302: Tiny Crimes

Episode Transcript

[0:00:19 – 0:00:24] UNKNOWN: still some cash bay content on this SD micro SD there we go oh
[0:00:52 – 0:00:56] Adam: Are you okay if we record a track in front of you?
[0:00:56 – 0:00:59] Adam: Are you okay with us shoving the mic in your face?
[0:01:03 – 0:01:05] Erik: We’ll take that as a yes.
[0:01:05 – 0:01:06] Erik: No comment.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:07] Erik: Oh, God.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:11] Erik: Multiple bushwhackers.
[0:01:12 – 0:01:13] Erik: There’s a canoe on ferret.
[0:01:14 – 0:01:19] Erik: And this is Tumble Home, episode 600, I think.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:20] Erik: 602.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:21] Erik: 602.
[0:01:21 – 0:01:25] SPEAKER_03: 300 lost episodes, not sure what happened to those.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:26] Adam: Servers are down.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:35] Adam: We got so furious with society that we jumped forward in time by 300 episodes.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:37] Adam: My name is Adam.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:41] Adam: I’m joined here by my dear friend Eric and our new dear friend Paddle Faster.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:43] Adam: Welcome.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:45] Adam: We’re up at the high point here.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:53] Adam: We can see both Long Island and we can see ferret, which now features a canoe that has hopalicious and phasmata in it.
[0:01:54 – 0:01:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:01:54 – 0:01:56] Adam: And they’re going out fishing on ferret.
[0:01:57 – 0:02:00] Erik: They’re going out to catch us more food because that’s exactly what we need.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:02] Erik: Fresh fish.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:03] Erik: I love fresh fish, you know.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:04] Erik: I’ve always said it.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:07] Adam: Yeah, it’s the finest of the meat.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:09] Adam: Somebody else is bushwhacking here.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:11] Adam: We can see them now approaching in the distance.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:45] Erik: wow it’s a witch it’s a damn witch oh no uh here we go it’s admiral gary and nick have found us on the high point here where the hell did you get that witch’s hat did you make that ukraine oh wow so ukraine’s finest camo witch hat that’s incredible holy moly
[0:02:45 – 0:02:46] Adam: Hot dog.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:50] Adam: Where are you going to put the odds that they catch a fish on ferret?
[0:02:50 – 0:02:52] Adam: And what are they going to catch?
[0:02:52 – 0:02:53] Adam: Any predictions from the group?
[0:02:54 – 0:02:55] Erik: I don’t know how odds work, really.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:56] Erik: I’ve never been a gambling man.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:59] Adam: They have a 50% chance.
[0:03:00 – 0:03:01] Adam: And do you think that’s high or low?
[0:03:01 – 0:03:02] Erik: Does that mean 2 to 1, then?
[0:03:03 – 0:03:04] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:04] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:05] Adam: Okay.
[0:03:05 – 0:03:08] Adam: I think that’s… Two to one chance.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:09] Erik: Much too high for me.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:10] Erik: You’re going to go under on that.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:12] Erik: Yeah, way under.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:14] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:16] Erik: What could possibly be in ferret?
[0:03:16 – 0:03:17] Erik: Just some tiny pike?
[0:03:18 – 0:03:19] Erik: I bet they get a pike, yeah.
[0:03:19 – 0:03:21] Erik: Yeah, a little pike who’s never seen a lure.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:26] Adam: I mean, the level is like, it’s one foot higher than Long Island, and there’s water throughout.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:31] Adam: We went through the lowlands, which was not the way to bushwhack at all.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:36] Erik: There are some pits of despair in the lowlands.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Adam: I think fish could get through here.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:40] Adam: So literally anything that’s in Long Island could be in ferret, I think.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:41] Adam: And who knows how deep it is.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:45] Adam: I thought it was going to be a little bog hole, but honestly, there’s some pretty good hills here.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:47] Adam: Some good rocks.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:48] Adam: So, I mean, it could be 20 foot deep.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:51] SPEAKER_01: So who knows what they get in there.
[0:03:51 – 0:03:55] Adam: I mean, how many people could possibly have actually fished ferret in the last 10 years?
[0:03:56 – 0:03:56] Erik: Five?
[0:03:57 – 0:03:57] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:58] Erik: Five, six.
[0:03:58 – 0:03:59] Adam: Now it’s up to seven.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:00] Adam: Eight.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:00] Adam: Eight.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:30] Adam: um paddle vest or what do you do you think they’ll catch a fish and what will they catch um they might come away with a burbot wow that would be super rare midday burbot on ferret ferret burbot i’d be pretty amped up if that came true i like that one yeah burbot are the ferrets of the uh water can i see that wine yeah of course my whistle’s a little dry i hauled it all the way up here you sure did you did great thank you
[0:04:30 – 0:04:36] Erik: Yeah, we’ve dispatched with the Franzia margarita-flavored wine bag in one day.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:40] Erik: Now we’re onto the heavy stuff, the hard red.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:42] Erik: Merlot?
[0:04:42 – 0:04:42] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:44] Erik: It’s red.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:44] SPEAKER_03: It’s red.
[0:04:45 – 0:04:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:50] Adam: Nick, what do you think?
[0:04:50 – 0:04:51] Adam: Are they going to catch a fish?
[0:04:52 – 0:04:53] SPEAKER_01: Remind me who’s out there.
[0:04:53 – 0:04:55] Adam: Basmata and Hopalicious.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:56] Adam: Yeah, this is a key component of the equation.
[0:04:56 – 0:04:57] Adam: Who’s fishing?
[0:04:57 – 0:04:59] Adam: It’s the A of the A team.
[0:04:59 – 0:05:03] SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would say there’s fish in there, but they’re not going to catch one.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Adam: All right.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:06] Erik: That’s probably accurate.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:12] Adam: I think we’re going to have 250 pizza biters for dinner.
[0:05:13 – 0:05:18] Erik: That’s the general estimate as to the quantity.
[0:05:19 – 0:05:20] Erik: It seems pretty doable.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:24] Adam: Sounds like a lot, but… Yeah, I think we can handle that.
[0:05:24 – 0:05:25] Erik: There’s a lot of hungry men out here.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:36] Adam: We did have a big frittata breakfast, and we had muffins, and we had like a five-course dinner last night, so I think everybody’s pretty well provisioned.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:39] Adam: I’m like not really all that hungry.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:43] Adam: That was a pretty big breakfast, and I had like four to five cups of coffee.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Erik: Yeah, we’re pretty well stocked, I think.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:48] Erik: Too much gear.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:49] Adam: Obviously, yeah.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] SPEAKER_01: But lots of hammocks.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:52] Erik: Hammocks are good.
[0:05:52 – 0:05:53] Erik: Lots of hammocks.
[0:05:55 – 0:05:57] Erik: Yeah, no tents at our site at this point.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] Erik: There was a tent.
[0:05:58 – 0:06:05] Adam: Yeah, and a cheap dancer surprised us by being out here when we got here and had secured the island on Long Island.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:10] Adam: And so we joined them for one night and they had to take off in the morning.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:11] Adam: So then when they left, I…
[0:06:12 – 0:06:15] Adam: I moved my hammock over to where their tent had been.
[0:06:15 – 0:06:18] Erik: It feels like we’re in the jungles of Vietnam right now.
[0:06:18 – 0:06:19] Erik: There’s creeping Viet Cong over there.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:20] Erik: Everybody be quiet.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:21] Erik: There’s two more.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:22] Erik: There’s two more of them.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:22] Erik: They can’t see us.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:24] UNKNOWN: Shh.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:24] UNKNOWN: Quiet.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:26] Adam: Oh, there’s three of them.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:27] Adam: Oh, they’re making their way over.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:27] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:28] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:29] Erik: There’s three of them.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:32] Erik: All right.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:32] Adam: Well, we’re going to…
[0:06:35 – 0:06:36] Adam: They’re here.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:40] Adam: I think that’s everybody that’s made it to Farad at this point.
[0:06:42 – 0:07:03] Adam: it’s pretty amazing no the two guys that are out fishing aren’t here they’re out fishing there’s two people in this entire circus that are being responsible and trying to fish we’re just out here mucking around in the woods what do you think a ferret it’s lovely they got out there in the boat does anybody in this group of three think they’re gonna catch a fish
[0:07:10 – 0:07:30] Adam: I think I’m feeling pretty optimistic I’m going to put it at 60% chance yes I’m going all in on yes I’m going to play against the counter odds and nobody else thinks nobody else believes in them so I’m going to go ahead and say they’re going to get it for sure a pike mark it 22 inch pike yeah we’re going to eat that thing with our biters tonight
[0:07:34 – 0:07:39] Adam: around the campfire and, uh, for tumble home live in the field.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:43] Adam: This is officially the first track of episode 602.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:45] Adam: Thank you for being here.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:01] Erik: Quiet on the set.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:03] Adam: Hey, shush.
[0:08:06 – 0:08:07] Adam: We’re here at Island Camp.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:09] Adam: It is Saturday morning.
[0:08:10 – 0:08:11] Adam: Day three?
[0:08:11 – 0:08:12] Adam: Is that right?
[0:08:12 – 0:08:13] Erik: I think so, yeah.
[0:08:15 – 0:08:16] Adam: We’re going to play a board game.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:17] Adam: Because I’m cold.
[0:08:18 – 0:08:19] Adam: And we’re sitting by the fire.
[0:08:19 – 0:08:21] Erik: The fire has been rekindled.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:21] Erik: It is crackling.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:24] Erik: Nice old beaver chews.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:29] Erik: We’ve got nicely gnomed here by guests that shall not be named.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:32] Adam: You look crazy, though.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:34] Adam: Um…
[0:08:35 – 0:08:40] Adam: Yeah, we got a board game and this really nice table from Paddle Faster.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:41] Adam: What is this?
[0:08:42 – 0:08:43] Adam: Trekology.
[0:08:44 – 0:08:46] Adam: It’s a Trekology in a stunning blue.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:47] Erik: 100% titanium.
[0:08:49 – 0:09:13] Adam: um before we open the board game up uh we should uh give a shout out to some show sponsors uh cheap dancer dropped off a big box of t-shirts and merch and tote bags and then also some mingolds for the boys which are in a cooler in my truck yeah so we’ll enjoy those tomorrow when we get back out so those get a shout out uh we when we first got here and we had a
[0:09:16 – 0:09:16] Adam: A bunch?
[0:09:16 – 0:09:17] Adam: How many?
[0:09:17 – 0:09:32] Adam: The Tumble Homies took down an entire bag of hard cider from Roy Block, who makes cider in Grand Marais, and that was donated to the show by a dear friend of the show, Ryan Murray, who’s also my pipe maker now.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:35] Erik: You’ve got your own personal pipe maker, huh?
[0:09:35 – 0:09:36] Adam: Yeah, and he gave us cider.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:37] Adam: Wasn’t that nice?
[0:09:37 – 0:09:38] Adam: That’s very nice.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:43] Adam: That was donated in August, and I guess that was from apples from this year already somehow?
[0:09:43 – 0:09:44] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:09:44 – 0:09:51] Adam: Anyways, if anybody’s gone through Grand Marais, there’s a little triangle orchard as you’re, like, leaving town to the east.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:56] Adam: They’re apparently Roy Bloch’s apples, and they made a pretty good cider.
[0:09:56 – 0:09:59] Adam: That got crushed in, like, a half hour flat.
[0:09:59 – 0:09:59] SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:01] Adam: Everybody got a big glass, I hope.
[0:10:01 – 0:10:03] SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:04] Adam: They’re all nodding their heads.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:04] Adam: Everybody’s nodding.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:06] Erik: They’re waiting for the magic, Adam.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:06] Erik: All right.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:07] Erik: When’s the magic begin?
[0:10:07 – 0:10:08] SPEAKER_00: When’s the magic begin?
[0:10:10 – 0:10:19] Adam: Uh, we also, uh, we also had a Nalgene of Buffalo trace bourbon, which got, but like it got poured into it.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:23] Adam: What we thought was a clean Nalgene, but it turns out there was Bailey’s in there previously.
[0:10:23 – 0:10:26] Adam: So they had all these globules of curdled dairy.
[0:10:26 – 0:10:27] Adam: Okay.
[0:10:27 – 0:10:31] Erik: Poured it in the night before in the dark, which is our preferred method for packing.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:32] Erik: Always pack in the dark.
[0:10:32 – 0:10:37] Erik: Yeah, and I did not realize it had remnants of Baileys from the Quetico trip.
[0:10:38 – 0:10:42] Erik: And, yeah, it looked quite horrible, but it didn’t taste that bad.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:45] Erik: No, it still sipped.
[0:10:45 – 0:10:46] Adam: It looked horrible, but then it sipped.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:49] Adam: Yeah, we sipped it down in one night.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:51] Adam: That’s all gone, so thank you, Ryan.
[0:10:54 – 0:11:12] Adam: it just says ryan gave us the buffalo trace and then i also donated that barrel works pack with the tump line was your tump line experience not good i wasn’t crazy about it but i don’t know if it was like set right so um i did it for like half of one of the portages and it was like every time you take a step you feel it in your head
[0:11:14 – 0:11:15] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:11:15 – 0:11:16] Adam: I couldn’t look around.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:17] Adam: I like to look around when I’m on my portage.
[0:11:18 – 0:11:19] Adam: So I took it off immediately.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:22] Adam: But I did have the cast iron in there, and it was a pretty heavy pack.
[0:11:23 – 0:11:26] Adam: So I may need to make some adjustments.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:28] Adam: That was the heaviest pack for sure.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:29] Adam: Thank you, Ryan.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:31] Adam: I always forget how huge that cast iron you have is, though.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:32] Adam: My God.
[0:11:32 – 0:11:34] Adam: It’s like six inches deep.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:38] Adam: So we had a big frittata for breakfast yesterday, obviously with a whole pack of dill.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:44] Adam: And the breakfast update today was we had hash browns, bacon, and breakfast sandwiches.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:49] Adam: And we drank the rest of the Redwood Empire that Hopalicious brought.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:53] Adam: Anyways, we got this board game out because it’s way too cold to go out on the water right now.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:53] Adam: No way.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:57] Erik: Yeah, we weren’t planning on packing the board game out, I don’t think.
[0:11:58 – 0:12:00] Adam: I’m wearing everything I brought, and I’m cold.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:02] Adam: What the hell?
[0:12:04 – 0:12:06] Adam: Pequod brought dry foot technology.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:12] Adam: The rest of us are wet footing it, and we’re all regretting it right now because nobody wants to go out of camp because they’ve got to get wet boots on.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:12] SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
[0:12:13 – 0:12:14] Adam: So not ideal.
[0:12:15 – 0:12:19] Adam: The weather radio said it’s 53 and it’s a high of 61 today.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:20] Adam: I call absolute BS on that.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:21] Adam: There’s no way it’s 50.
[0:12:22 – 0:12:23] Erik: I have some extra layers if you want.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:26] Adam: Sitting by the fire is feeling a lot better now.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:28] Adam: Anyways, we also brought this board game.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:30] Adam: So that’s the point of this track.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:31] Adam: We’re going to play the board game.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:32] Adam: We don’t know what’s in here.
[0:12:32 – 0:12:33] Adam: We think it’s a board game.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:34] Adam: I guess we should say that.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:36] Erik: It sounds like a board game.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:38] Adam: This was dropped off on Monday.
[0:12:39 – 0:12:44] Adam: I’m going to say Monday or Tuesday at the co-op by the Sam Squanches.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:49] Adam: And Sam Squanch was, I think, at one point going to come on this trip.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:53] Adam: And he indicated due to the tariffs, work had become hectic and he couldn’t go.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:55] Adam: Because of the tariffs.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:58] Adam: Because of those tariffs, when he dropped this off, then he said he actually could have gone.
[0:12:58 – 0:13:00] Adam: And I said, well, there’s room on the permit.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:02] Adam: And he’s like, I didn’t bring my stuff.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:03] Adam: But he did bring this game.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:04] Erik: Wow.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:07] Adam: And I did note on here that this came in on the 16th.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:09] Adam: He’s shaking it.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:10] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Erik: Maybe it’s not a board game.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:12] Adam: We’re about to find out.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:17] Adam: He was wearing a tank top that had the poster for Bloodhook on it.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:18] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Adam: When he dropped this off.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:21] Adam: Thank you, Sam Squanch, for this gift.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:22] Adam: We’re going to open it right now.
[0:13:22 – 0:13:24] Adam: It’s addressed to Tumblehomes.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:27] Adam: I think it’s for everybody that’s here in this campsite.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:28] Erik: It’s to everyone.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:32] Adam: You guys ever seen me open something on a live mic?
[0:13:33 – 0:13:34] Adam: Not bad.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:36] Adam: It is a board game.
[0:13:36 – 0:13:36] Adam: Yes.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:37] Adam: We think.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:45] Adam: So somebody put something on the subreddit about there’s two board games.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Adam: What is on here?
[0:13:47 – 0:13:47] Erik: Yeah, all right.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:51] Erik: I don’t know where the recording cut off, but our batteries died.
[0:13:51 – 0:13:55] Erik: But we do have Let’s Go Hiking, and it’s only for ages 4 to 8.
[0:13:55 – 0:13:57] Erik: So I don’t know what that means.
[0:13:58 – 0:13:59] Adam: Two to four players.
[0:13:59 – 0:13:59] Erik: Yep.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:02] Adam: How we’re going to determine.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:06] Adam: So we’ll get four people to play this, and then we’ll report back.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:10] Adam: So I think that’s all the gifts and sponsorships.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:12] Adam: But there’s been so many more.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:14] Adam: Everybody here on this trip has been very generous.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:19] Adam: We’re all eating well and enjoying our time out here on Long Island Lake.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:21] Adam: I don’t know if we’ve even mentioned that we’re on Long Island yet.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:24] Adam: Two tracks in to episode 602.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:25] Adam: Get it together.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:29] Adam: It’s got a bunch of cute animals on a pond all with hiking sticks.
[0:14:29 – 0:14:31] Adam: There’s an eagle with a sash.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:33] Adam: It does have a nice little neckerchief on.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:38] Adam: And there’s a little green duck wearing a hat, but it’s not a sombrero.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:45] Erik: It looks like the hat Peter Lorre is wearing in one of his devious foreigner films from the 50s.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:47] Adam: What is this?
[0:14:48 – 0:14:52] Erik: It looks like a big pack with a rigid external frame pack.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:53] Adam: They’ve got a nice picnic set up.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:57] Adam: And we’ve got to look at the back, though.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:59] Adam: Welcome to the Boundary Waters.
[0:14:59 – 0:14:59] Adam: Let’s go.
[0:14:59 – 0:14:59] Adam: I like them.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:02] Erik: All right, everybody’s hanging around eating Gushers.
[0:15:02 – 0:15:03] Erik: That’s what the holidays are all about.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:09] Erik: And the third battery change, I think we finally have actual good batteries now.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:12] Adam: Welcome to the Boundary Waters, this colorful board game.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:15] Adam: We’ll introduce your children to the Boundary Waters.
[0:15:15 – 0:15:18] Adam: So we’re going to pick four people to play this game.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:22] Adam: Often called the region of rocks and waters in quotes.
[0:15:22 – 0:15:22] Erik: Often?
[0:15:22 – 0:15:23] Erik: Who calls it that?
[0:15:24 – 0:15:26] Adam: I’ve never heard it called the region of rocks and waters.
[0:15:26 – 0:15:27] Erik: I’m heading to the region of rocks and waters?
[0:15:27 – 0:15:29] Adam: You know, the tippo of the arrowhead.
[0:15:31 – 0:15:35] Adam: This beautiful wilderness is home to many animals, flowers, trees, and rivers.
[0:15:37 – 0:15:42] Adam: And for years now, the area has been protected both by the state and federal government, but not for much longer.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:44] Adam: Why does it even say that on here?
[0:15:44 – 0:15:45] Adam: That’s ominous.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:48] Adam: What the hell kind of game is this?
[0:15:50 – 0:15:51] Adam: Authentic game.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:54] Adam: Alright, let’s see.
[0:15:54 – 0:15:59] Adam: It says for children ages 4 to 8, average playing time is 15 to 20 minutes.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:04] Adam: Here’s the six animal playing figures that are included.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:06] Adam: Shirley Squirrel.
[0:16:07 – 0:16:11] Adam: Pete fucking Stobber.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:12] Adam: Matthew Mallard.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:14] Adam: Definitely not Gordy.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:16] Adam: Connie Cottontail.
[0:16:17 – 0:16:18] Adam: Do they have cottontails?
[0:16:19 – 0:16:20] Adam: It should be a hare, shouldn’t it?
[0:16:20 – 0:16:21] Adam: I think so.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:23] Adam: Bartholomew Bear with a rose.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:28] Adam: He has a tiny little rose and only one petal is still on that rose.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:32] Adam: Edward the Eagle and Cynthia Chipmunk.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:36] Adam: These have to be some of the worst names for animals I can ever imagine.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:38] Adam: What was the name of the hot loon?
[0:16:40 – 0:16:42] Adam: Becky the hot loon should have been in this game way more.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:46] Adam: And the fat camp mouse we got here.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:47] Adam: All right, let’s open this thing up.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:50] Adam: We’re going to read the rules right away.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:51] Erik: Are there more?
[0:16:51 – 0:16:52] Erik: There’s more, yeah.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:52] Erik: Is this the rules?
[0:16:53 – 0:16:53] Erik: Let’s go ahead.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:54] Erik: You read the rules.
[0:16:54 – 0:16:55] Erik: I’ll start learning the rules here.
[0:16:55 – 0:16:56] Adam: I’ll figure out the game.
[0:16:58 – 0:16:59] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:01] Erik: It does look like a, wow.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:07] Adam: Bartholomew Bear and Shirley Squirrel are missing their bases, but maybe because you’re only allowed to play four players, so maybe there’s only four bases.
[0:17:07 – 0:17:12] Adam: So if anybody wants to be a Bartholomew Bear, look at those cute little eyes.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:14] Adam: Oh, he’s got a little, he’s like on both sides.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:19] Erik: Wow, the eyes are like very Harry Henderson.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:21] Erik: Just falling in love with that bear.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:25] Adam: I’m going to be Bartholomew Bear.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:26] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:29] Erik: So Let’s Go Hike is an easy and fun game.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:31] Erik: This is 1984.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:32] Erik: Wow.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:37] Erik: Children begin at the Gunflint Ranger Station and hike through the Boundary Waters Forest to reach Moon Lake.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:39] Erik: That sounds way more than a child could accomplish.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:42] SPEAKER_03: You can’t pick up your permit at Gunflint Ranger Station.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:43] Erik: Not anymore.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:43] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:44] Erik: Where the hell…
[0:17:45 – 0:17:46] Erik: Yeah, out to Moon.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:47] Erik: Why Moon?
[0:17:47 – 0:17:48] SPEAKER_03: What a destination site.
[0:17:49 – 0:17:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:49 – 0:17:50] Erik: Oh, I’ve camped on Moon.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:51] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:53] Erik: Classic Loon Falls on the way to Moon Lake.
[0:17:55 – 0:17:56] Erik: Moon Lake with Greta Goose.
[0:17:57 – 0:17:58] Adam: Hey, there’s Lisa Loon.
[0:17:59 – 0:17:59] Erik: Oh, Lisa Loon.
[0:17:59 – 0:18:00] Adam: Lisa Loon.
[0:18:00 – 0:18:02] Adam: Shelly Skunk is out there.
[0:18:02 – 0:18:03] Adam: Oh, Oliver the Owl.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:05] Adam: Randy Raccoon.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:06] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:06] Erik: Not Randy.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:08] Erik: Why is there a raccoon?
[0:18:08 – 0:18:12] SPEAKER_03: And why is he Randy?
[0:18:12 – 0:18:13] Erik: Yeah, there’s…
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] Erik: Not many rules here.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:18] Erik: I think it’s just your classic spin the thing and… And go?
[0:18:18 – 0:18:19] Erik: And go, yeah.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:21] Adam: Spin the thing and go.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:24] Adam: They got a nice red canoe up there.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:28] Erik: The youngest child spins first, so yeah, again, that’s Dirty Dad, but I get to stare.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:30] Erik: Then the second youngest, I don’t even know who that would be.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:34] Erik: And then it jumps straight to the oldest, and then you count back.
[0:18:36 – 0:18:38] Erik: Yeah, it’s really confusing for the children.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:40] SPEAKER_00: Make it as confusing as possible.
[0:18:40 – 0:18:43] Erik: Yeah, players start in the lower right corner at the Gunfront Ranger Station.
[0:18:44 – 0:18:47] Erik: Spin and move animal one square for each number spun on the dial.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:55] Erik: For example, if you weren’t following, if the arrow on the spinner points to three, move the animal… Three?
[0:18:56 – 0:18:57] Erik: Three is correct.
[0:18:57 – 0:19:02] Erik: If the player lands on the special red squares, follow spin directions below.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:05] Adam: You also have to take that many sips of wine.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:09] Erik: So if you land on a sun, you get to spin again and move ahead spaces.
[0:19:10 – 0:19:13] Erik: If you land on a rabbit, who’s the rabbit?
[0:19:15 – 0:19:16] Erik: Cynthia?
[0:19:16 – 0:19:16] Erik: Connie?
[0:19:17 – 0:19:18] SPEAKER_00: Connie the Cottontail.
[0:19:18 – 0:19:18] Erik: Yep.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:22] Erik: You spin again and move ahead when landing.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:25] Erik: Oh, when you land on your animal, you get to go.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:30] Erik: If you land on a rain cloud, you have to spin again and move back those number of spaces.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:31] Erik: Okay.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:34] Erik: And what is the square with the arrow?
[0:19:35 – 0:19:36] Erik: Sneaky portages.
[0:19:36 – 0:19:37] Erik: Yeah, it’s like chutes and ladders.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:38] Adam: Oh, this is a chutes and ladders scenario.
[0:19:39 – 0:19:40] Adam: Yeah, don’t go down Loon Falls.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:49] Erik: It’s from National Games 1984 out of the Hudson Corporation in Minneapolis.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:50] Erik: Wow.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:51] Erik: Dayton Hudson?
[0:19:52 – 0:19:53] Erik: Department store?
[0:19:53 – 0:19:57] Erik: So is this like an old Dayton’s board game?
[0:19:57 – 0:19:59] Adam: That was like before Prangie Way.
[0:19:59 – 0:20:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:00 – 0:20:01] Adam: Dayton’s.
[0:20:02 – 0:20:03] Adam: That was before I could go to the mall.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:06] Adam: So I’m obviously pretty old, so I might get to go third?
[0:20:07 – 0:20:13] Erik: Yeah, we’ll probably pause the mic here just to figure out how exactly the age is going to break down.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:16] Erik: Because that sounds like the most complicated part at this point.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:17] Adam: We got this nice table.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:19] Adam: Thank you for the game.
[0:20:20 – 0:20:23] Adam: It’s the perfect morning in camp to play a game because it’s cold and foggy.
[0:20:24 – 0:20:25] Adam: All right.
[0:20:26 – 0:20:26] Adam: Can’t wait.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:30] Erik: We’re getting it figured out here.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:35] Erik: We can always just craft more bases so we can have six players going.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:36] Adam: Why can’t we have six?
[0:20:36 – 0:20:39] Erik: We’re going to break this game for the end of the day.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:46] Adam: Here’s the first rule is to always make some tiny crimes happen, and you’ve got to break a lot of little rules that don’t matter.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:49] Adam: That’s how you stay alive longer.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:54] Adam: We figured it out on day two is that I’m going to live a life of tiny crimes from now on.
[0:20:56 – 0:21:01] Adam: And that’s how you gain extra life in this world.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:01] Adam: The end.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:04] Adam: No, it stopped.
[0:21:28 – 0:21:29] Erik: Is it dry?
[0:21:31 – 0:21:32] SPEAKER_00: Nice dust.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:34] SPEAKER_00: Good dust audio.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:36] SPEAKER_00: It’s got good dust audio.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:36] SPEAKER_00: They want it.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:41] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:42] Adam: That was good.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:45] Erik: You could hear how dry it is from here.
[0:21:55 – 0:21:56] Erik: This thing’s got some nice rub marks.
[0:21:56 – 0:21:59] Erik: It’s been rubbing up against that tree so long, it’s flat on one side.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:19] Erik: Zoo bot, do bot.
[0:22:19 – 0:22:20] Adam: Have you ever used the zoo bot before?
[0:22:21 – 0:22:23] Adam: No, this is my first haul on it.
[0:22:23 – 0:22:23] Adam: How do you like it?
[0:22:24 – 0:22:26] Adam: It’s a very nice little saw.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:28] SPEAKER_00: It’s not even little.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:30] SPEAKER_00: It’s just nice.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Adam: It’s just the right size.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:34] Erik: There you go.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:35] Erik: Well, we’re alone now.
[0:22:35 – 0:22:46] Erik: We can actually gather our thoughts and judge all ten other members of the party that’s out here with us.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:49] Erik: Doing nothing illegal.
[0:22:51 – 0:22:52] Erik: It’s just me and Adam.
[0:22:52 – 0:22:55] Erik: We’re out here on the bottom of Finn Creek.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:59] Erik: The Finn Creek.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:02] Erik: Saturday afternoon day trip, wood gathering, exploratory.
[0:23:02 – 0:23:06] Erik: We thought maybe we’d take a look at some campsites, but they’ve all been occupied.
[0:23:06 – 0:23:09] Erik: A lot of people out here on Long Island on a Saturday in September.
[0:23:11 – 0:23:13] Erik: It’s almost like it’s the premiere time to be out here.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:14] Adam: It is the premiere.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:16] Adam: Yeah, it was pretty foggy.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:21] Adam: and rainy and kind of cold this morning when we were playing the board game, which…
[0:23:23 – 0:23:24] Adam: Update.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:35] Adam: I won with Bartholomew Bear, so then he got a LIL tattoo on his knuckle for winning, and I won everybody’s pills.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:43] Adam: So what we did was we dumped everybody, put all their pharmaceuticals and pills out on the table, and then the winner got to take them all.
[0:23:43 – 0:23:47] Adam: So I got a whole bag of mixed pills out of the deal, which is a pretty sweet deal.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:48] Erik: I mean, an amazing deal.
[0:23:48 – 0:23:52] Erik: He’s got LIL on one hand and then evil on the other.
[0:23:52 – 0:24:09] Adam: yeah just like mitchum or hate was it hate and love it was love and hate yeah so it’s l-i-l and hate yeah perfect no a just h-t-e because bartholomew bear only has three knuckles on each side so i don’t know if that’s how real bears are built
[0:24:10 – 0:24:31] Adam: maybe maybe uh we’ll never know uh he’s got a cute little flower though also and he’s just a champion so i’m mopping up because i won uh big for uh the island camp i was representing island camp last night in mini bocce that’s right and just narrowly won that match it went down to the wire to the last throw of the bocce
[0:24:32 – 0:24:36] Adam: So, yeah, I’m just a champion through and through this trip and cannot stop winning.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:38] Erik: I’m just getting sick of winning.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:40] Adam: Somebody else, please.
[0:24:44 – 0:24:49] Adam: There’s something I’m shocked about, and it’s not the size of the group and how loud it is when everybody’s trying to talk at the same time.
[0:24:50 – 0:24:57] Adam: It’s that nobody else except for Acid Diarrhea brought any boxed wine or bags of anything to slap.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:01] Adam: I thought for sure somebody else would be bringing some extra wine.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:04] Adam: Nobody did, so we were, like, out of wine.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:09] Erik: We’re just derelict alcoholics, I guess, or nobody else knows how to have a good time.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:11] Erik: It’s one of the two.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:12] Adam: It’s probably one of those two.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:16] Adam: But that’s all right.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:22] Adam: I just took a bunch of ibuprofen and drank a bunch of water this morning.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:24] Adam: I had, like, four cups of coffee, then I had water.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:28] Adam: I did have to take some Advil, I guess it was, because my neck’s all, like,
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] Adam: Messed up.
[0:25:29 – 0:25:30] Adam: I got a tight neck.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:34] Erik: Neck got messed up in what you claim to be your best set yet.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:37] Adam: This is my best set, and so I can’t think it was the…
[0:25:37 – 0:25:38] Adam: The hammock, and I don’t know.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:44] Adam: I did try that tump line out day one, but my neck felt fine yesterday, so pretty odd.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:45] Adam: You know what it was?
[0:25:45 – 0:25:51] Adam: I think when I heard those wolves last night, I quick-wrenched my head around until I get a better listen, and I think that’s when I did it.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:52] Erik: Yeah, that could be.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:55] Erik: You are the only one that heard the wolves, though.
[0:25:55 – 0:26:00] Adam: I reacted too fast to the howling pack of wolves right across the narrows from us.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:02] Adam: Like, probably 3 in the morning.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:03] Adam: Yeah, nobody else heard them?
[0:26:04 – 0:26:04] Adam: What gives?
[0:26:05 – 0:26:06] Erik: I’m the only one that heard them?
[0:26:06 – 0:26:06] Erik: Just me.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:10] Erik: I had to wake up in the middle of the night and go retrieve a water bottle.
[0:26:10 – 0:26:11] Erik: That’s about as bad as it gets.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:13] Erik: I put my headlamp on.
[0:26:13 – 0:26:16] Erik: I was walking around in the middle of the night.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:18] Adam: That’s never, it’s always frowned upon.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:21] Adam: Never appealing to have to get out and walk around in the night.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:23] Erik: No, not good.
[0:26:25 – 0:26:30] Erik: Yeah, you’re most surprised by the lack of brought in sacks of wine.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:37] Adam: Hopalicious gets high marks because he brought in a jug of Redwood Empire, which we were sipping on.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:41] Adam: And he was allowing me to have some sips off of that because he’s a gentleman and a scholar.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:43] Adam: And Redwood Empire is delicious.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:44] Erik: It is.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:47] Erik: You also brought in the large container of cider.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:56] Adam: Yeah, we had the large container of cider, which we shouted out earlier, that Ryan gave me at the co-op, and that got guzzled down by the crew right away.
[0:26:58 – 0:27:06] Adam: Yeah, we brought three bags, and Acid Diarrhea brought one tiny one, but I think he had drank half of it the night before, so it wasn’t even full.
[0:27:07 – 0:27:12] Adam: So, I don’t know, a shockingly low amount of wine brought in, especially for a fall trip, man.
[0:27:12 – 0:27:16] Adam: It’s the perfect time for a nice red wine or on the fire, but we got other ways.
[0:27:17 – 0:27:18] Adam: We got other ways.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:21] Erik: Yeah, we’re not going to be getting the shakes anytime soon, I don’t think.
[0:27:23 – 0:27:25] Adam: I’ve been being pretty reasonable, too, honestly.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:29] Adam: I wasn’t going wild on that wine, and the bagged margarita was a hit, I think.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:31] Adam: So we had a lot of help.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:36] Adam: But maybe next year we’d have to bring one more bag of wine, I think, would be ideal.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:38] Erik: Margarita-flavored wine.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:39] Adam: We didn’t bring much, honestly.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:42] Adam: Our food barrel is empty other than the board game.
[0:27:42 – 0:27:42] Erik: Pretty much.
[0:27:42 – 0:27:46] Adam: And the empty Nalgene’s that were all containing things at one point.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:51] Adam: But we didn’t really bring any extra food or any extra wine.
[0:27:51 – 0:27:54] Adam: And we’ve consumed everything we’ve brought at this point.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:59] Erik: I had to tell you multiple times on the first day because you were like, I’m kind of hungry.
[0:27:59 – 0:28:01] Erik: I don’t know, maybe I could eat something.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:04] Erik: I was like, I brought no food.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:05] Adam: Yeah, but you don’t have that bag of Snickers though?
[0:28:05 – 0:28:06] Adam: Come on, just one?
[0:28:07 – 0:28:08] Erik: You don’t even have a bar?
[0:28:08 – 0:28:10] Erik: I brought no food, Adam.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:12] Erik: Just the weirdest thing I think I’ve had.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:21] Erik: One of the weirdest parts about this whole weird, I mean, there’s a cascading, never-ending, turtles-all-the-way-down levels of weirdness to this whole trip.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:26] Erik: And one of them is definitely the fact that I pack no food.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:27] Erik: Nothing.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:33] Erik: Not even like a, I need to survive the afternoon and just put something in my body.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:34] Erik: I don’t even have like a nut.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:36] Adam: Not even a nut.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:47] Adam: Yeah, I ate an apple when we drove up here, and then we just had this stuff for the frittata, and I had the stuff for the kale Caesar salad, and that’s literally all we brought for food.
[0:28:47 – 0:28:49] Adam: And we’ve been well taken care of.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:53] Adam: I don’t think it’s been mentioned, but we did eat nothing but pizza biters for dinner last night.
[0:28:53 – 0:29:06] Erik: There’s been an insane amount of food, and it’s crazy because I’ll get up, and somebody will be eating a dehydrated Mountain House meal, and then an hour later, we’ll cook regular breakfast.
[0:29:06 – 0:29:07] Erik: I was like, what was the Mountain House?
[0:29:07 – 0:29:08] Adam: That was the pre-breakfast.
[0:29:08 – 0:29:10] Erik: You’re eating a pre-breakfast?
[0:29:10 – 0:29:13] Erik: They don’t make those things caloric poor.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:14] Erik: They’re rich.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:18] Adam: You just ate three people’s worth of sodium for the week in one little appetizer.
[0:29:18 – 0:29:20] Erik: Yeah, and now you’re going to have real breakfasts?
[0:29:21 – 0:29:22] Adam: On top of that breakfast.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:23] Adam: Double breakfast.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:27] Erik: And then finish it off with, like, two Clif Bars afterwards.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:30] Erik: Like, there’s a lot of food being consumed on this trip.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:33] Adam: These guys, they didn’t bring enough wine, but they definitely brought enough food.
[0:29:33 – 0:29:38] Adam: I don’t know how many pizza biters I had last night, but I was having a lot of fun cooking them.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:40] Adam: We had the wok.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:43] Adam: Fazmata’s, like, sweet wok.
[0:29:43 – 0:29:43] Adam: What is that thing made out of?
[0:29:44 – 0:30:07] Erik: uh carbon steel it was crazy because he mentioned the name of it agawar and that’s probably not what it is but i know what it is because when he said it i recognized it because we ran into the guys that own that company while we were paddling quetico last week no way shouted it out he’s like oh yeah we’re we’re from outside of toronto we uh we got our own uh outdoor uh
[0:30:08 – 0:30:29] Erik: cookery and uh like knife uh like company and it’s called like agawar or whatever i was like yeah never heard of it whatever okay buddy and then like day one of this trip a piece of equipment from them get got pulled out and it’s like one of the finest looking camp walks i’ve ever seen very finely made expertly seasoned uh yeah it’s in equipment it’s in really good shape
[0:30:29 – 0:30:34] Erik: Yeah, it might be a little heavy, but it’s definitely not as heavy as a cast iron.
[0:30:34 – 0:30:40] Erik: It’s not as heavy as the lightweight stainless one, the walk we had in Quetico.
[0:30:40 – 0:30:43] Erik: But it does have a nice handle, which is great.
[0:30:43 – 0:30:45] Erik: And it’s a little smaller than the one we bring.
[0:30:45 – 0:30:47] Adam: So I was tossing biters in there.
[0:30:47 – 0:30:51] Adam: So we were over on the other camp.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:53] Adam: We had two campsites.
[0:30:54 – 0:30:55] Adam: That’s the new development, I guess.
[0:30:56 – 0:31:00] Adam: So we were over on Point Supreme last night for the Pizza Biter extravaganza?
[0:31:01 – 0:31:01] Adam: Gala?
[0:31:03 – 0:31:03] Erik: Biter Gala?
[0:31:04 – 0:31:05] Adam: Biter Gala 2025.
[0:31:05 – 0:31:06] Adam: Pew, pew, pew.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:07] Erik: Pew, pew, pew.
[0:31:07 – 0:31:14] Adam: So I was doing a bunch on the walk and then just doing a bunch right on the fire grate, which I only dropped about five or six maybe.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:17] Erik: I mean, out of 230, though, that’s bound to happen.
[0:31:17 – 0:31:22] Adam: I was able to rescue a few of them, and a couple of them just fell right into the flames and could not be rescued.
[0:31:22 – 0:31:29] Adam: All right, Peabiters, you shall be eaten in heaven by Jesus’ ghost.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:30] SPEAKER_01: Jesus’ ghost.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:31] SPEAKER_01: How’s that work?
[0:31:32 – 0:31:33] Adam: So, yeah, we did pretty good.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:37] Adam: And then one of my favorite parts of the whole thing was, like, Eric was doing the plating for it.
[0:31:37 – 0:31:38] Adam: I was cooking and Eric was plating.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:41] Adam: And we did a little help of each.
[0:31:41 – 0:31:43] Adam: But, like, we had this cool…
[0:31:43 – 0:31:50] Adam: Right before we did the dinner, and this was after we bushwhacked into ferret, which was a huge success.
[0:31:52 – 0:31:52] Adam: We did, like…
[0:31:54 – 0:32:21] Adam: fill we filled gordy’s boat with uh firewood to like the brim of just really good there’s a there’s a burn uh check on the map there’s a burn that went through here i think in 06 there’s a bunch of just like really good firewood festooning the entire shoreline of this lake especially over in the zone we’re in yeah and so we got a bunch of really good firewood back there and brought it back so like we had this cool board though it looked like a sword and
[0:32:22 – 0:32:27] Adam: It was like this great piece of old cedar driftwood, just smooth on the outside.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:29] Adam: But then the inside had been burnt.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:33] Adam: The inside of that layer of tree had been burned in that fire.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:40] Adam: And then this shard had been shot out of the trunk of that tree when it fell probably and landed on the shoreline, and we got it.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:45] Adam: And you could fit like 10 biters on there, very tastefully arranged.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:50] Adam: And then I put a little pine cone on there, and Eric was putting the habanero hot sauce on.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:54] Adam: Just perfect little drops on there.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:55] SPEAKER_01: Little cedar sprigs.
[0:32:55 – 0:33:10] Erik: Yeah, it was like this plating would probably fetch, I don’t know, $90 to $100 as an appetizer in some kind of upscale, I don’t know, two-star Michelin restaurant in New York City.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:14] Erik: It was some like Soho shit we were pulling on that thing.
[0:33:14 – 0:33:16] Adam: It was very artfully done.
[0:33:16 – 0:33:19] Erik: And then the gravy came out, and then things got real weird.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:35] Adam: Yeah, then we end up with a whole skillet of gravy going from the free gravy haul that Hopalicious got a couple in his prize pack from winning the March Madness contest that we held on the Discord back in the spring.
[0:33:36 – 0:34:01] Adam: and tick check at the co-op had promised a big a fancy prize pack for whoever won and i can’t remember who he picked or who even won the merch madness basket hoops tournament i know who everybody knows who won the tournament but nobody knows who won the basketball tournament at this point the actual basketball tournament yeah news yeah no anyways we do know that hot delicious won the contest though and he got a prize pack that did include like two uh nice packs of gravy in there so
[0:34:02 – 0:34:08] Erik: Had one of them simmering and then… We were dipping right away, but then we just ended up tossing like… A dozen.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:08] Erik: A dozen.
[0:34:09 – 0:34:11] Adam: 20 biters went right into the gravy tub.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:12] Erik: Wet biters.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Erik: They were pretty good.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:14] Adam: It was more like a dumpling then.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:15] Adam: It was really good, though.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:16] Erik: Yeah, they were all right.
[0:34:17 – 0:34:19] Adam: Most of the gravy got used up, I think.
[0:34:19 – 0:34:24] Erik: Yeah, one of the… Popalicious’ plate came back to our camp just still covered in gravy.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:26] Erik: It was so gross this morning.
[0:34:26 – 0:34:27] Erik: I was like, is that still the gravy?
[0:34:28 – 0:34:48] Adam: yeah it was pretty good uh i don’t think we left any other than the few that did fall on the fire i think every one of those biters was taken but i thought it was 250 biters i thought it was a 100 and a 150 both pepperoni totino’s originals but somebody was trying to claim the big bag was only 130 this morning so that would only give us 230 what do you think
[0:34:49 – 0:34:56] Erik: Yeah, no, I was very surprised at the fact that Totino’s has a 100 pack, which makes sense, but then they have a 130?
[0:34:56 – 0:35:00] Adam: That’s why I might as well say it was a 150.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:02] Adam: It doesn’t make any sense to have a 130.
[0:35:02 – 0:35:03] Erik: There’s no reasoning behind it.
[0:35:03 – 0:35:05] Erik: 125, that’s a nice round number.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Erik: Why 130?
[0:35:06 – 0:35:07] Erik: I just don’t get it.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:08] Adam: Value.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:13] Erik: It’s just so odd that it makes people be like, hmm, I should probably just get the 130.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:14] Adam: Why wouldn’t I want 30 extra?
[0:35:14 – 0:35:16] Erik: Well, 230 is now the new record.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:20] Adam: Yeah, put that in the Wikipedia.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:21] Erik: Pew, pew, pew.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Adam: It was a gala.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:33] Adam: A Pizza Biter gala was had on night two, whatever day that was, here in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
[0:35:35 – 0:35:37] Adam: We’re having a really nice little time here.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:40] Adam: I’m really enjoying this creek.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:44] Adam: It’s got some really nice big cedar in here as well.
[0:35:45 – 0:35:55] Erik: Yeah, well, and this will come out, like, years after this trip, so, like, there will be no, like, real worry about any of the people on this trip hearing what we have to say about them now.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:56] Erik: We haven’t been too harsh.
[0:35:57 – 0:36:00] Adam: I think we’ve been fair and truthful, yeah.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:03] Erik: My biggest notice and criticism is everybody…
[0:36:16 – 0:36:34] Adam: we got here just to make sure everything’s going okay back home and there isn’t any major news to report so uh and that there aren’t any injuries to my fantasy team so i’ve gotten zero text messages from matt and he’s my he’s co-commissioner of the league and i might need him to take tucker craft out of the lineup at the last second if we don’t get out of here on time tomorrow
[0:36:34 – 0:36:37] Erik: It doesn’t help that a few people are getting 5G out here.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:40] Erik: There’s been multiple YouTube videos watched.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:41] Erik: What is happening?
[0:36:41 – 0:36:44] Erik: This isn’t a real trip, honestly.
[0:36:44 – 0:36:47] Adam: I liked being able to check the radar for sure.
[0:36:47 – 0:36:49] Adam: I did get the weather radio out this morning.
[0:36:49 – 0:36:52] Adam: Eric got it out, and then we were able to get it working.
[0:36:53 – 0:36:57] Adam: There’s like a 30% chance of some isolated thunderstorms tonight.
[0:36:58 – 0:37:05] Adam: Which, honestly, when we were paddling over here, I said to Eric, I was like, I would kill for a nice thunderstorm tonight once we’re all back in camp and under the tarp.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:07] Adam: And the dinner, all the brats have been consumed.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:09] Adam: 36 brats.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:10] Erik: We got 36 brats.
[0:37:10 – 0:37:15] Adam: Yeah, I’m like, I’m hungry now, but just remember, we’ve got to do 36 brats later.
[0:37:15 – 0:37:17] Erik: I still haven’t pooped either.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:18] Erik: You haven’t?
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Erik: I haven’t.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:22] Adam: Wow, we’ve got a really nice latrine at our island site for sure.
[0:37:22 – 0:37:25] Adam: It’s got a very nice square one with a big lid.
[0:37:25 – 0:37:27] Adam: Awesome latrine up there.
[0:37:27 – 0:37:28] Adam: Ain’t no brown volcano.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:30] Adam: This ain’t your grandfather’s brown volcano buster.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:32] Erik: version 5.2 volcano.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:36] Adam: This might be the most modern shitter I’ve ever seen out on the park.
[0:37:37 – 0:37:38] Erik: Nice vent holes, a solid lid.
[0:37:39 – 0:37:44] Erik: I’m right under it in my hammock just watching everybody in the morning.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:45] Erik: I’m judging wiping techniques.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:50] Adam: You can really get a good satellite signal to check your text messages from home.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:50] Erik: Yep.
[0:37:51 – 0:37:54] Adam: Uh, it’s just in the perfect spot up there on the Hill, right above Eric’s hammock.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:57] Adam: And you can definitely see Eric’s face while you’re sitting on it.
[0:37:57 – 0:38:10] Adam: Like when the morning one, when I was up there, uh, checking the news and sending my messages, uh, my daily correspondence out, I just looked down to the left and I could just see your mustache down, just poking out of your hammock flaps, uh,
[0:38:10 – 0:38:12] Adam: And I was like, oh, well, that’s unfortunate.
[0:38:13 – 0:38:16] Erik: I was going to say, I was thinking that it might make things move a little smoother.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:27] Adam: I definitely didn’t, like, loiter as long as I normally would, just because there’s probably a line of people wanting to come up there, and also because, yeah, Eric was right there, and it was a little awkward.
[0:38:27 – 0:38:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:27 – 0:38:32] Erik: Well, the last site before we got into this Fin Lake, or this Fin Creek here coming down from Fin Lake…
[0:38:34 – 0:38:36] Erik: It was one of those scenarios we’ve had in the past.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:37] Erik: It doesn’t happen very often.
[0:38:37 – 0:38:38] Erik: We were paddling up to it.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:40] Erik: I was like, that campsite’s open.
[0:38:40 – 0:38:46] Erik: Because we were looking forward to just stopping at a site to kind of check it out and get a little recording in.
[0:38:47 – 0:38:49] Erik: And we were paddling up to it, and it was like, it’s open.
[0:38:49 – 0:38:50] Erik: Let’s just go over there.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:55] Erik: Because the island site on the far east end of the lake, the Long Island, I guess, was occupied.
[0:38:55 – 0:38:57] Adam: I would say that one, yeah.
[0:38:57 – 0:39:02] Adam: The Long Island would be 14, and then the one over by the farthest to the east…
[0:39:03 – 0:39:31] Erik: would be 15 long island 15 i don’t think i’ve ever seen that long island island 14 not occupied i’ve never gone by it when there hasn’t been somebody there yes that was a really good looking site both of those there in the back eastern bay look pretty nice but yeah these people like just had a pair of sunglasses out on a rock it was like somebody left some sunglasses i guess we’re getting some free sunglasses we were like almost nose to in into camp i was about to get out of the canoe yeah we were that close in to the landing when all of a sudden it’s like wait what is that there’s something back there
[0:39:32 – 0:39:35] Erik: Somebody was moving around, like, throwing a bear rope over a limb.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:36] Erik: I was like, where’s their canoe?
[0:39:36 – 0:39:37] Erik: What is happening?
[0:39:37 – 0:39:39] Adam: How is there people here?
[0:39:40 – 0:39:43] Adam: They were in there, and they were honestly hidden, and that’s pretty poor form.
[0:39:43 – 0:39:46] Adam: I guess we should have listened to the… Poor form on our part.
[0:39:46 – 0:39:47] Adam: We should have listened to the sunglasses.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:51] Adam: They’re trying to tell us they’re in there, but they need to do a little bit.
[0:39:51 – 0:40:00] Adam: If you’re going to hide while in camp and set up in the back like a bunch of weirdos, leave something more than one pair of sunglasses out by the landing so you don’t get people almost landing in your sight.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:04] Adam: We don’t want to be that person, and certainly you don’t want to be that person either.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:09] Adam: So there’s some free advice buried here in the third act of episode 602.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:12] Adam: You’ve got to go bigger.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:15] Adam: I don’t know what the standard would be, but it’s got to be bigger.
[0:40:15 – 0:40:15] Erik: We’re packed.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:43] Adam: than a sunglasses is not enough yeah especially i mean maybe there was a landing way around the corner that we couldn’t see there wasn’t where is the canoe but if you’re just leaving a pair of sunglasses out i don’t know that’s not enough it’s got to be something more than that it’s more on them and less on us for sure but that was an unfortunate situation so but i think it turned into our you know uh good luck and bad luck are all mixed up as we know and it ended up that we are now like just parked here hanging out on finn creek which is a delight
[0:40:44 – 0:40:45] Erik: Very delightful.
[0:40:45 – 0:40:45] Erik: There’s a moth.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:49] Erik: Found some nice dead-standing pine here.
[0:40:50 – 0:40:50] Erik: Take that back to camp.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:52] Erik: We have been ripping through the wood.
[0:40:52 – 0:41:00] Erik: We were graciously wood-numbed by a cheap dancer on night one, and that has been holding us fast up until this point, but I don’t know if we’ll get through the night on what’s there now.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:06] Adam: I’ve just been cold all day, so I want a nice big fire when we get back and finally get the dry shoes on for the last time.
[0:41:07 – 0:41:08] SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well…
[0:41:08 – 0:41:13] Erik: We’re going to go peel around the corner and maybe, oh, we got some sunlight coming through the trees now.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:14] Erik: Here comes the sun.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:15] Erik: First sun we’ve seen in days.
[0:41:16 – 0:41:16] Adam: Yeah, let’s go.
[0:41:17 – 0:41:17] Adam: Look at that.
[0:41:17 – 0:41:18] SPEAKER_00: We see it.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:19] Adam: Holy moly.
[0:41:19 – 0:41:20] Adam: Yeah, we’re going to go.
[0:41:20 – 0:41:21] Adam: We got to back out of here.
[0:41:21 – 0:41:30] Adam: I haven’t caught a fish, and I did just lose a nice little Cleo due to a line failure or a knot failure.
[0:41:30 – 0:41:34] Adam: I just cast it, and it just kept going all the way to Jupiter.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:38] Adam: And so I tied on the mellow yellow little Cleo spoon now.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:40] Adam: Now that the sun’s coming out, mellow yellow is going to be so hot.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:43] Adam: So we’re going to try some casting.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:45] Adam: We’re going to look for some more firewood.
[0:41:45 – 0:41:47] Adam: We’re going to check out the Bandedad Creek.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:49] Adam: And I don’t know.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:52] Adam: See where the afternoon takes us from there.
[0:41:55 – 0:41:58] Adam: But, yeah, eventually get back into camp and focus on Brat Fest.
[0:41:58 – 0:42:09] Adam: And I think they’re going to bring the little tiny bocce over, and we’re going to play over on island camp because it was very tricky playing over there on the Point Supreme rocky spot.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:14] Adam: There’s a little bit more, like, flat ground, but, like, more root action and a lot more cedar in there.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:16] Adam: I think it’s going to make for a really interesting game of bocce.
[0:42:16 – 0:42:27] Erik: can actually get some tossing in at our site that’s just like a rocky precipice angled like one of those little balls would have gone on in the lake it would have gotten too squirrely oh we’re lucky we didn’t we are lucky we retained all the balls
[0:42:28 – 0:42:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:28 – 0:42:29] Erik: Retain the balls.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:32] Adam: Retain the balls for Tumble Home.
[0:42:32 – 0:42:36] Adam: Live in the field, my name is Adam, and I’m joined here, of course, with my dear friend Eric.
[0:42:36 – 0:42:36] Adam: Thank you for listening.
[0:42:37 – 0:42:43] Adam: We’ll check back with you later this afternoon with an update on the final day here in camp.
[0:42:43 – 0:42:49] Adam: It’s going to be a kind of an episode where we get one episode out of a three-day trip just because
[0:42:50 – 0:42:55] Adam: Recording has been a little bit more challenging with the larger group, and that’s cool too.
[0:42:55 – 0:42:58] Adam: This is going to end up being a fun, probably longer episode of Live in the Field here.
[0:43:00 – 0:43:02] Adam: From the Creekside, we’ll catch you later.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:33] Erik: All right.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:34] Erik: We’re out.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:41] Erik: Shaved two hours off the departure time.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:44] Erik: 75% of that was just dropping the hammer on the water.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:52] Erik: And then the other 25% was our best guess is not lingering to drink bagged margaritas and smoke cigarettes on every portage.
[0:43:53 – 0:43:54] Adam: That had something to do with it.
[0:43:54 – 0:43:57] Adam: Also, we were going downhill all day and with the current.
[0:43:58 – 0:43:58] Erik: Pretty light bags.
[0:43:59 – 0:44:04] Adam: And the bags are pretty light other than that haunted garbage we had to put in our food pack that we found.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:06] Erik: We haven’t mentioned that yet, have we?
[0:44:06 – 0:44:08] Erik: I don’t know if we should even talk about it, frankly.
[0:44:08 – 0:44:10] Erik: Disturbing on many levels.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:12] Erik: Haul out basically a dead body.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:31] Erik: uh yeah we made it we survived the weird wild tumble homie 25 trips the flag has been signed i have the flag it’s going up in the tumble shed yeah and uh yeah big shout out to all the tumble homies that joined us on this trip uh that was a lot of fun
[0:44:32 – 0:44:32] Erik: Oh yeah, totally.
[0:44:33 – 0:44:40] Erik: A special shout out to everybody that came with and pretty much planned all of it, Fazmata, and putting together all of the food.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:43] Erik: That was a multi-Tumble Homey deal.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:49] Erik: And pretty much basically doing everything in camp for us besides setting up my own hammock.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:53] Erik: They should have sent your hammock up for you now that we’re thinking about it.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:56] Adam: But yeah, at one point we’re paddling on it.
[0:44:56 – 0:44:57] Adam: It’s like, I don’t know.
[0:44:57 – 0:44:59] Adam: Neither of us have a permit on us.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:00] Adam: I never even saw a permit.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:04] Adam: I don’t even know the actual human name of the group leader.
[0:45:04 – 0:45:05] SPEAKER_00: Who’s your trip leader?
[0:45:05 – 0:45:06] SPEAKER_00: I don’t know.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:07] SPEAKER_00: I only know him by his internet name.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:09] Adam: Just internet names.
[0:45:09 – 0:45:10] Adam: We didn’t see anybody.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:17] Adam: Well, we did see the one kind gentleman with a very fancy solo boat just south of Ham.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:20] Adam: And, uh, he was, uh, he was having a good time.
[0:45:20 – 0:45:22] Adam: You could tell it was going on his first solo trip.
[0:45:22 – 0:45:25] Adam: So if you’re hearing this, uh, we see you, that boat was amazing.
[0:45:25 – 0:45:33] Adam: And, uh, I hope he had a good solo trip, but yeah, we had a couple of nice sightings on the ride out that I think we should mention.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:34] Adam: Uh,
[0:45:36 – 0:45:37] Adam: What’s the waterfall we saw?
[0:45:37 – 0:45:39] Erik: Oh, Fool Falls.
[0:45:39 – 0:45:40] Adam: Fool Falls.
[0:45:40 – 0:45:41] Adam: We saw it on the way in, but we actually didn’t.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Adam: We just heard it on the way in.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:45] Erik: Actually laid eyes on it on the way out.
[0:45:45 – 0:45:46] Adam: We had good angle on that.
[0:45:46 – 0:45:47] Adam: Fool Falls.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:50] Adam: That was on Cross… Cross Bay Lake.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:51] Erik: Yeah, right when we got in there.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:52] Erik: Is it?
[0:45:52 – 0:45:52] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:45:53 – 0:45:54] Erik: Yeah, that was cool.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:57] Erik: Cross Bay Lake had all sorts of treasure.
[0:45:57 – 0:46:01] Erik: Yeah, every campsite was pretty much occupied, even one on Ham.
[0:46:01 – 0:46:04] Erik: It’s, man, it’s busy out there.
[0:46:04 – 0:46:05] Erik: My Quetico trip was busy.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:06] Erik: This trip was busy.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:07] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:12] Erik: We, I think every site that we went by yesterday, too, was occupied.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:13] Erik: Obviously, we’re including our own, but.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:16] Adam: Yeah, no, I mean, there was a lot of people out there.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:23] Adam: Granted, it was the weekend, and it was, other than it being a little cold and some mist, it was pretty nice weather, very little wind.
[0:46:23 – 0:46:24] Adam: Very little wind.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:26] Adam: Just ideal September paddling, you know.
[0:46:27 – 0:46:29] Adam: So shouldn’t be surprised that there’s that many.
[0:46:29 – 0:46:30] Adam: We didn’t really go that far.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:32] Adam: Six portages in, six back.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:39] Erik: Yeah, Saturday in like the premier time of, you know, paddling up here in the fall, middle of September.
[0:46:39 – 0:46:40] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:41] Erik: I’m not surprised.
[0:46:41 – 0:46:43] Erik: It’s just like, man, it’s just…
[0:46:44 – 0:46:45] Erik: It’s a good thing, I guess, to see.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:46] Erik: It’s a little tough.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:50] Erik: We didn’t have any problems getting a campsite, so no real complaints.
[0:46:50 – 0:46:51] Erik: It’s just like, man, there’s a lot of traffic out here.
[0:46:52 – 0:46:55] Adam: Yeah, I guess I was surprised at the amount of people and boats we did see.
[0:46:55 – 0:46:58] Adam: Yeah, and there’s still quite a few cars here at the Cross Bay.
[0:46:58 – 0:47:02] Adam: What is this, the Cross Bay River parking lot?
[0:47:02 – 0:47:05] Adam: Cross Bay Lake Entry Point parking lot.
[0:47:07 – 0:47:07] Adam: Yeah, there’s a lot in here.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:10] Adam: But yeah, you know, it’s Sunday.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:11] Adam: What else did we see?
[0:47:11 – 0:47:12] Adam: There was one other thing.
[0:47:12 – 0:47:13] Adam: The Dolman.
[0:47:13 – 0:47:14] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:15] Adam: So we had a new Dolman.
[0:47:15 – 0:47:17] SPEAKER_01: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:47:17 – 0:47:18] Adam: Dolman alarm.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:20] Adam: Holy moly, hot dog.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:22] Adam: It’s right there on the Cross River.
[0:47:23 – 0:47:24] Adam: Basically.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:33] Adam: As soon as you get out of Ham into the Cross River, you go around this crazy bend, which somebody in our group on the way in completely missed the turn back to the hard left.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:34] Adam: It just kept going.
[0:47:34 – 0:47:35] Adam: Real bozo move.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:36] Adam: It really was funny.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:41] Erik: It’s actually like where the boundary water starts is that little crook there.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:51] Adam: Because we did notice there was, yeah, the signs on the portage from Ham to the river, but actually the line on the map is just a little bit south of there.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:53] Adam: And it’s probably right where that dolman is.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:55] Adam: But that looked like a legit certified dolman.
[0:47:55 – 0:47:57] Adam: So look at us.
[0:47:57 – 0:47:57] Erik: Yep.
[0:47:57 – 0:48:02] Adam: This many years into it and we’re still out here finding new dolmans that are literally right next to the entry point.
[0:48:02 – 0:48:06] Erik: Yeah, I think I’ve paddled by that rock, I don’t know, 12 times in my life.
[0:48:06 – 0:48:07] Erik: Never seen it.
[0:48:07 – 0:48:09] Adam: Yeah, I’ve never done this actual route.
[0:48:09 – 0:48:12] Adam: That portage and that section across Bay Lake was all new to me.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:15] Adam: But yeah, somebody else pointed it out.
[0:48:15 – 0:48:16] Adam: I didn’t see it.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:19] Adam: But as soon as you start looking at it a little bit closer, you can tell.
[0:48:19 – 0:48:25] Adam: It’s up on three little rocks, and you can definitely see all the way underneath it, and it just happens to be at a major navigation point.
[0:48:25 – 0:48:26] Adam: Go figure.
[0:48:26 – 0:48:27] Erik: Go figure.
[0:48:28 – 0:48:35] Adam: We made it back to the truck, and we estimated at basically even three hours.
[0:48:35 – 0:48:43] Adam: Somebody told me it took us five hours to get in, but I wasn’t really paying attention or tracking it on the way in because there was no Packers kickoff to get to.
[0:48:44 – 0:48:46] Adam: Packers kickoff is coming up in about a half hour.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:52] Adam: So after we finish this track, we’re going to turn on the Packers radio network on the truck here and wait for the rest of our crew to arrive.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:59] Adam: But, yeah, this cooler of Glovebox Swarmies is the perfect drinking temperature.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:05] Adam: We got some Mingolds in here and Hopalicious threw in – it’s a show sponsor.
[0:49:05 – 0:49:06] Adam: We’re not allowed to have those.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:08] Adam: So no, we’re not mentioning those.
[0:49:08 – 0:49:13] Adam: And then there was another bag right next to the truck when we got here from the –
[0:49:14 – 0:49:15] Adam: The guys who left before us.
[0:49:16 – 0:49:17] Erik: Yeah, tiny crime donation?
[0:49:17 – 0:49:20] Adam: Yeah, this one was a plea for more tiny crimes.
[0:49:21 – 0:49:24] Adam: And, you know, a six-pack of beer will help us achieve that.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:31] Adam: So both of these are going to go on the whiteboard, and then we were talking that it’s time for us to probably start picking out some spooky movies for Halloween season on TCC.
[0:49:32 – 0:49:34] Adam: But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, I think.
[0:49:34 – 0:49:37] Adam: I thought there was going to be one more thing to mention.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:40] Adam: You’ve got a whole list going.
[0:49:40 – 0:49:41] Adam: I never did write them all down.
[0:49:41 – 0:49:42] Adam: I need a map.
[0:49:42 – 0:49:44] Erik: We never reviewed the campsite.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:45] Adam: That’s what we were going to do.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:48] Adam: So we got to review the island site at least.
[0:49:48 – 0:49:51] Adam: We will not review Point Supreme, which is south of the island.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:59] Adam: But we came out of Carl, if you’re following along at home, and then we veered to the east.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:04] Adam: And then we did go by a small little island site that’s like the dot is bigger than the island.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:05] Adam: And we kept going.
[0:50:05 – 0:50:08] Adam: There’s a bigger island to the east that has two campsites on it.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:13] Adam: And we ended up on the one facing west, so the first of those island campsites.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:15] Erik: Did we ever deem it a number?
[0:50:16 – 0:50:21] Adam: We deemed the ones way down at the end of the lake like 11 and 12, I think, yesterday when we were out messing around in the creeks.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:24] Adam: When we were out creaking yesterday, but I don’t think we ever called it.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:25] Adam: Do you have your map on you?
[0:50:25 – 0:50:26] Adam: No, I don’t know.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:32] Adam: Anyways, it’s the one on the island that’s the better of the two island sites for sure.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:36] Adam: You did have one at one point.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:37] Adam: Mine’s up in the cab.
[0:50:38 – 0:50:41] Adam: Anyways, I love that site.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:41] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:48] Adam: We did go over to Point Supreme at one point to check out on the other boys to see their site after we went into Ferret.
[0:50:49 – 0:50:51] Adam: And we did eat a bunch of pizza biters over there.
[0:50:52 – 0:50:53] Adam: And we played bocce ball.
[0:50:54 – 0:50:56] Adam: So, I mean, let’s give them some shrift.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:58] Adam: That was a nice campsite.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:04] Adam: And Natalie’s parents had told me it was the best site on the lake, and they had dubbed it Point Supreme.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:05] Adam: And I think the point was supreme.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:07] Erik: It is nice, yeah.
[0:51:07 – 0:51:13] Erik: I mean, I think if we would have stayed there, we probably would have felt that it was superior to the island site or vice versa, you know?
[0:51:13 – 0:51:19] Adam: We never really went back into the back of camp where the big pine tree was, where everybody’s, like, tent pads and hammocks were really set up back there.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:23] Erik: I have stayed there before and, uh, on a guiding guided trip.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:33] Erik: So, you know, not as nearly as many shenanigans, but, uh, yeah, this is like six different little like rooms that you can essentially set up a tent in or a, or a hammock or whatever you’ve got.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:39] Erik: And then like a big, like commanding view of the lake up on a big point and like a nice summer.
[0:51:39 – 0:51:47] Erik: It’s a great place in like mid summer when it’s hot, you know, it’s a great spot, but I think our little cozy spot on the Island was better for, for our needs this trip.
[0:51:47 – 0:51:57] Adam: The only deduction on Point Supreme would be that that fire grate’s just offset a little bit too close to the edge of the point, and so it’s harder to get a whole group of people around it.
[0:51:58 – 0:52:05] Adam: So when we were cooking up the pizza biters, it was kind of like a couple people could sit by the fire, and the rest of the crew was kind of sitting up in a circle under the rainfly.
[0:52:06 – 0:52:31] Adam: um but otherwise a really nice site we won’t give it a full-on grade but definitely check it out if you’re on long island lake our island site was more cozy though and it had a bunch of good cedar in there and i was hung on a cedar all three nights yeah a bunch of nice cedar uh not really like huge views of the lake but it was kind of nice because like you’re just up in there and you could go down to the point and get a huge view but if you were sitting up by the fire pit like there’s enough cedar along the shore that it would
[0:52:32 – 0:52:38] Adam: It masked the view of the lake, but also it masked the view from all these other paddlers we saw looking into our camp.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:38] Erik: Right.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:41] Erik: It was very cozy, not exposed at all.
[0:52:41 – 0:52:41] Erik: Private.
[0:52:41 – 0:52:46] Erik: A little windy at times, a little misty at times, and we got things pretty well set up in there.
[0:52:47 – 0:52:55] Erik: Shout out to Paddle Faster for setting up the immaculate over the fire grate rain fly.
[0:52:55 – 0:52:56] Erik: That was good work there.
[0:52:56 – 0:52:56] Erik: I mean…
[0:52:57 – 0:52:59] Adam: That was some real nice craftsmanship on that one.
[0:52:59 – 0:53:01] Erik: Yeah, that felt very nice to have.
[0:53:01 – 0:53:07] Erik: I don’t know if it ever fully got to a point where we needed to all be under it, but it was like threatening rain pretty much the whole weekend.
[0:53:07 – 0:53:14] Adam: It was sort of misting on and off, and it was foggy for at least 25% of the trip, which, you know, September trip, give me some fog.
[0:53:15 – 0:53:17] Adam: I want to watch some spooky movies now.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:19] Erik: Yeah, excellent 5G as well.
[0:53:19 – 0:53:20] Erik: Yeah, somehow…
[0:53:21 – 0:53:27] Adam: May as well tell them, yeah, if you have U.S. Cellular, apparently you get 5G out on Long Island Lake.
[0:53:27 – 0:53:35] Adam: So somebody in our group had U.S. Cellular and was able to get radar updates, which I do love looking at radar.
[0:53:35 – 0:53:37] Erik: It was kind of nice, but, you know.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:41] Adam: Didn’t really ever save our bacon or help us out in any way, but it’s always nice to look at the radar.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:43] Adam: Yeah, it’s going to mist on you for a little bit.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:45] Adam: Like, yeah, all right, now I know.
[0:53:45 – 0:53:46] Adam: It’s been doing that.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:50] Erik: Yeah, the landing, there’s like two landings, one on the north side, one on the south side.
[0:53:51 – 0:53:52] Erik: Both are like, yeah, fine.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:56] Erik: The one on the north side, I think, is a little bit easier to get in and out if you’re wet footing it.
[0:53:57 – 0:53:59] Adam: Yeah, both the landings were pretty nice.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:10] Erik: I don’t know if I would necessarily say that there was huge like fishing potential from anywhere at camp, but Long Island didn’t really give up too much in terms of fishing, even when we were out on the water.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:14] Erik: So just seemed a little shallow all around it.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:17] Erik: So for casting like this time of year, probably not.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:19] Erik: I mean, nobody caught anything from camp.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:19] Adam: I don’t think so.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:21] Adam: No, and I did cast quite a bit.
[0:54:21 – 0:54:23] Adam: I recorded an episode of Wave Station in there.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:32] Adam: It’s been a long time since I got out the little tripod, and I wasn’t able to get anything, but I was also surprised I didn’t get a snag because you could see big rocks out in front of it.
[0:54:33 – 0:54:35] Adam: So it’s definitely not like a super steep drop.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:40] Adam: The fire grip is an amazing Smith A+, very nicely made.
[0:54:40 – 0:54:51] Adam: adorned with rock, facing the appropriate direction, enough room around it with flat spots for everybody to sit and set up, and it was a really nice little campfire spot.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:56] Adam: I thought it was, for getting a group to sit around the fire, far superior to Point Supreme.
[0:54:57 – 0:54:58] Adam: So I enjoyed that.
[0:54:58 – 0:55:03] Adam: We had, what, 36 bratwurst were consumed somehow?
[0:55:03 – 0:55:04] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:55:04 – 0:55:06] Adam: It doesn’t even seem possible, I think.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:09] Erik: Dirty Dadbot ever ate his pocket dog that he had.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:16] Adam: Yes, I think 35 brats got consumed, and then Dirty Dadbot wrapped one up and deemed it a pocket dog for the ride out.
[0:55:16 – 0:55:19] Erik: And did put it in his little side pocket next to all of his little treats.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:22 – 0:55:23] Adam: Bless that little man.
[0:55:24 – 0:55:25] Adam: He’s our little man now.
[0:55:25 – 0:55:27] Adam: He’s upgraded to little man.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:28] SPEAKER_03: Little man status.
[0:55:29 – 0:55:31] Adam: I had a lot of fun on 30 Dead Bod.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:35] Adam: We had Fosmata and Hopalicious, obviously, in our little camp.
[0:55:35 – 0:55:36] Adam: It was a lot of fun.
[0:55:37 – 0:55:37] Adam: It was a good group.
[0:55:38 – 0:55:41] Adam: We all had different kinds of hammocks going.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:45] Adam: A nice assortment of party lights.
[0:55:45 – 0:55:46] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:47] Adam: The last one would, of course, be the latrine.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:49] Adam: It was not a brown volcano.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:52] Adam: But it was, like, a really nice, like, the newest technology.
[0:55:52 – 0:55:53] Adam: I think we already talked about this.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:53] Adam: Probably.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:55] Erik: Like, a new name for those ones.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:56] Erik: Like, the new green ones.
[0:55:56 – 0:55:57] Erik: The square ones with the lids.
[0:55:57 – 0:55:58] Adam: The green squares.
[0:55:58 – 0:55:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:59 – 0:56:00] Adam: Who knows?
[0:56:00 – 0:56:01] Adam: But they’re really nice, honestly.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:05] Adam: And I had, yeah, I didn’t get no 5G out there.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:10] Adam: But that was my best spot to, like, connect into the satellite for texting messages back home.
[0:56:11 – 0:56:13] Erik: My only complaint was that I never even had to use it.
[0:56:14 – 0:56:19] Erik: I ended up using a different campsite’s latrine while we were out on our day trip.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:20] Erik: That’s true.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:25] Adam: You used the other side of the island, which is where we found, sir, all this odd garbage we had to drag out of here.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:28] Erik: It’s very close to camp, though.
[0:56:28 – 0:56:31] Erik: It’s, like, just up over the rock right at the backside of the camp.
[0:56:31 – 0:56:32] Erik: It is kind of close, yeah.
[0:56:32 – 0:56:33] Adam: And, yeah.
[0:56:34 – 0:56:36] Adam: Enough said, but it was a really nice latrine.
[0:56:37 – 0:56:38] Adam: Nice island.
[0:56:38 – 0:56:41] Adam: It always gets an upgrade on the score because it’s an island.
[0:56:41 – 0:56:42] Erik: Yeah, that’s true.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:47] Adam: Overall, I’m giving that one a top marks, whatever that is now, five stars.
[0:56:49 – 0:56:49] Erik: Grades?
[0:56:50 – 0:56:51] Erik: I thought we always went with grades.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:52] Erik: I think A-minus.
[0:56:52 – 0:56:53] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:56] Adam: I’ve seen better, but for this trip, it was an A-plus for me.
[0:56:56 – 0:56:58] Erik: For what we needed, A-plus, absolutely.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:08] Erik: And it does connect over to the other campsite on the east side, which we were not 100% sure on, but we followed a path and confirmed that it does connect.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:12] Adam: I think I hear some voices coming down the river here, so maybe the rest of the group has got in here.
[0:57:16 – 0:57:17] Adam: There’s a vehicle coming.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:18] Adam: One last note before we leave.
[0:57:20 – 0:57:21] Adam: We did stop at the Posniak site.
[0:57:23 – 0:57:28] Adam: And it didn’t feel very haunted, but we sat down at the grate and had a little chat with Steve.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:31] Adam: And that’s the first time I ever stopped at Ham 1.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:37] Adam: But we did see the big cedar tree that apparently was engulfed in flame by the newspaper.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:43] Adam: And I didn’t really gather a sense of sadness or remorse or…
[0:57:44 – 0:58:03] Adam: foreboding um the campsite had a fine feel to it maybe it would feel different in the dark but didn’t uh feel like steve was still um was still there but we still did leave an offering and gave him some updates on the cubs because i’ve somehow conflated that he’s also steve bartman and a big fan of the cubs so
[0:58:04 – 0:58:09] Adam: Yeah, I think our boys are here, so we’re going to probably say arrivederci.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:16] Adam: Oh, there was an aggressive grouse on the portage from Little George to Rib, I think.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:21] Adam: And that was like, it was a grouse all fanned up, like challenging a chipmunk to a fight, and I broke it up.
[0:58:21 – 0:58:25] Adam: And then when I came back through, the grouse tried to fight me, and I had to chase it off in the woods.
[0:58:25 – 0:58:29] Adam: So aggressive grouse gets a note of, that’s your bird of the week note.
[0:58:30 – 0:58:30] SPEAKER_00: I didn’t see it.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:33] Adam: Yeah, and I asked Eric, I’m like, did you see that crazy grouse?
[0:58:33 – 0:58:34] Adam: He’s, no, I never saw it.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:43] Adam: in the orb just for you you gotta open up your sensors maybe uh turn make your antennas a little bit longer i’m always trying
[0:58:44 – 0:58:47] Adam: For Tumble Home Live in the Field, we’re here at the truck tailgate.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:54] Adam: We are tailgating right now for the Packers, and it’s time to turn on the pregame show, and we’ve got to get going here.
[0:58:54 – 0:59:02] Adam: Thanks again to all the Tumble Homies who had any hand in this trip, and especially shout out to the Tumble Homies who did the live Tumble Home trip last year, got this whole thing going.
[0:59:03 – 0:59:04] Erik: We’re going to be back for 26.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:05] Erik: We are a big fan.
[0:59:05 – 0:59:08] Adam: Yeah, we all put our names on the flag, and you sign the year.
[0:59:08 – 0:59:11] Adam: So if you come back next year, you get your name on the flag next year, and I think we will be back.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:18] Adam: No location has been determined yet, but I’m sure we’ll have some discussion on that in the next 12 months.
[0:59:20 – 0:59:22] Adam: Probably have it figured out in the next three months, if we’re being honest.
[0:59:22 – 0:59:23] Adam: Yeah, probably.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:25] Adam: Yeah, it was a great trip.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:27] Adam: Thanks to everybody who was a part of it.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:30] Adam: And it was a one-of-a-kind thing, like unbelievable.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:34] Erik: Unbelievably weird and definitely worth it.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:35] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:59:35 – 0:59:35] Erik: Thanks.
[0:59:35 – 0:59:39] Adam: And as we always say in Tomahawk, life is precious.
[0:59:40 – 0:59:42] Adam: And every day is a miracle.
[0:59:42 – 0:59:42] Adam: ¶¶
[1:00:30 – 1:00:31] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[1:00:58 – 1:00:58] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:27] UNKNOWN: Bye.