 1:22:57] Adam: Yeah.
[1:22:58 – 1:22:59] Adam: That’s, to me, a big distance.
[1:22:59 – 1:23:00] Adam: Yeah.
[1:23:00 – 1:23:01] Adam: Seven miles.
[1:23:01 – 1:23:04] Erik: It’s at least seven miles farther north as the crow flies.
[1:23:06 – 1:23:06] SPEAKER_01: Okay.
[1:23:08 – 1:23:11] Adam: Anyways, anybody out there in Scotland listening to us,
[1:23:11 – 1:23:12] Erik: Oh, for real.
[1:23:12 – 1:23:14] Erik: If there are any Scotland listening.
[1:23:14 – 1:23:14] Erik: We love you.
[1:23:15 – 1:23:15] Adam: Yeah.
[1:23:15 – 1:23:20] Adam: Seriously, if anybody in Scotland is somehow listening to this, we do love you.
[1:23:20 – 1:23:22] Adam: Love you.
[1:23:23 – 1:23:25] Erik: SquareJaw77, we’re getting down there.
[1:23:27 – 1:23:27] Adam: To the good ones.
[1:23:28 – 1:23:30] Adam: These are the late comers, right?
[1:23:32 – 1:23:33] Adam: Or not.
[1:23:33 – 1:23:33] Adam: It’s fine.
[1:23:34 – 1:23:42] Erik: Yeah, let’s not cast any kind of judgments on when they came, how fast or hard they came.
[1:23:42 – 1:23:43] Adam: Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter.
[1:23:44 – 1:23:44] Erik: No.
[1:23:45 – 1:23:46] Adam: It’s that they were here.
[1:23:46 – 1:23:46] Adam: It’s that they’re here.
[1:23:46 – 1:23:47] Adam: Right now.
[1:23:47 – 1:23:48] Erik: It’s that they came.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:49] Erik: Now.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:50] Erik: Now.
[1:23:52 – 1:23:55] Erik: And now I was able to do three trips this year.
[1:23:55 – 1:24:00] Erik: The first was also my very first solo trip theme of the year.
[1:24:01 – 1:24:04] Erik: Went in on Farm Lake and navigated through the Kawishui Triangle.
[1:24:05 – 1:24:10] Erik: A bear got into my pack when I left it at the end of a portage and enjoyed my lasagna.
[1:24:12 – 1:24:13] Erik: I hope it was a dehydrated version.
[1:24:14 – 1:24:17] Erik: Or maybe day one you just had like a square of mom’s lasagna.
[1:24:17 – 1:24:19] Adam: A big old brick of lasagna.
[1:24:19 – 1:24:21] Adam: No, that sounds like actually a pretty good idea for day one.
[1:24:21 – 1:24:23] Adam: It really does, actually, yeah.
[1:24:23 – 1:24:29] Erik: Next year I think we should try and focus in, harden our goal with pinpoint diamond precision.
[1:24:30 – 1:24:31] Erik: Speaking of diamond axes.
[1:24:31 – 1:24:33] Adam: Exactly, and pickaxes.
[1:24:35 – 1:24:41] Erik: Take out the Boundary Waters aspect of any kind of planning with regards to food.
[1:24:41 – 1:24:43] Erik: What do you want to eat for five days?
[1:24:44 – 1:24:45] Erik: You’re on vacation.
[1:24:45 – 1:24:50] Erik: If you were on vacation somewhere, what would you want to eat?
[1:24:50 – 1:24:52] Erik: Whatever I can’t get at home.
[1:24:52 – 1:24:55] Erik: Obviously, location comes into mind, but this is free-for-all.
[1:24:55 – 1:24:58] Adam: It’s a fresh smallmouth bass lasagna.
[1:24:59 – 1:24:59] Adam: Wings.
[1:25:00 – 1:25:00] Adam: Wings.
[1:25:01 – 1:25:05] Adam: Yeah, I want like lo mein.
[1:25:06 – 1:25:07] Adam: Chicken lo mein.
[1:25:07 – 1:25:10] Erik: Day five, like spring rolls.
[1:25:10 – 1:25:10] Adam: Yeah.
[1:25:11 – 1:25:12] Adam: I like our pad thai adventure.
[1:25:13 – 1:25:14] Adam: Pad thai was a good one.
[1:25:14 – 1:25:15] Adam: Pad thai for breakfast.
[1:25:16 – 1:25:19] Adam: I’ve never ever, ever in my life had pad thai for breakfast.
[1:25:20 – 1:25:44] Adam: ever not even as a leftover that was incredible that was great one of the best moments ever in the history of the boundary waters not just for you and me eric but literally in the history of winchell lake yeah probably the greatest moment ever that had happened there i mean if winchell lake has a wikipedia page and if it doesn’t somebody get on it get to work listening trevor what are you doing
[1:25:44 – 1:25:56] Erik: And then there’s got to be like a lower, like you give all the basics, you know, you know, square mileage, number of campsites, portages in and out of the Miscoua Hills, fish species present.
[1:25:56 – 1:25:58] Erik: But then there’s also like the bottom, like notable moments.
[1:25:59 – 1:25:59] Adam: Yeah.
[1:26:00 – 1:26:20] Erik: cultural references yeah cultural references yeah a fresh cob salad with steak was eaten in 2021 widely regarded to be the start of the cob salad craze yeah of the 2020s widely regarded as the beginning of the bunchwaters salad craze that lasted for two decades
[1:26:21 – 1:26:43] Erik: nobody can be sure but many do speak to the legend ken burns really feels like this is the moment you know well wait a minute square jaw 77 sorry to do you dirty by reading the first sentence and then going on a a wild round jagged tangent sorry first trip first trip
[1:26:44 – 1:26:46] Erik: It was also my very first solo.
[1:26:46 – 1:26:51] Erik: Went in on Farm Lake and navigated through the Koishui Triangle, and then the lasagna was eaten by a bear.
[1:26:52 – 1:26:55] Erik: Great trip altogether, and I will definitely do more solo trips.
[1:26:56 – 1:26:59] Erik: The second trip was just me and my wife, and we went in on Moose.
[1:27:00 – 1:27:07] Erik: We visited Dorothy’s Place and Thunder Point, then veered south through Bonnie, Spoon, Scooter, Dix, Missionary, and Ensign.
[1:27:08 – 1:27:14] Erik: Outside the strangely sexual-sounding names, those lakes were kind of just okay and unremarkable.
[1:27:15 – 1:27:18] Erik: I have them marked off my list and probably don’t need to return.
[1:27:19 – 1:27:22] Erik: I was surprised at the gross campsites on Ensign.
[1:27:23 – 1:27:23] Erik: Uh-oh.
[1:27:24 – 1:27:24] Erik: Ensigns.
[1:27:25 – 1:27:27] Adam: We’re about to trash Ensign?
[1:27:27 – 1:27:29] Erik: Ensigns in the crosshairs once again.
[1:27:29 – 1:27:29] Erik: No.
[1:27:30 – 1:27:35] Erik: On one site, people were just taking craps in the woods and not burying it.
[1:27:35 – 1:27:36] Erik: That was Eric.
[1:27:37 – 1:27:37] UNKNOWN: Yay!
[1:27:39 – 1:27:42] Erik: There’s a freaking thunder mug for cripes sakes.
[1:27:42 – 1:27:43] Erik: That was me.
[1:27:43 – 1:27:46] Erik: Why would you need to just take a duker in the woods?
[1:27:47 – 1:27:48] Erik: And they crap right out.
[1:27:48 – 1:27:51] Adam: Sometimes you just gotta go to quote Malcolm from Jurassic Park.
[1:27:53 – 1:27:54] Erik: Life finds a way?
[1:27:54 – 1:27:56] Adam: No, sometimes you just gotta go.
[1:27:59 – 1:28:01] Erik: Life finds a way too.
[1:28:01 – 1:28:01] Adam: Also that.
[1:28:01 – 1:28:02] Erik: Yeah.
[1:28:03 – 1:28:07] Erik: There’s also a site that had eggshells just thrown right adjacent to the fire pit.
[1:28:07 – 1:28:08] Erik: That’s nice.
[1:28:09 – 1:28:12] Erik: I have a few more instances of gross behavior, but I think we’ve all heard enough.
[1:28:13 – 1:28:17] Erik: The highlight of that trip was an absolutely stunning northern lights display.
[1:28:18 – 1:28:22] Erik: My third trip was a fishing trip with some buddies, and we entered on Trout Lake through Vermilion.
[1:28:23 – 1:28:27] Erik: And we thought about a mile portage over to Pine Lake and base camped.
[1:28:27 – 1:28:32] Erik: Sorry, not thought, but took the mile-long portage over to Pine.
[1:28:33 – 1:28:39] Erik: We did not see another person the entire trip and had the lake and universe to ourselves.
[1:28:39 – 1:28:40] Erik: What?
[1:28:41 – 1:28:42] Erik: I added the universe part.
[1:28:42 – 1:28:42] Adam: Okay.
[1:28:42 – 1:28:43] Adam: Sorry.
[1:28:43 – 1:28:44] Adam: That was badass, though.
[1:28:44 – 1:28:55] Erik: Well, it’s mostly the fact that my breath is blowing up so much into my face when I’m reading that I need to give myself a break in between sentences to refocus in on the words.
[1:28:55 – 1:28:59] Adam: Yeah, I would say it’s at least like 27 degrees in here right now.
[1:28:59 – 1:29:05] Erik: Well, it’s just like that perfect temperature where your breath is like… Are you vaping?
[1:29:05 – 1:29:05] Erik: No.
[1:29:06 – 1:29:07] Erik: Now I am.
[1:29:07 – 1:29:08] Erik: I’m intensely reading.
[1:29:10 – 1:29:16] Erik: Got some awesome fish, including great-sized walleyes, some lunker bass, and a monster pike.
[1:29:16 – 1:29:24] Erik: The low light of a trip was that it rained so much that my iPhone somehow got water in it and ruined my it.
[1:29:26 – 1:29:27] Adam: That’s why you got to bring a backup phone.
[1:29:28 – 1:29:29] Erik: Yeah, you just don’t bring it.
[1:29:29 – 1:29:32] Erik: I had it in my pocket, but it looked like I had it submerged.
[1:29:33 – 1:29:35] Erik: This was an iPhone 12, too.
[1:29:35 – 1:29:36] Erik: You know what I’m talking about.
[1:29:36 – 1:29:39] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:29:39 – 1:29:41] Adam: I don’t even know what kind I have.
[1:29:41 – 1:29:42] Erik: No, I don’t either.
[1:29:42 – 1:29:44] Erik: It’s the whole…
[1:29:44 – 1:29:44] Erik: I have a phone.
[1:29:45 – 1:29:45] Erik: It’s lost.
[1:29:45 – 1:29:46] Erik: It’s all lost.
[1:29:46 – 1:29:46] Erik: Whatever.
[1:29:46 – 1:29:47] Erik: It could be a 12.
[1:29:47 – 1:29:48] Erik: It could be a 9.
[1:29:48 – 1:29:51] Erik: Anything before like 6, I guess.
[1:29:51 – 1:29:54] Adam: I got a disc golf game for the phone now.
[1:29:54 – 1:29:55] Adam: Oh, wow.
[1:29:55 – 1:29:55] Adam: I’m sure.
[1:29:55 – 1:29:57] Adam: You shoot the disc on it.
[1:29:57 – 1:29:58] Adam: Is that helping you?
[1:29:58 – 1:29:59] Adam: You sling it.
[1:29:59 – 1:30:00] Erik: Anyway, three trips.
[1:30:00 – 1:30:01] Adam: I want a canoeing game though.
[1:30:01 – 1:30:04] Adam: Anybody out there know about a canoeing game for the iPhone?
[1:30:04 – 1:30:05] Adam: Anybody out there have one?
[1:30:05 – 1:30:06] Adam: I would love to play it.
[1:30:06 – 1:30:07] Adam: iOS canoeing games.
[1:30:07 – 1:30:10] Adam: I’m desperate to canoe on the internet right now.
[1:30:10 – 1:30:11] Adam: Please help me.
[1:30:11 – 1:30:13] Adam: I have to navigate the rapids right now.
[1:30:14 – 1:30:15] Adam: I will lose my mind.
[1:30:15 – 1:30:18] Erik: What’s the old bass fishing game?
[1:30:18 – 1:30:18] Erik: We just need that.
[1:30:19 – 1:30:20] Adam: Super black bass for canoes?
[1:30:20 – 1:30:21] Adam: Yeah, I just want that.
[1:30:21 – 1:30:22] Erik: With canoes.
[1:30:22 – 1:30:23] Adam: Or just on the phone.
[1:30:23 – 1:30:27] Adam: I would actually love to play a fishing game on the canoe too, or on the phone.
[1:30:28 – 1:30:28] Erik: What?
[1:30:29 – 1:30:50] Erik: talking about i don’t even know where we’re at it’s a cornucopia whirlwind of ideas anyway three trips was a lot i thoroughly enjoyed it but i was basically dehydrating and prepping food all summer yeah that that’s dedication that becomes an entire like those quetico trips we used to do month long it was
[1:30:50 – 1:30:51] Erik: Early August.
[1:30:51 – 1:30:52] Adam: Yeah, no.
[1:30:52 – 1:31:00] Adam: When you’re dehydrating food for a trip ahead of time, it does make it more rewarding in the moment when you’re having it.
[1:31:00 – 1:31:01] Adam: No doubt.
[1:31:01 – 1:31:02] Adam: And the whole way.
[1:31:03 – 1:31:06] Adam: If you can afford the time to do it, that’s the way to do it.
[1:31:06 – 1:31:08] Adam: It gets you in the mood for like months straight.
[1:31:08 – 1:31:16] Adam: It makes you feel like it’s like… You’re pouring over maps while you’re waiting for, you know, fruit leathers to dry up.
[1:31:16 – 1:31:18] Adam: I mean, oh, it’s really high-level stuff.
[1:31:18 – 1:31:21] Adam: Makes you feel like… Reading Sigurd Olsen by The Dehydrator.
[1:31:21 – 1:31:23] Erik: Makes you feel like Tenzing Norgay.
[1:31:24 – 1:31:25] Adam: Oh, you’re Norgay all the way.
[1:31:26 – 1:31:27] Erik: Expedition.
[1:31:27 – 1:31:32] Adam: You’re up at 29,000 feet above sea level, just massively nailing it.
[1:31:33 – 1:31:37] Erik: I know it is a lot of work, and that is essentially the sentiment from Squarejaw77 here.
[1:31:39 – 1:31:41] Erik: But I would recommend it to anybody.
[1:31:41 – 1:31:42] Erik: That’s the way.
[1:31:42 – 1:31:44] Erik: Make your own dehydrated food.
[1:31:44 – 1:31:45] Erik: Make your own jerky.
[1:31:45 – 1:31:47] Erik: Make your own fruit leathers.
[1:31:48 – 1:31:58] Erik: Anything that you have a serious passion about, if you can extend and accentuate out farther into the year, even when you’re not actually doing it, it just adds to it.
[1:31:58 – 1:32:01] Erik: And at the end of the day, it saves money.
[1:32:01 – 1:32:03] Adam: And it’s a good winter activity.
[1:32:03 – 1:32:03] Adam: Yeah.
[1:32:04 – 1:32:07] Adam: This is the best thing to be doing as the nights grow long.
[1:32:07 – 1:32:09] Adam: Get dehydrating, people.
[1:32:09 – 1:32:09] Adam: Right.
[1:32:09 – 1:32:11] Adam: Start, you know.
[1:32:11 – 1:32:13] Adam: Menu plan.
[1:32:13 – 1:32:13] Erik: Prepping.
[1:32:14 – 1:32:15] Erik: Even if you don’t go on the trip.
[1:32:15 – 1:32:17] Erik: Even if you don’t go on the trip, you’re prepped.
[1:32:17 – 1:32:18] Erik: Let’s be Sarah from Joe Pera.
[1:32:18 – 1:32:19] Erik: You’re prepped.
[1:32:19 – 1:32:19] Adam: Yeah.
[1:32:19 – 1:32:23] Adam: We got to have a whole basement full of canned goods and vacuum sealed stuff.
[1:32:24 – 1:32:24] Adam: Let’s do it.
[1:32:25 – 1:32:27] Erik: Well, cherish every word.
[1:32:27 – 1:32:27] Erik: Oh, sorry.
[1:32:27 – 1:32:30] Erik: I am hoping to do my first winter camping trip this year.
[1:32:30 – 1:32:33] Erik: Even my wife is interested, so we shall see.
[1:32:33 – 1:32:35] Erik: Thank you, Squarejaw77.
[1:32:36 – 1:32:37] Erik: Keep dehydrating.
[1:32:37 – 1:32:38] Erik: Keep at it.
[1:32:38 – 1:32:38] Erik: It’s worth it.
[1:32:40 – 1:32:41] Erik: I’ve got two more comments to read here.
[1:32:42 – 1:32:42] Adam: All right, sir.
[1:32:43 – 1:32:44] Erik: Two more.
[1:32:44 – 1:32:45] Erik: Cherish this.
[1:32:45 – 1:32:51] Erik: Grab that chubby little boy from Billy Madison like Adam Sandler did.
[1:32:52 – 1:32:55] Erik: Just picture that when you’re reading this because it’s the last thing you’re going to read.
[1:32:55 – 1:32:58] Adam: I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings.
[1:32:58 – 1:32:59] Adam: I’ve never seen Billy Madison.
[1:33:00 – 1:33:21] Erik: what no idea what you’re talking you’ve never seen billy madison just read this with a calm presence okay well it’s probably a good thing that you haven’t seen it then because that’s all i am picturing right now as you read this is the jiggly cheeks fat cheeks of a small boy being jiggled by a grown man telling him to cherish his youth is that what schmiegel does
[1:33:26 – 1:33:31] Adam: Next up on the show, a great friend of the show, Admiral Gary.
[1:33:32 – 1:33:33] Adam: Eight days ago.
[1:33:33 – 1:33:34] Adam: All right.
[1:33:34 – 1:33:36] Adam: BWCA trip number one.
[1:33:36 – 1:33:41] Adam: Revisited Basswood for the 10th time in the third weekend of September.
[1:33:42 – 1:33:44] Adam: Group of eight guys.
[1:33:44 – 1:33:47] Adam: This was the eighth year in a row this group of guys went.
[1:33:47 – 1:33:52] Adam: But a bit of rain ended up visiting and having lunch at the Upper Basswood Falls.
[1:33:53 – 1:33:57] Adam: sat around the fire, walked around in the woods doing botany and stuff.
[1:33:59 – 1:34:00] Adam: What’s that mean?
[1:34:01 – 1:34:16] Adam: One of the highlights of the trip was showing the guys how to resurrect dried out liverwort lichens that looked like dead brown leaf litter on the rock outcroppings by splashing water with our paddles.
[1:34:16 – 1:34:22] Adam: With our splashed water, they turned green and alive again over the course of maybe 90 seconds.
[1:34:22 – 1:34:24] Adam: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
[1:34:25 – 1:34:26] Adam: What did I just read, Eric?
[1:34:27 – 1:34:28] Adam: Lichen resurrection?
[1:34:29 – 1:34:30] Erik: What’s happening right now?
[1:34:30 – 1:34:34] Erik: This is a great way to end with more mystery than answers.
[1:34:37 – 1:34:38] Erik: Are you some sort of sorcerer?
[1:34:38 – 1:34:40] Erik: Yeah, he was on a trip with seven wizards.
[1:34:41 – 1:34:45] Adam: Admiral Gary, we have to know more.
[1:34:47 – 1:34:48] Adam: Oh, no.
[1:34:48 – 1:34:49] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:34:49 – 1:34:50] Adam: I’m not sure what I just read.
[1:34:50 – 1:34:51] Adam: We’re going to move on.
[1:34:53 – 1:34:55] Adam: We’ll figure it out in the next four months.
[1:34:55 – 1:34:57] Adam: BWCA trip number two.
[1:34:57 – 1:35:03] Adam: A buddy and I ended up windbound on Moose Lake at the third campsite on the second weekend of October.
[1:35:03 – 1:35:06] Adam: Short paddle from the Boy Scout compound.
[1:35:07 – 1:35:08] Erik: You khaki freaks.
[1:35:09 – 1:35:10] Erik: Boy Scout compound.
[1:35:11 – 1:35:11] Adam: I’m sorry.
[1:35:12 – 1:35:13] Adam: Cut firewood.
[1:35:13 – 1:35:16] Adam: Ate a ton of Minnesota legal edibles.
[1:35:16 – 1:35:20] Adam: Slept quoted South Park episodes and sang Gordon Lightfoot songs.
[1:35:21 – 1:35:22] Adam: Lots of laughing and talking.
[1:35:22 – 1:35:31] Adam: I wouldn’t even want every trip to be like that, but it was a good and much needed respite from a crazy year.
[1:35:31 – 1:35:37] Adam: This same buddy and I have previously done some 20 plus mile paddling days in the past.
[1:35:37 – 1:35:40] Adam: This trip was irregular for us.
[1:35:41 – 1:35:42] Adam: This is a short trip.
[1:35:45 – 1:35:46] Adam: Okay, this is the final one.
[1:35:47 – 1:35:49] Adam: Summer’s primary activities.
[1:35:49 – 1:36:09] Adam: Probably spend every other weekend upwind of Hoveland, a couple of miles south of the BWCA, being a hippie on my land, planting trees, hanging out with my kids, building trails, building a shed, and hauling in materials.
[1:36:12 – 1:36:12] Adam: Huh.
[1:36:13 – 1:36:29] Adam: My wife and kids and myself also did a bunch of winter camping on the North Shore in the 21-22 winter, and we also camped in the deep snow upland in Hoveland, hoping to bring my wife and kids to the BWC in 2023.
[1:36:30 – 1:36:33] Adam: We have only paddled in in the past.
[1:36:35 – 1:36:36] Adam: Two boxes of wine.
[1:36:38 – 1:37:02] Erik: thank you for the comment it’s not i’m not tearing up or anything it’s just that cold in here but that was a great comment appreciated what about the lichen though what about those lichens that just came to life that was the last comment i think we have one more oh oh there’s more to go there’s an email and we have one comment left on the sub right here we go am i doing both
[1:37:03 – 1:37:04] Adam: No, I can do one or the other.
[1:37:04 – 1:37:05] Erik: I got this.
[1:37:05 – 1:37:06] Erik: This one can’t turn.
[1:37:06 – 1:37:08] Erik: So you read the last subreddit.
[1:37:08 – 1:37:08] Erik: Okay.
[1:37:08 – 1:37:20] Erik: And then, oh boy, the magical crown that will be awarded to this person randomly, just by chance, as being the last comment on the show for question of the year.
[1:37:21 – 1:37:22] Adam: All right.
[1:37:22 – 1:37:24] Adam: Last up on the subreddit.
[1:37:24 – 1:37:26] Adam: Great friend of the show.
[1:37:27 – 1:37:35] Adam: I would love to hang out with you, you know, and have some burgers and watch some big boats sail out of the Twin Ports someday.
[1:37:36 – 1:37:37] Adam: Go be in my pants.
[1:37:37 – 1:37:38] Adam: Multiple burgers.
[1:37:38 – 1:37:39] Adam: Go be in my pants.
[1:37:39 – 1:37:43] Adam: Or just hang out on Seagull and catch Wally on a slip bobber.
[1:37:43 – 1:37:44] Adam: Go be in my pants.
[1:37:44 – 1:37:47] Adam: Next up on the show, final comment on the thread.
[1:37:49 – 1:37:49] Adam: 10 hours ago.
[1:37:51 – 1:37:54] Erik: We got a 10 hours ago also on an email here.
[1:37:54 – 1:37:55] Old Canoe Guy: One box of wine.
[1:37:56 – 1:37:57] Adam: All right, here it is.
[1:37:59 – 1:38:02] Adam: Well, I waited until part one came out to comment.
[1:38:02 – 1:38:05] Adam: I didn’t want to go on any trips this year, which is a bummer.
[1:38:06 – 1:38:13] Adam: Rumors are swirling about a possible base camp trip next year with the wife, five-year-old, and grandpa.
[1:38:13 – 1:38:14] Adam: Swirling.
[1:38:14 – 1:38:20] Adam: Depends on if mom is okay leaving to be five-month-old back home with grandma.
[1:38:20 – 1:38:20] Adam: We’ll see.
[1:38:21 – 1:38:22] Adam: I miss the northern waters.
[1:38:27 – 1:38:30] Adam: I missed the northern waters and I can’t wait to return.
[1:38:31 – 1:38:38] Adam: Didn’t even get my canoe in the water this year since a pregnant wife didn’t think paddling sounded like fun with a four-year-old.
[1:38:38 – 1:38:49] Adam: This podcast has kept my hopes alive of a future trip and I once again live vicariously through other trip stories.
[1:38:49 – 1:38:50] Adam: Thank you for the comment.
[1:38:52 – 1:38:54] Adam: I’m sure there’s a lot of people listening that
[1:38:54 – 1:38:57] Adam: can relate to that comment.
[1:38:58 – 1:39:00] Adam: What’s the email we have, Eric?
[1:39:01 – 1:39:02] Adam: One last email.
[1:39:05 – 1:39:10] Erik: Ten hours ago from Caleb C.S.
[1:39:10 – 1:39:11] Erik: Pequod.
[1:39:13 – 1:39:17] Erik: Here with his contribution to the year-end roundup.
[1:39:18 – 1:39:25] Erik: I took two trips this year, one in early May with some friends and another in early September with my wife.
[1:39:26 – 1:39:32] Erik: First trip was with three Bida virgins who were intent on catching fish.
[1:39:33 – 1:39:36] Erik: A spring trip to SAC was in order.
[1:39:37 – 1:39:40] Erik: We got a tow in from the very friendly folks at Hall & Oates.
[1:39:41 – 1:39:42] Adam: Hall & Oates!
[1:39:44 – 1:39:46] Erik: We should end with the Hall & Oates song.
[1:39:46 – 1:39:46] Adam: Yeah.
[1:39:47 – 1:39:51] Erik: Up from entry point 25, out on the way, the South Arm of Knife.
[1:39:52 – 1:39:58] Erik: At one point, we almost flipped a boat trying to get to a portage landing that had been overtaken by rapids.
[1:39:58 – 1:39:59] Erik: No bueno.
[1:39:59 – 1:40:07] Erik: We escaped with our boat and butts intact and made it to the premier fishing destination, or so I have been told, of the Boundary Waters.
[1:40:08 – 1:40:08] Erik: We fished.
[1:40:09 – 1:40:09] Erik: We wood-numbed.
[1:40:09 – 1:40:10] Erik: We waterfall-watched.
[1:40:10 – 1:40:11] Erik: We gazed at stars.
[1:40:11 – 1:40:16] Erik: We watched a group of… We caught a group Grand Slam.
[1:40:16 – 1:40:16] Erik: Sorry.
[1:40:18 – 1:40:20] Adam: Group Grand Slam.
[1:40:20 – 1:40:21] Adam: Group Grand Slam.
[1:40:21 – 1:40:24] Adam: Are you saying you call it Group Grand Slam?
[1:40:24 – 1:40:27] Erik: We need something on the soundboard next year for that.
[1:40:28 – 1:40:28] Adam: Grand Slam.
[1:40:29 – 1:40:30] Erik: Group Grand Slam.
[1:40:31 – 1:40:32] Erik: We fished.
[1:40:32 – 1:40:32] Erik: We wood gnomed.
[1:40:32 – 1:40:34] Erik: We waterfall watched.
[1:40:34 – 1:40:35] Erik: We gazed at stars.
[1:40:36 – 1:40:37] Erik: Heard all this already.
[1:40:37 – 1:40:38] Erik: I’m reading it again.
[1:40:39 – 1:40:41] Erik: Thank you, Brad, for the scotch.
[1:40:41 – 1:40:46] Erik: I caught exactly one fish on the six-day trip, but it was my first laker.
[1:40:46 – 1:40:47] Erik: Hell yeah.
[1:40:48 – 1:40:50] Erik: A 12-pound monster.
[1:40:50 – 1:40:50] Erik: What?
[1:40:50 – 1:40:52] Erik: What?
[1:40:52 – 1:40:53] Erik: 12-pound laker?
[1:40:53 – 1:40:54] Erik: First laker ever?
[1:40:55 – 1:40:56] Erik: My God.
[1:40:57 – 1:40:57] Erik: That must…
[1:40:57 – 1:40:58] Erik: I mean…
[1:40:58 – 1:41:00] Adam: You’re a star-kissed lover.
[1:41:00 – 1:41:00] Adam: That’s a jar.
[1:41:00 – 1:41:02] Erik: Yuggity, yuggity, yuggity.
[1:41:02 – 1:41:04] Erik: Yeah.
[1:41:04 – 1:41:07] Erik: The boys had a fantastic time and I can’t wait to go back.
[1:41:07 – 1:41:11] Erik: Also, I had finally gotten to try out sky sleeping for the first time.
[1:41:12 – 1:41:13] Erik: It was incredible.
[1:41:13 – 1:41:16] Erik: We’ll definitely be sticking with that going forward.
[1:41:17 – 1:41:17] Erik: All right.
[1:41:18 – 1:41:18] Erik: The second trip.
[1:41:19 – 1:41:22] Erik: It was a quick four-day outing with my wife, our third trip together.
[1:41:24 – 1:41:29] Erik: Our previous two had been in the Ely area, so we decided to try out the eastern side this time.
[1:41:29 – 1:41:32] Erik: We got a permit for entry point 50 Cross Bay.
[1:41:33 – 1:41:38] Erik: Planning on doing a point-to-point route over to Poplar via Big Winchy.
[1:41:38 – 1:41:42] Erik: At the very last minute, we picked up a Clearwater permit.
[1:41:42 – 1:41:43] Erik: Entry point 62.
[1:41:44 – 1:41:44] Erik: Coveted.
[1:41:44 – 1:41:45] Erik: Highly coveted.
[1:41:45 – 1:41:46] Erik: Two entry points a day now.
[1:41:47 – 1:41:55] Erik: We’d really wanted to try out the Vento unit specifically, so we threw out all of our carefully laid plans and committed to the unknown.
[1:41:56 – 1:42:02] Erik: The folks at the… Oh, the folks at the Tumblehome Discord hardly agreed with the decision.
[1:42:03 – 1:42:06] Erik: That’s a thing we haven’t really discussed.
[1:42:06 – 1:42:07] Erik: There’s a Discord…
[1:42:08 – 1:42:14] Adam: I’m on there, but I don’t have the notifications on, so I check in every couple days.
[1:42:15 – 1:42:17] Adam: I have the notifications on.
[1:42:17 – 1:42:25] Adam: I guess I have to turn on the notifications to keep up with the conversation, but I don’t know.
[1:42:25 – 1:42:26] Adam: I think it’s been okay.
[1:42:27 – 1:42:28] Erik: Yeah.
[1:42:28 – 1:42:29] Erik: I mean, I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
[1:42:31 – 1:42:33] Adam: Just another good way to keep in touch with people.
[1:42:33 – 1:42:34] Erik: Just another way to not use Twitter.
[1:42:34 – 1:42:50] Erik: On our way to stay at Hungry Jack Outfitters, we stopped in town at the Co-op and chatted with Adam for a bit and dropped off some good old Kentucky beer, which, based on the timing of the recent sponsorship drop-offs, may well land on this very episode.
[1:42:51 – 1:42:53] Adam: Or in August of 2025.
[1:42:54 – 1:42:55] Erik: Yeah, or time will tell.
[1:42:55 – 1:42:56] Erik: Who knows?
[1:42:56 – 1:43:01] Erik: For those wondering, we offered to bring bourbon instead, but Adam was not interested.
[1:43:01 – 1:43:05] Adam: I don’t know what that means.
[1:43:06 – 1:43:08] Adam: Why did he say it like that?
[1:43:08 – 1:43:09] Old Canoe Guy: What did you do?
[1:43:10 – 1:43:11] Adam: My job.
[1:43:12 – 1:43:24] Erik: After paddling our way down Clearwater, we couldn’t decide whether we wanted to head north to Mountain or straight east to West Pike, but we elected to stop off at Campsite 5 just before the Mountain Portage.
[1:43:24 – 1:43:25] Erik: Wise choice.
[1:43:26 – 1:43:28] Erik: We had some lunch and made a final decision.
[1:43:28 – 1:43:30] Erik: Obviously, we ended up just staying the rest of the week in that exact spot.
[1:43:31 – 1:43:31] Adam: There you go.
[1:43:31 – 1:43:32] Erik: Nailed it.
[1:43:33 – 1:43:35] Erik: Did a little fishing, visited Johnson Falls.
[1:43:35 – 1:43:38] Erik: We considered moving sites, but doing day trips was easier.
[1:43:39 – 1:43:40] Old Canoe Guy: You got it all figured out.
[1:43:41 – 1:43:43] Erik: You’re a seasoned veteran.
[1:43:43 – 1:43:45] Erik: This was the vacation after all.
[1:43:45 – 1:43:46] Erik: Why do hard stuff?
[1:43:47 – 1:43:51] Erik: I can just hear Eric sneering down his nose about this as he reads it.
[1:43:51 – 1:43:52] Erik: No, no.
[1:43:52 – 1:43:53] Adam: I did trip.
[1:43:54 – 1:43:57] Adam: No, Eric has a true glimmer in his eye right now.
[1:43:58 – 1:44:01] Erik: Yeah, I’ve done so many trips where we just camped on that site.
[1:44:01 – 1:44:03] Erik: Oh, it’s a beautiful site.
[1:44:03 – 1:44:06] Erik: I guided many a folk just doing that exact trip.
[1:44:06 – 1:44:09] Adam: I seen the weirdest warbler I ever seen on that site.
[1:44:09 – 1:44:10] Erik: Yeah.
[1:44:10 – 1:44:11] Erik: No, there’s no sneering.
[1:44:13 – 1:44:14] Erik: No, that’s a gem.
[1:44:14 – 1:44:16] Erik: I can’t even see down my nose.
[1:44:18 – 1:44:25] Erik: The weather radio forecast for Friday morning called for 30 mile per hour plus 50 mile an hour gusts.
[1:44:26 – 1:44:29] Erik: That convinced us to pack up and leave out Thursday instead.
[1:44:30 – 1:44:32] Erik: Unfortunately, I guess the wind came early.
[1:44:32 – 1:44:34] Erik: It was blowing.
[1:44:34 – 1:44:35] Adam: Blowing a gagger?
[1:44:35 – 1:44:36] Adam: No.
[1:44:36 – 1:44:38] Adam: Oh, it’s blowing a gagger.
[1:44:38 – 1:44:40] Erik: It was blowing a gasher.
[1:44:40 – 1:44:41] Adam: Gasher?
[1:44:41 – 1:44:49] Erik: Parentheses, question mark, question mark, question mark.
[1:44:50 – 1:44:52] Erik: Yeah, it could be a gasher.
[1:44:52 – 1:44:53] Erik: If it’s 50 plus, it’s a gasher.
[1:44:53 – 1:44:54] Adam: Oh, that’s a gasher.
[1:44:54 – 1:44:55] Erik: Yeah, it’s blowing a gasher.
[1:44:56 – 1:44:58] Adam: It’s a nasty gasher.
[1:44:59 – 1:45:01] Adam: Oh, mustn’t harm a scene bird.
[1:45:01 – 1:45:02] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:45:02 – 1:45:03] Erik: Blowing a gasher.
[1:45:04 – 1:45:16] Erik: Fighting direct headwinds and decent-sized whitecaps all the way down the lake was not the most pleasant experience, but we appreciated the dry land and warm car all the more when we did make it back to the public landing.
[1:45:17 – 1:45:22] Erik: It was a good foothold on the Vento unit, and we’ll definitely be exploring more in the future.
[1:45:22 – 1:45:25] Erik: I’m kind of thinking our next trip will be that cross bay to Poplarod, though.
[1:45:26 – 1:45:31] Erik: I also got out locally in my canoe this year more than any other year previous, which was great.
[1:45:31 – 1:45:36] Erik: I even used it a couple of weeks ago to access a hard-to-reach public land area for deer hunting.
[1:45:36 – 1:45:40] Erik: Planning on trying out it for duck hunting in December, January.
[1:45:41 – 1:45:42] Erik: January duck hunting.
[1:45:45 – 1:45:46] Erik: That’s much.
[1:45:47 – 1:45:55] Erik: I’m excited for next year’s adventures and looking forward to spending the winter mostly sitting in the dark reading consistent, sorry, conspiracy theories.
[1:45:55 – 1:45:56] Adam: Yeah, there you go.
[1:45:57 – 1:45:59] Erik: About what really happened in the Mighty Fitz.
[1:46:00 – 1:46:01] Adam: Or JFK.
[1:46:01 – 1:46:01] Adam: Yes.
[1:46:03 – 1:46:16] Erik: Also, me and my wife are having our first child next June and would love to hear more tumble tot tips from Adam on how you are getting yourself and your kid out into the wilderness slash on the water.
[1:46:16 – 1:46:17] Erik: Enjoy skijoring.
[1:46:17 – 1:46:18] Erik: Pequod out.
[1:46:19 – 1:46:20] Erik: Pequod.
[1:46:20 – 1:46:22] Erik: Thank you, Pequod.
[1:46:23 – 1:46:23] Erik: Is the computer dead?
[1:46:25 – 1:46:25] Adam: No, it’s fine.
[1:46:25 – 1:46:26] Adam: Oh, you just turned it down.
[1:46:26 – 1:46:27] Adam: It’s too bright.
[1:46:29 – 1:46:30] Erik: Any tumble tot tips?
[1:46:30 – 1:46:32] Adam: Yeah, take them outside.
[1:46:32 – 1:46:32] Adam: They love it.
[1:46:32 – 1:46:33] Adam: Yeah?
[1:46:33 – 1:46:35] Adam: Yeah, the more time you spend outside, the better.
[1:46:36 – 1:46:36] Adam: That’s true.
[1:46:36 – 1:46:42] Adam: And that is a good tip for you and me and anybody listening, including babies.
[1:46:42 – 1:46:43] Erik: Everybody that you love.
[1:46:43 – 1:46:44] Adam: Yeah, really.
[1:46:44 – 1:46:47] Adam: I mean, honestly, the more time you spend outside, the better.
[1:46:47 – 1:46:49] Adam: I went for a long walk this morning.
[1:46:49 – 1:46:53] Adam: It had been a couple days since I got out for a long walk.
[1:46:53 – 1:46:55] Adam: I felt amazing after it.
[1:46:55 – 1:46:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:46:56 – 1:46:57] Adam: It helps to have a dog.
[1:46:58 – 1:47:00] Erik: Yeah, you got to chase that dog.
[1:47:00 – 1:47:01] Adam: Yeah.
[1:47:02 – 1:47:06] Adam: And the baby doesn’t really do any work at all, but you put them in the pack and go.
[1:47:06 – 1:47:07] Adam: It’s great.
[1:47:07 – 1:47:09] Erik: Well, it’s sort of one of those things.
[1:47:10 – 1:47:16] Erik: The closest comparison I have to anybody who has a child is me watching a movie with somebody else who hasn’t seen it.
[1:47:17 – 1:47:18] Adam: You know what I’m saying?
[1:47:18 – 1:47:19] Adam: Yeah, I do.
[1:47:19 – 1:47:27] Erik: Like, yeah, you are living the world vicariously through another person that you get to direct their experiences.
[1:47:28 – 1:47:32] Erik: My closest experience is like, hey, this is kind of a good movie.
[1:47:32 – 1:47:33] Erik: We should watch it together.
[1:47:36 – 1:47:37] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[1:47:37 – 1:47:40] Adam: And for whatever reason, he just loves being outside.
[1:47:40 – 1:47:51] Adam: So, you know, you just do whatever you’re doing outside and literally be yelling or making a fuss inside and you get him outside and he’s just chill and looking around.
[1:47:52 – 1:47:52] Adam: It’s great.
[1:47:52 – 1:47:53] Erik: Something new to look at.
[1:47:53 – 1:47:55] Adam: Number one, yeah, there’s like two things.
[1:47:55 – 1:47:56] Adam: Like feed him.
[1:47:56 – 1:47:58] Adam: Here’s the three rules of advice.
[1:47:59 – 1:47:59] Adam: Pequod ski.
[1:48:00 – 1:48:00] Adam: What is it?
[1:48:00 – 1:48:01] Adam: Pequod.
[1:48:02 – 1:48:02] Adam: I can never say.
[1:48:03 – 1:48:04] Adam: Pequod sea pod?
[1:48:04 – 1:48:05] Adam: Here’s my three rules.
[1:48:06 – 1:48:10] Adam: Feed them or change the diaper, or if that doesn’t work, then take them outside.
[1:48:10 – 1:48:10] Adam: Wait, wait, wait.
[1:48:10 – 1:48:12] Adam: These are rules, but there’s fours?
[1:48:12 – 1:48:14] Adam: That’s the only three things you need to know.
[1:48:14 – 1:48:16] Erik: Those are rules, but those are three rules.
[1:48:16 – 1:48:17] Erik: There’s an or in there.
[1:48:19 – 1:48:21] Adam: You can do all of them or none of them.
[1:48:21 – 1:48:22] Erik: But you can do one or the other?
[1:48:22 – 1:48:23] Adam: I would do them in that order, though.
[1:48:24 – 1:48:24] Adam: Okay.
[1:48:24 – 1:48:26] Adam: Yeah, feed them, change them.
[1:48:26 – 1:48:27] Erik: Feed diaper outside.
[1:48:27 – 1:48:28] Adam: Long walk outside.
[1:48:28 – 1:48:29] Adam: There’s your bumper sticker, folks.
[1:48:29 – 1:48:30] Adam: Yeah, there you go.
[1:48:31 – 1:48:33] Adam: And if that doesn’t work, give them pizza, and they love that.
[1:48:34 – 1:48:35] Erik: Four is wheel?
[1:48:35 – 1:48:37] Adam: Yeah, but pizza’s not good for them.
[1:48:37 – 1:48:38] Adam: Or beer.
[1:48:38 – 1:48:39] Adam: No pops until two.
[1:48:39 – 1:48:43] Adam: Yeah, fifth one’s beer, and then they’re like, well, you’re not supposed to give babies a beer.
[1:48:43 – 1:48:44] Adam: Not until two.
[1:48:44 – 1:48:46] Adam: Yeah, if you get to step five, though.
[1:48:46 – 1:48:51] Erik: I take all of my infant alcohol consumption advice from the anchor bar.
[1:48:51 – 1:48:52] Erik: Yeah.
[1:48:52 – 1:48:53] Adam: They say too.
[1:48:54 – 1:48:54] Adam: See?
[1:48:55 – 1:48:59] Adam: And they know best, you know, because they’re the experts in the business area.
[1:48:59 – 1:49:02] Erik: Well, they’re a bar in Wisconsin, so they have the experience.
[1:49:02 – 1:49:02] Adam: Yeah.
[1:49:02 – 1:49:08] Adam: They service the crew of the Michaud Picotin and the Arthur Anderson.
[1:49:08 – 1:49:09] Adam: Yeah.
[1:49:09 – 1:49:11] Adam: And the Edwin Gott, all of them.
[1:49:11 – 1:49:12] Adam: Yeah.
[1:49:12 – 1:49:22] Adam: Speaking of, we’d like to happily announce that we haven’t heard anything about their application to take a ride on the Gott, but we’re still holding out hope that we’re going to win that one.
[1:49:27 – 1:49:29] Adam: Don’t hold your breath, though.
[1:49:30 – 1:49:36] Adam: I’ve learned to be realistic in life, but I still, for some reason, think that this is the one we’re going to win.
[1:49:36 – 1:49:37] Adam: This is the one?
[1:49:37 – 1:49:38] Adam: This is the lottery we’re going to win, right?
[1:49:39 – 1:49:39] Erik: We need a win.
[1:49:39 – 1:49:41] Erik: I need a win.
[1:49:42 – 1:49:44] Erik: I promise I’ll eat vegetables again, Eric.
[1:49:44 – 1:49:45] Erik: Yep.
[1:49:45 – 1:49:50] Erik: Well, we have until next year to get our minds and bodies in order.
[1:49:50 – 1:49:53] Adam: Anybody at Bent Pedal wants to make a deal.
[1:49:53 – 1:50:01] Adam: Anybody in the Great Lakes shipping industry that wants to make a deal, get us on their boat, we’ll make a deal probably.
[1:50:02 – 1:50:06] Adam: You could apply for and easily have a job on one of those boats tomorrow, I’m sure.
[1:50:07 – 1:50:08] Adam: I don’t want to do that.
[1:50:09 – 1:50:12] Adam: I mean, I want to do it for two days tops.
[1:50:14 – 1:50:15] Adam: It’s not enough of a commitment.
[1:50:16 – 1:50:17] Erik: Maybe I’ll do that.
[1:50:18 – 1:50:18] Erik: Shipping?
[1:50:18 – 1:50:20] Erik: I’ll just do a year on shipping.
[1:50:20 – 1:50:21] Erik: You’re going to be a sea trucker?
[1:50:21 – 1:50:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:50:22 – 1:50:22] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:50:23 – 1:50:25] Erik: Oh, now you can judge it?
[1:50:25 – 1:50:26] Adam: No, I am not judging it.
[1:50:26 – 1:50:28] Erik: The last month, you’ve just been like…
[1:50:28 – 1:50:30] Adam: I am romanticizing it.
[1:50:30 – 1:50:37] Adam: Yeah, the stars in your eyes have lit up this shed talking about… Can you imagine if that was actually your job, though, being away from home that long?
[1:50:37 – 1:50:38] Adam: That’s crazy.
[1:50:38 – 1:50:41] Erik: Yeah, they would be, but he’d be out of town.
[1:50:41 – 1:50:43] Adam: It is something else, you know, but boy.
[1:50:43 – 1:50:44] Erik: Inland Sea Pirate?
[1:50:44 – 1:50:45] Erik: Come on.
[1:50:45 – 1:50:46] Erik: Yeah, really, though.
[1:50:46 – 1:50:49] Erik: Get a jet ski, start taking over boats.
[1:50:53 – 1:50:53] Adam: I am Bernie now.
[1:50:55 – 1:50:55] Adam: There you go.
[1:50:57 – 1:50:57] Erik: All right.
[1:50:57 – 1:50:58] Erik: Well, we did it.
[1:50:58 – 1:50:59] Erik: We read it all.
[1:50:59 – 1:51:00] Erik: We heard it all.
[1:51:00 – 1:51:01] Erik: If anything else is out there, I am sorry.
[1:51:02 – 1:51:02] Erik: I apologize.
[1:51:03 – 1:51:07] Erik: But I don’t know where else I could look for responses to the question of the year.
[1:51:08 – 1:51:15] Erik: You take this like one of those little warming devices that you light the tiny wick in.
[1:51:16 – 1:51:16] Erik: It’s metal.
[1:51:17 – 1:51:18] Erik: It looks like a Zippo lighter.
[1:51:18 – 1:51:19] Erik: And you put it in your pocket.
[1:51:19 – 1:51:20] Erik: It’s a hand warmer.
[1:51:21 – 1:51:21] Erik: You take that.
[1:51:21 – 1:51:24] Erik: You take this episode and you take the last two.
[1:51:24 – 1:51:26] Erik: These are your little hand warmers.
[1:51:27 – 1:51:50] Erik: for the winter and any of the other previous episodes that we’ve talked about i’m specifically probably referencing in the field episodes where you can hear birds lapping water crackling fires loons those are always nice yeah we should just go through and i should go through and re-edit the entire catalog to put an asterisk next to all of those episodes nature sound when you need the sound of the
[1:51:56 – 1:51:57] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:51:57 – 1:51:58] Erik: Yeah, those are excellent.
[1:51:58 – 1:52:00] Adam: Excellent way of action.
[1:52:00 – 1:52:09] Erik: I do listen to episodes that we have recorded, but the ones that I’ve listened to the most are the in-the-field episodes, and they are great treasures.
[1:52:10 – 1:52:25] Erik: And if we have joked in the past about the Library of Congress, if there are any episodes that do deserve legitimately to be preserved, if the server ever goes down, if I ever need to just keep a few of them around, it will always be the in-the-field episodes.
[1:52:26 – 1:52:27] Erik: That’s why everybody’s here.
[1:52:28 – 1:52:29] Erik: You’re not here just because of the
[1:52:31 – 1:52:44] Erik: Well, maybe there’s some light gravitation towards the conversation, but it’s always revolved around the place, and the episodes that we are in the place are the best.
[1:52:45 – 1:52:54] Erik: And to be able to listen to you describe the place has been a great treat for us over the last three weeks or four hours of tonight.
[1:52:55 – 1:52:57] Erik: So happy that you were able to take the time.
[1:52:58 – 1:53:06] Erik: to so eloquently describe your experiences out there in a different voice.
[1:53:07 – 1:53:08] Erik: We are just two.
[1:53:09 – 1:53:14] Erik: There are other voices, and all of them deserve to be heard, and we’re so happy that we were able to hear from you.
[1:53:15 – 1:53:24] Erik: So, yeah, it’s a sad end, but a great opportunity to plan for the future.
[1:53:25 – 1:53:25] Erik: So…
[1:53:27 – 1:53:39] Erik: I don’t have anything else to say on getting to the end of another season of a podcast.
[1:53:39 – 1:53:45] Erik: I still, to this day, am kind of surprised it ever got off the ground in any way, shape, or form.
[1:53:46 – 1:53:47] Adam: It was unbelievable.
[1:53:48 – 1:53:48] Adam: I agree.
[1:53:50 – 1:53:50] Adam: We love you all.
[1:53:51 – 1:53:52] Adam: It’s really bizarre.
[1:53:52 – 1:53:53] Erik: Yeah.
[1:53:53 – 1:53:55] Adam: This whole thing is bizarre.
[1:53:55 – 1:54:04] Erik: Yeah, and even if the Bungie Waters doesn’t have a factor in this at all for you, let it be a lesson in just the tiniest.
[1:54:04 – 1:54:12] Erik: I’m not here trying to get you motivated for anything, but you really can do whatever you want.
[1:54:13 – 1:54:14] Erik: Start something.
[1:54:14 – 1:54:15] Erik: Make something.
[1:54:15 – 1:54:16] Erik: Do anything.
[1:54:16 – 1:54:18] Erik: Like, it’s…
[1:54:19 – 1:54:41] Adam: like honestly my podcast is my best like encouragement to do more stuff yeah whatever like gives you that feeling that we get when we sit down to record in the shed go with that you know pursue that it will definitely read it will lead to reward
[1:54:41 – 1:54:42] Erik: Yeah.
[1:54:42 – 1:54:49] Erik: And it’s not even, even in the form of quote unquote free beer or, you know, the gifts or whatever.
[1:54:49 – 1:54:51] Erik: And they’ve all, that has been amazing.
[1:54:52 – 1:54:54] Erik: It’s, it’s everything else.
[1:54:54 – 1:54:56] Erik: It’s not, it’s not what you physically get.
[1:54:56 – 1:55:07] Erik: It’s the, it’s the, the extra strand that we are continuing to, to draw on the spider web of our lives is,
[1:55:07 – 1:55:16] Adam: It’s the energy that you put into it going on a trip from starting with like dehydrated food at the beginning to the entry point to the first night’s camp.
[1:55:16 – 1:55:16] Adam: Yeah.
[1:55:16 – 1:55:18] Adam: Then it all comes back to you later.
[1:55:18 – 1:55:18] Adam: Yeah.
[1:55:19 – 1:55:20] Adam: Like that’s the whole point.
[1:55:20 – 1:55:22] Adam: It’s all about like what you put into your effort.
[1:55:24 – 1:55:27] Adam: You will be rewarded again.
[1:55:27 – 1:55:27] Erik: Yeah.
[1:55:27 – 1:55:28] Adam: Right?
[1:55:28 – 1:55:29] Erik: I totally agree.
[1:55:30 – 1:55:43] Erik: And I guess to end it on that, to say that, yes, it’s about the Boundary Waters, but in my experience and from what I’ve learned over doing this is just the act of doing.
[1:55:44 – 1:55:59] Erik: And I’m at a point now in my life where I am under another precipice and I can still picture, I can still, out of all of the podcasts that I have done, the ones that are the most vivid to me are the first few that we did together.
[1:56:01 – 1:56:10] Erik: sitting in a place that is very far removed from where we are now, not knowing if it was going to be anything, just having a good time doing it, but starting it.
[1:56:11 – 1:56:14] Erik: The hardest part of anything is starting it and the fear of going into it.
[1:56:15 – 1:56:17] Erik: It wasn’t life threatening or anything, but it was scary.
[1:56:17 – 1:56:18] Erik: It was like, what are we doing?
[1:56:18 – 1:56:21] Erik: We’re putting ourselves out into the world in this certain way.
[1:56:22 – 1:56:27] Erik: And yeah, regardless of how you want to measure success, I feel
[1:56:28 – 1:56:44] Erik: extremely happy with the work that we have done towards that project towards that decision to do something that we are here today to take a little bit of a break from it and maybe do something else if at the very least that
[1:56:45 – 1:57:14] Erik: empowers you to do something just to do something the easiest thing to do is nothing and this has been uh one of the greatest things that i’ve ever decided to do so that’s all i have to say all right for episode 217 of tumble home on boundary waters podcast my name has been adam joined by my best man in the tumble shed eric thank you for being here sir
[1:57:16 – 1:57:23] Adam: Until next year when the weather starts to warm, thanks for being here.
[1:57:24 – 1:57:30] Adam: And as always, enjoy paddling and enjoy whatever you’re doing.
[1:57:31 – 1:57:32] Adam: Good night.
[1:57:33 – 1:57:34] Erik: Good night, y’all.
[1:57:36 – 1:57:36] Erik: One more drink.
[1:57:36 – 1:57:37] Erik: We should have one more drink quick.
[1:57:40 – 1:57:41] Erik: Can’t just go off on that.
[1:57:41 – 1:57:44] Erik: One more cheers and a drink and it’s a light.
[1:57:48 – 1:57:49] Erik: We’ll trade glasses.
[1:57:50 – 1:57:51] Erik: How metaphoric is that?
[1:57:51 – 1:57:52] Erik: I’ll drink out of your glass.
[1:57:52 – 1:57:53] Erik: You drink out of mine.
[1:57:54 – 1:57:55] Erik: The Japanese way.
[1:57:55 – 1:57:57] Adam: Is this the Japanese way?
[1:57:57 – 1:58:01] Erik: Not necessarily the trading of glasses, but the pouring of drinks for others.
[1:58:01 – 1:58:01] Erik: Cheers.
[1:58:03 – 1:58:03] UNKNOWN: Love you.
[1:58:03 – 1:58:04] Erik: Love you too, man.
[1:58:38 – 1:58:40] Music: Then we race our.
[1:59:12 – 1:59:18] Music: With such vegetation and surprised by the rain.
[2:00:42 – 2:00:46] Music: We found a little man and his aeroplane.
[2:00:46 – 2:00:50] Music: But we never located the animal.
[2:00:50 – 2:00:54] Music: Examined the dirty ground like it never been done.
[2:00:54 – 2:00:56] Music: Modern exploring of 1991.
