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[0:00:24 – 0:00:26] UNKNOWN: It’s just the same.
[0:00:26 – 0:00:27] UNKNOWN: That’s all.
[0:00:27 – 0:00:28] UNKNOWN: That’s all.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:54] Erik: Welcome, welcome!
[0:00:55 – 0:00:57] Erik: Episode 290-something.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:58] Erik: Oh my.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:04] Erik: You sick sons of… We’re in the greatest place I think I’ve ever been in my life.
[0:01:05 – 0:01:09] Erik: This is a combination of Boreal, forest magic…
[0:01:11 – 0:01:21] Erik: Paired with my love of the ocean and sand beaches, we are out here on, goddammit, we made it, Cache Lake, baby!
[0:01:21 – 0:01:27] Bob: I got my hat off and I’m waving my hat around in a circle like I’m at an old-timey zoo circus.
[0:01:28 – 0:01:32] Erik: I was just going to say, you’re in the stands and you’re cheering on your cousin who’s riding the big bull.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:33] Erik: Hip, hip, hooray!
[0:01:33 – 0:01:34] Erik: Hip, hip, hooray!
[0:01:34 – 0:01:38] Bob: This is the steepest beach I’ve ever had the pleasure of laying on.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:39] Bob: My God.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:41] Bob: It looks like there’s gold on this here beach.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:43] Bob: You can see it in the black sand.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:44] Erik: It’s glimmering.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:45] Erik: One of many.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:55] Erik: The first of three huge-ass beaches came out around the corner after the… My God, we’ll get into it.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:56] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:01:56 – 0:02:00] Erik: Portage down from Trousers, and we just kept…
[0:02:01 – 0:02:03] Erik: The whole shoreline just kept revealing more beach.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:04] Erik: There’s more beach.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:05] Erik: Look at all that beach.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:07] Bob: There’s another beach around the corner.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:09] Erik: We’re going to do a full tour.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:16] Erik: I don’t think there’s anything here that could necessarily be deemed a campsite, but there is supposedly a campsite around the corner.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:18] Erik: We’ll go see what that looks like.
[0:02:19 – 0:02:22] Erik: Getting a mile away from that island campsite in the middle of Cache Bay.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:24] Erik: Sorry, my God, Cache Lake.
[0:02:25 – 0:02:25] Erik: Drake is not pleased.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:26] Erik: No, no, no.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:28] SPEAKER_03: Drake is not pleased right now.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:28] SPEAKER_03: He’s wagging his tail.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:44] Erik: drake is rolling over in his future grave fellow canadian yeah drake fellow torontonian oh this is uh yeah we uh we did the full saving private ryan
[0:02:45 – 0:02:49] Bob: I’ve just been asking anybody we run into on this trip, what’s your favorite Drake track?
[0:02:49 – 0:02:50] Bob: What’s yours?
[0:02:51 – 0:02:52] Bob: Dynamite.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:52] Bob: Okay.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:54] Bob: I don’t think that’s a real track.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:54] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:56] Bob: I don’t know any Drake tracks.
[0:02:56 – 0:02:57] Bob: DNA?
[0:02:57 – 0:02:58] Bob: It’s my real answer.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:59] Erik: DNA is my answer.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:01] Bob: That’s a Kendrick Lamar track, I’m pretty sure.
[0:03:01 – 0:03:01] Erik: Come on.
[0:03:01 – 0:03:02] Erik: No.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:03] Erik: That’s the joke.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:06] Bob: Kung Fu Kenny in the house over here, yeah.
[0:03:07 – 0:03:10] Bob: What happens on Earth stays on Earth, Eric.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:11] Bob: Kung Fu Kenny.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:13] Erik: Honestly, don’t think I could name.
[0:03:13 – 0:03:14] Erik: What’s the one, though?
[0:03:14 – 0:03:15] Erik: The meme song.
[0:03:15 – 0:03:16] Erik: The Drake meme song.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:17] Erik: Like, that’s the one we should know.
[0:03:19 – 0:03:20] Erik: We don’t know it, though.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:21] Erik: We don’t listen to Drake.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:21] Erik: Sorry.
[0:03:22 – 0:03:23] Erik: Sorry, Drake.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:25] Erik: Even though we are in your… Don’t email us.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:26] Bob: Yeah.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:28] Bob: TumbleHumCast at gmail.com.
[0:03:28 – 0:03:30] Bob: Drake, if you’re listening, don’t email us.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:30] Bob: Don’t email us.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:31] Bob: Please.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:32] Bob: Stop it.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:36] Erik: Uh, yeah, this is, we fully, we did the full.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Bob: We’re too old for you.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:40] Erik: Full saving private Ryan and we have earned this.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:43] Erik: Very earned.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:45] Erik: It would be a wild.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:48] Bob: I felt like Tom Sizemore going through there.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:58] Erik: Is he the guy that leans up against the wall and the whole wall collapses in and they find another battery of Germans just right there and they have a huge shootout?
[0:03:59 – 0:04:01] Erik: I think Tom Sizemore is the guy that leans against the wall, isn’t it?
[0:04:01 – 0:04:03] Bob: He has the toughest goddamn nails.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:04] Erik: Yeah, he is.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:05] Erik: He dies, though.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:06] Erik: Oh, spoiler.
[0:04:08 – 0:04:09] Bob: I’m in the first season of Band of Brothers.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:11] Bob: What are you doing right now?
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Erik: I was talking about Saving Private Ryan.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:15] Erik: They’re basically the same movie.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:16] Erik: Same universe.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:18] Bob: Same beach, honestly.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:19] Bob: Yeah, same beach.
[0:04:19 – 0:04:26] Bob: Thank God we live in a universe where the world is only mildly a hellscape and we just get to vacation at this nice beach in Canada.
[0:04:26 – 0:04:26] Erik: Yep.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:29] Erik: Aren’t we lucky, fellows?
[0:04:29 – 0:04:49] Erik: If this bay on Cache Lake wasn’t surrounded by miles of seemingly infinite boreal forest wilderness and 700 rod portages on either side, there would be, like, a Disney resort here.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:51] Erik: Like, this is deserving of, like…
[0:04:51 – 0:04:52] Erik: It’s magical.
[0:04:52 – 0:05:00] Erik: The Northwoods level of like beach resort, beach volleyball, pontoon boats, jet boats, jet skis.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:02] Erik: Lounge shares.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:05] Bob: 96-ounce stakes.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:06] Erik: 96-ounce stakes.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:11] Erik: Yeah, this is literally the community that The Great Outdoors is based on.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:13] Erik: There’s nothing here, though.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:17] Erik: We are in Faction Day Wilderness, and we get it all to our goddamn selves.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:20] Bob: Literally every lake is just to yourself up here in Quetico.
[0:05:21 – 0:05:23] Bob: And this one’s really all to ourselves.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:24] Bob: The Portage Crew appears to have cleared out.
[0:05:24 – 0:05:25] Bob: We haven’t seen them.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:29] Bob: But they earned a commendation for being Saw Team 6.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:31] Bob: Saw Team 6.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:35] Bob: Saw Team 6 nailed a couple big ones out of the way for us today, so big shout out to them.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:47] Bob: If you guys are out there listening, we really appreciate your hard work, and especially the guy with the chainsaw who signed his initials and or wrote CA for Canada in the end cut of a log.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:48] Bob: That was nice.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:50] Bob: Pretty cool to see.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:55] Bob: But yeah, we had, I don’t know, probably six or seven big trees that were cut right out of our way.
[0:05:55 – 0:05:56] Bob: It looked like this week.
[0:05:57 – 0:06:02] Erik: Yeah, smooth sailing in terms of log heights and or stepping.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:03] Erik: But…
[0:06:06 – 0:06:31] Erik: my god yeah i’m standing i am uh i’m ankle deep in the first four feet of this beach is like perfect water temperature perfect sand and perfect sand anything more than that though she gets icy she gets real icy which this lake is cold it’s very cold um the first thing i did when we got in uh finished the portage finally and got in the boat i just stuck my hands in the lake
[0:06:31 – 0:06:34] Erik: I stuck my feet in the lake, and I think the water bubbled around them.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:37] Bob: Yeah, everything was boiling when we came off that portage.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:38] Bob: I was so hot and thirsty.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:45] Bob: I felt like a cattle and lonesome dove trying to smell the next river 100 miles away in the mountains.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:48] Bob: Honestly, I was like blind and thirsty.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:51] Bob: I’ve never been so thirsty and dehydrated in my life, I don’t think.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:56] Erik: We had pretty good thoughts and plans for our water rations on that portage.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:58] Bob: The logistics were way off.
[0:06:58 – 0:07:00] Bob: We need to bring double that amount of water on the next run.
[0:07:00 – 0:07:08] Erik: greatly underestimated the amount of water necessary for the conditions and, my God, the length of that portage.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:17] Erik: We last, I don’t know, wherever you’re at out there in the world listening, if you’ve listened to our snack track on the shores of the majestic Cache River.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:20] Bob: That was like four days ago that we were on snack track.
[0:07:20 – 0:07:22] Bob: It was only four hours ago.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:23] Erik: We were gabagooling.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:26] Erik: We were eating basil and tomatoes.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:29] Bob: We were pouring balsamic reduction all over each other.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:31] Erik: Yeah, we were sticking each other up.
[0:07:32 – 0:07:33] Erik: Oh, man.
[0:07:33 – 0:07:35] Erik: And I don’t know.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:46] Erik: I wouldn’t say things fell apart necessarily, but we had the bulk of that portage still very much ahead of us.
[0:07:46 – 0:07:47] Bob: Yeah, we figured it out.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:51] Bob: The second half of the portage is about 1.5 miles.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:57] Bob: I’m not going to convert that to kilometers on the fly, but we’ll have Trevin do it and splice that in probably.
[0:07:58 – 0:07:58] Erik: 2.5K.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:01] Erik: K. 5K is three miles.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:03] Bob: The first one…
[0:08:04 – 0:08:21] Bob: was maybe less than a mile like slightly we guessed like 250 rods yeah so if you’re gonna say it in rods i’d say it was yeah 250 and like 550 on the second half that’s second half it’s like i don’t know multiple times on that second half where i was like this has to be 500 rods
[0:08:22 – 0:08:25] Bob: And then it was still another 100 after that even.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:29] Bob: And you’re like, I don’t think I have the ability to count right right now.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:29] Bob: Yeah.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:38] Bob: I’m so like thirst blind and like staggering through this that I don’t think I can be reliably like used as a source of distance management.
[0:08:39 – 0:09:01] Erik: or or recollection like uh everything honestly i thought about anything on that portage i’m second guessing at this point because i was like delirious i think well you know we got back we get all the way to the end we got out to cash we had to go back to the river two more packs because we’re double portaging and we’re like do you got any water i don’t got any water i think there’s some water back at the river yeah
[0:09:02 – 0:09:04] Erik: We get all the way back to the river.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:06] Erik: It was a nice walk without any gear on, you know.
[0:09:07 – 0:09:07] Erik: It was.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:09] Erik: That’s why we like to double portage.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:10] Erik: Time.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:12] Erik: Eurasian nightjar out there.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:13] Erik: Eurasian nightjar.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:14] Erik: Spoiler.
[0:09:16 – 0:09:17] Bob: Another one.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:18] Bob: Cryptic.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Bob: Plumage.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:20] Erik: Plumage.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:22] Erik: But we get back to the two packs that are back there.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:24] Erik: I’m like, I’m pretty sure I got some water.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:27] Erik: Pull out the water and it’s just like a sip for each of us.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:29] Erik: Literally to like wet the lips.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:30] Bob: We each got to wet the whistle.
[0:09:30 – 0:09:36] Erik: It was one of those things where there’s like, it’s the last two dropped in the latrine and like you just rub it on your lips and like…
[0:09:37 – 0:09:39] Erik: Nothing went into us.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:40] Erik: And we’re like, well, we’re going back.
[0:09:41 – 0:09:42] Bob: It just evaporated right off my lips.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:47] Erik: It sizzled off our lips in the beating sun.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:57] Erik: And by the time I got to the final end of the quadruple portage, which is essentially what it was, it felt like my throat was seizing up.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:58] Erik: It was so dry.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:03] Erik: It felt like my brain was shriveling and my hands were engorging to cook.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:06] Erik: They plump when you cook them Johnsonville.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:11] Bob: were twice as big as normal by the time we got here and I did soak them and now they look fine again.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:15] Bob: I also drank a whole Nalgene of nice ice cold water.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:19] Erik: I know it’s ballpark Franks, not Johnsonville’s that plump when you cook them.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:22] Erik: You don’t have to text me, Drake.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:24] Erik: I know how my ballparks work.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:25] Erik: But we got out on it.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:27] Erik: We got all the way down here.
[0:10:27 – 0:10:30] Erik: We were just like, I looked for the filter for like a quick second.
[0:10:30 – 0:10:31] Erik: Couldn’t find it quickly.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:34] Erik: I was like, we got to get out into the lake and scoop because I am dying.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:36] Bob: I think I might die if I don’t drink some water right now.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:40] Bob: And we just like, yeah, we hurried into the canoe and got out in the lake, out to deep water.
[0:10:40 – 0:10:43] Bob: And it was with a north wind all day.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:45] Bob: We’re being on the north side of Cache.
[0:10:45 – 0:10:48] Bob: Like there was no debris or any globules or anything.
[0:10:48 – 0:10:50] Bob: It was real good, clean scooping.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:50] Bob: Water’s ice cold.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:51] Bob: Yeah.
[0:10:51 – 0:10:51] Erik: Pure and cold.
[0:10:51 – 0:10:52] Erik: Oh, God.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:53] Erik: That was like…
[0:10:53 – 0:10:53] Erik: I think when I…
[0:10:54 – 0:10:58] Erik: The first chug I took, I said, this might be the best water I’ve ever tasted in my life.
[0:10:58 – 0:10:58] Bob: I agree.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:00] Bob: I fully agree.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:01] Bob: I was so…
[0:11:01 – 0:11:02] Bob: I’ve never been that thirsty in my life.
[0:11:03 – 0:11:04] Erik: The coldness factor.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:05] Erik: Usually, I’m not like…
[0:11:06 – 0:11:07] Erik: Really, one way or another.
[0:11:07 – 0:11:08] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:10] Erik: But, like, it was the perfect temperature.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:12] Erik: It wasn’t too cold that you couldn’t drink it fast.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:18] Erik: But it wasn’t, like, that mid-summer, like, tepid, like, yeah, it’s water, but it’s, like, I can taste the tannins too much.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:22] Erik: It was pure as the goddamn driven snow.
[0:11:22 – 0:11:25] Erik: But we were, like, I don’t know, a quarter of a mile from the portage.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:28] Erik: We got a bunch of water in us, and, like, our, like…
[0:11:29 – 0:11:52] Bob: or your cpu like re-engaged or something yeah our dendrites started firing again and we’re like where’s that wine kind of like looking around yeah you beat me back on the second one i was a staggering and i just walked straight into the lake and like you like took the pack off me and threw it in the canoe and i just stood there like a dumb horse and then we got in the canoe and paddled away but yeah the bag of wine was not in the canoe and we were both like
[0:11:52 – 0:12:17] Erik: i don’t know i can’t see it but also like i also can’t twist around properly to even really look yeah it might be in here it might not be in here we felt how cold the water was by the big dip and fill of water bottles there was no time to be writhing and looking for wine bags in the canoe and we turned back i’m like ah i just don’t see it that thing’s usually just out and about sure enough just sitting there on the shore would have been a real disaster if we would have gotten to this amazing beach site without a
[0:12:18 – 0:12:20] Erik: cool satchel of wine at our disposal.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:23] Bob: So we took it out of the satchel and threw it right in the lake.
[0:12:24 – 0:12:24] Bob: And so you may have heard it.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:27] Erik: You’ve probably heard it multiple times getting pitched into the lake.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:29] Erik: Here, I’ll pass it to you, actually.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:31] Bob: Good, good, good.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:36] Bob: So we did take some measurements and had the Strava going.
[0:12:39 – 0:12:40] UNKNOWN: She’s back in.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:42] Bob: That was perfect.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:45] Bob: The wind is basically dying on us right now as we sit here.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:54] Bob: The sun is about 18 fingers high in the sky, and I don’t know what time it is in the afternoon, but we were on that portage for damn near four hours.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:59] Bob: We did get it in under four hours, double doubling it the whole way.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:04] Bob: And I looked, I think we said 6.7 miles or something total.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:08] Bob: But that includes, of course, like walking to the river and back and then to the river again.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:12] Bob: and then all the way from the river to here, and then back to the river, and then back here again.
[0:13:12 – 0:13:18] Bob: So really a lot of extra walking, and 6.6, though.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:20] Erik: Yeah, we were talking about that.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:22] Bob: When was the last time you walked seven miles?
[0:13:24 – 0:13:24] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:30] Erik: I get close to it occasionally, maybe once a week in the summer by doing the big loop at pincushion, but that’s not very often.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:34] Erik: And that’s just loose, you know, walking fancy free with nothing on.
[0:13:34 – 0:13:45] Bob: Yeah, I think the last time I walked that many steps in a day was probably when we were in Toronto trying to go find that poutine cart up in North Kensington.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:46] Erik: You could probably just pull up the steps too.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Erik: It would be interesting to see.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:49] Bob: I do have my step counter on.
[0:13:49 – 0:13:50] Bob: I haven’t looked at it yet, but yeah.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:51] Bob: 15K?
[0:13:52 – 0:13:54] Bob: Yeah, I mean, a good day would be 10.
[0:13:54 – 0:13:56] Bob: We might be at 20,000 steps right now.
[0:13:56 – 0:13:57] Erik: Yeah, I mean.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] Bob: We’re doing horse-like lip noises.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:02] Erik: Oh, boy.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:05] Erik: That’s about all you can do after a portage like that.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:07] Bob: What kind of warbler is that?
[0:14:07 – 0:14:08] Erik: It’s the lipped warbler.
[0:14:09 – 0:14:10] Bob: It’s a horse-lipped warbler.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:17] Bob: It looks a lot like a Nashville warbler, but it’s got huge lips and a little tiny cowboy hat.
[0:14:17 – 0:14:18] Erik: Does it?
[0:14:20 – 0:14:20] Bob: Whoa.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:22] Bob: Perfect looking teeth.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:24] Bob: Everybody knows a bluebird is bad luck, Eric.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:26] Erik: Do horses ever need braces?
[0:14:26 – 0:14:28] Erik: Their teeth always just look so perfect.
[0:14:28 – 0:14:29] Erik: Don’t they?
[0:14:29 – 0:14:33] Erik: Just square, just perfect square, like little chiclets.
[0:14:33 – 0:14:36] Bob: That’s what happens if you eat nothing but apples and sugar cubes.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:36] Erik: I guess.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:38] Erik: They’re just perfect little teeth.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:38] Bob: There it goes.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:39] Bob: It’s floating back out.
[0:14:39 – 0:14:44] Bob: We got a weird phenomenon here standing on this beach that it’s a light wind coming in.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:45] Bob: There we go.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:46] Bob: Another little breeze coming in.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:51] Bob: But, like, if you throw the wine bag too far, it gets this, like, undercurrent.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:54] Bob: This is what Greg McVicker is always talking about.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:59] Bob: This is where the title for Undercurrents comes from.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:04] Bob: Yeah, it’s where Greg McVicker is probably out here on cash and experienced the same thing.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:06] Bob: It’s like an anti-sage.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:10] Bob: Anti-sage.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:11] Bob: Yeah.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:14] Bob: Eric doesn’t have any pants on.
[0:15:14 – 0:15:16] Bob: This entire track has to be pixelated.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:19] Bob: Eric doesn’t have any pants on.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:21] Erik: No flash photography, please.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:23] Bob: Yeah, we’ve outlawed flash photography.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:34] Bob: But don’t worry, we can still make audio tracks that will hopefully knock your socks off so you can join us here on the beach at this beautiful lake.
[0:15:35 – 0:15:39] Erik: Or at the very least, just, I don’t know, there’s a lot of time.
[0:15:39 – 0:15:42] Erik: You get four hours of walking through the woods, you get a lot of time to think.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:44] Bob: Eric’s been nourished by time.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:46] Erik: I’ve been nourished by time.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:47] Erik: I’ve been nourished by…
[0:15:48 – 0:15:53] Erik: There is something about the aspect of that level of…
[0:15:54 – 0:15:59] Erik: There’s a weird zen state you get into when you’re on those portages.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:06] Erik: I can either just be angry and feel every pain I’m feeling, or I can go somewhere else.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:08] Erik: Go to your happy place.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:09] Bob: Push deeper.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:12] Erik: And or concoct crazy things in your mind.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:24] Erik: Or just generally be, like, there’s no, I don’t think there’s anywhere in the world that I’m not more in the moment than when I’m portaging, whether for good or bad.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:26] Bob: That was by far the longest portage I’ve ever done.
[0:16:26 – 0:16:27] Bob: Yeah.
[0:16:27 – 0:16:28] Bob: Other than the Grand Portage.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:29] Bob: Right, right.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:35] Bob: I’m very happy to be done with it, and I enjoyed most of it.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:35] Bob: Yeah.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:37] Bob: We were literally in there for four hours, though.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:39] Erik: I wasn’t opposed to most of it.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:41] Erik: It wasn’t like we weren’t getting slaughtered by bugs.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:42] Bob: Yeah, the bugs were nice.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:44] Bob: There wasn’t too much mud.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:45] Erik: It wasn’t too muddy.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:46] Erik: There was a couple of climbs.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:48] Erik: It’s just the distance, though.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:51] Bob: Both of us came out of it, I feel like we came out of it pretty unscathed.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:53] Bob: Nothing really went wrong.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:59] Bob: Maybe one of my left calf was maybe a little tight, and we got here on this beach, and I just walked out there in the cool water.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:01] Bob: Feels great.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:02] Bob: Yeah.
[0:17:02 – 0:17:03] Bob: Everything’s looking good.
[0:17:03 – 0:17:04] Erik: Right.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:17] Erik: One of the… What I was starting with to say in what, obviously, close to 300 episodes of this podcast in at this point is if you haven’t taken it from us or taken the advice, like, just…
[0:17:18 – 0:17:18] Erik: Start.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:19] Erik: Like, go out and do it.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:22] Erik: Like, whether it’s a small trip or a big trip.
[0:17:22 – 0:17:30] Erik: We’ve been talking about how, like, grateful we are for being able to kind of on a whim just, like, put together a trip like this.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:36] Erik: And you don’t get to that point unless you put in the work of feeling comfortable putting together a trip like this.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:41] Bob: You’re not going to do a trip like this unless you’ve already done a bunch of other trips that were also pretty hard.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:44] Bob: To, like, feel confident that, oh, a 2,300-meter portage.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:45] Bob: A 3,200-meter portage.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:45] Bob: Yeah.
[0:17:48 – 0:17:49] Bob: Yeah, we can do it.
[0:17:49 – 0:18:03] Erik: Yeah, and I think there’s just something about, I don’t know, I’m not trying to pump our egos at all, but I think there’s just a perspective I’ve got more on this than I think I’ve ever had.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:04] Erik: And it goes with anything.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:12] Erik: Anything that you want to get into isn’t going to, I don’t think, pay its dividends back to you until you earn the comfort.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:14] Erik: And that’s where we’re at.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:19] Erik: We’ve earned the comfort to be able to put together a crazy Quetico trip, even though three days.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:20] Erik: It’s just three days.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:23] Bob: We’re covering a good amount of distance for this time.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:34] Erik: But we’ve earned it by putting in the work up to this point to feel comfortable in being able to pack the way we do, shop for food the way we do, and not feel nervous about it.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:38] Erik: And that doesn’t come on your second or third trip.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:39] Bob: You’ve got to start somewhere.
[0:18:39 – 0:18:46] Erik: Yeah, the thesis of the whole statement is you’ve got to start somewhere, and why not start as soon as possible?
[0:18:46 – 0:18:50] Bob: Find somebody in life that you can trust and start paddling.
[0:18:50 – 0:18:54] Erik: Yeah, and then the whole place just opens up to you.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:55] Erik: The maps stop looking scary.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:59] Erik: I was talking to Adam about my first ever Quetico trip and how I had, like,
[0:19:00 – 0:19:03] Erik: I had like 60 McKenzie maps and a compass like zip tied to my neck.
[0:19:04 – 0:19:08] Erik: And I was just like, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to handle like doing the routing.
[0:19:08 – 0:19:09] Erik: Like, am I going to be able to maneuver?
[0:19:09 – 0:19:13] Erik: I was like, you know, angling off and taking like bearings.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:13] Bob: Right.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:15] Bob: I mean, you could have easily navigated.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:17] Bob: You had Fisher, which is a nice F30.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:17] Bob: Yeah.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:21] Bob: But like you easily could have navigated us here with just the Chris Marks.
[0:19:21 – 0:19:22] Erik: Yeah, oh, easily.
[0:19:22 – 0:19:30] Bob: And I think it’s just… Because your, like, comfort level with the idea of the scope of the park is pretty soundly firm.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:31] Erik: Yeah, I think so.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:34] Erik: And that comes with the territory for, like, any hobby.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:39] Erik: Like, I always look at people who are, like, really into other hobbies that look like a lot of fun.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:42] Erik: And it’s always… Dragonfly.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:44] Erik: Dragonflies are out.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:45] Erik: Good boy.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:47] Erik: Hey, he just landed on you almost.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:48] Erik: Good boy.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:49] Erik: But, like…
[0:19:50 – 0:19:51] Erik: And this might be obvious.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:53] Erik: There’s a pack of them.
[0:19:53 – 0:19:54] Erik: They’re swarming now.
[0:19:55 – 0:20:03] Erik: But the idea of just being comfortable in a hobby, that’s the goal, I think.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:09] Erik: Just to be able to feel like it’s not a thing that you need to stress about.
[0:20:09 – 0:20:11] Erik: And it comes with all territories of things.
[0:20:11 – 0:20:16] Erik: And like I was saying, you look at people who are like, oh, those guys are really into like…
[0:20:17 – 0:20:35] Erik: uh like wind foiling like when i’m down in mexico and i’m like oh man those guys just look like they’re having so much fun but how do you even get into that like i’m sure the first like uncle’s cousin is doing it and you can go yeah the first like years probably are gonna be like kind of stressful am i gonna get blown out into the ocean
[0:20:36 – 0:20:43] Erik: Like, I don’t know, like, but the… You’re going to be dragged into 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea scenario.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:46] Erik: You’re going to end up making a banjo out of a sea turtle.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:49] Erik: I don’t know, but like… Pillaging kelp.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:51] Erik: Like, I’ve never had the… No one didn’t.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:51] Bob: He landed.
[0:20:52 – 0:21:01] Erik: something about this last portage gave me the perspective and just like this whole trip has given me the perspective of like how grateful I am that we have the comfort level to come out here.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:07] Erik: And I actually do like, that’s one thing when I look at people that are doing things like that, I’m like, I want to be like those people.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:09] Erik: Like I don’t have like that thing.
[0:21:09 – 0:21:10] Erik: And like, I do have that thing.
[0:21:10 – 0:21:12] Erik: And this is the thing that I have.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:17] Erik: And my advice to you is if this wants to be your thing, like just keep doing it.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:19] Erik: And the, uh,
[0:21:20 – 0:21:22] Erik: The comfort is the best part about it.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:27] Erik: And I might have future hobbies and or things that I get into.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:36] Erik: And I’d like to be able to take that mindset towards those avenues if and when they come up and know that right away, it’s not going to be easy.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:39] Erik: You’re not just going to like pick it up and be like really good at it or comfortable with it.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:44] Erik: But the idea of earning the comfort is like, that’s where I’m at on this trip.
[0:21:45 – 0:22:09] Bob: i agree wholeheartedly and i would also add on that back in the day i would have been more concerned with our moving average speed and like if i had the ability to strava our portages back in the day probably like way more concerned with like how fast we’re going like there’s a spider you’ve been spider rich on this trip oh my god this is really nice little spider hey friend we’re gonna
[0:22:10 – 0:22:12] Bob: The back of my neck?
[0:22:12 – 0:22:12] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:14] Bob: Yeah.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:14] Bob: Flew down.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:15] Erik: How long has he been on you?
[0:22:16 – 0:22:24] Bob: But, like, back in the day, I would have been so much more concerned about, like, oh, we’re going to probably set a record for how fast we go through this portage.
[0:22:24 – 0:22:24] Erik: Sure.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:31] Bob: And we probably were still, like, pretty fast, even though it felt like we were in there all day, which we were.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:31] SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:37] Bob: But what I care about more nowadays, and which I think we’re communicating this properly…
[0:22:38 – 0:22:40] Bob: I think we did that portage.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:44] Bob: We were in there for four hours, six and a half miles or whatever.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:47] Bob: But I would say I had fun with it.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:49] Erik: Yeah, there was never a point.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:56] Erik: I’ve been on multiple portages where I get frustrated and I start yelling at stuff and I get mad in my head.
[0:22:57 – 0:22:58] Erik: I never got to that point.
[0:22:58 – 0:23:01] Bob: Not even once today was I ever even close to that kind of mindset.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:03] Bob: The whole time I was in there, I was just like…
[0:23:04 – 0:23:14] Bob: I knew what we were getting into because of what you just said earlier about like this experience of knowing what it looks like on a map and what that’s going to like feel and mean to you as a camper.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:22] Bob: And honestly, I was like super happy with how we approached it, um, by not trying to do it too hard and fast and just enjoy it.
[0:23:23 – 0:23:26] Bob: And I never once felt stressed about it.
[0:23:26 – 0:23:33] Bob: I, at the end, at the very end, I was very thirsty and like, how is it possible that I’m not to the lake yet?
[0:23:33 – 0:23:38] Erik: I think if we would have been a little bit more hydrated, it would have gone 100% smoothly.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:40] Erik: That was the only thing.
[0:23:40 – 0:23:45] Bob: Yeah, that’s the only thing we’re going to change going back out because we’re just turning back and going back tomorrow on the same route probably.
[0:23:46 – 0:23:49] Bob: Not probably, yes, but we’ll bring more water.
[0:23:50 – 0:23:53] Bob: It’s probably going to be a little hotter tomorrow, but honestly…
[0:23:55 – 0:23:58] Bob: Overall, the conditions were pretty much sublime and ideal.
[0:23:58 – 0:24:01] Bob: For a footage of that length, yeah, totally.
[0:24:01 – 0:24:02] Bob: I was super hurting.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:06] Bob: I was definitely hurting, and I was dying a little by the time we got done with it.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:09] Bob: But now they’re sitting on this beach.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:14] Erik: It’d be a different story if you did that length of a portage and you just got out to, like, a trash lake.
[0:24:14 – 0:24:16] Erik: But this is just absolute, like, perfection.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:19] Erik: This is, like, I don’t know.
[0:24:19 – 0:24:22] Erik: I’m not the kind of person who wants this to happen.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:26] Erik: Like, literally, you could, like, fucking bury me in the backyard and hopefully a tree grows out of me.
[0:24:27 – 0:24:29] Erik: But, like, if there was ever a place where it’s, like, I don’t know.
[0:24:29 – 0:24:31] Erik: This is top five, like, scatter my ashes.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:39] Bob: Scatter my ashes here as well, sir, because this is, as I had read a little, I try not to look into it too hard.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:41] Bob: Maybe we don’t even make it to Cache Lake.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:42] Bob: I don’t want to get my hopes up too much.
[0:24:43 – 0:24:48] Bob: Conditions turn on us, or we determine that it’s not worth the effort, but we are here.
[0:24:49 – 0:24:59] Bob: It’s amazing, and it is living up to all of the expectations that I had read about, which was that this is one of the most remote lakes in all of Quetico.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:06] Bob: Due to both portages coming into it being extremely long and nasty.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:12] Erik: Or an entire day, if not more, is worth paddle, if you wanted to come from that direction, up the Cache River.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:13] Bob: No way.
[0:25:13 – 0:25:16] Bob: And honestly, someday we will do the Cache River together.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:18] Bob: This is not going to be the year it’s going to happen.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:23] Bob: But yeah, we have enjoyed figuring out the logistics of this first part.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:23] SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:30] Bob: And so we will be prepared whenever the chance arises to finally run it.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:34] Bob: I think we were talking about it and it was like essentially get here.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:41] Bob: I’m pretty tired and I highly doubt even if I sleep great tonight that my batteries will go back to 100%.
[0:25:43 – 0:25:51] Bob: So we were talking like maybe you get here and you just like shut it down for two days and then get up real early and run the Cache River all in one day to Con Impey.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:55] Erik: Yeah, just doing like a base camp five to the peak.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:57] Bob: You get up like an hour before sunrise.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:58] Bob: You just move.
[0:25:58 – 0:25:59] Erik: Because, like, I don’t know.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:03] Erik: I didn’t get the sense that there’s, I don’t know, there’s no dots on the fissure.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:15] Bob: You’ve got to do the side portage into Ferguson, which is honestly, like, on the threads I was reading about most difficult portages, more people are complaining about that little side portage into Ferguson off the Cache River than either of these.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:17] Bob: And honestly, that one wasn’t that bad.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:19] Bob: It was just very long.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:29] Erik: Yeah, it wasn’t really too wet or anything, but I think we would have to get up at like… You’d have to be on the water as the sun was coming up to, I think, do that whole river in a day.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:32] Erik: You could probably go a little bit later than that, but I don’t know.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:34] Erik: That would be the way to do it, I think.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:37] Erik: And I think we came to the conclusion that…
[0:26:37 – 0:26:44] Erik: Coming down to Cache Lake to do the Cache River, out to Connippy and back up, however you wanted to go, back up to Pickerel.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:50] Erik: If that was a loop that you were looking at comfortably, and there’s probably another day in there where maybe wind kicks up.
[0:26:50 – 0:26:52] Bob: You got to think about the wind.
[0:26:52 – 0:26:58] Erik: On top of another added in layover day, which this seems like a good place to have a layover day.
[0:26:58 – 0:26:59] Erik: 10 days, I think.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:02] Erik: I don’t think you can comfortably do it much less than that.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:06] Bob: No, we were easily, like, saying it was maybe a week-long trip.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:11] Bob: Even when we started to think about this, like, opening, I was like, maybe we can do the whole Cache River somehow.
[0:27:11 – 0:27:12] Bob: I was like, no.
[0:27:12 – 0:27:12] Bob: Yeah.
[0:27:13 – 0:27:17] Bob: Oh, Quetico, no way.
[0:27:17 – 0:27:18] Bob: What are you thinking?
[0:27:18 – 0:27:18] Bob: No.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:21] Bob: But then it was like, well, maybe a week, you know.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:25] Bob: But that would be like zero layover days and really cooking the whole way.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:25] Bob: Yeah.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:36] Erik: Like if you wanted to get a really early start, I guess maybe if you’re a resident of Thunder Bay, you could get out and be on the water at sunrise and get down here in a day.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:46] Erik: But like that first stretch, I don’t know, like any time of year that you would want to come out and do the Cache River would probably be early in the season because of water levels.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:27:47 – 0:28:13] Erik: too much sun and like so it’s most likely gonna be one of your first like your portage legs are still getting under you and that first couple hours of yesterday i don’t know i i was ready to be done when we were done like to consider getting to the north end of baptism after that run and then being like we’re we still have to push to cash and then in late afternoon you’re going to be on a portage trail for four hours is just insane you
[0:28:13 – 0:28:20] Bob: Usually I don’t even get close to hitting, like, peak, like, portage leg and mulling ability until, like, day three at a minimum, usually day four.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:24] Bob: And I don’t get to, like, do many four- to five-day trips anymore.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:28] Bob: So, like, you’re wasting all that, like, great ability that you get at the end.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:31] Bob: You’re, like, superpower turbo ups that you get at the end of a trip.
[0:28:31 – 0:28:34] Bob: Like, I’m too old for that now.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:37] Bob: I basically hit it right as we’re getting back to the landing usually.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:38] Bob: Now I’m feeling really good, Eric.
[0:28:39 – 0:28:40] Bob: Well, it’s time to drive.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:41] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:42] Erik: It’s in our future.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:44] Erik: Who knows?
[0:28:44 – 0:28:45] Erik: Maybe it’ll happen next year.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:45] Erik: Maybe it won’t.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:46] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:50] Erik: But we’ve got a pretty good idea on the timing for it.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:52] Bob: I would say 10 days easy.
[0:28:52 – 0:29:00] Erik: 10 days easy, and that does allow for a chill day because this lake just beckons a chill day.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:02] Erik: Who even knows what’s in these waters?
[0:29:02 – 0:29:04] Bob: There’s supposedly a lake trout in here?
[0:29:05 – 0:29:12] Bob: Apparently, according to Paddle Planner, when you click on this lake, it does say that there’s lake trout, northern pike, and whitefish.
[0:29:12 – 0:29:20] Erik: But even just with these beaches, the islands, and just knowing what you’ve got ahead of you, you need to acclimatize.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:22] Erik: It is like a climbing a mountain situation.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:23] Erik: It’s just like…
[0:29:24 – 0:29:29] Erik: Get in here and then immediately be ready to get up at sunrise tomorrow and do the Cache River.
[0:29:29 – 0:29:32] Erik: I mean, maybe when I was 25, but I don’t think anymore.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:34] Bob: I ain’t 25 no more.
[0:29:34 – 0:29:34] Bob: No.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:38] Bob: Johnny don’t want to go to school no more, no more.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:42] Bob: We’re living it up here, obviously.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:44] Bob: And life is good.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:53] Bob: And I feel a lot better than I did an hour ago, that’s for sure.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:56] Bob: Like, probably an hour ago was one of the weakest I’ve ever felt.
[0:29:57 – 0:30:00] Bob: Honestly, that portage, I’m being real with y’all listeners.
[0:30:00 – 0:30:01] Bob: Y’all?
[0:30:01 – 0:30:02] Bob: Yins?
[0:30:02 – 0:30:03] Bob: Yins and y’all.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:08] Bob: I felt like I was, like, a blind cattle, like, starved for water at the end of that march.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:10] Bob: I was going through the, I was just trying to not fall.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:11] Bob: Straight up.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:13] Bob: Just trying to, like, stay on my feet to get to the end.
[0:30:14 – 0:30:21] Erik: Not one of those portages that, looking at the map, there it is, the horse-lipped warbler is back again.
[0:30:23 – 0:30:25] Erik: Looking at that thing on the map, you’re like, I don’t know, how bad can it really be?
[0:30:26 – 0:30:29] Erik: It’s not that bad, but it’s also two and a half miles long.
[0:30:30 – 0:30:34] Bob: There’s a climb in the last section, and we’re hitting it the first time through.
[0:30:34 – 0:30:36] Bob: I was like, this has to be 500 rods.
[0:30:36 – 0:30:41] Bob: I come around the corner, and there’s this huge, crazy rock you just go over the top of and then back down the other side.
[0:30:41 – 0:30:47] Erik: There’s one rocky technical aspect, of course, right within striking distance of when you think you’re done.
[0:30:47 – 0:30:49] Bob: Yeah, and then it’s another 100 rods.
[0:30:49 – 0:30:50] Erik: You drop back into the woods.
[0:30:50 – 0:30:51] Erik: There’s more mud.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:53] Erik: You said that, and you’re like, no.
[0:30:53 – 0:30:55] Erik: But then I was on the way back the last time.
[0:30:56 – 0:30:59] Erik: I was like, damn, this is at least 100 rods, if not 120.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:02] Bob: Going the first route through, I was like, oh, yeah, we’re almost there then.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:05] Bob: And, no, it’s still a long ways even from there.
[0:31:05 – 0:31:12] Erik: It’s not even one of those things where you get, like, the mild, like, Tuscarora tease where you’re at the top of the hill and you can see, like, shimmering light.
[0:31:12 – 0:31:13] Erik: It’s not there until the very end.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:14] Erik: There it is.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:15] Erik: There it is.
[0:31:15 – 0:31:18] Erik: And then you’re there, and here we are, and… Not a beach, though.
[0:31:18 – 0:31:20] Bob: And as you said earlier, like, you end at a beach.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:28] Bob: You do end at a beach, which is like… And actually, even on the other side, like, trousers is a real gem, too, so it’s going to be fine going the other way, but…
[0:31:29 – 0:31:38] Bob: Yeah, we got out here, and we did retrieve the bag of wine, and we made it back over to this beach, and it’s just been, honest to God, a dream scenario right here.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:42] Bob: If I could wear two pairs of sunglasses right now, I would do it.
[0:31:43 – 0:32:04] Bob: do the the will smith pull off one pair and there’s another pair right behind it a little tiny like uh neo from the matrix glasses underneath that yeah the little beady eyed brownies whoa i’m gonna i’m gonna go sprint and grab this wine bag unless i got anything else to say oh that bag is getting away from us so we’re gonna baywatch our way out of this track i think all right buddy go
[0:32:39 – 0:32:40] Erik: Just out here stepping on rakes.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:44] Erik: King Cash Island.
[0:32:45 – 0:32:46] Erik: Out and back, baby.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:46] Erik: We’re here.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:47] Erik: Good morning.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:50] Erik: Morning three, two, one.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:52] SPEAKER_00: Bingo.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:56] Erik: Bingo morning.
[0:32:56 – 0:33:01] Erik: Just finished listening to the new Tom York album, The Threshold of Echoes.
[0:33:02 – 0:33:03] Erik: It’s a real classic.
[0:33:03 – 0:33:05] Erik: If you haven’t checked that one out, I highly recommend it.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:11] Erik: Doing a little campsite review as we are apt to do.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:15] Erik: Island boys out here, call me now.
[0:33:18 – 0:33:19] Bob: Call me now.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:22] Bob: Yeah, this island is a real gem.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:38] Bob: and uh we got in here with like plenty of daylight left i mean it was just oodles of sunshine and i think we both felt like we maybe got a little too much sun yesterday even though we were in the woods for most of the day yeah um once we got here we hung out at the beach for a good hour
[0:33:39 – 0:33:39] Bob: Maybe more.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:43] Bob: And then we came down here, and it was just still another, like, five hours of direct sunlight.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:47] Bob: And neither one of us looked burnt in any way.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:50] Bob: No, we got the NOAD 50 SPF spray.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Bob: The only way to go.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:52] Bob: That’s the way to do it.
[0:33:52 – 0:33:53] Bob: You got to protect yourself.
[0:33:53 – 0:33:54] Bob: Protect those ears, campers.
[0:33:55 – 0:33:56] Erik: Yeah, get out of here, lotion.
[0:33:56 – 0:33:57] Erik: Your time’s over.
[0:33:58 – 0:33:59] Erik: It’s all about the spray.
[0:33:59 – 0:34:01] Bob: You’re finished.
[0:34:02 – 0:34:04] Bob: Yeah, we had a lot of…
[0:34:05 – 0:34:31] Bob: a lot of sunlight yesterday and a really another great sunset here last night and overall i was feeling like great yesterday uh even after the long portage and the beach session and got here and like got set up and got the chairs out um i did not fish yesterday though i got here with plenty of time to assemble the rod
[0:34:32 – 0:34:33] Bob: And I don’t know how much I’ve talked about this.
[0:34:33 – 0:34:43] Bob: I have the rod basically broken down, and I found these, like, wire with, like, a rubber coating that you can kind of twist, and it will just hold its shape or whatever.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:47] Bob: So I got, like, the rod broken down and then, like, wired into the gunnels.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:51] Bob: When you’re on the portage, you cannot tell it’s in there, and that’s also now the way to go.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:52] Bob: Yes.
[0:34:52 – 0:34:57] Bob: The reel is in the bag, and along with the little tiny pack with, like, the four lures.
[0:34:58 – 0:35:23] Bob: and some extra barrel swivels so i don’t know i was just sitting right there taunting me all the whole time and i never did assemble it and take a cast even yesterday i was just like i was feeling good man but i was just like too tuckered out i was literally just like laying on this rock over here just getting overtaken by ants just wiping ants off me yeah yeah we’re right in the middle of the lake i don’t know if we’ve been on an island just like dead center dead center
[0:35:23 – 0:35:27] Bob: It’s a big lake with a big island right in the middle of it, and that’s where we are.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:31] Erik: And, yeah, looking right down the mouth of future greatness.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:35] Erik: The Cache River is just right there beckoning, but it’s going to have to wait.
[0:35:35 – 0:35:37] Erik: It cannot continue on.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:38] Erik: For another day.
[0:35:38 – 0:35:41] Erik: Just a quick run out to the island in the middle of Cache and back.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:43] Erik: Yeah, that’s like a normal trip most people do, right?
[0:35:43 – 0:35:48] Bob: We were wondering aloud earlier, like, how many people do you think in a year camp on this island?
[0:35:50 – 0:35:51] Bob: It can’t be very many.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:52] Erik: A handful?
[0:35:52 – 0:35:52] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:35:52 – 0:35:56] Bob: We did find some micro litter and the fire situation is a little weird.
[0:35:56 – 0:35:58] Bob: I’m obviously still in fire band.
[0:35:58 – 0:36:06] Bob: Did not need it last night, but there’s like a neat little pile of rocks over here on the point on this big rock.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:11] Bob: And we could even see that big rock from like the other side of the lake.
[0:36:12 – 0:36:19] Bob: It looks like a white square and got out of the spotting scope just to like ensure it wasn’t actually like somebody’s cooler or something.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:22] Bob: And it was just a rock and that is the fire pit.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:25] Bob: But like, it looks like it has only had like this one fire in it.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:27] Erik: It has been moved recently.
[0:36:27 – 0:36:32] Bob: Like somebody built this in the fall, had a fire there and then now we’re here finding it.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:37] Bob: There was some like ashes back over here, but it doesn’t look like that would be a great spot to have a fire either.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:41] Erik: This kind of has the little sag campsite.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:43] Erik: We did the what’s in your bag review.
[0:36:43 – 0:36:44] Erik: Yeah.
[0:36:44 – 0:36:45] Erik: It’s kind of got that feeling to it.
[0:36:45 – 0:36:46] Erik: It’s like a raised up.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:49] Erik: That’s not an island, but the same like layout of camp.
[0:36:50 – 0:36:54] Erik: You kind of come up from the backside, a nice low like sand beach landing.
[0:36:55 – 0:36:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:36:56 – 0:36:58] Erik: A plus landing on the south side.
[0:36:58 – 0:37:01] Erik: The north side beach is just littered with like…
[0:37:02 – 0:37:17] Bob: all of the lakes refuse so it’s all of this all of the debris just gets caught in the north bay of this island and it’s a ton of pollen out right now which is why i’ve been like sniffling i think i have these allergies this spring i’ve just been destroying my ability to breathe through my nose i probably sound like a
[0:37:19 – 0:37:21] Bob: A maniac in a trash can right now.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:23] Bob: On this field audio recorder.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:27] Bob: I assure you, it is me, but I just can’t breathe this whole trip.
[0:37:27 – 0:37:29] Bob: There’s pollen everywhere.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:30] Bob: It’s that time of year.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:33] Bob: That beach in particular is full of it.
[0:37:33 – 0:37:34] Bob: Yeah, it’s kind of gross.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:35] Erik: So I’m glad we went around to the south side.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:39] Erik: Climbed up onto this little rocky overlook.
[0:37:39 – 0:37:42] Erik: Looking to the north and to the west.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:46] Erik: Staring the sun just straight in the barrel yesterday.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:46] Erik: And that…
[0:37:47 – 0:37:50] Erik: whatever that smoky haze, it was not like it cleared out.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:51] Erik: It was pretty much just blue skies all day.
[0:37:51 – 0:38:00] Erik: But like there was a, there was that distant low angle diffusion of clearly like smoke particulate, but also it was like a rainbow.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:02] Bob: And you get again, like just stare at the sun.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:06] Erik: It was like a, it was a, it was like a sun dog, except it was like really close.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:16] Erik: and almost like a rainbow, and it was coming off in three triangles like the nuclear fallout shelter shape.
[0:38:16 – 0:38:23] Erik: It looked like a ring, but when you really looked close and you actually put your finger over the sun, you could see it was going off in these triangles.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:34] Erik: It was really bizarre and, I guess, beautiful, but also, I don’t know, it seemed like it was enhanced mostly by the wood smoke or whatever was in the atmosphere to do that.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:41] Erik: And, yeah, we didn’t make it too much after sunset last night, that’s for sure.
[0:38:41 – 0:38:42] Erik: No way.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:45] Erik: I was tuckered out, bro.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:54] Erik: After we relived Adam’s high school tennis days and I learned all about how Wisconsin tennis rankings and matches work and doubles.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:56 – 0:38:57] Erik: It was good.
[0:38:57 – 0:39:03] Bob: I even got so deep in the tennis that I told you about how our coach was also a garbage man at one point.
[0:39:03 – 0:39:05] Bob: And then we kind of shifted into ping pong mode.
[0:39:06 – 0:39:12] Erik: Maybe he had unethical treatment of the competition and how he set up his lineup.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:17] Bob: Yeah, setting up the lineup a little funny to get better matchups.
[0:39:18 – 0:39:19] Bob: You got to do whatever it takes.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:21] Erik: It’s not in the spirit of the sport.
[0:39:21 – 0:39:22] Bob: It’s high school.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:24] Bob: Division IX tennis.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:27] Bob: So, yeah, that was fun.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:28] Bob: Nice conversation on tennis.
[0:39:29 – 0:39:31] Erik: Who was the one good guy that you said?
[0:39:31 – 0:39:34] Erik: It sounded like that is definitely a guy with a tennis name.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:53] Bob: matt protz that’s it there it is after they fired the garbage man then his mom became the coach and she had us do ty bow to warm up no billy blanks yeah ty bow is our warm-up before practice always which we all actually enjoyed and she was actually a really good coach just a lot of air punching well like sidekicks yeah high knees
[0:39:55 – 0:39:56] Bob: Oh, wow.
[0:39:56 – 0:40:02] Bob: We used to practice at Lincoln Park in Manitowoc, and there’s also this sad little zoo there.
[0:40:02 – 0:40:06] Bob: So, yeah, it was either Taibo would be where I was, or you would jog down to the zoo and back.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:07] Bob: Wow.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:11] Bob: And so that explains my fascination with zoos.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:14] Erik: Check in on the seals and get back?
[0:40:14 – 0:40:16] Bob: They had one, like, really, like, sad old lion.
[0:40:17 – 0:40:18] Bob: Oh, that’s sad.
[0:40:18 – 0:40:21] Bob: In a cage that’s, you know, far too small.
[0:40:22 – 0:40:23] Bob: They did, like, eventually renovate it, but…
[0:40:24 – 0:40:25] Bob: That was after my time.
[0:40:25 – 0:40:25] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:27] Erik: Tiny zoo.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:31] Erik: I don’t know if there’s much sadder things in the world than a small zoo.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:34] Bob: Anybody in Manitowoc, is that zoo still there?
[0:40:34 – 0:40:35] Bob: What was it called?
[0:40:35 – 0:40:36] Bob: Lincoln Park Zoo.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:37] Bob: Oh, all right.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:40] Bob: Yeah, right there on the little Manitowoc River.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:44] Bob: Stephen Avery, the lion tamer at that point?
[0:40:44 – 0:40:45] Bob: Exactly, yeah.
[0:40:45 – 0:40:46] Bob: He was your doubles partner.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:47] Bob: He was my doubles partner.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:49] Bob: That’s why we didn’t get to play number one doubles.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:53] Bob: Because of his court ordered.
[0:40:53 – 0:40:56] Bob: That was troubling times, actually.
[0:40:56 – 0:40:58] Bob: Looking back on it, we all should have seen this coming.
[0:40:59 – 0:40:59] Bob: The signs were there.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:01] Bob: All the signs were there, you know.
[0:41:02 – 0:41:04] Bob: He shot a straight serve.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:04] Bob: Wow.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:08] Bob: He refused to do a spin serve, so, you know, something was up.
[0:41:08 – 0:41:09] Bob: Yeah, that’s a little off-putting.
[0:41:09 – 0:41:09] Bob: Zing.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:12] Bob: Yeah, this campsite’s great.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:12] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:21] Bob: We did get a really nice, like, in the white pines back here to the south, a really nice little cove that was ideal for a hammock set.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:24] Bob: And or you could probably put a tent back there.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:25] Bob: You could get a tent right here.
[0:41:25 – 0:41:31] Bob: And then there’s like a huge tent pad down the hill back by the canoe that looks like it was honestly raked.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:33] Erik: Yeah, there’s two knobs.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:38] Erik: There’s like a small rocky knob to the west and then like the main bulk of the island to the east and then in between.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:41] Bob: It’s like a low spot that almost connects the beaches.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:42] Erik: Right.
[0:41:42 – 0:41:43] Erik: And that’s where the tent pad is.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:45] Erik: And it is like circus tent size.
[0:41:45 – 0:41:46] Erik: It’s crazy.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:50] Bob: Yeah, I mean, Barnum and Bailey, you could get a tent with a huge pole.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:52] Bob: Actually, there is like a big pole down there too.
[0:41:52 – 0:41:53] Bob: Yep.
[0:41:53 – 0:41:56] Bob: Somebody has rigged this up for canvas tents or something.
[0:41:56 – 0:42:00] Erik: Yeah, get a little Burning Man rave tent going on down there.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:01] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:42:01 – 0:42:02] Erik: I can see it.
[0:42:02 – 0:42:09] Erik: It’s not quite as big as the bocce ball pit on the far eastern campsite on Pine, but it’s up there.
[0:42:10 – 0:42:16] Bob: We’re basically, I believe we were both tied to this white pine, the goofy white pine back here that was leaning in.
[0:42:16 – 0:42:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:17 – 0:42:18] Bob: We both were tied on.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:20] Bob: So we shared a tree last night.
[0:42:20 – 0:42:21] Bob: We were really close in.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:49] Bob: and uh it was really good little hammock set back there and yeah i slept great um i woke up we’ll come back to dinner i want to just remember while i’m thinking about it i want to tell the story i woke up it was probably 4 30 a.m it was just getting light and i heard a owl like on the mainland but it was so calm that it was like you could hear it like it was in your own you were like it was on the island almost like so clear yeah
[0:42:50 – 0:43:15] Bob: and we eric did hear it too and it was like i don’t know battery refreshment we’re back yeah we got fresh batteries and we did hear the owl both of us and i don’t know i think it was a bard owl but it was like had an accent we determined it was probably like either a french or just a straight up like a canadian owl it was just slightly off yep hey who cooks for you a oh
[0:43:17 – 0:43:26] Bob: Yeah, that was like 4.30, and I had my phone on me, but by the time I got the phone out to try, I don’t know if it would have ID’d it.
[0:43:26 – 0:43:30] Bob: It was faint, but I could hear it, so I figured the phone was going to hear it.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:32] Bob: By the time I got the phone out to try and turn on Merlin…
[0:43:33 – 0:43:35] Bob: to see if I could get a confirmation on what owl we were getting.
[0:43:36 – 0:43:37] Bob: It was done.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:38] Bob: It was like, oh, I’m done singing now.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:41] Bob: I hear you guys got your phone out over there.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:46] Bob: So then I have the phone running, and you can see the little graph on there, anybody who’s got Merlin.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:49] Bob: I hope I’ve convinced a few of you out there to, like, download Merlin.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:49] Bob: It’s great.
[0:43:50 – 0:44:08] Bob: works offline we’re out here in the middle of damn nowhere and you can id birds but it’s funny because like eric was like slow sort of snoring at one point and it was like you could see the little snoring and then my like guts were like rumbling and like this super low register of just like my stomach noises was like coming through and then like also um you know a
[0:44:10 – 0:44:37] Bob: black bernie and warbler and what else did i get this morning a song sparrow that’s right that one sounds fake that one is fake we don’t believe in any sparrows on tumble home we’ve yeah we’ve been saying that for years if you if you don’t believe us at this point i don’t know what else to tell you yeah and then uh i don’t know i had a couple other good warblers this morning in camp and but nothing like no new life listers on this trip so far we use the um you get a loon finally
[0:44:38 – 0:44:43] Erik: Didn’t we use the, or was that an online feature to use the Merlin for a feather ID?
[0:44:44 – 0:44:45] Erik: Oh, right.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:50] Bob: Yeah, no, you can just submit a picture, which I am never getting pictures of birds.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:51] Bob: It’s always by sound.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:54] Bob: Eric had found this feather on Little King Island.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:56] Bob: Was it on the island?
[0:44:56 – 0:44:56] Bob: It was.
[0:44:57 – 0:44:57] Erik: Right on the island.
[0:44:57 – 0:45:01] Bob: It was a very odd feather, like, striping, but almost, like, not.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:04] Bob: The size of it, too, was, like, this isn’t from a small bird.
[0:45:04 – 0:45:05] Erik: It’s not from a big bird.
[0:45:05 – 0:45:07] Erik: It’s got to be from, like, a hawk or something.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:10] Erik: And so you did the ID thing, and the first one that popped up was, like…
[0:45:10 – 0:45:12] Erik: It was, like, lesser night hawk.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:14] Erik: Which was, like, yeah, that’s probably what it is.
[0:45:14 – 0:45:18] Erik: And then, like, the third one down was the fucking Eurasian nightjar.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:19] Bob: Eurasian nightjar.
[0:45:19 – 0:45:24] Bob: And I think we were probably cackling harder at that than anything we’ve laughed at on this whole trip.
[0:45:24 – 0:45:24] Bob: Yeah.
[0:45:24 – 0:45:27] Bob: It was like, what the hell is a Eurasian nightjar?
[0:45:27 – 0:45:28] Bob: Anybody out there know?
[0:45:28 – 0:45:34] Erik: There wasn’t enough internet to tell Merlin where you were, so it just gave all of the world options.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:41] Bob: That’s weird, though, because when you use the sound function, it generally can use the GPS chip to determine your location.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:47] Bob: And there’s different settings of that, but it doesn’t work when you do the picture.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:51] Bob: It just is like, here’s all the options it could be on planet Earth.
[0:45:51 – 0:45:56] Erik: I don’t think it was a nightjar feather, especially considering that that bird doesn’t look like anything like this feather.
[0:45:56 – 0:45:58] Erik: But what was the description of it, though?
[0:45:58 – 0:46:00] Erik: Oh, it was a wild description.
[0:46:00 – 0:46:05] Erik: The best phrase in the whole description was that it has cryptic plumage.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:09] Bob: Cryptic plumage, which even got us to laugh even harder than the name nightjar feather.
[0:46:09 – 0:46:14] Erik: It does look like a Eurasian nightjar.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:18] Bob: Well, the joke’s going to be on us because next time I actually get – because we’ve been getting some spotty service out here.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:29] Bob: Even this morning on Cash, I got Roger’s LTE and was able to send Natalie a nice selfie of myself.
[0:46:29 – 0:46:31] Bob: You did get the selfie off.
[0:46:31 – 0:46:34] Bob: A whole picture with live mode got through on the LTE.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:40] Bob: Like, we’re pretty far from Atacocan and or the ranger station at this point.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:42] Bob: Like, I don’t know.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:43] Bob: Amazing.
[0:46:43 – 0:46:47] Bob: So I probably could have looked up, is the Eurasian nightjar, like, where does it actually live?
[0:46:48 – 0:46:49] Erik: Is it a real bird?
[0:46:49 – 0:46:53] Bob: So where we end up tonight, I almost certainly will be able to get some sort of service.
[0:46:53 – 0:46:54] Bob: It’s sort of in and out.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:59] Bob: And I do have the satellite thing, so I could either, like, I could also just text Natalie on the satellite and, like, ask, hey…
[0:47:00 – 0:47:23] Bob: random question hit me back with some night jar facts can you look up the eurasian night jar please and tell me where it lives and then uh and also maybe send me a selfie back there we go i don’t know maybe i’ll like maybe i’ll do some like because i just sent a selfie normally but yeah does anybody out there ever like sent like a like a sensual picture home from camping
[0:47:23 – 0:47:29] Erik: Yeah, I’m sure that’s what all the ladies at home want, are sensual Aquatico Island nudes on day three.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:33] Bob: There’s, like, part of my body that isn’t covered in blood yet, so I’ll try and, like, get my shoulders.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:35] Bob: Like, look at these portage shoulders, huh?
[0:47:35 – 0:47:36] Bob: Yeah, look at this.
[0:47:36 – 0:47:39] Bob: Crop everything else out so it’s just the shoulders.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:40] Bob: You don’t want to see anything else.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:42] Bob: I’ve been pretty roughed up.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:45] Bob: I’m moving around good now.
[0:47:45 – 0:47:51] Bob: Last night I ran straight into a fucking log that’s poking out on the trail over to our hammocks, like full speed.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:57] Bob: And I have a huge lump on my leg, and that was definitely bleeding last night.
[0:47:57 – 0:47:58] Bob: That’s dried up as well.
[0:47:58 – 0:48:02] Bob: It’s right at mystery height and right in the femur zone.
[0:48:03 – 0:48:07] Bob: I’m bleeding out of three spots, and half of them are from bugs, and half of them are just from…
[0:48:07 – 0:48:28] Erik: being silly and not being careful enough with my body i think the lack of having to worry about procuring firewood has allowed me to maintain usually by this level at this day in the trip my hands and arms are just like scratched from going into the woods and dragging out dead wood and then you got the saw you’re always just like i don’t know i end up with so much like
[0:48:28 – 0:48:32] Erik: I just look like I came back from, like, I don’t know, even know what I could compare it to.
[0:48:32 – 0:48:34] Erik: But, like, I’m looking pretty good.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:35] Erik: I’m not bloody at all.
[0:48:35 – 0:48:36] Erik: I’m not scratched up.
[0:48:36 – 0:48:37] Erik: I’m not scraped up.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:42] Erik: I haven’t, you know, cutting with a saw we did was the butt impaler on Little King Island.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:43] Bob: Yeah, I know.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:46] Bob: The Saw Team 6 did a great job on the portages.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:48] Bob: We didn’t have to touch anything on the portages.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:53] Bob: Have we brought up the Saw Team 6 thing at all?
[0:48:53 – 0:48:57] Erik: I think we’ve mentioned Saw Team 6, I don’t know, in our delirious state on that podcast.
[0:48:58 – 0:49:19] Erik: 4000 rod portage we were on yesterday to kill the time on one of the walkbacks we we’ve added a new we’ve got uh tractor attic that’s our our flagship that’s what that movie is funding all of the future tumble home cinematic universe realms and our next project is saw team six and they’re what are we gonna call it zero bark 30 zero bark 30 and they’re
[0:49:20 – 0:49:24] Bob: We’ve got to come up with a log-based name for Catherine Bigelow.
[0:49:25 – 0:49:26] Bob: Catherine Bigalog.
[0:49:26 – 0:49:27] Bob: Bigalog, yeah.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:28] Bob: Directed by Bigalog.
[0:49:29 – 0:49:33] Bob: And it’s all about Chris Pratt trying to find Logsama Bin Laden.
[0:49:33 – 0:49:34] Bob: Logsama.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:35] Erik: Logsama.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:36] Erik: Logsama.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:38] Erik: I thought it was Pine Siskin that was playing.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:40] Bob: Oh, Pine Siskin’s going to play.
[0:49:40 – 0:49:45] Bob: And then you determined the guy that was going to play Logsama was, what is he?
[0:49:45 – 0:49:46] Bob: He sells perfume.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:50] Erik: Oh, the perfume magnate in Parks and Rec, Jason Manzoukas.
[0:49:51 – 0:49:52] SPEAKER_00: It’s going to be a comedy.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:53] Erik: It’s a comedy.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:55] Erik: Or it’s going to be a very dark, serious drama.
[0:49:56 – 0:50:00] Erik: That would be even funnier, I think, with a title like that and Log Sama Bin Laden.
[0:50:00 – 0:50:04] Erik: And it’s just like taking like, we’re not taking the piss, actually.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:06] Erik: We’re taking this completely serious.
[0:50:07 – 0:50:10] Bob: It’s going to be more serious than Zero Dark Thirty.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:11] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:16] Bob: Yeah, what kind of like stealth, we need a stealth canoe, like the stealth helicopters.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:18] Erik: Yeah, like a black.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:25] Bob: One of them will have to leave behind and have to explode it so that the enemy doesn’t get their hands on our technology.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:32] Erik: Like a black shimmering, like that one car from the worst 007 of all time that’s literally invisible.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:33] Bob: Yeah.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:34] Erik: That’s what we’re out there in.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:36] Bob: I’m pretty sure these helicopters are invisible, too.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:41] Bob: I don’t know what kind of stealth technology the park helicopters are using, because we keep hearing them, but we haven’t seen one once.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:44] Erik: Even the planes, the little prop planes that we’ve been seeing.
[0:50:44 – 0:50:46] Erik: I saw one this morning while I was fishing.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:47] Bob: Oh, I have not seen one.
[0:50:47 – 0:50:53] Bob: I saw one go over with the floats, and it was flying pretty low where I actually got a look at it, but…
[0:50:53 – 0:50:55] Bob: We for sure have not visualized the helicopter though.
[0:50:55 – 0:50:57] Erik: They seem like they come and go like every like 20 minutes.
[0:50:57 – 0:50:58] Bob: They’re up north of us.
[0:50:58 – 0:50:59] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:50:59 – 0:51:00] Bob: There’s flying in circles up there.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:05] Bob: There was a fire up there like north of Highway 11 at one point a couple weeks ago.
[0:51:05 – 0:51:09] Bob: But when I looked before the trip, it seemed like everything had been like snuffed out in this sector.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:11] Bob: I mean, it is crunchy as hell out here.
[0:51:11 – 0:51:16] Bob: So maybe it’s something flared back up or maybe they’re just out looking because it’s such high fire danger right now.
[0:51:16 – 0:51:16] Bob: I don’t know.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:17] Bob: But why can’t we see them?
[0:51:18 – 0:51:19] Erik: It’s just that far away.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:21] Bob: They’re looking for Lagsama.
[0:51:21 – 0:51:23] Bob: They’re looking for Lagsama.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:25] Bob: And they got the night vision and the heat lamp.
[0:51:25 – 0:51:25] Bob: Yep.
[0:51:27 – 0:51:41] Erik: The other thing we determined, which is the main reason that we decided to download that new Tom York album, Threshold of Echoes, is I don’t think I’ve ever camped at an island or a place where the sound just disappears.
[0:51:41 – 0:51:42] Erik: It goes nowhere.
[0:51:42 – 0:51:43] Erik: There is no echo.
[0:51:43 – 0:51:45] Erik: We are beyond the threshold of echoes on this island.
[0:51:45 – 0:51:50] Erik: We were clapping and yelling, and I was trying to get an echo, and it was just nothing.
[0:51:50 – 0:51:51] Bob: It just went off into…
[0:51:51 – 0:51:53] Bob: This is probably why the loons weren’t singing last night.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:54] Bob: Yeah.
[0:51:54 – 0:52:15] Bob: they were they were wary and rightly so it’s almost it’s almost like unsettling how the sound just like gets swallowed up by nothing we did hear some loons though we finally did because we never heard a loon the first night it’s like what’s going on out here we saw one probably this morning there was one floating out north of us here and like flapping its wings but i never heard that one sing
[0:52:16 – 0:52:18] Bob: So I don’t know why they’re not singing yet.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:19] Bob: I mean, I noticed something else too.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:24] Bob: Maybe it’s just like, maybe we’re still into spring too much and not enough into summer.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:26] Bob: Like the alders.
[0:52:26 – 0:52:29] Bob: Some of the alders on the portage were like just leafing out.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:30 – 0:52:32] Erik: It’s still like, I don’t think we’re at full leaf out yet up here.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:38] Bob: No, but like the blueberries have little like blueberries, like little white blueberries started on them already.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:39] Bob: That’s true.
[0:52:39 – 0:53:07] Bob: and what else did i see there are like false morels on the portage and then like the little tamaracks there’s a couple little tamaracks that are literally growing right in the middle of the portage path and you just get to walk right through it and they got that fresh uh fresh tamarack uh green coming out nice and soft needles like the tamaracks are way ahead of the alder it’s goofy but then there are some alders that are totally out but like it was just i noticed that one section that portage yesterday like these alders are way behind the tamarack that’s not the usual order
[0:53:07 – 0:53:08] Erik: Right?
[0:53:08 – 0:53:10] Erik: These white pines are still working on their buds, though.
[0:53:11 – 0:53:16] Bob: Like at home, the alder and the tamarack have been going for a while, and we’re not that far from home.
[0:53:16 – 0:53:16] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:23] Bob: But either way, the loons are not as active as you’d normally see them, I guess, in the middle of summer.
[0:53:23 – 0:53:25] Bob: And this water is very cold in here.
[0:53:25 – 0:53:26] Bob: It’s still very cold.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:35] Erik: We described that yesterday as how grateful we were for the cold water after that portage and being mad with thirst, hydrogen psychosis of the mind.
[0:53:35 – 0:53:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:40] Erik: Just leaving full bags of wine behind because we needed water so much.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:43] Erik: And then standing on that beach.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:46] Erik: Yeah, it’s like the first foot of water is like, man, this is kind of nice.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:49] Bob: And then it just immediately drops off to absolute frigidness.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:53] Bob: Knee deep and your tootsies are going to freeze right off.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:54] Erik: It’s been warm.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:57] Erik: I don’t know if it’s been to the point where I’ve been like, I’ve got to jump in.
[0:53:57 – 0:54:00] Erik: I don’t know if I can handle a full jump in in this temp.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:01] Bob: Today might be the hottest day.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:07] Bob: We’ll see what it’s like in the afternoon once we get out of that portage, but I bet we’re going to be hot enough to jump in, but we’ll see.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:08] Bob: We’ve got to find the right spot.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:16] Erik: Yeah, maybe we were, you know, we talked about a full backtrack to Little King Island, but I don’t know.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:22] Erik: With the day that we’re in and depending on the timing, there is literally no shade on that island.
[0:54:22 – 0:54:23] Bob: Not even a little bit.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:28] Erik: So if the sun’s still blazing high in the sky, we might just shut her down and find a…
[0:54:28 – 0:54:51] Erik: a shadier different island on trousers and then you get the three different islands the three different lakes now that would be ideal um because yeah i forget my crown doesn’t provide a lot of shade no it’s mostly hot metal exactly gems all the gems they like they’ll blind you sparkling and getting in my eyes yeah they’ll blind you it’s like concentrated into a laser
[0:54:51 – 0:54:55] Bob: pretty much the wounds would be like, Oh my God, these guys got real lasers coming out of their eyes.
[0:54:56 – 0:54:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:56 – 0:55:09] Erik: Uh, one of the other features on the campsite here we have not mentioned is like the little nutty putty cave feature that would, uh, probably stick a, stick a whole man in and, become irretrievable and your bones will be here forever.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:15] Erik: It’s also a H.H.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:19] Erik: Hubert Humphrey Metrodome-esque, like, piss trough, too.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:26] Erik: Like, it’s just screaming for, like, you got to come out here next year with, like, a 40-pound bag of ice and fill that big rock trough over there.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:27] Bob: I need to ice it down first.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:28] Erik: For the boys.
[0:55:28 – 0:55:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:29 – 0:55:54] Bob: uh yeah it’s a pretty neat little like just straight down cave you could definitely fall in there and hurt yourself and get stuck no gems down there i don’t i’m not sensing a gem mine we’re not gonna go spelunking no not at all it looks like from so i did fish this morning finally i assembled the fishing pole and i’m legally in my window of my 24-hour fishing license right now he’s legal and so we timed it for cash you know
[0:55:55 – 0:56:00] Bob: And I took some casts over here off this weird rock down to our southwest.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:03] Bob: I don’t know what this is, Eric.
[0:56:03 – 0:56:04] Erik: That’s a weird rock.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:06] Erik: It looks very…
[0:56:07 – 0:56:11] Erik: It’s either… What are the two lava rocks?
[0:56:11 – 0:56:15] Erik: There’s Pahoehoe and one other kind of…
[0:56:15 – 0:56:17] Erik: It literally looks like cooled lava.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:24] Erik: Or it was lava at some point and a lesser rock has weirdly eroded off of it.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:27] Erik: It’s just like that crazy jagged…
[0:56:28 – 0:56:30] Erik: Nothing about it is, like, uniform.
[0:56:30 – 0:56:32] Erik: It looks like if you fall onto that, you would, like, lose an arm.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:36] Bob: No, it looks like a dragon’s corpse, like, turned to stone.
[0:56:36 – 0:56:38] Erik: Yeah, it would, like, rip your skin off.
[0:56:38 – 0:56:42] Erik: It just looks so gnarly and not like any, like…
[0:56:42 – 0:56:43] Erik: I’ve seen stuff like this out here.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:48] Bob: Yeah, it’s, like, underneath this other rock that we’re upstanding here on is smooth, good stuff.
[0:56:48 – 0:56:49] Erik: Smooth, good stuff.
[0:56:49 – 0:56:50] Bob: And the cave is made of that stuff.
[0:56:50 – 0:56:55] Bob: But this stuff got right on the water’s line, and it’s also on the north side of us here.
[0:56:55 – 0:56:57] Bob: If you look at this site on satellite imagery…
[0:56:58 – 0:57:01] Bob: You’ll see like a large point off the north edge.
[0:57:01 – 0:57:04] Bob: I guess the western north edge of this island.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:06] Bob: There’s like a crazy big point of the same rock.
[0:57:07 – 0:57:08] Bob: So I fished down here.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:11] Bob: I threw about 25 casts off this dragged rock over here.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:16] Bob: And then I went up to the north side and I took probably another 25 casts out there this morning.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:20] Bob: Pretty early in the day, like prime time.
[0:57:20 – 0:57:22] Bob: And there was not even a speck of wind.
[0:57:22 – 0:57:27] Bob: I mean, it is dead, calm reflections all morning out here.
[0:57:28 – 0:57:30] Bob: Just crazy flat, the whole lake.
[0:57:31 – 0:57:32] Bob: And I got some cool video out there.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:40] Bob: But like from that north point, you can see back to this cracked erratic kind of deal that’s over here.
[0:57:40 – 0:57:44] Bob: And I think that’s all connected into this like cave crack complex.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:45] Erik: It’s a big crack.
[0:57:45 – 0:57:46] Erik: It’s a big ass crack.
[0:57:46 – 0:57:52] Bob: I think if you were determined, you could enter it from the lake over here and then like wiggle your way.
[0:57:52 – 0:57:55] Bob: It’s like 12 rods back to where the hole opens up.
[0:57:56 – 0:57:56] Bob: I bet there’s a way through.
[0:57:57 – 0:57:58] Erik: Would it be worth it, though?
[0:57:58 – 0:57:59] Bob: No, it wouldn’t be.
[0:57:59 – 0:58:05] Bob: But just from the look from that other side, it looks even more open and connected than we even could determine from above.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:07] Erik: Yeah, it’s like a mild…
[0:58:08 – 0:58:10] Erik: It’s not right in camp, but it’s close enough.
[0:58:10 – 0:58:14] Erik: If you’re not keeping track of yourself at night, it could definitely be a danger.
[0:58:15 – 0:58:15] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:16] Erik: It’s a pit.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:18] Erik: It’s kind of one of those crevasses that you see those like…
[0:58:19 – 0:58:42] Erik: deer that fall in and can’t get out and they’re just like a skeleton and horns like wedge like the guy that had to cut his arm off or whatever yeah it’s like that and hopefully that never happens to us yeah well i like my arms i do uh i do have a very dull leatherman on my belt though so i am prepared to uh hack live out that james franco uh experience we gotta find a role for franco in one of these films
[0:58:43 – 0:58:43] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:58:43 – 0:58:44] Erik: We’ll think about it.
[0:58:44 – 0:58:45] Erik: We’ll come up with it today.
[0:58:45 – 0:58:48] Bob: Franco is definitely on Saw Team 6.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:49] Bob: He’s the chainsaw guy.
[0:58:49 – 0:58:50] Erik: He’s the comic relief.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:51] Erik: Yeah, he’s the one who…
[0:58:52 – 0:58:55] Bob: who put the initials into the log yesterday.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:58] Erik: Maybe just getting a little too high, not taking it as serious.
[0:58:58 – 0:59:03] Bob: Yeah, he’s lighthearted, lovable, goofy, goofball.
[0:59:03 – 0:59:06] Erik: He gets booby-trapped at some point and loses a leg.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:07] Erik: Not again.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:09] Bob: You’ve got to cut your leg off.
[0:59:09 – 0:59:09] Erik: What?
[0:59:09 – 0:59:10] Erik: I’ve got to cut a leg off?
[0:59:10 – 0:59:12] Erik: I’ve already done an arm.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:14] Bob: How many things can we hack off of James Franco?
[0:59:17 – 0:59:19] Erik: Leave some for the rest of us, James.
[0:59:19 – 0:59:20] Erik: Oh, God.
[0:59:20 – 0:59:22] Erik: We’ll find him a roll.
[0:59:22 – 0:59:24] Erik: But, yeah.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:28] Bob: We did find a bone over by our hammock zone when I went over there to change in my…
[0:59:28 – 0:59:30] Bob: I had to change into fresh undies today.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:32] Bob: And, boy, oh, boy, did I need that.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:37] Bob: And I went over there to change in the shade over here so Eric wouldn’t have to see my bloody bruised ass.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:39] Erik: I thought you were just over there doing…
[0:59:39 – 1:00:07] Bob: photos for the the family yeah i’m sending those later when we get back on the service for sure but yeah when i was getting changed over there there’s just like one random chicken thigh bone embedded in the moss chicken thigh where we’ve uh we found ribs on an island one time here we did find a like a bent tent stake right behind us here this morning and then two little pieces of foil that appear to be in another pile of old ash back here back yander
[1:00:08 – 1:00:09] Bob: And what else?
[1:00:09 – 1:00:10] Bob: I think…
[1:00:11 – 1:00:13] Bob: Might as well give him the truth, Eric.
[1:00:13 – 1:00:15] Bob: We both had to dig two holes this morning.
[1:00:15 – 1:00:17] Bob: Did you dig the same hole twice?
[1:00:17 – 1:00:22] Erik: I did not go back to my OG hole because it was a little too far away.
[1:00:22 – 1:00:28] Bob: I was doing a real good job on that first hole, and then I was going for number two, and Eric’s like, you’re going to be able to find your original?
[1:00:29 – 1:00:30] Bob: I’m like, I could find it, but I’m not going that far.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:32] Bob: I was on the other side of the island, for crying out loud.
[1:00:32 – 1:00:34] Bob: There’s no good logs to sit on.
[1:00:34 – 1:00:37] Bob: I like to kind of lean on a log.
[1:00:37 – 1:00:40] Bob: Like you’re scratching your back like Baloo from the Jungle Book?
[1:00:41 – 1:00:42] Bob: Or more of a sit.
[1:00:42 – 1:00:43] Bob: It’s more of like a sit.
[1:00:44 – 1:00:45] Bob: I just use it as like a, yeah.
[1:00:45 – 1:00:48] Bob: You’re just sitting on the very top of your ass.
[1:00:48 – 1:00:49] Bob: Just let it drop out.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:51] Bob: That’s exactly what I do, yeah.
[1:00:51 – 1:00:58] Erik: I just pull my pants down to my ankles and just kind of do a chair sit and just let it drop, plop out.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:00] Erik: I get it splattering on my calves.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:04] Bob: This is how the kid, when he’s got to pee and we’re in the woods, does it.
[1:01:04 – 1:01:06] Bob: You’ve got to hold him sideways over the…
[1:01:07 – 1:01:10] Bob: He hasn’t quite figured out just standing and pissing yet.
[1:01:10 – 1:01:14] Bob: You’ve got to lay him down vertically just above the dirt.
[1:01:14 – 1:01:16] Erik: Angle him towards the hole of the latrine.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:21] Bob: I need a large, giant friend to hold me sideways over my hole.
[1:01:23 – 1:01:47] Bob: uh yeah i mean it’s probably uh i mean we need our labanga to come out just to hold me over the hole yeah shit support man that comes out and he’s only helpful when that is occurring otherwise he’s unseen we gotta get like we need like a big zve from uh from lonesome dove the guy on the whiskey boat that falls in love with the lady it’s a reference i don’t get sorry
[1:01:47 – 1:01:49] Bob: Everybody else out there gets it, though.
[1:01:49 – 1:01:51] Bob: We need a big zvey on our trip and a labanga.
[1:01:52 – 1:02:08] Erik: Well, it’s probably because we both, in the matter of like 20 minutes, ate an entire packet of Vigo black beans and rice stuffed with all of the remaining arugula, sour cream, and cheese over the… We ate all the sour cream, cheese, and arugula, and those beans, and a whole pack of tortilla?
[1:02:09 – 1:02:10] Erik: Eight pack of tortilla went down.
[1:02:11 – 1:02:19] Bob: And we had breakfast burritos for breakfast that day, and then we had the remaining breakfast burritos this morning for breakfast, which were great.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:22] Erik: So what, have we each eaten nine tortillas already?
[1:02:22 – 1:02:24] Erik: It’s been tortilla rich.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:24] Bob: In the last 24 hours.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:24] Bob: Yes.
[1:02:26 – 1:02:27] Bob: I’m asking for a friend.
[1:02:27 – 1:02:28] Bob: Is that okay?
[1:02:29 – 1:02:29] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:29 – 1:02:30] Erik: Are there any doctors out there?
[1:02:31 – 1:02:32] Erik: Are we going to be all right?
[1:02:32 – 1:02:34] Bob: Am I going to make it back through this portage?
[1:02:34 – 1:02:37] Bob: I did wake up, like, I think it was right around the time that the owl was hooting.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:51] Erik: And I have the, usually I have just the 1,000, but I’ve got the 1,400 milliliter Nalgene out here, the real gross white one that shows all of the horrible molds and dirt and, like, mouth scum.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Erik: Please wash me.
[1:02:53 – 1:02:53] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:54 – 1:02:55] Erik: But that thing was full when I went to bed.
[1:02:56 – 1:03:25] Erik: basically chugged the whole thing in in this morning and it took a disturbingly long period of time to uh feel that like filtrate like that filtration through my body into the actual form of like okay i feel somewhat hydrated again because it’s like stay up all day in the sun drinking wine and then eat like a week’s worth of sodium and cheese and cream and go immediately to bed
[1:03:26 – 1:03:53] Bob: which is what we did yeah we made it till dark we were which was admirable given the circumstances but uh i think i was like i was for like a half hour there just being like eric i’m going to bed as soon as i can get away with it i’m going to bed yeah and we lived and we did it we got to bed i am probably fell asleep in about seven seconds it was yeah it wasn’t even one of those ones where it was like i’m kind of laying here thinking about sleep was like i don’t even remember like it wasn’t that i passed out it was just like i fell asleep just that fast it was like
[1:03:54 – 1:04:13] Erik: no man 10 seconds of writhing and then i i literally like had like my headlamp in the like hammock with me i was like i should do something about this and then i woke up 10 hours later and the thing was like still just in my hand it’s like oh yeah i managed to get my hat off and throw it down to the bottom of the bug net before i actually conked out but i uh yeah i slept like a
[1:04:14 – 1:04:15] Bob: Slept like a baby.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:18] Bob: And it was nice and chilly last night.
[1:04:18 – 1:04:20] Bob: We never really, I had the bug net on last night.
[1:04:21 – 1:04:25] Bob: Probably wasn’t necessary, but at least I didn’t have anything else like chew on my ear all night.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:30] Erik: Yeah, you kind of, I feel like after night one, whether the bugs were bad or not, you couldn’t.
[1:04:30 – 1:04:31] Bob: You can’t take that risk anymore.
[1:04:31 – 1:04:33] SPEAKER_00: End up with a second bloody lobe.
[1:04:33 – 1:04:37] Bob: It’s like, it’s like primed and ready for like more chewing too still.
[1:04:37 – 1:04:38] Bob: I know.
[1:04:39 – 1:04:41] Bob: Sir, a second black fly has hit the lobe.
[1:04:46 – 1:05:07] Bob: oh no would that be uh well i’m gonna get some looks going across the border with this thing too it’s like on my driver’s side uh ear and when we get down to the border station i’m like jesus christ son what happened to you where have you been are you okay i’m fine please let me go home we’ve just been up north writing the next great uh american war story
[1:05:08 – 1:05:17] Erik: We’ve come to the conclusion that the nature preserve on Wawiag is like, why is it, what are you protecting?
[1:05:17 – 1:05:17] Erik: What are you hiding?
[1:05:18 – 1:05:20] Erik: They’re like, oh, we’re waiting for native plants to grow back.
[1:05:20 – 1:05:26] Erik: It’s like, there’s no scenario in the universe where there’s that many people that are going in there.
[1:05:26 – 1:05:27] Bob: Camping in the Wauweag.
[1:05:27 – 1:05:29] Erik: And camping and are destroying.
[1:05:29 – 1:05:34] Erik: So we’ve come to the conclusion that there is like a secret, like tuck everlasting, like orchid that grows.
[1:05:34 – 1:05:38] Erik: And that is what keeps the, the pig man’s heart ticking still.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:39] Bob: Yeah.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:41] Erik: And that’s why we want Canada.
[1:05:41 – 1:05:42] Bob: That’s why we want Canada.
[1:05:42 – 1:05:43] Bob: Just for that one orchid.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:43] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:44] Erik: The Wauweag orchid.
[1:05:44 – 1:05:46] Erik: That’s like magical to the pig heart.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:50] Bob: Go out there and pick me some petals.
[1:05:50 – 1:05:55] Bob: I need to chew on the orchid stamen.
[1:05:55 – 1:05:55] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:05:56 – 1:05:59] Erik: We’re going to stop in and find out if that is, in fact, the truth.
[1:05:59 – 1:06:01] Erik: And we’ll know by their reactions.
[1:06:01 – 1:06:02] Erik: They’ll know.
[1:06:02 – 1:06:03] Erik: These guys are on to something.
[1:06:04 – 1:06:05] Erik: Is that a seagull?
[1:06:05 – 1:06:06] Bob: Yeah.
[1:06:06 – 1:06:08] Bob: We just got buzzed by a herring gull.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:08] Bob: It’s huge.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:09] Bob: Is that it?
[1:06:09 – 1:06:10] Bob: Like an albatross.
[1:06:11 – 1:06:11] Bob: Yikes.
[1:06:11 – 1:06:12] Bob: What is that?
[1:06:12 – 1:06:13] Bob: There’s no way that’s a seagull.
[1:06:13 – 1:06:14] Bob: It’s too big.
[1:06:14 – 1:06:16] Bob: It’s a big osprey?
[1:06:17 – 1:06:17] Erik: Cash?
[1:06:18 – 1:06:18] Erik: Gull.
[1:06:19 – 1:06:19] Erik: Big?
[1:06:19 – 1:06:20] Erik: I don’t think it’s an osprey.
[1:06:20 – 1:06:21] Erik: That’s looking like…
[1:06:21 – 1:06:22] SPEAKER_03: I don’t know, man.
[1:06:22 – 1:06:22] Erik: It’s got gull colors.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:23] Erik: It’s too big.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:24] Erik: Look at that thing.
[1:06:24 – 1:06:25] Erik: It is huge, though.
[1:06:25 – 1:06:25] Bob: It’s an osprey.
[1:06:27 – 1:06:27] Bob: Hey, buddy.
[1:06:28 – 1:06:29] Bob: How’s she going by?
[1:06:32 – 1:06:32] Erik: No response.
[1:06:32 – 1:06:34] Bob: Either they can’t hear us or they don’t understand.
[1:06:37 – 1:06:39] Erik: I’m sick of these fucking ospreys.
[1:06:40 – 1:06:44] Erik: All right, anyway, so, yeah, no fish.
[1:06:44 – 1:06:48] Bob: I got about 50 casts in here, but it will make a pretty good episode of Wave Station.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:54] Bob: Actually, it’s going to be called Dead Calm Reflection Station because there wasn’t even a lick of wind while we were recording that this morning, but.
[1:06:54 – 1:07:19] Bob: dcr station dcr station baby we’re gonna get on out of here soon it’s approaching midday and we have a long time of portage ahead of us so uh anything else uh to say on this island um it’s nice but uh we will like go out and like go around it of course counterclockwise full circumnavigation yeah you’re not allowed to go clockwise
[1:07:20 – 1:07:27] Bob: And we’ll get to see the other side of the island and then maybe we can buzz by that other like supposedly really good spot over on the point across from us here on our way out.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:33] Bob: Because we do have a little bit of a, I guess it’s just sort of a light five miles out of the north right now.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Bob: When it first fired up this morning, it was like more east.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:53] Bob: strange switching back over but it doesn’t look like it’s gonna really do too much and this is really the only uh spot where we might even be in the wind really so i guess we’ll just enjoy the wind we’re gonna definitely like scoop a lot of water on our way out of here this is definitely scoopable once you get out of the pollen zone
[1:07:53 – 1:07:54] Erik: We’re not making that mistake again.
[1:07:54 – 1:07:55] Bob: And we’re going to load up.
[1:07:55 – 1:08:00] Bob: Because, yeah, we only brought, like, a half bottle of water each through the portage for, like, weight management on the load.
[1:08:00 – 1:08:02] Bob: But it’s foolish.
[1:08:02 – 1:08:03] Bob: It would have been worth it to have two extra bottles.
[1:08:03 – 1:08:07] Bob: Like, honestly, we should drink all the rest of the rum and then fill that with water, too, Eric.
[1:08:07 – 1:08:08] Erik: No, no, no.
[1:08:08 – 1:08:09] Erik: There’s too much rum left.
[1:08:09 – 1:08:10] Bob: Well, that’s good, though.
[1:08:10 – 1:08:11] Bob: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:13] Erik: This is a sweet spot with the rum.
[1:08:15 – 1:08:19] Erik: I don’t think you want to do the rum too much before walking seven miles in the woods.
[1:08:19 – 1:08:20] Bob: No way.
[1:08:20 – 1:08:21] Bob: All right.
[1:08:22 – 1:08:30] Bob: For Tumble Home Boundary Waters Border Waters Podcast, three, two, one.
[1:08:30 – 1:08:34] Bob: For Tumble Home Aquatico Paddling Podcast, my name…
[1:08:35 – 1:08:40] Bob: My name is Adam, and I’m here with my dear friend Eric, and we’re going to send you off.
[1:08:41 – 1:08:45] Bob: As we always say, life is precious, and every day is a miracle.
[1:08:46 – 1:08:49] Erik: And call me now.
[1:08:49 – 1:08:50] Erik: Call me now.
[1:09:10 – 1:09:12] SPEAKER_03: We’ll be right back.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:14] SPEAKER_03: We’ll be right back.
[1:09:14 – 1:09:16] SPEAKER_03: We’ll be right back.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:19] SPEAKER_03: We’ll be right back.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:27] SPEAKER_03: And I’m a capsule Two turns of Jack Knight Explore behind you Your father’s money Has gone away Eight billion dollars They burn behind you Goodbye Boys My Old Heart Grows With life Shows
[1:10:35 – 1:11:04] SPEAKER_03: Fire away Oh and I, I, I See the old world burning Fire away So fire burn us And head to space And let the jet ignite Explode behind you
[1:11:20 – 1:11:24] UNKNOWN: We’ll be right back.
