301: Four Person Hammocks

Episode Transcript

[0:00:21 – 0:00:22] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[0:00:34 – 0:00:35] Erik: No, it’s 4K Mayo.
[0:00:35 – 0:00:36] Adam: Oh, it is 4K now.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:37] Adam: See?
[0:00:37 – 0:00:38] Adam: See it?
[0:00:38 – 0:00:38] Adam: Name tag.
[0:00:38 – 0:00:39] Erik: Even crispier.
[0:00:40 – 0:00:41] Erik: New name tag.
[0:00:41 – 0:00:42] Erik: Welcome to Tumble Home.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:45] Erik: This is Eric and my fine podcasting partner.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:47] Erik: Adam is also here.
[0:00:47 – 0:00:48] Adam: I’m fine.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:49] Erik: Yeah, you are.
[0:00:49 – 0:00:51] Adam: I’m also in 4K.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:53] Adam: 4K May Magway over here.
[0:00:54 – 0:00:56] Erik: Blistering May Magway.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:58] Adam: It’s almost too high definition.
[0:00:58 – 0:01:24] Adam: 8k may make way that’s what they call me that’s beyond the realm of human comprehension i paddle on the left and i’m in 8k yeah definition yeah well this is tumble home after dark baby oh boy it’s late this is quite late it is well i mean i don’t know it’s sort of late we’re out this time of year we’re out at the bar today we’re out of the bar
[0:01:25 – 0:01:25] Adam: I went out.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:27] Adam: Yeah, I went out too.
[0:01:28 – 0:01:29] Adam: We both went out together.
[0:01:30 – 0:01:31] Erik: I got kind of cornered.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:33] Erik: I was like looking for my exit strategies.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:42] Erik: I was like I could just roll over this half wall and be in a rock ditch and out onto the road next to my car in no time.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:44] Adam: I’m proud of you.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:45] Adam: You didn’t do it.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:45] Adam: I did not.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] Erik: It was always there though.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:49] Erik: I knew it was there.
[0:01:50 – 0:01:51] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:01:51 – 0:01:53] Adam: That’s the most people I’ve been around in a while.
[0:01:53 – 0:01:55] Erik: Yeah, well, get used to it.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:58] Erik: We’re going camping with a bunch of guys.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:00] Erik: We’re going camping with a bunch of guys.
[0:02:00 – 0:02:05] Adam: Even tomorrow morning on the Tumble Home Live 2025 trip, this is incredible.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:06] Adam: It’s here.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:06] Erik: It’s here.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:07] Erik: It’s all happening.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:08] Adam: They’re all up here.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:11] Adam: They’re staged and ready.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:13] Adam: The truck is half-packed.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:15] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:17] Adam: Gordy found his sombrero.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:18] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:02:19 – 0:02:28] Adam: And there’s new t-shirts and merch and all sorts of stickers just floating around Cook County right now up here on the tip of the arrowhead, Eric.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:29] Adam: Yeah, people are talking.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:30] Adam: They’re talking.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:31] Adam: They’re excited.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:32] Erik: Yeah, they know it’s all happening.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:38] Erik: And, yeah, I don’t know what else there is to say about the anticipated trip.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:42] Erik: The Northern Lights are out there right now.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:43] Adam: The Northern Lights are currently out.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:46] Adam: I just saw some purple out there right before we hit record.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:46] Erik: Wow.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:47] Adam: They’re purple.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:48 – 0:02:49] Adam: Winries.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:52] Adam: I can’t believe I didn’t get a name tag, though.
[0:02:52 – 0:03:02] Adam: I had to leave a little earlier than you, because I had to get home and get the little ones to bed, and I missed out on the name tags, it looks like.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:09] Erik: You left before Rex showed up, and then everybody got name tags, because it’s going to be needed, because I am not going to be able to keep track of who everybody is.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:18] Adam: We got, like, Fazmata brought Team Zizou-styled Team Tumblehome button-up polos.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:18] Adam: Well,
[0:03:19 – 0:03:47] Adam: button downs very very exciting very happy i did try mine on and it fits really nice actually they got the neck size just right yeah you knew your neck size we talked about that at all we talk about your neck size all the time always they probably know your size already anybody who’s listened to 300 episodes of this show knows that my neck size is never changed it’s always been the same 17 and a half 17 and a half strong like an ox okay that’s why i always rock the tump line eric yeah
[0:03:48 – 0:03:51] Erik: Anytime anybody asks me for my hat size, it’s always just like whatever the biggest is.
[0:03:52 – 0:03:55] Erik: Largest.
[0:03:55 – 0:03:57] Adam: I don’t think you understood what I said.
[0:03:57 – 0:04:00] Adam: I said I need all of your bacon and your largest hat.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:02] Erik: I don’t believe you fully heard me.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:04] Erik: The largest hat you have.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:06] Erik: And it’ll still be a little tight.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:10] Adam: That’s the hat for Babe the Blue Ox.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:11] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:11] Adam: Give it to me.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:12] Adam: Yeah, no, I want it.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:14] Adam: Actually, can you stretch it out a little bit?
[0:04:14 – 0:04:16] Adam: I don’t want it to hurt right away.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:21] Adam: This is episode 301 of Tumble Home.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:23] Erik: This is going to be an episode?
[0:04:23 – 0:04:25] Adam: Proud Independent Podcast.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:26] Adam: I thought we were just going fully off script.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:30] Adam: No, it’s definitely an episode because we have a show sponsor.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:32] Adam: It’s in the shiny fractals bag.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:38] Adam: This one came in in July by the guy I was sitting next to at Voyager this evening.
[0:04:39 – 0:04:47] Adam: Dear friend of the show, Admiral Geary, who really doesn’t need to be giving us art supplies at this point, but we always do appreciate it.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:52] Adam: So, yeah, I’ve been saving this one for a special occasion.
[0:04:52 – 0:05:00] Adam: It’s the night before the trip show, and the anticipation is about as high as it’s ever going to be.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:01] Adam: So we’re going to bust into this.
[0:05:01 – 0:05:03] Adam: Is it palp?
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Adam: Palpable.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:04] Adam: Palpable.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:08] Adam: Got to see Happalicious tonight.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:09] Adam: Happalicious, this one’s for you.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:11] Adam: We’re getting to it in the first five minutes of the show.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:16] Erik: We’ll have to make sure we get this up tonight so that he can get to work.
[0:05:16 – 0:05:22] Adam: Make sure you tap into the Wi-Fi at the campground to make sure that the updated art supply.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:24] Erik: Sweet, sweet campground Wi-Fi.
[0:05:25 – 0:05:27] Adam: I don’t know if they have… What kind of Wi-Fi do they have at Flower Lake?
[0:05:27 – 0:05:28] Adam: Oh, it’s 5G.
[0:05:28 – 0:05:29] Adam: There’s a letter.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:31] Erik: Are you in a nice envelope?
[0:05:31 – 0:05:34] Erik: If it’s not filled with cash, I don’t care.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:36] Erik: Not filled with cash.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:45] Adam: But yeah, Hopalicious is now on to the Art Supply Sponsorship thread 3.0, I think.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:47] Adam: We’re into our 300th episode now.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:47] Adam: 301.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:48] Adam: What do we got here?
[0:05:52 – 0:05:55] Erik: We got Eric and Adam spelled correctly.
[0:05:55 – 0:05:57] Erik: Both spelled correctly.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] Adam: Ding.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:59] Adam: Get out the train horn.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:00] Erik: Thank you.
[0:06:01 – 0:06:07] Erik: Thanks for all the laughs, lessons, and dusty vibes over the past 300 episodes.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:11] Erik: Along with this note comes my first beer sponsorship.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:12] Erik: Is that true?
[0:06:12 – 0:06:13] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:15] Erik: That doesn’t seem right, but maybe it is.
[0:06:15 – 0:06:19] Erik: Shout out to Brother Jeep Dancer for the February sponsorship credit.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:27] Erik: Really appreciate you making something that’s grown into real world friendships.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:30] Adam: I’m glad that you had faith that we would make it to 300 way back in July.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:33] Adam: Real world friendships.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:38] Adam: And that one rings true tonight, especially.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:42] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know if it needs to be said, but I greatly appreciate it.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:47] Erik: I am stepping wildly outside of my comfort zone with this whole endeavor.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:50] Erik: Meeting strangers.
[0:06:50 – 0:06:52] Erik: Not just meeting strangers.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:53] Adam: They’re not strangers.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:53] Adam: They’re friends.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:54] Adam: I know.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:57] Adam: But it is… You are taking a step…
[0:06:57 – 0:06:58] Adam: Camping with strangers?
[0:06:58 – 0:06:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:01] Adam: For me, it’s the camping with the big group.
[0:07:01 – 0:07:05] Erik: It might be different for you because I’ve got the guiding experience.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:06] Erik: I can…
[0:07:06 – 0:07:09] Erik: you know, keep my mouth shut and just kind of, like, be a background.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:09] Adam: I can’t.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:10] Adam: I never stop talking.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:14] Erik: But, like, this is way different.
[0:07:14 – 0:07:16] Erik: And it’s going to be good.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:16] Erik: It’s going to be great.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:22] Adam: Typically, camping for me is you and me on trousers, nobody else around.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:23] Adam: Right.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:24] Adam: Or wherever we are at.
[0:07:25 – 0:07:27] Adam: You know, that was just the most recent example.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:35] Adam: But, yeah, going out with a full permit of fine gentleman campers and…
[0:07:36 – 0:07:37] Adam: It’s going to be a big group for me, but I don’t know.
[0:07:38 – 0:07:41] Adam: I do like to talk, so I’m sure I’ll end up being at ease.
[0:07:41 – 0:07:47] Adam: I’ve met most of them previously, and then we got to have beers tonight in town.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:50] Adam: I think it’s going to be real comfortable.
[0:07:52 – 0:07:55] Adam: We’re going to be old friends out there within the first two hours of the trip.
[0:07:55 – 0:07:55] Adam: Easy.
[0:07:56 – 0:07:56] Adam: Sure.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:00] Erik: I’m not necessarily worried about that.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:01] Erik: I’m not really worried about anything.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:07] Erik: It’s just a weird concept, and I’m not worried about anything in particular.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:14] Erik: It’s just like a thing that I’m like, I don’t know what I’m worried about, but there is a mild level of anxiety.
[0:08:14 – 0:08:18] Adam: I guess I’m mostly worried that we’re barely packed, and it’s now, what, 9?
[0:08:18 – 0:08:19] Erik: It’s like 10.30.
[0:08:20 – 0:08:21] Erik: Before the trip?
[0:08:21 – 0:08:22] Erik: It’s like midnight.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:24] Adam: I mean, we generally, I got the canoe on.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:26] Adam: We do have our paddles packed.
[0:08:26 – 0:08:27] Adam: Canoe.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:28] Adam: Canoes?
[0:08:29 – 0:08:31] Adam: And we’re basically set in that department.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:35] Adam: But as far as my personal gear, I don’t even know where half of it is.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:37] Adam: And I’m going to find it later.
[0:08:37 – 0:08:39] Adam: Then I do have to get up early tomorrow.
[0:08:40 – 0:08:40] Erik: Wrap it up then.
[0:08:40 – 0:08:41] Erik: Good night.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:42] Erik: Adam has to pack.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:43] Erik: I got to still pack.
[0:08:43 – 0:09:05] Adam: i don’t know there’s something special about like the night before the trip late night packing i actually that’s one of my favorite parts of going on a trip is the frantic packing in the night and then how in the morning you usually do remember one thing that you hadn’t thought of the night before that you like grab in the last moment yeah and i have become a prolific uh list maker and so and i have to be
[0:09:06 – 0:09:35] Adam: honestly because my brains are turning to worms in my 40s and if i don’t write it down i will forget it so take notes make notes make reminders i do have a notepad sitting next to me here on the desk here in the tumble shed and i will be probably scribbling some notes during this show you’ve been scribbling this whole time he never stops um he’s only scribbling we did promise top wishes we’d get to the show sponsor immediately and then immediately failed him yeah once again hops why do you put up with us um
[0:09:36 – 0:09:37] Adam: Because you love us.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:39] Adam: We love you too, Hops.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:47] Adam: We have Unmapped Brewing Company out of Minnetonka, Minnesota.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:48] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:52] Adam: We have a Wild Rice Cream Ale with an elegant loon on there.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:57] Adam: And then No Trace American IPA Floral Plus Pine.
[0:09:58 – 0:10:01] Adam: I do love the use of the plus sign instead of the ampersand.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:03] Adam: Everybody knows that.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:04] Adam: We got one of each.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:05] Adam: Which one do you want to start with, sir?
[0:10:06 – 0:10:23] Erik: um i don’t know i love the artwork whatever the not wild rice cream ale is he’s too creamy you’re going with the no trace ipa yeah i don’t need any white rice in my life at this point man you can make a chowder with that though
[0:10:25 – 0:10:51] Erik: oh sorry yeah jesus christ we’re just chomping at the bit over here cheers my good man cheers to you good sir it’s the last night we’re ever gonna hang out before we know what it’s like to camp with a bunch of people that listen to this dumb podcast i mean i do go back and re-listen to them so whatever’s wrong with them is also wrong with me and you probably yeah
[0:10:52 – 0:10:54] Adam: But maybe it’s a good thing.
[0:10:55 – 0:10:56] Erik: Maybe it’s a good thing.
[0:10:56 – 0:10:58] Adam: I’m assuming it is a good thing at this point.
[0:10:59 – 0:10:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:01] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:11:01 – 0:11:06] Adam: It’s a culmination of a project that has been going on now for many years.
[0:11:06 – 0:11:13] Adam: And Adrian at work was just like, as I was leaving today, he was like, congratulations on the achievement.
[0:11:14 – 0:11:14] Adam: And I was like…
[0:11:16 – 0:11:39] Adam: you know like it’s all coming together and i was like i don’t feel like i’m not a trip leader i didn’t get the permit for this yeah he’s like yeah but he’s like but without the podcast none of this would be happening and he kind of made this hand gesture i was like this is true yeah i guess that’s true i’ve done nothing no you’ve done a lot and in terms of actual boots on the ground planning
[0:11:40 – 0:11:41] Adam: For this trip, though?
[0:11:41 – 0:11:41] Adam: No.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:41] Adam: Very little.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:43] Adam: Very little, but yeah.
[0:11:43 – 0:11:45] Erik: I had a 10-day trip behind me.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:46] Erik: You did a lot.
[0:11:46 – 0:11:49] Erik: And ahead of me previously that I needed to plan for.
[0:11:49 – 0:11:50] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:51] Adam: It’s honestly incredible.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:53] Adam: So yeah, we’re going to Long Island.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:55] Adam: I believe it has been talked about before.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:58] Adam: I’m going to get a new portage on this trip.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:02] Adam: I’ve never actually done the portage from Ham Lake to Cross Bay Lake.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:03] Adam: Which is really crazy.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:04] Adam: How is that possible?
[0:12:05 – 0:12:05] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:08] Adam: It’s a minor little blip on my map.
[0:12:09 – 0:12:14] Adam: You shouldn’t have that as a blank spot this long into your career, but there it is.
[0:12:14 – 0:12:17] Adam: We’ve always talked about honesty on this show.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:19] Erik: Have we?
[0:12:19 – 0:12:19] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:22] Adam: We’re full of integrity on this show, and…
[0:12:24 – 0:12:24] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:12:24 – 0:12:28] Adam: I think it’s kind of funny at this point that somehow I’ve never gone beyond Ham Lake.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:29] Adam: I’ve been to Ham Lake.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:29] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:34] Adam: I’ve camped on Ham Lake, but I’ve never gone that little portage over to Cross Bay Lake.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:37] Adam: I’ve always entered Cross Bay from Snipe, obviously.
[0:12:37 – 0:12:37] Adam: We love Snipe.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:38] Adam: We love Snipe.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:43] Adam: We can go to Snipe at any opportunity we can, but not tomorrow.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:45] Adam: Tomorrow morning we’re going all the way in.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:47] Erik: The easiest way possible.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:49] Adam: It’s a bunch of 60-rod portages.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:51] Adam: I feel like I’m going to be skipping through these things tomorrow.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:55] Erik: Well, I just came off of a 10-day Quetico trip.
[0:12:56 – 0:12:57] Adam: What was your longest portage on that trip?
[0:12:59 – 0:13:05] Erik: Well, we got pretty used to getting used to the meters.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:05] Adam: Yes.
[0:13:06 – 0:13:08] Erik: Going full meter.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:11] Adam: I can seamlessly transition to meters.
[0:13:12 – 0:13:14] Adam: We can go right into Chris Marr.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:15] Adam: I know you can.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:15] Erik: I know you can.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:24] Erik: I do have the Chris Marr so I can regale all of the fans on this trip with my big epic adventures.
[0:13:25 – 0:13:30] Erik: Actually, the longest trip, the longest portage was the McAlpine Portage, the Garden Walk.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:31] Adam: Yeah, well, that is a nice one.
[0:13:31 – 0:13:32] Adam: Yeah, 2.30.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:34] Adam: We’re talking rods.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:36] Adam: Right, so that’s pretty short.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:39] Erik: Well, I mean, considering what we did, I think we…
[0:13:41 – 0:13:42] Erik: It was mostly paddling.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:43] Erik: It was kind of crazy.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:45] Erik: Like, we went down to…
[0:13:45 – 0:13:48] Erik: Which is basically, I think, what we’re…
[0:13:49 – 0:13:52] Erik: This is my little Aquatico recap episode here.
[0:13:55 – 0:13:57] Adam: Put in late.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] Adam: I thought you might bring some audio back and you’re like, nope.
[0:13:59 – 0:14:00] Erik: Nah.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:01] Adam: We’re not going to.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:02] Adam: Go on, Eric.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:04] Adam: Keep your secrets.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:06] Erik: Pick your six, my friend.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:08] Erik: No, we put in a batch one real late.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:09] Erik: Nim, I should say.
[0:14:10 – 0:14:11] Erik: Nim at like five.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:12] Erik: Five?
[0:14:12 – 0:14:13] Erik: Five in the afternoon.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:16] Erik: We’re like, yeah, we’ll go in and get a sight of you.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:44] Erik: easy I know where there’s real nice sites like right away on the other side of that portage and we got in there and like oh there’s people there oh there’s people there oh there’s people there Batchelon’s loaded six campsites occupied on Batchelon what crazy I think the biggest takeaway from this trip for me was the number of people we didn’t go more than a day without seeing people or interacting with other people
[0:14:45 – 0:14:46] Erik: Which is… That’s odd.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:48] Erik: Real weird.
[0:14:48 – 0:14:51] Erik: But there’s… We’ll get to that story.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:53] Erik: But…
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Erik: So we got in late.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:54] Erik: Got a campsite.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:55] Erik: Real cold.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:56] Erik: Real windy.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:58] Erik: It was looking pretty rough.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Erik: Started a little rough.
[0:14:59 – 0:15:00] Erik: But, you know…
[0:15:01 – 0:15:05] Adam: I was never worried, but I was definitely watching the weather while you’re up there, and I was like, damn.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:08] Erik: Yeah, it felt like mid-October.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:14] Adam: So you wouldn’t think that Batchelon would be loaded.
[0:15:14 – 0:15:17] Adam: I guess maybe that’s why, because everybody would just get in and hunker down.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:46] Erik: right that first bay that main the main bay of Batchy was packed with people and we knew that the next morning the wind was supposed to pick up out of the west so I was like I don’t want to just stay at one of these campsites out in the middle of the lake because there are a few out on like these like desolate islands yeah in the middle of the lake which are real cool but if you got to get up in the morning and then like hack your way two miles across the lake just to get down that channel
[0:15:47 – 0:16:11] Erik: so we went over towards that point where we hunkered down on our trip oh yeah we were like halfway there i was like i think there’s like a fire i can see a fire so like there’s a site just like around the corner from it just like immediately adjacent to it we pulled in there got set up real hole in the wall but it was fine it worked what fisher are you on at this point do you know
[0:16:12 – 0:16:31] Erik: uh f29 29 that’s the one i had to order from that’s the one yeah and the campsite was there as indicated it was actually there yeah we did uh fisher has done a lot better over the years i feel like with their campsite locations but they’re still that’s why you ride and dive for fisher you know
[0:16:31 – 0:16:37] Erik: I would still say in Quetico, like 80% of the marked sites on Fishers are there.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:39] Erik: 20% definitely not.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:40] Erik: And not even close.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:42] Erik: Not even like, oh, it used to be a site.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Erik: I’m like, why is there a dot here?
[0:16:44 – 0:16:47] Adam: Somebody told us there might be a dot.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:58] Erik: No, there’s that whole corridor going down through the big opening of Batshuang Bay down into the actual lake or whatever, even though the bay is bigger than the lake.
[0:16:58 – 0:16:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:58 – 0:17:03] Erik: That whole corridor shows like 10 sites on the map on the fissures.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:06] Erik: And I think I maybe saw one.
[0:17:07 – 0:17:09] Adam: Yeah, I don’t remember seeing a ton of sites in there.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:10] Adam: There’s not much.
[0:17:11 – 0:17:12] Adam: There’s really not much in there.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:19] Adam: I don’t even, I mean, I have very sharp memories of the campsite on batch one that we stayed on.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:21] Adam: Well, we spent like, what, three days there?
[0:17:22 – 0:17:24] Adam: And the big moon we saw there and the walleye I caught.
[0:17:24 – 0:17:31] Erik: We spent a night before Atikokan and then came back out and then got waylaid there for two more nights.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:34] Adam: But in reality, that was a long time ago.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:39] Adam: And my map of Batchuan is a little fuzzy.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:39] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:42] Erik: I didn’t get to stay there, but we stayed adjacent to it.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:47] Erik: And then we went, because of the wind, we headed east towards Pickerel.
[0:17:48 – 0:17:50] Adam: Wait, so like how late did you get in then?
[0:17:50 – 0:17:51] Erik: Oh, it was like dark.
[0:17:52 – 0:17:55] Erik: We were getting into campsite and like it was getting dark.
[0:17:55 – 0:17:55] Erik: All right.
[0:17:56 – 0:18:00] Erik: And like got set up and made some nice fajitas with some fresh meat.
[0:18:02 – 0:18:02] Erik: And then…
[0:18:04 – 0:18:07] Erik: Yeah, I called it a night pretty early on that first night, actually.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:09] Adam: Yeah, that’s a big day of travel.
[0:18:10 – 0:18:11] Erik: Just driving, crossing the border.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:14] Adam: Going on the Trans-Canada Highway.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:20] Erik: Making that big stop at the LCBO because you can’t cross the border with basically anything but a liter of booze.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:25] Adam: Did you stop at the Arctic Watershed sign for a photo op?
[0:18:25 – 0:18:26] Adam: We didn’t.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:26] Erik: No.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:29] Adam: We honked at it as we drove by, though.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:45] Erik: yes yeah uh and then when we got to the like french lake campground sign i was like oh we’re almost there i like to get all the way over to nim is still like another like 30 minutes where’d you get your permit you didn’t have to stop there for the permit
[0:18:46 – 0:18:47] Erik: Well, that’s like another thing.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:50] Erik: So I got the permit.
[0:18:50 – 0:18:52] Erik: I was like, oh, no, it’s after season.
[0:18:53 – 0:18:55] Erik: It’s after Labor Day or whatever.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:59] Erik: We’ll just fill out our permits at NIM or whatever.
[0:18:59 – 0:19:01] Erik: But I just quick popped online.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:03] Erik: I was like, oh, no, they changed it.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:04] Erik: They’re doing permits.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:30] Erik: through like year round now oh y’all gotta come see the binder but you don’t have to like stop in if it’s after season uh-huh but you still need to actually buy a permit which is actually much nicer because then you’re not like leaving 100 or 500 in cash or a check in a fucking box somewhere in the middle of the woods i only use traveler’s checks for my quetico permits
[0:19:30 – 0:19:31] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:32] Erik: Well, I mean, that’s smart.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:33] Erik: It’s just called being smart.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:35] Adam: I learned that from the movie Home Alone.
[0:19:35 – 0:19:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:36 – 0:19:37] Adam: The best way to pay for anything.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:42] Erik: But so I found out last second, I was like, oh, I actually do have to get a permit.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:43] Erik: So I got a permit.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:46] Erik: And then at the bottom, it was like, all the ranger stations are closed.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:48] Erik: You just self-issue this permit.
[0:19:48 – 0:19:50] Erik: Like, this is your permit.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:53] Erik: How many permits are there for Batchelon?
[0:19:53 – 0:19:53] Erik: Seven.
[0:19:53 – 0:19:53] Erik: Or NIMH?
[0:19:54 – 0:19:54] Erik: Seven per day.
[0:19:55 – 0:19:56] Erik: And when I got it, there was four left.
[0:19:56 – 0:19:57] Erik: Okay.
[0:19:57 – 0:19:58] Adam: Okay.
[0:19:59 – 0:20:00] Adam: So they all sold, huh?
[0:20:01 – 0:20:01] Erik: Well, I don’t know.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:03] Erik: Maybe people were coming out.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:04] Adam: Maybe.
[0:20:05 – 0:20:05] Adam: Yeah, I suppose.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:16] Erik: But either way, so I got the permit, I bought it, and then when I got out of the woods, I got an email from the Nancy Mondalexis version of Aquatico Ranger.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:17] Erik: What’s her name?
[0:20:19 – 0:20:21] Adam: Frances Leambiancis.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:22] Erik: Yes, exactly.
[0:20:23 – 0:20:23] Erik: Exactly.
[0:20:23 – 0:20:26] Adam: It’s Francis Leambiantis, the Nancy Mondalexis.
[0:20:26 – 0:20:31] Erik: Oh, I noticed you didn’t stop in at a ranger station for your permit.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:33] Erik: Did you go on your trip?
[0:20:33 – 0:20:34] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:38] Erik: I was like, I think it said on the bottom of this that this was my permit.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:40] Erik: I didn’t have to go to a ranger station.
[0:20:40 – 0:20:41] Erik: I don’t know what’s going on here.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:59] Adam: so i i still have not responded but you know they let you out of the country so unfortunately they didn’t detain you yeah you tried your best you tried your best to be detained yeah and it failed yeah that’s too bad but it was a good effort yeah
[0:21:02 – 0:21:04] Adam: You didn’t have Rogers LTE.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:06] Adam: You could have like done the permit over the internet.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:07] Erik: I was the only one with a phone.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:08] Erik: It was off the whole time.
[0:21:09 – 0:21:16] Erik: And the only reason I had my phone is because I had a screenshot of the permit and everybody that I was with their fishing licenses got sent to me.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:19] Erik: So it was one phone on the trip.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:27] Erik: It was probably actually the best trip I’ve ever had in terms of not keeping track of time.
[0:21:27 – 0:21:29] Erik: Just having no idea like…
[0:21:29 – 0:21:30] Adam: It’s funny how that goes.
[0:21:30 – 0:21:32] Adam: It’s like phone discipline.
[0:21:32 – 0:21:33] Adam: Don’t look.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:36] Adam: It’s the anti-phone discipline.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:36] Adam: Do not look.
[0:21:37 – 0:21:39] Adam: I didn’t turn it on for 10 days.
[0:21:44 – 0:22:08] Erik: and i was with uh somebody who did have a watch maybe on day one but then they they took it off i don’t think i ever saw because that that’s one of those things where it’s like yeah i don’t know my phone am i gonna look at a watch but then i said anybody’s wearing a watch you’re like kind of always looking at it like trying to spy a little yeah i like to use my phone for a camera so then you naturally just see the time occasionally even if you’re not trying to yeah
[0:22:08 – 0:22:10] Erik: Well, we had a lot of other auxiliary cameras.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:11] Erik: Did you bring the big one?
[0:22:12 – 0:22:13] Erik: No, I did not.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:13] Erik: Damn, bro.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:15] Erik: But other people on the trip did have cameras.
[0:22:15 – 0:22:17] Adam: Did you bring a hand-cranked camcorder?
[0:22:18 – 0:22:24] Erik: Well, the only thing that gave me a general semblance of time was the weather radio.
[0:22:24 – 0:22:26] Erik: I was going to say, yeah, you have to look at that.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:28] Adam: Or, I guess, listen to it.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:29] Erik: We cranked that up multiple times.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Erik: But you never know.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:33] Erik: Sometimes it would be like, it can’t possibly be that time.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:39] Erik: It must be an old issuance of the weather report.
[0:22:39 – 0:22:41] Erik: Because it’s not, I mean.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:45] Adam: Was the weather report accurate?
[0:22:47 – 0:22:47] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:22:47 – 0:22:49] Erik: Like, I don’t really think so.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:54] Adam: Has the weather reporting just gone totally down the tubes?
[0:22:55 – 0:22:56] Adam: It’s just complete ass nowadays.
[0:22:56 – 0:23:03] Erik: Well, like, we were mostly listening to the Ontario, the Environment Canada actual, like,
[0:23:05 – 0:23:07] Adam: How many people do they have actually on it?
[0:23:07 – 0:23:13] Adam: I feel like all the weather people got fired and now all the forecasting for North America is completely in the asser.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:14] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[0:23:15 – 0:23:15] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:23:15 – 0:23:26] Erik: I didn’t think it was super accurate, but also maybe it was accurate enough, but it seemed like it changed a lot really quickly.
[0:23:26 – 0:23:28] Adam: You had some goofy stuff going on.
[0:23:29 – 0:23:36] Erik: Yeah, and also it was, I don’t know if it was necessarily the easiest forecast for a weather robot to try and maintain.
[0:23:36 – 0:23:39] Adam: There was some weird stuff like going like straight north to south.
[0:23:40 – 0:23:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:23:40 – 0:23:48] Adam: I’ve seen, yeah, there’s some patterns going on just that week and still going on this week of just like odd patterns.
[0:23:49 – 0:23:58] Adam: Weird wind, little dewdrop storms that are just pebbles of rain coming across the sky instead of full fronts.
[0:23:59 – 0:24:01] Adam: I don’t know how to make of that.
[0:24:01 – 0:24:10] Adam: Stuff that just develops and then disappears seemingly at random without any explanation due to the proximity of the other cells nearby.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Erik: Yeah.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:17] Erik: So when we took off, it was basically like a day after that big first front.
[0:24:18 – 0:24:20] Adam: The day after tomorrow, so to speak.
[0:24:20 – 0:24:23] Erik: Yeah, the big day after tomorrow fall is here front.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:26] Erik: And then it took five days for that shit to blow out.
[0:24:28 – 0:24:32] Erik: It was cold, windy, and rainy the first two days.
[0:24:32 – 0:24:36] Erik: And then halfway through the second day, it kind of started breaking up.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:46] Erik: But it was still very much hardcore squall clouds that you would see.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:47] Adam: Were you all in hammocks?
[0:24:49 – 0:24:51] Adam: Or did you guys have one big tent?
[0:24:52 – 0:24:53] Erik: We had one big hammock.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:54] Erik: One big…
[0:24:55 – 0:24:56] Adam: And that’s the episode title.
[0:24:57 – 0:24:57] Adam: Yes.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:00] Adam: The four-person hammock.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:01] Adam: Yes.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:02] Erik: One big hammock.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:08] Erik: Yeah, it was like a Robinson Crusoe, one big trampoline style slash size hammock.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:12] Adam: You guys adopted a possum and a fisher.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:14] Adam: And they just hung out with you.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:15] Erik: Coconut radios.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:16] Erik: Yeah, it was all happening.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:17] Adam: Coconut radios.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:20] Erik: That’s the hand crank radio.
[0:25:20 – 0:25:22] Erik: Beaver tail radios, actually.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:24] Erik: Big hats.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:25] Erik: Three of us were in hammocks.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:25] Erik: No shoes.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:31] Erik: And then there was a tent that was sometimes, depending on the weather, shared.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:33] Adam: Oh, did you have like a gaming tent?
[0:25:33 – 0:25:34] Erik: No, we never did that.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:36] Erik: But like there were some nights where I was like.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:38] Adam: Guys set up the Xbox in there.
[0:25:38 – 0:25:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:40] Adam: And the Starlink.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:41] Erik: For sure the Starlink.
[0:25:41 – 0:25:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:44] Adam: Got to play the Call of the Duties.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:48] Adam: Got to shoot them guys, the bad guys.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:49] Adam: Get them.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:50] Erik: They are bad.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:51] Erik: Bang, bang.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:58] Erik: Yeah, three in hammocks for the most part, for sure.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:01] Erik: And then sometimes two in hammocks, two in a tent.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:04] Erik: Where’s the Chihuahua at, though?
[0:26:04 – 0:26:05] Erik: There were two dogs.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:09] Erik: He was occasionally, well, he was wherever Mom was.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:10] Erik: Did he go in the hammock?
[0:26:11 – 0:26:22] Erik: Well, unfortunately, he got used to the first two nights, which were cold and wet and rainy, of just going into, which was referred to as the bitch tent.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:23] Erik: Ha ha!
[0:26:24 – 0:26:48] Erik: just because it was two two ladies in it and then hector would go in there and then on the third night it was nice but he he didn’t realize he had no concept of like weather and he was very interested in still going back and sleeping in the tent this is home yeah no we should just go back to that tent what are you doing up in that what what
[0:26:49 – 0:26:50] Erik: Why are you in the sky?
[0:26:50 – 0:26:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:26:51 – 0:26:56] Erik: So he’d, like, jump up into the hammock for, like, a minute and then be like, no, I need to go back over to the tent.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:59] Erik: And then ended up just curling up under the hammock.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:02] Erik: So it all worked out, though.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:09] Erik: So, yeah, it was way busier than I thought it was going to be.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:16] Erik: And day three, we got down to a real amazing sight on Sturgeon.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:17] Erik: Maybe…
[0:27:18 – 0:27:31] Erik: Like on paper, it’s one of those places where it’s like on paper and in your mind and just in general, maybe one of the finest campsites I’ve ever stayed at.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:34] Erik: It’s on the south shore of Sturgeon about halfway down.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:37] Erik: It’s a little spit of sand on both sides.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:41] Erik: We’d kind of been like… Did you hear any French singing?
[0:27:41 – 0:27:41] Erik: No.
[0:27:41 – 0:27:45] Erik: We’d kind of been like, I don’t know, the first day we got in late.
[0:27:45 – 0:27:48] Erik: I couldn’t really blame anybody for campsite occupation.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:49] Erik: I wasn’t that mad.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:52] Erik: I was just like, man, we got in late.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:53] Adam: We’ll take whatever we get.
[0:27:53 – 0:27:54] Adam: What day of the week even was it?
[0:27:55 – 0:27:56] Adam: Thursday, I think.
[0:27:56 – 0:27:57] Adam: It’s so weird that there’s that many people.
[0:27:58 – 0:28:00] Erik: Yeah, and then we started moving the next day.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:02] Erik: It was rainy, windy.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:06] Erik: We kind of went counterclockwise.
[0:28:06 – 0:28:12] Erik: No, we went clockwise in terms of the route we were considering because of the wind.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:17] Erik: So we blew over to like Jesse, Maria.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:23] Erik: And then we were like, oh, let’s get down to Elizabeth and we’ll find a site on Elizabeth.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:24] Erik: It’ll be great.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:29] Erik: And we got down there and like end of the day, like ready to be done.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:30] Erik: So ready to be done.
[0:28:31 – 0:28:36] Erik: And came around a corner, one seemingly viable campsite occupied.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:37] Erik: No way.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:42] Erik: So we got to do one more portage to get out of there into Walter.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:47] Erik: And then we did end up finding like basically on the other side of the portage,
[0:28:48 – 0:29:10] Erik: you could like see it from the other side of the portage i was like oh that’s an amazing site i’m glad we pushed and then i was like all right we’ll get up tomorrow and get down to that cool spot i think it’s a cool spot i’ve actually never been there it looks really cool on the map though it’s like a little sand spit yeah halfway down sturgeon got down there and i was like
[0:29:12 – 0:29:20] Erik: The weather was like, you know, spritzing, spraying, raining, and then the sun would come out.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:23] Erik: It was like finally kind of starting to like break up a little bit.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:27] Erik: I was like, if that campsite’s occupied, I might cry.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:31] Erik: Because it kind of been like a rough start.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:39] Erik: I wasn’t like demoralized or anything, but it was a little bit of a, this is not what I’m used to coming out here.
[0:29:41 – 0:30:07] Erik: we came around the corner and it was open and we we took it and we’re like let’s stay here for a couple of days do a layover day here so nice like literally like the I think you could probably and I say this in like kind of apprehensively because of the story that’s coming next you could camp like 50 people there you shouldn’t you should not
[0:30:08 – 0:30:08] Erik: And…
[0:30:09 – 0:30:12] Erik: It’s two days in, at least.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:18] Erik: Yeah, barring an emergency or a weather need.
[0:30:18 – 0:30:19] Erik: Like, yeah.
[0:30:19 – 0:30:21] Erik: There’s no reason that…
[0:30:21 – 0:30:22] Erik: Plenty of other campsites.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:23] Erik: Plenty of other campsites.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:24] Erik: And so we were there.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:25] Erik: We’re sitting.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:25] Erik: We’re chilling.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:27] Erik: It’s just an amazing sight.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:30] Erik: Like, flat as flat can be.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:32] Erik: Like, dogs loved it.
[0:30:33 – 0:30:35] Erik: Throwing the dog balls around.
[0:30:35 – 0:30:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:35 – 0:30:36] Erik: It’s like, I don’t know.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:38] Erik: You could set up.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:41] Adam: Getting in the water at all at this point or is it not warm enough?
[0:30:42 – 0:30:43] Erik: I had not swum at this point.
[0:30:44 – 0:30:45] Erik: I did swim.
[0:30:45 – 0:30:46] Erik: I did swim on the trip.
[0:30:48 – 0:30:55] Erik: But like almost to a certain extent, like a confusing number of like hammock trees where you’re like, I don’t even know.
[0:30:55 – 0:30:57] Erik: Like the options are so endless.
[0:30:58 – 0:30:58] Erik: What do I do?
[0:30:58 – 0:30:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:58 – 0:31:00] Erik: This is insane.
[0:31:02 – 0:31:05] Erik: But we got set up and then the next day we were just hanging out and it was like, I don’t know.
[0:31:07 – 0:31:08] Erik: A little after lunch.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:20] Erik: All kinds of crazy old, you remember this when we were up in Quatico, just the amount of like old like logging or mining like metal.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:23] Erik: Just like crazy hunks of metal.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:25] Erik: Big, yeah, big can.
[0:31:26 – 0:31:28] Erik: Huge slabs of like cast iron.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:36] Erik: We’d find like two massive like one inch thick slabs of like cast iron that were like four something.
[0:31:37 – 0:31:38] Erik: Smelting out there?
[0:31:40 – 0:31:40] Adam: I have no idea.
[0:31:41 – 0:31:42] Erik: I think it was maybe a railroad thing.
[0:31:42 – 0:31:46] Adam: I feel like I found a big gear at some point.
[0:31:47 – 0:31:49] Adam: Half sunk into the rock.
[0:31:49 – 0:31:51] Erik: Most of those are underwater now.
[0:31:52 – 0:32:02] Erik: We found a couple in camp and we flipped one and put it on the fire and then seasoned it with a bunch of bacon grease and made paninis on it.
[0:32:02 – 0:32:04] Adam: On the old iron.
[0:32:05 – 0:32:05] Erik: Yes.
[0:32:05 – 0:32:06] Adam: Found iron.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:08] Erik: Yeah, found iron.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:09] Erik: Greased it down.
[0:32:09 – 0:32:10] Adam: Greased it down, baby.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:11] Erik: Had some fresh bread.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:14] Erik: Cooked bacon in the wok.
[0:32:14 – 0:32:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:16] Erik: I was wondering if you had the wok.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:17] Erik: Oh, we had the wok.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:18] Erik: Confirmed, wok.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:20] Erik: Yeah, wok was out there.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:26] Erik: That was the star of any meal was the wok.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:31] Erik: But we were sitting there, and we had been there for like a day and a half.
[0:32:32 – 0:32:37] Erik: It’d be actually like the first point in time where we were like, oh, I haven’t really seen anybody for a while.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:38 – 0:32:40] Erik: We kind of like looked down the lake.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:42] Erik: It was like midday on the second day we were there.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:45] Erik: And it was like, oh, look at this armada.
[0:32:45 – 0:32:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:48] Erik: It’s a big crew of four coming towards us here.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:58] Erik: And they kind of just kept coming at us, kind of kept paddling towards us.
[0:32:59 – 0:33:01] Adam: Can they see that you’re there at this point?
[0:33:01 – 0:33:01] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:33:01 – 0:33:02] Adam: You can see them.
[0:33:02 – 0:33:02] Adam: Can they see you?
[0:33:02 – 0:33:06] Erik: We can for sure see them, and I’m sure that they can see us.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:15] Erik: And then when they kind of started getting kind of close…
[0:33:16 – 0:33:19] Erik: One of the guys I was fishing or camping with started fishing.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:25] Erik: And whenever he casts lures, the dog that they have kind of goes crazy.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:26] Erik: Yeah, I like that.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:27] Erik: And so the dog barks.
[0:33:28 – 0:33:31] Erik: And so he was like, I’m just going to start casting at these guys.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:35] Erik: Get the dog to start barking just so that they know we’re here.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:37] Adam: They knew.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:38] Erik: But yeah.
[0:33:39 – 0:33:40] Adam: I can tell where this is going already.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:41] Adam: They knew.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:50] Erik: We’re just, I’m like, all right, well, I’m going to go back up in a camp with like the fire was like way up in camp and they were fishing on the Eastern shore.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:52 – 0:33:58] Erik: Dogs were barking and I was sitting in camp and it’s like, oh, it looks like they’re actually going to turn and like go around the point.
[0:33:59 – 0:34:02] Erik: And then a minute later, no, they’re landing.
[0:34:02 – 0:34:05] Erik: They’re out at the tip of the spit of sand.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:07] Erik: And I was like,
[0:34:11 – 0:34:12] Adam: It’s a lunch stop.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:12] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Adam: They’re just stopping for lunch.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:14] Adam: Why?
[0:34:15 – 0:34:18] Adam: But even then, why would you stop there at a occupied campsite for lunch?
[0:34:18 – 0:34:20] Erik: Why do I have to have this conversation?
[0:34:21 – 0:34:22] Erik: What’s wrong with people?
[0:34:23 – 0:34:23] Erik: Why?
[0:34:23 – 0:34:24] Erik: Exactly.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:27] Erik: Why do I have to even go in?
[0:34:27 – 0:34:29] Erik: Why is there confrontation right now?
[0:34:30 – 0:34:31] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:32] Erik: But there was.
[0:34:33 – 0:34:37] Erik: It wasn’t confrontation, but there was a confrontation.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:42] Erik: And he kind of starts… One guy starts walking over from…
[0:34:43 – 0:34:44] Erik: It was like a group of nine, too.
[0:34:45 – 0:34:46] Erik: It wasn’t just like three guys.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:48] Erik: It was a full armada.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:50] Adam: Is nine the limit in Quetico?
[0:34:50 – 0:34:51] Adam: Yeah, it is.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:52] Adam: It is.
[0:34:52 – 0:34:53] Adam: So it’s the same rules.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:54] Erik: Same rules.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:54] Erik: Okay.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:57] Erik: Yeah, can, bottle ban, that whole thing.
[0:34:57 – 0:34:59] Erik: Campsites are the only real difference.
[0:34:59 – 0:34:59] Erik: Right.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:03] Erik: And so I go walking over, I’m like, hey, what can I do you for?
[0:35:03 – 0:35:05] Erik: Which is like kind of a…
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Adam: Very Canadian of you.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:10] Adam: You know, kind of an implied like… What the hell is wrong with you?
[0:35:10 – 0:35:11] Erik: What the hell are you doing?
[0:35:11 – 0:35:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:13] Adam: That’s a very polite way of saying what’s wrong with you.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:16] Erik: Did you come out here to interact with others?
[0:35:17 – 0:35:17] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:17 – 0:35:18] Erik: Because I didn’t.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:19 – 0:35:20] Erik: I know nobody in my group did.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:23] Adam: Did you have that scabbard on you?
[0:35:23 – 0:35:26] Adam: I did not have that actually hooked onto my belt at the time.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:28] Adam: Just tapping the scabbard with your middle finger?
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] Erik: The Zubat?
[0:35:29 – 0:35:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:29 – 0:35:33] Erik: I really wish I would have had the Zubat on my belt for this interaction.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:57] Erik: Um, and so I went walking over there and there’s like this weird, uh, so like, as I was walking over there, I didn’t hear any of this, but like, um, the other people in the group that I was with that were legitimately camping there heard members of their group be like, oh yeah, Jake’s going to charm them.
[0:35:58 – 0:35:59] Erik: Jake’s going to really charm them.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:27] Erik: the hell does that mean that sounds like a dystopian uh novel yeah i have no idea jake’s gonna charm him so apparently i it was jake who i interacted with oh it was just weird like feeling out of another person but i was like i have all the cards here at the time i didn’t know but jake i have all the cards yes it’s like it’s one in the afternoon yeah it’s not that windy
[0:36:28 – 0:36:30] Erik: Like, Sturgeon’s a big lake.
[0:36:30 – 0:36:32] Erik: I could get it if it was galing out of the west.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:34] Erik: I do not like the term charm them.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:35] Erik: Yeah, no, I don’t like.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:37] Erik: I don’t want to be charmed.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:38] Erik: Watch this.
[0:36:38 – 0:36:39] Erik: Jake’s going to charm them.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:44] Erik: Like, that’s literally what my multiple party members of my group were like.
[0:36:45 – 0:36:46] Erik: But you didn’t hear that?
[0:36:46 – 0:36:48] Erik: They said they were going to come over and charm you, Eric.
[0:36:49 – 0:36:51] Adam: I was like, I did not get charmed.
[0:36:52 – 0:36:53] Adam: I was not charmed.
[0:36:54 – 0:36:55] Erik: I was like, hey, what can I do you for?
[0:36:56 – 0:37:00] Erik: Oh, yeah, hey, we’re just paddling.
[0:37:00 – 0:37:04] Erik: It was just kind of that conversation you have at a portage.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:08] Erik: It was like, I get it to a certain extent, Jake.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:11] Erik: This is a big-looking site.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:12] Erik: It’s nice.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:16] Erik: I’m sure you were disappointed to come around the corner and see us here.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:17] Erik: They had a plan, too.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:18] Adam: You had the plan.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:23] Adam: You were thrilled to see it was not occupied the day before when you got in.
[0:37:23 – 0:37:24] Erik: Yeah, exactly.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:29] Adam: Jake thought, nobody’s going to be on this nice sandy point in Sturgeon.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:35] Adam: They come around the corner and they see some nude people casting and a dog barking.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:39] Adam: And now they’re thinking, well, now Jake’s got to charm them.
[0:37:39 – 0:37:45] Erik: But the thought in my mind would be, damn.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:46] Adam: Move on.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:47] Adam: Move on.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:50] Adam: You did it three times already on this trip, I think.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:51] Erik: Multiple times.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:57] Erik: There was never a thought in my head when they came around the corner, even in much more dire straits.
[0:37:57 – 0:37:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:58 – 0:38:00] Erik: Late in the day.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:01] Erik: Squalls are flaring.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:07] Erik: Literally, one of the last sites on the day two, we were so ready to be done.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:08] Erik: We came around a corner.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:11] Erik: We literally came around a corner, and there was a site occupied.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:16] Erik: And it was one of the more demoralized experiences I’ve ever had in Quetico.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:18] Erik: I was like, I don’t know.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:19] Erik: I guess we’ll just keep going around this corner.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:21] Erik: Maybe there’s another spot.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:26] Erik: And we came around that point and saw moose on the shoreline, and I didn’t even care about it.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:27] Erik: I was like…
[0:38:29 – 0:38:35] Erik: I was so disappointed, but there was never a thought in my head to be like, well, let’s just pop into that campsite.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:38] Erik: Maybe see what that guy has to say.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:40] Erik: Have you ever in your life tried to charm him?
[0:38:41 – 0:38:41] UNKNOWN: No.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:44] Adam: I guarantee you, I’ve camped with you a lot of times.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:45] Adam: I’ve known you a long time.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:51] Adam: Neither of us have ever tried to charm someone out of a site or out of anything, really.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:56] Adam: What’s wrong with people that think they can charm somebody out of something that they don’t deserve?
[0:38:57 – 0:38:58] Erik: What’s wrong with this fucking world?
[0:38:59 – 0:38:59] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:38:59 – 0:39:12] Erik: And that’s the main takeaway from this whole thing is it wasn’t so much as like, I don’t know, maybe there was a point in his mind, Jake, that is, where he thought I was going to be like, yeah, you guys could come hang out.
[0:39:12 – 0:39:13] Erik: We’re leaving early tomorrow.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:14] Erik: Just set up.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:18] Erik: It is a huge site, but also Sturgeon Lake, huge.
[0:39:19 – 0:39:20] Erik: Huge lake.
[0:39:21 – 0:39:23] Erik: Unlimited campsites early in the day.
[0:39:24 – 0:39:26] Erik: And he’s just kind of feeling me out.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:28] Erik: I could tell he was feeling me out.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:29] Erik: He’s like, oh, how long are you here?
[0:39:30 – 0:39:31] Erik: How many are you?
[0:39:31 – 0:39:33] Erik: I was like, I really don’t think I should be.
[0:39:33 – 0:39:35] Erik: I don’t need to be answering any of these questions.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:36] Erik: Right.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:42] Erik: I’m at a campsite in the middle of fucking Quetico right now, and you’re just going to paddle up and start asking me these things?
[0:39:42 – 0:39:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:42 – 0:39:43] Erik: Like, what is wrong with you?
[0:39:43 – 0:39:46] Erik: It’s like, oh, do you mind if we just do lunch here?
[0:39:46 – 0:39:49] Erik: I was like, yeah, whatever.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:49] Erik: Fine.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:50] Erik: Just do lunch.
[0:39:50 – 0:39:57] Erik: And then they did lunch and then just paddled across the lake just to an island with an eye shot and then stayed there.
[0:39:58 – 0:40:01] Erik: I could not, for the life of me, we talked about it for days.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:03] Erik: It’s like, what is the thought process?
[0:40:04 – 0:40:05] Erik: Like, yeah, all right.
[0:40:05 – 0:40:09] Erik: You want to do lunch and then press on for another like eight miles?
[0:40:09 – 0:40:10] Erik: Okay, fine.
[0:40:10 – 0:40:11] Erik: Sounds like a bunch of babies.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:20] Erik: But you just had to push your little itinerary on me just because you wanted to stay here so much.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:25] Erik: And I guarantee they were probably watching us with binoculars the next morning when we took off.
[0:40:25 – 0:40:26] Erik: Did you have binoculars?
[0:40:27 – 0:40:28] Erik: No, actually, we didn’t.
[0:40:29 – 0:40:31] Adam: I’m going to let you in on a little secret.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:34] Adam: Most of the people on this planet are dumber than a bag of rocks.
[0:40:35 – 0:40:42] Adam: They don’t have any understanding of anything beyond their own selves or what they want, nor empathy for anybody else’s situation.
[0:40:43 – 0:40:48] Adam: And people like that are just like, we deserve this campsite, and we’re going to come in here and muscle them out.
[0:40:49 – 0:40:53] Adam: And you didn’t get muscled out, and then they’re going to like, well, we’re going to sit on this island and be a bunch of dicks about it.
[0:40:54 – 0:40:57] Erik: The one thing that he said to me, too, that was also very like,
[0:40:59 – 0:41:00] Erik: I lost all credibility for him.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:02] Erik: He’s like, yeah, we’ve stayed here before.
[0:41:02 – 0:41:03] Erik: Good for you.
[0:41:03 – 0:41:04] Erik: I was like, okay, well.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:05] Erik: So have we.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:07] Erik: I’ve never stayed here before, actually.
[0:41:08 – 0:41:10] Adam: And we’re here, so.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:13] Adam: So go on and keep moving.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:18] Adam: There’s plenty of lake for you, Jake, if that’s your real name.
[0:41:19 – 0:41:20] Adam: Jake’s got to charm them.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:23] Erik: I didn’t get charmed, but I kind of like…
[0:41:24 – 0:41:24] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:27] Erik: I guess I got charmed into letting them have lunch there.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:29] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:29 – 0:41:31] Adam: Did they share their lunch with you at all?
[0:41:31 – 0:41:31] Erik: No, they had nothing.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:34] Erik: They just sat out at the tip of the sand point.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:36] Erik: They didn’t even bring over a bag of wine?
[0:41:36 – 0:41:38] Erik: No, they did nothing.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:39] Erik: They did nothing.
[0:41:39 – 0:41:41] Adam: Jake, if you’re listening to this podcast…
[0:41:41 – 0:41:42] Adam: And I doubt you are.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:44] Adam: But get your shit together.
[0:41:44 – 0:41:45] Adam: This is insane behavior.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:52] Adam: An unbecoming of somebody that would be paddling in Quetico, let alone be just paddling in general for fun and recreation.
[0:41:53 – 0:41:54] Adam: Get your ass together.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:55] Adam: This is ridiculous.
[0:41:55 – 0:41:57] Adam: And honestly, you might be the new Rex.
[0:41:58 – 0:41:59] Adam: Charm him.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:00] Adam: Oh, he charmed him.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:00] Adam: All right.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:03] Adam: He’s Jake Spoon from the dry bean over here.
[0:42:04 – 0:42:09] Erik: No, they gave me hardcore Illinois vibes for sure.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:12] Erik: These were like guys a little younger than I was.
[0:42:13 – 0:42:14] Erik: I was like, are you guiding them?
[0:42:14 – 0:42:15] Adam: They were younger than you?
[0:42:16 – 0:42:19] Adam: See, I was picturing these guys being like old-timers the whole time.
[0:42:19 – 0:42:22] Erik: No, all the old-timers we ran into were great.
[0:42:24 – 0:42:31] Adam: Actually, and that is true, and I take it back, because the old-timers you do run into a couple days into the park are always, without fail, a delight.
[0:42:32 – 0:42:39] Adam: And it is, honestly, the younger people that have no comprehension of social norms and niceties.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:42] Adam: Or just common good sense.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:44] Erik: Most of the people we ran into were actually like…
[0:42:45 – 0:42:46] Erik: I was like, wow.
[0:42:46 – 0:42:48] Adam: I’m shocked at the amount of people you saw, honestly.
[0:42:48 – 0:42:50] Adam: A lot of people, actually.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:51] Erik: It was…
[0:42:51 – 0:42:53] Erik: I don’t think we went more than…
[0:42:53 – 0:42:55] Erik: I mean, we had banger campsites.
[0:42:55 – 0:42:57] Adam: Right, because you’ve seen… We got amazing campsites, but like…
[0:42:57 – 0:43:01] Adam: You’ve seen times when the weather’s just perfect for 10 days in Quetico.
[0:43:01 – 0:43:02] Adam: I know you have.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:03 – 0:43:05] Adam: And this was not one of those times.
[0:43:05 – 0:43:06] Adam: What are all these people doing out there?
[0:43:07 – 0:43:13] Adam: Is this one of those things now where people have plans and they just got to stick with them due to the world?
[0:43:14 – 0:43:14] Adam: I guess.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:14] Adam: Got to do it.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:18] Adam: Nobody’s got the time for waiting for the good weather anymore.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:25] Erik: I was also pretty surprised to hear from a lot of the older people that we did run into were from Canada.
[0:43:26 – 0:43:27] Erik: I was like…
[0:43:27 – 0:43:27] Adam: I wouldn’t be surprised.
[0:43:28 – 0:43:31] Adam: I would assume most of the people you would see up there would be from Canada.
[0:43:31 – 0:43:32] Adam: How many Americans are up there?
[0:43:32 – 0:43:34] Adam: Was Jake from America?
[0:43:34 – 0:43:34] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:35] Adam: He was very much American.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:35] Adam: What?
[0:43:35 – 0:43:36] Erik: Like I said, he was like…
[0:43:36 – 0:43:38] Erik: He’s probably from the Quad Cities.
[0:43:38 – 0:43:39] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:43:40 – 0:43:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:43:40 – 0:43:43] Erik: I hope you know, Jake, that that was a real dirtbag move.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:44] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:46] Erik: Like, I think we’ve said it.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:47] Adam: I’m John Deere for life, but Moline…
[0:43:48 – 0:44:10] Erik: whenever whenever is it a proper situation in the middle of the day borderline dead calm conditions to just paddle up to somebody else’s campsite quote-unquote charm them and then have lunch and then paddle across the lake less than a half a mile away and then just sit there until they leave wait did they play music on a speaker
[0:44:10 – 0:44:11] Adam: There was no JBS.
[0:44:11 – 0:44:14] Adam: All right, then it’s a 50-50 call.
[0:44:15 – 0:44:16] Adam: It’s still stupid.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:17] Erik: It’s a horseshit move.
[0:44:17 – 0:44:24] Erik: It’s a real horseshit move, and I think Jake should actually take a weekend just to yourself.
[0:44:24 – 0:44:26] Adam: I’m going to let you in on another little secret.
[0:44:26 – 0:44:28] Adam: People like Jake never look in the mirror, Eric.
[0:44:29 – 0:44:35] Adam: They don’t look in the mirror, and they’ll never, ever understand how horrible of a behavior this was.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:38] Adam: The Jakes of this world are just going to keep doing that stuff.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:40] Adam: But I’m glad you’re calling them out.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:45] Adam: Because maybe somebody else out there will hear this and not become a future Jake.
[0:44:46 – 0:44:47] Erik: I think it’s horse shit.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:47] Adam: Jake’s the new Rex.
[0:44:48 – 0:44:49] Adam: Get out of here, Jake.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:53] Adam: Did you come out here to like…
[0:44:53 – 0:44:55] Erik: I don’t even think Uncle Rex would pull this.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:57] Erik: This is a whole other level of baloney.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:00] Erik: Is Jake the new hyper Rex?
[0:45:00 – 0:45:01] Erik: Jake is the modern Rex.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:04] Erik: Did you come on here to talk to a bunch of people?
[0:45:05 – 0:45:06] Erik: I never want to talk.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:08] Adam: I don’t want to talk to anybody when I’m out there.
[0:45:09 – 0:45:10] Adam: Unless they’re in my group.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:14] Erik: There’s no possible way that you could charm me.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:18] Erik: I don’t know what’s going on right now.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:22] Adam: Honestly, it’s pathetic and it’s very sad, honestly.
[0:45:22 – 0:45:42] Adam: Now that I’m beyond the moment of being aggravated by it and now I’m just listening to you tell the story and it’s like, whatever’s wrong with these people is never going to be, they’re never going to be aware of it, this kind of person, and it’s honestly just sad that they won’t ever honestly realize what they’re even about.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:43] Erik: Yeah, it’s probably true.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:47] Adam: Which is, frankly, just a lack of self-respect.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:54] Adam: If they don’t even respect themselves enough to understand that’s a bad thing to do, then they will never respect anybody else around them.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:59] Adam: And I don’t know how to reach somebody like that.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:01] Adam: I guess that’s where I’m at in this modern world.
[0:46:02 – 0:46:08] Adam: I do think most of the people in this world are dumber than hell and will never get it.
[0:46:08 – 0:46:11] Adam: But how do you reach somebody like that and educate them?
[0:46:11 – 0:46:13] Adam: You just honestly can’t.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:14] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:14] Erik: Can you?
[0:46:15 – 0:46:16] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:20] Erik: The alternative would have been to be just a crazy person.
[0:46:20 – 0:46:21] Erik: This is an important storm.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:22] Erik: You get out of this campsite right now.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:23] Erik: You get out of this.
[0:46:23 – 0:46:24] Erik: But I don’t know.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:25] Erik: Would there be a lesson there?
[0:46:25 – 0:46:25] Adam: You’re not going to do that?
[0:46:26 – 0:46:28] Adam: That’s also an unhinged thing to do.
[0:46:28 – 0:46:29] Adam: You should never have to resort to that.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:30] Adam: Right.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:34] Adam: This is an important storm scenario where it’s rough out there.
[0:46:34 – 0:46:34] Erik: We got to get in.
[0:46:35 – 0:46:35] Adam: It’s for safety.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:36] Adam: It was early.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:37] Adam: It’s not that at all.
[0:46:37 – 0:46:38] Adam: It’s just pure…
[0:46:41 – 0:46:47] Adam: unhinged greed and horribleness and just a complete lack of self-respect.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:49] Erik: We were planning on staying here.
[0:46:49 – 0:46:50] Erik: Well, that’s too bad.
[0:46:50 – 0:46:52] Adam: Well, I guess we got to at least go have lunch.
[0:46:53 – 0:46:53] Adam: Think about it.
[0:46:53 – 0:46:56] Erik: Just to paddle across the lake to camp there.
[0:46:56 – 0:47:00] Erik: I was just like, why don’t you just go to that campsite to begin with?
[0:47:00 – 0:47:01] Adam: I think the last time I was this upset about…
[0:47:01 – 0:47:03] Erik: I should have just given false information.
[0:47:03 – 0:47:04] Adam: Yeah, we’re going to be here for a week.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:06] Adam: Yeah, we’re staying forever.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:08] Adam: We’re going to be here for a while.
[0:47:08 – 0:47:09] Adam: We’re staying a long time.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:16] Adam: One time I was out slip bobber fishing on swamp just south of Poplar when I was working at trail center.
[0:47:17 – 0:47:20] Adam: I was just like anchored in my usual spot with my slip bobber out.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:22] Adam: There’s a whole goddamn lake.
[0:47:22 – 0:47:23] Adam: Plenty of walleye.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:29] Adam: And this boat came around and they like they like got close enough where I had to like reel my bobber in.
[0:47:31 – 0:47:33] Adam: and they were drinking Mountain Dew.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:38] Adam: And I was about that upset about that, as I can tell that you’re upset about this story.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:40] Adam: And I was like, what in the fuck is wrong with people?
[0:47:41 – 0:47:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:43] Adam: Why?
[0:47:43 – 0:47:45] Adam: Would you ever think that that’s okay to do?
[0:47:45 – 0:47:55] Adam: Like, I portaged into this lake to have some peace and quiet and fish with my family, who is coming up to visit me, and you got that close to my boat that I had to reel my bobber in?
[0:47:56 – 0:47:57] Adam: What is wrong with you?
[0:47:59 – 0:48:04] Adam: And that’s the level of rage that can only be summoned by just complete ineptitude of human spirit and soul.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:05] Adam: What’s wrong with you people?
[0:48:06 – 0:48:08] Erik: You made me move my bobber?
[0:48:08 – 0:48:09] Erik: This is a huge lake.
[0:48:10 – 0:48:11] Erik: There’s nobody else out here.
[0:48:11 – 0:48:11] Erik: No, yeah.
[0:48:12 – 0:48:13] Erik: I’m not even catching that many fish.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:22] Erik: It sounds insane to try and describe to somebody who doesn’t really get it, but for anybody who gets it, that’s an insane move.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:24] Adam: All of them.
[0:48:24 – 0:48:24] Adam: Honestly, like,
[0:48:26 – 0:48:28] Adam: And this is the thing, though.
[0:48:28 – 0:48:32] Adam: These kind of people are the vast minority of people that come to the canoe country.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:33] Erik: Right.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:42] Adam: But you do run into them out there occasionally, and you’re just like, it makes your heart hurt, honestly, how bad these people behave.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:45] Adam: And it does, honestly, ruin your trip a little bit.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:50] Adam: But I think the important part of this, and I’m hoping this is the end of the story, is that
[0:48:53 – 0:49:02] Adam: You can talk about it and you can, like, vent about it and then just, like, you got to let it go because otherwise you’re going to let these idiots, like, ruin your whole trip and you just can’t let them do that.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:03] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:49:03 – 0:49:04] Adam: I mean, you just can’t.
[0:49:04 – 0:49:11] Erik: Yeah, I’m not, I mean, we could maybe keep Jake in the vernacular for being a real one.
[0:49:11 – 0:49:12] Adam: Oh, Jake’s in the vernacular.
[0:49:12 – 0:49:15] Erik: Jake’s a great name for a young asshole bonjour’s paddler.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:19] Erik: Like, that’s exactly the kind of person that would have that name.
[0:49:22 – 0:49:22] Erik: But I’m not going to, like,
[0:49:24 – 0:49:49] Erik: hold it with me for you know it’s not gonna ruin me going back out there the hell in the middle of nowhere though that’s crazy we were way out there yeah it’s not like you’re on bachelor on the first night or something and it’s like well and we came in late like i’m not gonna argue with anybody i’m not you were in that spot i’m not gonna come paddling up to somebody with big puppy dog eyes like it’s late it’s getting dark like no we’ll find our own site we’ll make it work
[0:49:49 – 0:49:52] Adam: I’m cracking into the wild rice cream ale at this point in the show.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:56] Adam: This is from Unmapped Brewing.
[0:49:56 – 0:49:59] Adam: Thank you, Admiral Geary, for the delicious…
[0:49:59 – 0:50:00] Adam: This one’s like sweat.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:01] Adam: It’s perfect.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:02] Adam: Look at that thing.
[0:50:02 – 0:50:04] Adam: There’s a man on a stand-up paddleboard in this thing.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:05] Adam: Look at that thing.
[0:50:05 – 0:50:07] Erik: We did run into…
[0:50:09 – 0:50:11] Erik: A bunch of old timers on the portages.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:13] Erik: A lot of beaver dams on this trip.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:15] Erik: Are we on, like, river section?
[0:50:16 – 0:50:23] Erik: A couple of little river sections coming up from Gene up into, or, yeah, was it Gene?
[0:50:24 – 0:50:25] Adam: I always think it’s funny that there’s a Gene Lake.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:27] Adam: Gene up in Aquatico.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:29] Adam: It’s J-E-A-N, right?
[0:50:29 – 0:50:31] Adam: Not G-E-N-E, right?
[0:50:32 – 0:50:33] Adam: Yes.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:33] Adam: Jane.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:35] Erik: Or Jean.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:35] Adam: Jean.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:36] Adam: Jean.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:38] Adam: Is there a Jean Creek?
[0:50:39 – 0:50:39] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:39 – 0:50:40] Erik: Yeah, I think so.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:41] Adam: I hope so.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:50] Erik: But one of the crews of old timers we ran into, we were like, yeah, we flew up here from, we’re just north of Toronto.
[0:50:52 – 0:50:54] Erik: Really clean park.
[0:50:54 – 0:50:56] Erik: Really clean park this is.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:59] Erik: I was like, I love that they’re calling it a clean park.
[0:51:00 – 0:51:02] Adam: Yeah, it is a queen park.
[0:51:02 – 0:51:09] Erik: We used to go to Algonquin, but now it’s like all the wood’s gone, and you got a reserve campsite, so we don’t go there anymore.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:10] Adam: Dirty park.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:12] Erik: It’s like the wood’s gone?
[0:51:12 – 0:51:14] Erik: What do you mean the wood’s gone?
[0:51:14 – 0:51:15] Erik: All the wood is gone.
[0:51:15 – 0:51:16] Erik: I’ve never heard that.
[0:51:16 – 0:51:17] Adam: The wood.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:18] Erik: The wood’s gone.
[0:51:19 – 0:51:20] Erik: Holy shit.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:20] Erik: Algonquin?
[0:51:20 – 0:51:22] Erik: I guess we’re not going to Algonquin.
[0:51:22 – 0:51:23] Adam: That goddamn wood gone.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:28] Erik: It would be a real pain in the ass to have to reserve campsites, though.
[0:51:29 – 0:51:30] Erik: Like, I mean, that makes sense to me.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:32] Adam: That’s Algonquin.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:34] Adam: It’s the huge Sylvania.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:36] Adam: But all the wood gone.
[0:51:36 – 0:51:37] Erik: All the wood’s gone.
[0:51:37 – 0:51:38] Adam: No good, Dad.
[0:51:38 – 0:51:38] Adam: No.
[0:51:39 – 0:51:40] Adam: All the wood gone.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:42] Adam: We’re north of Toronto.
[0:51:43 – 0:51:44] Adam: They fly out.
[0:51:44 – 0:51:45] Adam: They flew up there on Porter, probably.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:48] Erik: All those old-timers that we saw, I don’t know.
[0:51:48 – 0:51:51] Erik: I don’t really think that they were all from Toronto.
[0:51:52 – 0:51:57] Erik: But the few that we did run into, and then a lot of others that we saw, they were all paddling with gloves.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:04] Erik: Not paddling gloves, but gardening gloves, like big leather gardening gloves.
[0:52:04 – 0:52:09] Adam: Leather gloves, and I guarantee you, Eric, they were filled with Vaseline to keep their hands supple.
[0:52:09 – 0:52:10] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[0:52:10 – 0:52:11] Erik: I was surprised at some of the ages.
[0:52:11 – 0:52:12] Erik: I mean, there was…
[0:52:12 – 0:52:15] Erik: I was like, damn, you guys are kind of out here.
[0:52:15 – 0:52:19] Erik: This isn’t just… Yeah, this ain’t mess around territory.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:20] Erik: Yeah, we’re just kind of…
[0:52:21 – 0:52:23] Erik: I wouldn’t say the heart of Quetico, but like we’re…
[0:52:25 – 0:52:30] Erik: At the very least, a couple of days of heavy paddling.
[0:52:30 – 0:52:31] Erik: Maybe it’s the gloves.
[0:52:31 – 0:52:33] Erik: Have you ever tried paddling in gloves?
[0:52:33 – 0:52:35] Erik: In leather gardening gloves?
[0:52:35 – 0:52:38] Erik: Big loose leathering gloves?
[0:52:38 – 0:52:47] Adam: I paddled in big mitts for a while on our Quetico trip because it was snowing and 25 degrees, but I didn’t want to be paddling in the mitts.
[0:52:48 – 0:52:49] Erik: I like the mitts.
[0:52:49 – 0:52:57] Erik: So we came up through Gene, up into Quetico Lake, and then it was like three days of mostly paddling.
[0:53:00 – 0:53:02] Erik: That’s a lot of water up there in Quetico Lake.
[0:53:02 – 0:53:16] Erik: Yeah, considering the insane infrastructure-wise, that sand spit on Sturgeon was, I mean, tough to beat, really.
[0:53:18 – 0:53:25] Erik: But in terms of dynamics, some of the sites that we had up on Quetica Lake were way cooler, actually.
[0:53:25 – 0:53:37] Erik: A little beach harbor on one side, and you climb way up, and you’re up on a little promontory, and then a dip down back, and a beach on the other side.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:46] Erik: Not nearly as large as the beach we had on Sturgeon, but just little interesting factors to these sites.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:47] Erik: A little beach goes a long way, right?
[0:53:47 – 0:53:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:53:48 – 0:53:52] Erik: A little beach for landing the canoes and then a little beach for swimming.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:54] Adam: Because it did get hot.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:56] Adam: Like mid-trip, it was like hot.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:58] Adam: It’s a beach for the boat and it’s a beach for me.
[0:54:01 – 0:54:03] Adam: H-A-W-T, hot.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:04] Adam: It’s too hot.
[0:54:05 – 0:54:05] Adam: It got hot.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:06] Adam: Like.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:10] Erik: We were like, ah, let’s just pull in here.
[0:54:10 – 0:54:11] Erik: We need a little lunch break.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:12] Erik: Like, we just got to get out of the canoes.
[0:54:12 – 0:54:16] Erik: We’ve been paddling for, like, four hours straight in these canoes.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:17] Erik: And we kind of, like, looked around.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:18] Erik: We’re like, bam.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:20] Adam: Damn.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:22] Erik: This is a nice-ass site.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:27] Erik: Maybe we just stay.
[0:54:27 – 0:54:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:29] Erik: And we just stayed.
[0:54:31 – 0:54:36] Erik: And then got up the next morning and paddled, like, 12 more miles and still didn’t get off Quetico Lake.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:37] Adam: Yeah, you can’t.
[0:54:37 – 0:54:38] Erik: It’s crazy.
[0:54:38 – 0:54:39] Adam: It’s a big one.
[0:54:39 – 0:54:44] Erik: Went by the pictos, saw the life-sized otter.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:47] Adam: Yeah, the big otter.
[0:54:47 – 0:54:50] Erik: Yeah, caught some fish, ate some fish.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:54] Erik: The weather got a little wet towards the end, but I don’t know.
[0:54:54 – 0:54:55] Erik: It was great.
[0:54:57 – 0:54:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:00 – 0:55:01] Adam: How many nights did you have, I guess?
[0:55:04 – 0:55:08] Erik: Thursday through Friday.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:13] Erik: So nine, eight, eight nights.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:15] Adam: Yeah, I feel like you were gone for like two weeks.
[0:55:16 – 0:55:18] Erik: That’s what it felt like, kind of, yeah.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:23] Erik: But then we did actually, we got a hotel room in Atacocan.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:23] Erik: Oh, you did?
[0:55:23 – 0:55:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:24 – 0:55:25] Erik: Did you go bowling?
[0:55:25 – 0:55:26] Erik: We stayed at the White Otter.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:26] Erik: No.
[0:55:26 – 0:55:27] Erik: No.
[0:55:28 – 0:55:30] Erik: But we did pull into town.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:31] Erik: I was like, we got to go to the sportsman.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:33] Erik: We got to go get poutine at the sportsman.
[0:55:35 – 0:55:38] Erik: And we pulled up on that main drag of the street.
[0:55:38 – 0:55:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:41] Erik: Tori went walking over towards it.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:44] Adam: And we went over towards the LCBO.
[0:55:44 – 0:55:46] Adam: And she’s like.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:48] Erik: kind of started, like, waving us over.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:55] Erik: And we walked over, and there was, like, six guys sitting out front of the, like, the Attico and Herald Times or whatever.
[0:55:56 – 0:55:56] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:56 – 0:56:01] Erik: And one of them was like, yeah, I was a superintendent of Quetico for 30 years.
[0:56:02 – 0:56:04] Erik: And he, like, gave us the full rundown on everything.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:04] Erik: What?
[0:56:05 – 0:56:08] Adam: Did you ask him about the rare ferns in the Wauweag?
[0:56:08 – 0:56:13] Erik: I didn’t get quite to the point where I asked him about how… Tell me about the goddamn Wauweag.
[0:56:13 – 0:56:14] Adam: I want to know.
[0:56:14 – 0:56:16] Erik: Cheney’s forever hair flower?
[0:56:18 – 0:56:19] Erik: No, I didn’t get to that.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:24] Erik: But he was like, yeah, no, Steve the Greek, he’s actually on vacation in Greece.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:25] Erik: What?
[0:56:25 – 0:56:26] Erik: He went back to Greece?
[0:56:26 – 0:56:27] Erik: The Sportsman was closed.
[0:56:28 – 0:56:28] Erik: What?
[0:56:28 – 0:56:30] Erik: So we couldn’t go to the Sportsman’s Cafe.
[0:56:30 – 0:56:32] Adam: This is a crime against humanity, I think.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:56:34 – 0:56:35] Erik: He’s not allowed to go back.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:40] Erik: He’s like, your best bet is probably going to the grill.
[0:56:40 – 0:56:53] Erik: And it was up on the second floor of the curling building adjacent to the golf course, which was never really a thing that we had access to because we always walked when we were there.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:54] Erik: So we drove.
[0:56:54 – 0:56:54] Erik: Oh.
[0:56:55 – 0:56:57] Adam: Yeah, I suppose you had your vehicles.
[0:56:57 – 0:56:58] Adam: Yeah, we were driving around.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:01] Adam: What a novel concept to be in Atacocan with your own car.
[0:57:01 – 0:57:03] Erik: Yeah, we were cruising, man.
[0:57:03 – 0:57:03] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:05] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:57:05 – 0:57:07] Erik: He cruised in the mean streets to add a Coke.
[0:57:07 – 0:57:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:10] Erik: So you went to the curling club?
[0:57:11 – 0:57:16] Erik: Yeah, we went out to the curling club, which the curling rinks were not in action, but they had replaced the curling rinks.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:18] Erik: I mean, it’s just a cement pad.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:19] Erik: Preseason.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:21] Erik: It’s like, oh, of course, it’s pickleball.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:22] Erik: Of course, it’s pickleball.
[0:57:22 – 0:57:23] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:57:24 – 0:57:32] Erik: So we went there, and if it hadn’t been on the tail end of a 10-day Quetico trip, it probably would have been the worst meal I’ve ever had in my life.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:43] Erik: But because it came and it wasn’t a bowl of hot mush, it was incredible.
[0:57:43 – 0:57:44] Adam: Mush?
[0:57:44 – 0:57:44] Adam: Gents?
[0:57:45 – 0:57:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:57:46 – 0:57:46] Adam: Mush?
[0:57:47 – 0:57:47] Adam: No?
[0:57:48 – 0:57:48] Adam: Suit yourselves.
[0:57:51 – 0:57:52] Erik: But it’s Atikokan, you know.
[0:57:52 – 0:57:53] Erik: Yeah, it is.
[0:57:54 – 0:57:55] Erik: Charming in its own way.
[0:57:55 – 0:57:56] Erik: You charmed that town.
[0:57:56 – 0:57:57] Erik: Charming in its own way.
[0:57:57 – 0:57:59] Adam: No, Atikokan charmed you, finally.
[0:57:59 – 0:57:59] Adam: Finally.
[0:58:00 – 0:58:02] Adam: Somebody’s been able to charm Eric.
[0:58:02 – 0:58:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:04] Adam: Atakokan’s going to charm him.
[0:58:04 – 0:58:05] Adam: Atakokan.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:08] Adam: That’s their new Chamber of Commerce message.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:10] Adam: Atakokan, Ontario.
[0:58:11 – 0:58:11] Adam: It’ll charm you.
[0:58:11 – 0:58:13] Adam: It’ll charm… We’ll charm you.
[0:58:13 – 0:58:16] Adam: We’ll charm you.
[0:58:18 – 0:58:22] Erik: Bullmush.
[0:58:22 – 0:58:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:22 – 0:58:27] Erik: There’s probably 90 more details that I’ve not divulged, but…
[0:58:27 – 0:58:29] Adam: What’s the 2035 Dodge Ram look like?
[0:58:29 – 0:58:30] Adam: I can’t wait to find out.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:35] Adam: Because I guarantee you saw the future of the Dodge Ram up there in Atikokan.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:38] Adam: Some of those people… Those people?
[0:58:39 – 0:58:42] Adam: Some of those people always get the advanced copy of the Dodge Ram up there.
[0:58:43 – 0:58:44] Adam: What does this truck cost?
[0:58:44 – 0:58:47] Adam: Like 300,000 loonies to get this truck?
[0:58:48 – 0:58:50] Erik: What are you guys doing up here exactly?
[0:58:51 – 0:58:53] Erik: We got some hot tips on chips at the grocery store.
[0:58:53 – 0:58:54] Erik: Oh, did you get any weird chips?
[0:58:55 – 0:58:55] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:57] Erik: We got some ridges.
[0:58:58 – 0:58:59] Erik: Ridges.
[0:58:59 – 0:58:59] Erik: Ridges?
[0:59:00 – 0:59:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:04] Erik: They’re like old Dutch ridge chips, but they’re called ridges.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:06] Erik: And they’re like smaller ridges.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:07] Erik: Hot for that.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:08] Erik: More ridges.
[0:59:09 – 0:59:10] Erik: Can’t have too many ridges.
[0:59:10 – 0:59:14] Erik: There was a masala flavor, which is basically curry, which is insane.
[0:59:15 – 0:59:17] Erik: I was like, why can’t we have this?
[0:59:18 – 0:59:22] Erik: And I was going to grab for a bag of adobo flavor.
[0:59:22 – 0:59:23] Erik: And a woman came up.
[0:59:23 – 0:59:24] Erik: She’s like, these are really good.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:27] Erik: And they’re really hard to find.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:28] Adam: And she grabbed like two bags.
[0:59:28 – 0:59:29] Erik: She ripped it out of your hand?
[0:59:29 – 0:59:29] Erik: No.
[0:59:29 – 0:59:31] Erik: And I was like, well, I guess I’m taking the last two.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:34] Erik: We killed the shelf of Adobo chips.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:36] Adam: I want Adobo ridges.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:36] Adam: Bad.
[0:59:39 – 0:59:41] Adam: I’m going to charm the ridges out of this chip, baby.
[0:59:41 – 0:59:49] Erik: I was like, I don’t need it, but I probably just want to have an extra cigarette or two tonight.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:54] Erik: And so buying cigarettes in Canada, it’s like, man, they make it a real nightmare.
[0:59:56 – 1:00:02] Erik: I was looking at the blank wall of shelves that they have to flip up because they can’t display cigarettes.
[1:00:02 – 1:00:07] Adam: Did you go into the cigarette dispensary and be like, I want your smallest, least powerful cigarette?
[1:00:08 – 1:00:11] Erik: No, I was just… No lemon flavor, goddammit.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:16] Erik: It was like, who’s the guy that goes to the house with Tenenbaum?
[1:00:17 – 1:00:19] Erik: His little Sherpa man?
[1:00:19 – 1:00:20] Erik: Yeah.
[1:00:20 – 1:00:23] Erik: It was that kind of a sized woman just behind the cash register.
[1:00:23 – 1:00:24] Erik: I was like…
[1:00:24 – 1:00:25] Adam: Tannenbaum Sherpa.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:28] Erik: That’s what you’re going with?
[1:00:28 – 1:00:29] Erik: Yeah.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:36] Erik: I was like, kind of like trying to, for a hot second, when we pulled into the parking lot, I was like, yeah, I’m going to get some American spirits.
[1:00:36 – 1:00:41] Adam: And then when I walked into the grocery store, I was like, there is no way in hell they have American spirits at this grocery store.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:45] Adam: You go in there, give me your biggest, most powerful cigarette.
[1:00:45 – 1:00:46] Erik: Yeah, I had no idea.
[1:00:46 – 1:00:58] Erik: I was like, I’m basing my decision off of a piece of paper, like the little label makers that people used to gift others back in the 90s.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:01] Erik: It was just a little labor maker strip of players.
[1:01:05 – 1:01:07] Erik: Players smooth.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:08] Erik: Players light.
[1:01:08 – 1:01:10] Erik: So what did you go with?
[1:01:10 – 1:01:14] Erik: The first thing I asked for, she flipped up the shelf and she was like reaching.
[1:01:14 – 1:01:16] Erik: I was like, she couldn’t tell, but I could tell.
[1:01:16 – 1:01:17] Erik: I was like, there’s nothing in there.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:18] Erik: It’s empty.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:23] Erik: She’s just like feeling around for like a package of cigarettes.
[1:01:23 – 1:01:25] Erik: Like, no, there’s nothing in there.
[1:01:25 – 1:01:25] Erik: She’s like, oh.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:28] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:01:28 – 1:01:29] Erik: Whatever’s below it.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:31] Erik: What do you have?
[1:01:31 – 1:01:37] Erik: I’m going to smoke one of them and then abandon it because I’m not taking these back across the border.
[1:01:37 – 1:01:38] Erik: I don’t want to deal with them.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:40] Erik: And she’s like, oh.
[1:01:40 – 1:01:43] Erik: So I got a pack of player’s smooths.
[1:01:44 – 1:01:45] Erik: And then…
[1:01:46 – 1:02:05] Erik: she’s like can i see your id i was like my yeah my past my passport’s on the bottom of a dry bag under clothes in a pack in a car i i don’t know i mean i would have to come back it’d be like 20 minutes for me to come back in
[1:02:06 – 1:02:27] Erik: and one of the other guys that was in it was so funny he’s like one of the the other guy i was on the trip was like i’ll just buy him and she’s like okay that’s fine that’s fine that’s fine like so you’re just gonna like let this person like i’m 40 you’re cutting me you’re gonna let this guy buy a bunch of three cigarette player smooths for this underage eric yeah
[1:02:27 – 1:02:28] Adam: He’s only 16.
[1:02:29 – 1:02:30] Adam: He never ages.
[1:02:30 – 1:02:30] Adam: Yeah.
[1:02:31 – 1:02:33] Adam: There’s just big pictures of tongue cancer.
[1:02:34 – 1:02:38] Erik: Even the filters say every puff is filled with poison.
[1:02:38 – 1:02:40] Adam: Is there a dispensary in Etikoken?
[1:02:41 – 1:02:42] Adam: We didn’t see one.
[1:02:42 – 1:02:42] Adam: No.
[1:02:42 – 1:02:43] Erik: Hmm.
[1:02:44 – 1:02:45] Erik: I’m suspicious.
[1:02:45 – 1:02:46] Erik: But we did take the shortcut.
[1:02:47 – 1:02:50] Erik: Not through Thunder Bay on the way back home.
[1:02:50 – 1:02:50] Erik: Oh, you did that?
[1:02:51 – 1:02:51] Erik: Gorgeous drive.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:52] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Erik: Cacabega Falls.
[1:02:53 – 1:02:53] Erik: Yes.
[1:02:53 – 1:02:55] Erik: It’s like, is this upstate New York?
[1:02:56 – 1:02:57] Erik: What is this?
[1:02:57 – 1:02:58] Erik: The Kaministiqua River?
[1:02:58 – 1:03:00] Erik: That’s insane.
[1:03:00 – 1:03:01] Erik: You nailed it.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:02] Erik: We stopped at Cacabega Falls.
[1:03:03 – 1:03:05] Erik: I was like, this is wild.
[1:03:06 – 1:03:08] Erik: How is this an hour from my house?
[1:03:09 – 1:03:25] Erik: for real yeah i’m like i don’t know maybe we should come back up here this fall and stay at one of these little campgrounds in the area pastoral like farmlands next to rivers joy day post swan said he was gonna adopt our whole family yeah and let us move up there so i can’t wait
[1:03:26 – 1:03:30] Erik: Yeah, I was like, honestly, like, obviously, Quetico is incredible.
[1:03:31 – 1:03:32] Erik: Always an amazing time.
[1:03:32 – 1:03:34] Erik: Quetico Lake is a fucking stunner.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:35] Erik: Yes.
[1:03:36 – 1:03:41] Erik: We did paddle the entire length from west to east of Kasakaquag under…
[1:03:43 – 1:03:45] Erik: insanely opposite conditions than the last time.
[1:03:45 – 1:03:49] Erik: Yeah, did you see the spot where we almost got Edmund Fitzgerald?
[1:03:49 – 1:03:50] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:03:50 – 1:03:51] Erik: I was pointing it out the whole way.
[1:03:51 – 1:03:54] Erik: I think most of the party was like, all right, yeah, we know.
[1:03:54 – 1:03:54] Erik: He almost died.
[1:03:55 – 1:03:56] Erik: All right, fine, whatever.
[1:03:56 – 1:03:56] Adam: But we didn’t.
[1:03:57 – 1:03:58] Erik: We lived.
[1:03:59 – 1:04:01] Erik: We were the boys who lived.
[1:04:01 – 1:04:01] Adam: Placid.
[1:04:02 – 1:04:05] Erik: I was like, this is what paddling Quetico is all about.
[1:04:05 – 1:04:07] Erik: This is premier paddling conditions.
[1:04:07 – 1:04:08] Erik: This is insane.
[1:04:08 – 1:04:10] Adam: You did the long portage at the end.
[1:04:10 – 1:04:12] Erik: And then we got into McAlpine.
[1:04:13 – 1:04:37] Erik: found a nice site out there a nice-ish site i guess we were kind of like behind a guy who was like it was weird because we were like following this other canoe who was like checking out campsites in front of us yeah and we had seen him the day before uh-huh and we had already got a campsite and he went by us so we were like we’re just kind of leapfrogging us now yeah and uh
[1:04:39 – 1:05:01] Erik: um the side of his canoe said muddler muddler i was like is that a brand of canoe or is that like his named canoe uh-huh and then so like then they went they went past us the day before on quattico lake we had just gotten into camp and they went paddling by i was like muddler that was a muddler canoe like whatever
[1:05:02 – 1:05:04] Erik: And then, like, so we paddled, and we ended up in that same…
[1:05:04 – 1:05:07] Erik: Remember that river coming out of Kasakaquag into Cuetico?
[1:05:08 – 1:05:08] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:11] Erik: Super shallow, not enough to, like…
[1:05:11 – 1:05:12] Erik: I remember that very well.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:12] Erik: Pain in the ass.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:13] Erik: It was a pain in the ass.
[1:05:13 – 1:05:14] Erik: It’s still a pain in the ass.
[1:05:15 – 1:05:20] Erik: And then you get into Kasakaquag, and you’re paddling, and then you…
[1:05:20 – 1:05:23] Erik: Do the same thing on the other side to get into McAlpine.
[1:05:23 – 1:05:24] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:24 – 1:05:29] Erik: Shitty river, weird little, like, is this a creek?
[1:05:29 – 1:05:30] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:05:30 – 1:05:32] Erik: There should just be a huge portage around all of this.
[1:05:33 – 1:05:33] Erik: Right.
[1:05:33 – 1:05:36] Erik: Four beaver dams that are like eight feet tall.
[1:05:37 – 1:05:39] Erik: And then we get out into McAlpine.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:43] Erik: We’re like, there’s a canoe out there out in front of us.
[1:05:44 – 1:05:46] Erik: It’s like, oh, I bet you… Let’s get them.
[1:05:46 – 1:05:47] Adam: I bet you it’s the muddlers.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:49] Adam: It’s the muddlers.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:50] Adam: It’s a Souris River muddler.
[1:05:50 – 1:05:51] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:52] Erik: And they went to all the campsites.
[1:05:52 – 1:05:55] Erik: We could see them in front of us going to a campsite.
[1:05:55 – 1:05:57] Erik: Oh, doesn’t pass the muddler muster.
[1:05:58 – 1:05:59] Erik: Like, oh…
[1:05:59 – 1:06:01] Adam: Not good enough for the muddlers.
[1:06:01 – 1:06:02] Erik: The muddler doesn’t stay there.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:04] Erik: So we stopped at each of them.
[1:06:04 – 1:06:06] Erik: I was like, oh yeah, I can see why this one.
[1:06:06 – 1:06:08] Erik: But then we got to one where I was like, this is fine.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:09] Erik: This is a great site.
[1:06:09 – 1:06:12] Adam: Muddler doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:20] Erik: And then we left the next morning and they were at the site right next to the portage going from McAlpine into Batchewan, the McAlpine portage.
[1:06:21 – 1:06:24] Erik: Oh yeah, the muddlers, they finally got their site or whatever.
[1:06:24 – 1:06:26] Adam: Premium muddler site.
[1:06:26 – 1:06:27] Erik: We got all the way out to the…
[1:06:29 – 1:06:54] Erik: uh nim lake public access parking lot yeah and there was a ontario license plate that just said muddler so we found them yeah huh did you try and look that up after you got back to the internet well we thought where it was like i’ve never heard of a muddler famous paddler or something but then i was like i don’t have to look it up anymore because they just named the canoe and that’s like their thing they have a youtube channel though
[1:06:55 – 1:06:57] Adam: Anybody out there know The Mudler?
[1:06:57 – 1:06:58] Adam: The Mudler.
[1:06:58 – 1:06:59] Adam: Hit us up on the Gmail.
[1:06:59 – 1:07:02] Adam: It’s tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[1:07:02 – 1:07:02] Adam: We want to know.
[1:07:02 – 1:07:04] Adam: We want to meet you, Mudler.
[1:07:04 – 1:07:06] Adam: We’re not laughing at you.
[1:07:06 – 1:07:07] Adam: We’re laughing with you.
[1:07:07 – 1:07:08] Erik: Please call us.
[1:07:09 – 1:07:10] Adam: We want to meet Mudler.
[1:07:10 – 1:07:15] Adam: And also, if your name is Jake the Charmer, hit us up on the Gmail.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:18] Adam: Tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:19] Adam: Explain yourself.
[1:07:20 – 1:07:20] Adam: What is wrong with you?
[1:07:21 – 1:07:22] Adam: Jake the Charmer.
[1:07:22 – 1:07:24] Adam: In 300 words or less, probably.
[1:07:25 – 1:07:28] Erik: Yeah, explain yourself in, I don’t know, 100 words.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:32] Adam: Use the 10 words you know to try and explain your ill behavior.
[1:07:32 – 1:07:34] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:34 – 1:07:34] Adam: If you can.
[1:07:38 – 1:07:38] Adam: Pretty nice.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:43] Adam: What was the best night of stars, and did you get any Northern Lights?
[1:07:44 – 1:07:45] Erik: Um…
[1:07:46 – 1:07:49] Adam: We had some the other night down here, but I think you were back already.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:50] Erik: It was heavy moon action.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:51] Erik: Yeah.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:53] Erik: Big, bright, full moons.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:55] Erik: You kind of track your sleep.
[1:07:55 – 1:07:58] Erik: You wake up, kind of open an eye, and the moon’s up in the sky.
[1:07:58 – 1:07:59] Erik: There it is.
[1:07:59 – 1:08:05] Erik: And then you kind of turn over, and then you look over, and it’s like, oh, yeah, the moon’s still way up in the sky.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:06] Erik: Way up there.
[1:08:06 – 1:08:10] Erik: We didn’t have any crazy star nights, but, yeah, the moon was good.
[1:08:11 – 1:08:12] Erik: We were up at Trails End.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:24] Adam: We saw a crazy shooting star on Saturday night that was, like, it turned, like, colors, you know, like one of those, like, sparkler-style, like, shooting stars.
[1:08:24 – 1:08:25] Adam: It’s breaking up.
[1:08:25 – 1:08:27] Adam: Holy moly hot dog.
[1:08:27 – 1:08:28] Adam: This thing’s breaking up.
[1:08:28 – 1:08:28] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:29 – 1:08:33] Adam: And, yeah, we all saw it, too, and it was, like, amazing.
[1:08:34 – 1:08:38] Adam: But you never know what you’re going to see when you’re out in a dark campsite looking up.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:42] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:48] Erik: Not that I was super excited about it, but there was a large lake trout caught.
[1:08:49 – 1:08:49] Erik: Hell yeah.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:52] Erik: On Gene.
[1:08:52 – 1:08:52] Erik: Yes.
[1:08:53 – 1:08:53] Erik: Yes.
[1:08:56 – 1:08:57] Erik: How big do you think?
[1:08:57 – 1:08:58] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:08:58 – 1:08:58] Erik: 30 inches?
[1:09:00 – 1:09:00] Erik: What?
[1:09:00 – 1:09:00] Erik: Jesus.
[1:09:01 – 1:09:01] Erik: Oh, God, yeah.
[1:09:01 – 1:09:02] Erik: It was huge.
[1:09:02 – 1:09:02] Erik: That’s too big.
[1:09:03 – 1:09:03] Erik: Too big.
[1:09:03 – 1:09:06] Erik: It was multi-meal fish.
[1:09:07 – 1:09:08] Erik: Dinner and breakfast.
[1:09:08 – 1:09:09] Erik: That’s a lot of fish.
[1:09:09 – 1:09:10] Erik: Yeah.
[1:09:10 – 1:09:14] Erik: And then we were paddling out the north end of Gene into Conk.
[1:09:14 – 1:09:14] Erik: Conk.
[1:09:15 – 1:09:19] Erik: Conk is the one in between lake between Gene and Quetico.
[1:09:20 – 1:09:20] Erik: Conk Nippy.
[1:09:20 – 1:09:21] Erik: We were up in there.
[1:09:21 – 1:09:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:25] Erik: Old conch nippy.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:29] Erik: A couple of, I don’t know, guys from Iowa or whatever.
[1:09:29 – 1:09:30] Erik: They’re like,
[1:09:31 – 1:09:33] Erik: Hey, you guys catching any bass?
[1:09:34 – 1:09:36] Erik: Like, no, we’re not really fishing for any bass.
[1:09:37 – 1:09:37] Erik: Yeah.
[1:09:37 – 1:09:37] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:09:37 – 1:09:39] Erik: The bass fishing has just been real slow.
[1:09:40 – 1:09:40] Erik: I bet it is.
[1:09:40 – 1:09:43] Erik: Like, what are you guys doing back here fishing for bass?
[1:09:44 – 1:09:45] Erik: What are you guys doing?
[1:09:45 – 1:09:46] Erik: From Iowa.
[1:09:46 – 1:09:47] Erik: Fishing for bass?
[1:09:47 – 1:09:48] Erik: It’s September.
[1:09:48 – 1:09:50] Erik: Aquatico.
[1:09:51 – 1:09:54] Erik: Fishing for bass.
[1:09:55 – 1:09:58] Adam: We’re going to Long Island tomorrow, and we ain’t fishing for bass.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:01] Erik: I guess, I mean, you gotta hope for something.
[1:10:01 – 1:10:02] Erik: Are you bringing a fishing pole?
[1:10:02 – 1:10:03] Erik: No, I don’t have a fishing license.
[1:10:03 – 1:10:05] Erik: I haven’t had one in years.
[1:10:05 – 1:10:11] Adam: You’re paddling me around, though, and we are gonna troll up a big lake trout to impress all the tumblehummies, for sure.
[1:10:12 – 1:10:14] Erik: Yeah, I mean, I’m not opposed.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:17] Erik: I’m not gonna be super excited about eating it.
[1:10:18 – 1:10:21] Erik: That’s my only thing, is I’m not a huge fan of lake trout.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:22] Erik: Wow.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:26] Adam: You’ve never been on an episode of Alone, and it shows.
[1:10:27 – 1:10:30] Erik: Yeah, I’ve never had to fight for my survival on a TV show.
[1:10:30 – 1:10:32] Adam: Some really good fat on that.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:32] Adam: Yes, it does show.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:33] Adam: Really good fat.
[1:10:35 – 1:10:36] Adam: Yeah, we don’t have to eat it.
[1:10:36 – 1:10:38] Adam: I just want to catch one, honestly.
[1:10:39 – 1:10:39] Adam: Sure.
[1:10:39 – 1:10:43] Adam: But I don’t know what anybody else is bringing for food, honestly.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:45] Adam: We’re bringing one big salad and stuff for a frittata.
[1:10:46 – 1:10:51] Erik: I’m just going to eat a lot tomorrow, and I think I’m going to probably make it until Sunday if there’s not enough food.
[1:10:52 – 1:10:52] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:10:52 – 1:10:54] Adam: Yeah, maybe we should meet in town at like 6.
[1:10:54 – 1:10:56] Adam: I’m just going to eat like four breakfast sandwiches tomorrow.
[1:10:56 – 1:11:02] Adam: Eat two breakfasts at the SOB tomorrow, and then we can just get by on a kale salad for the rest of the week.
[1:11:02 – 1:11:11] Erik: Yeah, between Thursday morning, eat like five to ten breakfast sandwiches, and then you go to Poplar House on Sunday.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:14] Adam: Yeah, we should make reservations for Poplar House for 11.
[1:11:14 – 1:11:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:16 – 1:11:17] Erik: On Sunday.
[1:11:17 – 1:11:18] Erik: I could probably not eat for two days.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:19] Erik: We’ll be fine.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:23] Adam: I did hear that somebody said they had at least 250 pizza biters.
[1:11:24 – 1:11:27] Adam: So, I mean, we could just live on pizza biters and kale salad.
[1:11:27 – 1:11:29] Erik: Is that enough for, what, 12 people?
[1:11:30 – 1:11:35] Adam: I mean, I assume everybody’s bringing too much food, so we’re going to be just fine.
[1:11:35 – 1:11:37] Adam: We just don’t know what we’re going to get, and that’s okay.
[1:11:37 – 1:11:37] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:37 – 1:11:40] Erik: I might actually just do some workouts when I’m out there.
[1:11:40 – 1:11:41] Erik: There might be too much food.
[1:11:41 – 1:11:43] Erik: Workouts, yeah.
[1:11:43 – 1:11:45] Erik: Be back here doing squats, guys.
[1:11:45 – 1:11:45] Erik: Don’t worry.
[1:11:46 – 1:11:47] Erik: Don’t even think about it.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:48] Erik: Don’t even think about it.
[1:11:49 – 1:12:04] Adam: Well, thank you to Admiral Gary for this delicious unmapped Brewing Company No Trace American IPA and Paddle North Wild Rice Cream Ale with a delightful loon abstract on it.
[1:12:04 – 1:12:06] Adam: I like the color schemes on both these cans.
[1:12:06 – 1:12:07] Adam: These are really nice.
[1:12:07 – 1:12:08] Adam: Minnetonka.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:09] Adam: Never been there.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:12] Adam: I don’t know where that is, but it sounds like a nice place.
[1:12:12 – 1:12:17] Erik: I’m so happy for you that you don’t know where that lake is and or what it’s about.
[1:12:18 – 1:12:22] Adam: Isn’t that where the boat thing was with the yachts and the trouble?
[1:12:22 – 1:12:24] Adam: Yeah, there’s always trouble.
[1:12:25 – 1:12:26] Adam: The troubles of time.
[1:12:26 – 1:12:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:27 – 1:12:27] Adam: Always.
[1:12:29 – 1:12:36] Adam: But thank you, Admiral Geary, for the delightful four-pack from Unmapped and the fractals bag, which was great.
[1:12:38 – 1:12:40] Adam: Pretty excited for the trip tomorrow.
[1:12:40 – 1:12:41] Adam: Thank you for your recap, Eric.
[1:12:41 – 1:12:51] Adam: That was a true delight and treat to hear your story of all the time you got to spend in Quetico, which I was definitely jealous of.
[1:12:52 – 1:12:56] Adam: And I was watching the radar the whole time to make sure that you were okay.
[1:12:57 – 1:12:57] Erik: Checking in.
[1:12:57 – 1:12:59] Adam: I tried to send you a couple of text messages.
[1:13:00 – 1:13:05] Adam: I was like, I hope you’re on Rogers Deluxe LT signal right now and getting this.
[1:13:05 – 1:13:08] Adam: And it looks like a beautiful day to be in Quetico.
[1:13:08 – 1:13:08] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:09 – 1:13:11] Adam: And you had a couple of gems in there for sure.
[1:13:12 – 1:13:12] Erik: It was.
[1:13:12 – 1:13:22] Erik: I mean, honestly, the whole trip, I mean, outside of Jake and a cold start, superb.
[1:13:23 – 1:13:26] Erik: I mean, it’s, I don’t know.
[1:13:27 – 1:13:28] Erik: Anybody who gets the chance.
[1:13:30 – 1:13:30] Erik: Take it up.
[1:13:31 – 1:13:31] Erik: Do it.
[1:13:31 – 1:13:32] Erik: Paddle Equetico.
[1:13:33 – 1:13:33] Erik: I mean, it’s…
[1:13:34 – 1:13:35] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:13:36 – 1:13:45] Erik: There’s something about Canadians who are like, man, I could just go paddle the same kind of a place just like that, but for free.
[1:13:46 – 1:13:50] Erik: But it’s like, you’re coming from the Americas, like the Americas.
[1:13:50 – 1:13:52] Erik: You’re coming from the United States.
[1:13:53 – 1:13:54] Erik: You don’t know where you’re going.
[1:13:54 – 1:13:56] Erik: There’s just a little bit.
[1:13:57 – 1:13:59] Erik: You want your portages maintained?
[1:13:59 – 1:14:00] Erik: Sure, I’ll pay for that.
[1:14:01 – 1:14:02] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:02 – 1:14:02] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:02 – 1:14:14] Erik: I’m sure there are like 10,000 lakes in Canada who are just as like adventurous or like remote, if not more remote than Quetico.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:20] Erik: But how do you even begin to start trying to figure that out?
[1:14:20 – 1:14:23] Adam: I think Quetico is like the perfect remote.
[1:14:24 – 1:14:24] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:25 – 1:14:27] Erik: Well, we’re going to find out.
[1:14:27 – 1:14:28] Adam: Maybe Wabakimi.
[1:14:28 – 1:14:29] Adam: Yeah.
[1:14:29 – 1:14:31] Adam: Wabakimi might be even more perfect.
[1:14:31 – 1:14:31] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:33 – 1:14:33] Adam: All right.
[1:14:34 – 1:14:37] Adam: Well, I think that that’s a good place to leave it.
[1:14:37 – 1:14:38] Adam: Thank you for the stories.
[1:14:39 – 1:14:41] Adam: Thank you for these beers, Admiral Geary.
[1:14:42 – 1:14:49] Adam: And I’m looking forward to finalizing my pack tonight and getting back out into the BWCA tomorrow.
[1:14:50 – 1:15:09] Adam: For episode 301 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast discussing all things paddling, nature, and fishing with your fishing pole upside down like Joe Pesci, my name has been Eric, and thank you for the story, Eric, and thank you for being here in the Tumble Shed tonight.
[1:15:09 – 1:15:13] Erik: You mean the so-called wilderness that is the Boundary Waters?
[1:15:14 – 1:15:16] Adam: No, it’s for real, for real.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:17] Adam: Wilderness.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:18] Erik: Wilderness.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:22] Erik: That is a direct quote from the back of the Chrismar map that I got a real kick out of this.
[1:15:22 – 1:15:24] Adam: The so-called wilderness.
[1:15:24 – 1:15:28] Erik: Yeah, they were really throwing shade on other wilderness areas.
[1:15:28 – 1:15:33] Erik: So-called wilderness areas that put signs up to mark portages or campsites.
[1:15:33 – 1:15:36] Adam: Well, they don’t do that anymore, I mean, but…
[1:15:38 – 1:15:38] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:15:38 – 1:15:52] Adam: It is a special feeling the night before a trip when you’re about to head back out there and can’t wait to get into the park with the boys and the crew and, I don’t know, create more memories and new friendships.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:53] Adam: It’s going to be amazing.
[1:15:53 – 1:15:53] Adam: Can’t wait.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:56] Adam: for episode 301.
[1:15:57 – 1:15:58] Adam: I think that’ll do it.
[1:15:58 – 1:15:59] Adam: Happy paddling.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:07] Adam: As we always say on Tumble Home, life is precious, friends, and every day is a miracle.
[1:16:09 – 1:16:10] Adam: Let’s get out of here.
[1:16:10 – 1:16:11] Erik: Yeah.
[1:16:14 – 1:16:17] Erik: Oh, no, it’s recording.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:18] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:16:18 – 1:16:20] Erik: One more, you gotta shut it down one more time.
[1:17:36 – 1:17:36] UNKNOWN: Thank you.