We got a big rocky scraper riddled with lake trout and slimy sculpin coming at you this week. Sixteen campsites reviews, mud pits filled with hog, worm holes and skinless Nathan’s sausage shaped islands.
Subscribe:
Episode Transcript
[0:00:00 – 0:00:06] Erik: Kekakabak Lake is located approximately 31 miles northeast of Ely in the Boundary Waters canoe area.
[0:00:07 – 0:00:11] Erik: This scenic lake has high cliffs and steep shorelines with good water quality.
[0:00:12 – 0:00:14] Erik: There are several access options for visitors.
[0:00:15 – 0:00:23] Erik: All of these options include portages to access the lake, and most visitors should allow more than one day to arrive there.
[0:00:23 – 0:00:29] Erik: There are 16 designated U.S. Forest Service campsites located around the lake for overnight use.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:45] Erik: Coming in at 1,688 acres with a maximum depth of 195 feet and 22-foot average water clarity, the name Kekikabik is derived from the Ojibwe word keke-kwabek.
[0:00:46 – 0:01:01] Erik: Roughly translating to a hawk’s nest on the rocks, or hawk iron cliffs, referring to the gekek, or hawk, and the steep, rugged cliffs that define the lake’s shores.
[0:01:15 – 0:01:16] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:34] Erik: Feet deet.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:35] Erik: Feminine step.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:41] Erik: Sounds like a couple of men walking into a shed filled with mosquitoes.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:42] Erik: My name is Eric.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:42] Erik: Hello.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:45] Erik: Welcome to Tumble Home pre-dark.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:47] Adam: Who the hell left the door open?
[0:01:47 – 0:01:48] Erik: Who the hell left the door open?
[0:01:49 – 0:01:50] Adam: Why would you leave that door open like that?
[0:01:51 – 0:01:52] Adam: Who turned the damper all the way down?
[0:01:56 – 0:01:57] Erik: We’re doing all right, though.
[0:01:58 – 0:01:58] Erik: It’s June 6th.
[0:01:58 – 0:01:59] Erik: The bugs are here.
[0:02:00 – 0:02:02] Erik: So is the green and the light.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:10] Erik: And also here is my fantastic clapping co-host, Adam.
[0:02:10 – 0:02:11] Erik: Hello.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:11] Erik: Good evening.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:12] Adam: Good evening.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:17] Adam: We’ve got, I think, double digit mosquito kills each.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:19] Adam: That was a solo hand.
[0:02:20 – 0:02:21] Erik: The one hand grab.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:23] Erik: Just snatch them right out of the air, Eric.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:29] Erik: I got really good at that that summer that I got bit by a dog in the palm, so I could only one-hand grab.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:31] Erik: That was like Miyagi with the chopsticks.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:32] Adam: There you go.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:34] Erik: Just pinching mosquitoes out of the air.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:36] Adam: There were a bunch of them in here, though.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:39] Erik: Spotting dimes, eating onions.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:40] Erik: I don’t know what’s going on.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:46] Adam: The hawkid cliff.
[0:02:47 – 0:03:05] Erik: hawked cliff hawked cliff lake the hawked cliffs of kakakaba coming at you uh if you don’t like lake reviews you’re just gonna have to sit down grin and bear it because that’s what this episode is and that’s what most likely is uh what these episodes are going to be going forward for a little while
[0:03:06 – 0:03:21] Adam: Tom Holm has a proud independent podcast about the Boundary Waters, and this episode is in Technicolor and is guaranteed to be under one hour in length due to the new contract we signed with Trevor.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:22] Erik: I was in VistaVision.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:24] Adam: Not anymore.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:24] Erik: Not anymore.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:25] Erik: We upgraded.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:26] Erik: Upgraded?
[0:03:26 – 0:03:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:27 – 0:03:33] Adam: After the Birdament, we got a hold of those cameras they were using for the Birdament, and yeah, now we’re in Technicolor.
[0:03:34 – 0:03:34] Adam: Hell yeah.
[0:03:35 – 0:03:38] Adam: And a very strange aspect ratio.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:40] Erik: Yeah, it’s very strange.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:47] Erik: It’s like the A24 movie Ghost Story, where it’s like a tiny little postage stamp of a square.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:49] Erik: It’s like the lighthouse.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:51] Erik: Yeah, exactly.
[0:03:51 – 0:03:51] Adam: Exactly.
[0:03:52 – 0:03:52] Erik: Just like the lighthouse.
[0:03:53 – 0:03:54] Adam: Yeah, Kekakabik.
[0:03:55 – 0:03:57] Adam: That’s a big old biscuit of a lake.
[0:03:58 – 0:04:13] Erik: Yeah, well, at the come up, you know, last week, I think we rightly so ended at a shape not much unlike the Depression era pony, you know, the old hun, the brooms worn out.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:29] Erik: don’t worry i’m gonna put a little horsey little flappy horsey thing on the top and uh jill our daughter who uh just survived uh rubititis or whatever freak fever was ripping through the community at the time she’s gonna have a new toy
[0:04:31 – 0:04:31] Erik: Horsey.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:32] Erik: A little horsey in the backyard.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:34] Erik: Pretend like you’re running around on horsey.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:52] Erik: Kakakavik doesn’t strike me right away off the map as a shape that aligns itself with much in the anthropomorphizing lake shapes game, but it’s kind of got a little vento in terms of shape.
[0:04:52 – 0:05:00] Erik: It’s a little bit, maybe one of the last lakes in that line coming down from, you know, all the way up into the heart of Quetico.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:07] Erik: You know, your Casha Peewees and your Agneses and the angle of the scrape kind of coming down, angling a little bit more.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:12] Erik: Might be one of the last lakes in that kind of vein of rocky scrapers.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:16] Erik: And then we get into your, you know.
[0:05:16 – 0:05:18] Erik: What’s the PMA there just south of it?
[0:05:18 – 0:05:20] Erik: Spider or mugwump.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:31] Erik: Yeah, both of those you’re kind of getting into your little stagnant, not stagnant, but more bulbous, interconnected, typical lowland.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:33] Adam: Yeah, this is where the scrape began or ended.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:36] Erik: Yeah, well, who’s to say?
[0:05:36 – 0:05:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:37] Adam: I think somebody could say.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:40] Erik: It’s a rocky scraper for sure.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:41] Adam: It’s a scraper, yeah.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:46] Adam: This is where the scrape, it is sort of scrapey, but it’s got like a square end on it.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:46] Erik: It does.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:48] Erik: Yeah, it kind of does have a little flat nub.
[0:05:49 – 0:05:49] Adam: You know what it looks like?
[0:05:50 – 0:05:55] Adam: It looks like Boundary Waters fire grate with a little bit of smoke coming out of it at a nice angle there.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:57] Adam: You see it?
[0:05:58 – 0:06:00] Adam: This is the fire grate here on the west side.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:01] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:06:01 – 0:06:04] Adam: This is cooking smoke, and this is the little sausage on the grate.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:06] Erik: The island is the sausage.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:07] Erik: The island is the sausage on the grate.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:08] Adam: The sausage island.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:12] Adam: Yeah, it looks like that’s my first guess.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:16] Adam: It’s a really nice fire grate with a sausage on it.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:26] Adam: The smoke is drifting off towards Ogish Kamunski, which somebody on the subreddit pointed out that Ogish means fisher.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:27] Adam: Kingfisher.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:30] Adam: Kingfisher, right, I guess.
[0:06:31 – 0:06:33] Erik: Well, we did fact check that, but who’s going to lie?
[0:06:33 – 0:06:36] Adam: We’re just going to repeat it because somebody put it on the subreddit.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:37] Adam: Because it’s on the internet.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:38] Adam: Why would they do that to us?
[0:06:38 – 0:06:39] Adam: Why would they do that?
[0:06:39 – 0:06:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:46] Adam: But, yeah, they were like, please do Ogish.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:48] Adam: So I think we could.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:49] Adam: We should.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:50] Adam: We will.
[0:06:50 – 0:06:50] Erik: We will.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:52] Erik: Put it on the whiteboard.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:53] Erik: You can trust us.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:57] Adam: We’re going to start making a list of lakes to do on the whiteboard, actually, at the end of this episode.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:58] Adam: Ogish.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:59] Adam: Ogish is on there.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:03] Adam: Well, next time we take a break, we will definitely start the list.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:04] Adam: No.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:07] Erik: We can just do Bays of Basswood if we ever get there.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:09] Erik: The Bays of Basswood series.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:10] Erik: The Bays of Basswood, yeah.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:14] Erik: It’s Clint Eastwood’s next movie coming out, actually.
[0:07:14 – 0:07:15] Erik: The Bays of Basswood.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:20] Adam: He promised he wouldn’t direct another movie, and I was hoping that he would hold that promise.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:23] Adam: You were hoping that he would?
[0:07:23 – 0:07:28] Adam: No, he’s coming out of retirement to direct The Bays of Basswood.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:32] Erik: Yeah, he’s coming out of retirement to scowl at Zoomers.
[0:07:34 – 0:07:53] Erik: uh yeah this uh i don’t know you’ve never been there it sounds like i’ve never been to kakakabic this is a real shame well it’s i think i think spoiling too much it might be on our we’re gonna hit it this fall we’re gonna bullseye that one going this fall since the spring trip at this point our spring trip never came together
[0:07:53 – 0:07:55] Erik: It just didn’t really, it didn’t come together.
[0:07:55 – 0:08:02] Erik: And, you know, it’s just so many years in a row where you do the same, not the same thing, but like the same time of year.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:06] Erik: And then you kind of, you know, there’s some mildly diminishing returns.
[0:08:06 – 0:08:09] Erik: We need a little change of season for our trip.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:12] Adam: So we’re going to do, we’ll be able to do a longer trip in the fall.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:15] Erik: It would have been a real squeezed trip if we would have tried to get it in the spring.
[0:08:15 – 0:08:16] Adam: Let’s be honest.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:20] Adam: We’re going to like, I think we’re going to extend our Tomahomey trip at this point.
[0:08:20 – 0:08:23] Erik: No, we’re just going to be off in the distance.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:29] Adam: We’ll get our own permit, I think, for the Tomahomey trip at this point, and then we’ll be out there for like a week.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:30] Adam: Yeah, bobbing and weaving.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:32] Adam: We will appear, probably.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:33] Adam: Maybe we won’t.
[0:08:33 – 0:08:34] Adam: Maybe in the night.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:35] Adam: Maybe we will.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:35] Adam: Eh.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:39] Erik: Did you guys hear that?
[0:08:39 – 0:08:44] Adam: But I do want to see Knife again, but we’ve got to see Kakakabic.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:53] Adam: So we’re going to loop that into, I think, a longer fall trip that will coincide and overlap with the Tomomi trip at this point.
[0:08:53 – 0:08:57] Adam: That’s the current thinking here in the shed.
[0:08:57 – 0:08:58] Adam: It is only early June.
[0:08:58 – 0:09:00] Adam: It’s months away, so who knows.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:00] Adam: But in my…
[0:09:05 – 0:09:11] Erik: You know, kind of thinking, oh, should we do a spring Boundary Waters trip or whatever, even a Quetico trip?
[0:09:11 – 0:09:24] Erik: It’s like, well, it’s got to be Quetico because I’m like, I just kind of flipping the Rolodex of like previous trip experiences through my mind and nothing besides going all the way over to like…
[0:09:25 – 0:09:30] Erik: the far Western, you know, disparate unit that, you know, shall not be named.
[0:09:31 – 0:09:38] Erik: Um, there’s not really anything that even still now is like, oh man, it’s been forever since I’ve been to, you know, whatever lake in the boundary waters.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:41] Erik: That’s why Quetico has kind of been the play the last couple of years.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:42] Erik: Um,
[0:09:43 – 0:09:50] Erik: But then upon, like, further examination, it’s like, oh, yeah, I guess, like, honestly, it’s been a long time since I’ve been to Keck.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:52] Erik: Been over 10 years.
[0:09:54 – 0:10:02] Erik: Most of my experiences on Keckacabic the Lake are not much unlike last week’s episode on Bald Eagle, mostly winter-based.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:02] Erik: Right.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:03] Erik: Mostly dog sledding.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:09] Erik: I’ve paddled it a number of times, but I don’t think I’ve ever really done, like, a circuit.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:11] Erik: It’s always been like, oh, you kind of hit it.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:38] Erik: at the like kek ponds eastern side or you paddle from like the north side down from like pickle into wissini um but i’ve never really been like we’re going to kekakabik and that’s you know the the trip we’re taking um so to have that as like a little goal uh that that’s exciting to me versus being like well i guess we’re going to the south arman knife for the sixth time not that there’s anything wrong with that either i haven’t been to the south arman knife now in a long time either
[0:10:38 – 0:10:40] Erik: But also doing that in the fall.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:42 – 0:10:43] Adam: No, I’ve never been there in the fall.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:44] Erik: It should be lovely.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:45] Adam: Thunder Point in the fall.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:46] Adam: It’s lovely.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:48] Adam: You can really chi-hoo that guy with that one.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:53] Erik: Portage an aluminum canoe up there and just chuck it right over.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:55] Adam: So it’s like real cliffy?
[0:10:55 – 0:11:01] Adam: Is it like the hills as big as Thunder Point on Kakakabic or is it even more pronounced?
[0:11:01 – 0:11:23] Erik: um it’s a i would say like based on my memory um it’s no like arrow lake just like palisades as far as the eye can see but it’s kind of got that it’s not just like there’s cliffs there’s a lot of cliffs yeah there is legit uh pictographs apparently on this one the fisher doesn’t have it marked and the nat geo doesn’t have it marked
[0:11:23 – 0:11:30] Erik: Doesn’t have the big, like, Cleveland Indians logo pointing with a huge red arrow at where the Indian scrawlings are.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:30] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:31] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:32] Adam: Well, I’m glad.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:34] Adam: They took those off now.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:35] Adam: Yeah, that’s good.
[0:11:36 – 0:11:42] Adam: It seems like less and less information is available about the pictographs with every year.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:44] Adam: They’re scrubbing more from the record.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:48] Erik: Sometimes I feel like less information needs to be in the world.
[0:11:48 – 0:11:49] Erik: And that’s one of those things.
[0:11:49 – 0:11:50] Erik: I agree.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:54] Erik: If you know the right people, if you know who to talk to, yeah, you can go out and find that stuff.
[0:11:55 – 0:11:57] Erik: But we don’t need the whole world knowing where all these things are.
[0:11:57 – 0:12:05] Erik: You don’t even print it on big colorful maps that Joe Schmo from, I don’t know, Peoria can buy at Paragus.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:14] Adam: So at one point I knew exactly where the Keck pictographs were supposed to be, but now I’m unsure.
[0:12:14 – 0:12:19] Adam: I’m looking at the map again and I’m like, I think it’s on that shoreline, but it could be on that shoreline.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:19] Adam: I’m not…
[0:12:21 – 0:12:21] Adam: I’m not exactly sure.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:23] Erik: I don’t have any experience that I can point you to.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:24] Erik: I don’t remember.
[0:12:24 – 0:12:31] Erik: But my early days, most of my travels through Kikikabik have been over 10 years old at this point.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:35] Erik: And in the early days of my paddling where pictos were pretty low on like the.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:36] Adam: Well, me too.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:39] Adam: I mean, I’m just like birding and pictos.
[0:12:39 – 0:12:41] Adam: I didn’t get into either until I was old.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:52] Erik: Yeah, and we’ve frequently lamented the fact that some of those Quetico trips we paddled by, thousands of Pictos, and we just were like, well, not even thinking of it.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:53] Erik: Too busy.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:57] Erik: Can’t slow down to smell the Pictos.
[0:12:57 – 0:12:59] Erik: What’s at the bottom of this Nalgene?
[0:13:00 – 0:13:00] Erik: Oh, it’s whiskey.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:01] Erik: All right.
[0:13:01 – 0:13:02] Erik: Okay.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:07] Erik: But yeah, it’s a huge lake.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:08] Erik: It’s got 16 campsites.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:15] Erik: And we’re going to run through some of those from Brother Ben’s Paddle Planner.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:17] Erik: And maybe try and find some other reviews.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:24] Adam: There’s a lot of reviews for these campsites on Kekicabic.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:27] Erik: There are also a couple that are only reviewed by him, though.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:27] Erik: That’s true.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:28] Adam: That’s true.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:32] Erik: And if it wasn’t for his diligent work this last week to get those up.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:35] Adam: What great, fortuitous timing.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:44] Erik: And I didn’t really do my diligence to post anything on the subreddit to elicit any comments from the listeners on the like.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:49] Adam: We mentioned it and then I did nothing to be like, well, where are you going to get that information from?
[0:13:51 – 0:13:52] Adam: Did anybody email you anything?
[0:13:53 – 0:13:53] Adam: No.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:54] Adam: I thought they were going to email them.
[0:13:55 – 0:13:56] Erik: No, there’s no emails.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] Adam: The email.
[0:13:59 – 0:14:01] Adam: Nobody texted me anything about it on Discord.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:11] Erik: I got an email from Paddle Faster who was wondering if we want a website that he could host because apparently he’s got a mainframe in his garage that he can host a website on.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:15] Erik: And I’ve not responded to that because I don’t know.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:18] Erik: I don’t want to build another website.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:20] Erik: It’s not a thing I’m interested in anymore.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:24] Erik: So if we could get Paddle Faster together with a web designer out there
[0:14:25 – 0:14:27] Erik: And everybody can just do the work for us.
[0:14:28 – 0:14:33] Erik: Then yes, I would love to have a website again, but I don’t want to do any of the work for it.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:36] Erik: And that you could put that on my tombstone.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:37] Erik: That’s a quote of my life.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:40] Erik: I want it, but I don’t want to work for it.
[0:14:42 – 0:15:02] Adam: when it comes to building a website i agree well yes yeah like i was and then that’s the fine print under it only when it comes to websites 1985 to 20 we’re talking about my yard like yeah i want to get out there and whack yeah all day yeah and you just stand with super satisfying side pointing look at all that work i did look at all that nice cleared land
[0:15:06 – 0:15:07] Adam: We’re going to grow beans here.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:10] Adam: You’ve already got too many beans.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:12] Adam: No, we need more beans.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:14] Erik: If the grid ever goes out, hun, see?
[0:15:14 – 0:15:18] Adam: You’ll be glad we got all these beans and that I whacked at the yard all day.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:22] Erik: You’ll be super happy I’ve got 10 disc golf course holes in my back.
[0:15:22 – 0:15:25] Adam: My arms are so burnt, but it was worth it.
[0:15:27 – 0:15:46] Adam: why are my arms so burnt i cannot believe i forgot to put on spf it was actually not that sunny so fortunate it was if it was like pure sun like it should have been brother i’d be cooked right on the edge today i feel like the uh the big lake was pushing it’s uh trying its hardest to push the wall of uh
[0:15:47 – 0:16:12] Adam: cool mists up into the highlands here and um i was shocked how far up you know you basically had to get almost all the way up to like devil track before you kind of were like back into oh the sun’s out yeah even though that was cloudy i was in a t-shirt all day it was great the bugs weren’t that bad honestly all day the bugs were totally reasonable it was a great day to be out whacking great day to be whacking i almost broke the whacker i was going so hard yeah
[0:16:13 – 0:16:14] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:15] Adam: Got a little lopping in.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:17] Adam: Got a lot of whacking.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:20] Adam: Really got some good results out there today, Eric.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:21] Erik: Lopping and whacking.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:23] Adam: Makes me thirsty just thinking about it.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:29] Adam: And we do have ourselves an actual, we have an art supply sponsorship that came in last week here to the co-op.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:30] Adam: Thank God.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:34] Adam: And Kirsa was able to accept these.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:36] Adam: They’re addressed to Adam and Eric.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:40] Erik: Which does look like it is misspelled.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:44] Erik: But it kind of looks like a K because that’s the thing.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:47] Erik: I remember in all the years of growing up.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Erik: But then where’s the I?
[0:16:48 – 0:16:50] Adam: Yeah, they forgot the I.
[0:16:51 – 0:17:02] Erik: It’s very easy to turn Eric with a C into Eric with a K. Like, you know, my teacher’s going, oh, yeah, you just got to draw a line on the C. There we go.
[0:17:02 – 0:17:03] Adam: I meant to do it that way.
[0:17:03 – 0:17:04] Erik: Tip of the day.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:04] Adam: I meant to do that way.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:08] Adam: It’s stapled shut on top, and it’s in a little number two bag here.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:15] Erik: Usually, the last two months, I feel like we’ve been in these large… You’ve got to read one of these.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:17] Adam: Outsized boxes.
[0:17:17 – 0:17:18] Adam: What’s a full case of beer?
[0:17:18 – 0:17:19] Adam: It’s a suitcase.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:24] Erik: Yeah, this is just a tiny little kid’s lunch bag with two individual beers in it.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:25] Erik: Perfect.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:26] Adam: Perfect.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:28] Erik: Are they trying to tell us something?
[0:17:28 – 0:17:29] Erik: Take it easy, guys.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:32] Erik: Maybe don’t drink 10 beers every time you record.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:33] Adam: That would be ridiculous.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:34] Adam: That is insane.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:37] Adam: Did I not explain how much yard work I was doing today?
[0:17:37 – 0:17:38] Adam: I’m very sunburnt and thirsty.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:45] Erik: Hey, boys with a Z. Yeah.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:50] Erik: Greetings with an S from your boys with a Z in Illinois with a Z.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:51] Adam: Boys in the noise.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:53] Adam: Boys from Illinois.
[0:17:53 – 0:17:56] Erik: Love all you do for the community of tumble homies.
[0:17:56 – 0:17:57] Erik: Sorry for the shaky writing.
[0:17:58 – 0:17:59] Adam: This looks great.
[0:17:59 – 0:17:59] Adam: Look at this.
[0:17:59 – 0:18:01] Adam: That’s like… That’s beautiful penmanship.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:01] Adam: Are you kidding me?
[0:18:02 – 0:18:03] Adam: You’re selling yourself short, boys.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:04 – 0:18:06] Erik: I could kill for that.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:07] Adam: I wish I could pull that off.
[0:18:08 – 0:18:12] Erik: I don’t know how I feel about every letter being capitalized, but it’s a mood.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:14] Erik: Sorry for the shaky writing.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:18] Erik: I’m last minute packing, even though I’m pretty sure I packed all week.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:21] Erik: Eight of us going in on Ram.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:21] Erik: Wow.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:22] Erik: All right.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:24] Erik: An out Bauer Trout.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:25] Erik: All right.
[0:18:25 – 0:18:26] Erik: Should be a great five days.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:28] Erik: Well, Ram the Trout.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:29] Erik: That’s a nice little loop.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:36] Erik: Rusty, Mitch, Eric, Andy, Nick, Bob with three Bs, Mike and Tim.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:39] Adam: That’s an insane loop.
[0:18:39 – 0:18:46] Adam: That involves you going all the way out to Winchell and then back down to Brule and then from Brule back through Vista and Swan to get to Bower Trout.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:47] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:18:47 – 0:18:47] Adam: It’s not like…
[0:18:48 – 0:18:51] Adam: But you’re only a quarter mile from your car then when you get there.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:51] Erik: It’s perfect.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:52] Adam: Yeah, that’s great.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:54] Adam: That’s a good little sneaker.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:54] Adam: Totally.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:55] Adam: Nice trip.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:56] Adam: That’s a good route.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:58] Adam: Which one of you eight picked that route?
[0:18:58 – 0:19:00] Erik: I would say Bob with three Bs.
[0:19:00 – 0:19:02] Erik: He’s the secret planner.
[0:19:02 – 0:19:03] Erik: Great penmanship.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:07] Erik: Sorry, the all days are what I had in stock.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:07] Adam: Sorry?
[0:19:08 – 0:19:12] Adam: He’s apologizing for one of the greatest beers that you could have given us.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:13] Adam: All day IPAs.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:17] Adam: I did not mention how I’ve just been working in the yard all day.
[0:19:18 – 0:19:18] Adam: All day.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:24] Adam: And now I got an easy drinking, flavorful Founders all day IPA.
[0:19:24 – 0:19:26] Adam: And it’s got a canoe on top.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:32] Adam: And I’m going to be putting a canoe on top of the truck as soon as we are done recording tonight.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:32] Erik: That’s right.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:35] Erik: You’re going on an adventure, a picto adventure of your own.
[0:19:35 – 0:19:42] Adam: I’m actually going to go out and paddle tomorrow, which is probably going to be almost certainly my latest first paddle of a season ever.
[0:19:43 – 0:19:44] Adam: But the canoe is out of the shed.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:44] Adam: Cheers.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:47] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:50] Adam: Thank you, Rusty.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:52] Adam: Shout out especially to Rusty and Mitch.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:55] Adam: But also to Bob.
[0:19:55 – 0:19:56] Erik: Do not forget about Andy.
[0:19:58 – 0:19:59] Adam: And Tim.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:05] Adam: Man, we’re going to kill a thousand mosquitoes tonight out here talking about cacacaba.
[0:20:05 – 0:20:07] Erik: Yeah, we’re in the witching hour right now.
[0:20:07 – 0:20:09] Erik: 9 p.m. in June in Cook County.
[0:20:11 – 0:20:13] Erik: It’s a hellish place to be outside, I’d say.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:14] Erik: For about a half hour.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:15] Erik: I think he brought that feet deet.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:16] Erik: Feet deet.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:17] Erik: Feminine stuff.
[0:20:18 – 0:20:20] Erik: Give me that feet deet.
[0:20:20 – 0:20:22] Erik: Walking in the shed like they know what they’re doing.
[0:20:26 – 0:20:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:27] Adam: Fire ban.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:29] Adam: Fire ban’s on.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:30] Adam: News.
[0:20:30 – 0:20:32] Adam: There’s like two new fires.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:34] Adam: You hear about the new fires?
[0:20:34 – 0:20:35] Erik: I heard about the one.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:36] Erik: What’s the other one?
[0:20:38 – 0:20:39] Adam: There’s two new ones.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:42] Adam: This was like two hours ago.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:44] Adam: I read this was brand new.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:45] Adam: This is breaking news.
[0:20:45 – 0:20:46] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:49] Adam: This will be still breaking news tomorrow when this episode comes out.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:54] Adam: You got the Birch Bay Fire, which is like off of Burnside, basically.
[0:20:54 – 0:20:54] Adam: That’s the one I’ve heard of.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:59] Adam: And that one is, I don’t know, 33 acres is what this says.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:02] Adam: So I guess they mostly contain that one.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:04] Adam: And it was pretty light wind today.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:06] Adam: I don’t know what it was doing over in Ely.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:11] Adam: And now we’ve got the Shell Fire and the Tiger Fire north of there.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:16] Adam: So it would just be south of Lac La Croix there, like on both ends of La Croix.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:18] Adam: Do you know where the Shell…
[0:21:18 – 0:21:20] Erik: It kind of always seems like that’s where they like to fire up.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:21] Adam: That must be Tiger Bay.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:23] Adam: It’s the Tiger Fire.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:26] Adam: So we’ve got a Tiger Bay fire going as of…
[0:21:27 – 0:21:48] Adam: that was uh as of an hour ago at eight so i don’t know what time it is now but nine nine so it was two hours ago this was reported breaking news so we got at least three fires going right now get out of here yeah um i don’t know and i did get buzzed by a de havilland beaver the other day and i assume they’re just out like constantly flying around looking for fires at this point
[0:21:50 – 0:21:51] Adam: A lot of hot shots in town.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:53] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know what would be starting these fires, I guess.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:58] Erik: There was some thunderstorms that rolled through those parts a little bit more like three days ago.
[0:21:58 – 0:21:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:59 – 0:22:01] Erik: So probably a little smoldering guy.
[0:22:01 – 0:22:02] Erik: Maybe a tree started on fire.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:07] Erik: And now that the last like two, three days have been pretty like dry and clear.
[0:22:07 – 0:22:12] Erik: It’s any of that residual, I don’t know, quarter inch of rain that we got.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:14] Erik: It’s long gone now.
[0:22:15 – 0:22:19] Erik: It’s kind of crazy just how fast the spring turns from like…
[0:22:19 – 0:22:41] Erik: god i can barely get any purchase out here it’s just so greasy and muddy and slippery and nasty it’s like how could a fire ever start and like a month later it’s just like it’s all gone it’s all run off like the rivers are like i don’t know they seem like honestly like low i know it’s june how are the rivers low well yeah the paddle we’re doing tomorrow is like little river stuff um we’re going for island river tomorrow
[0:22:42 – 0:22:52] Adam: Going to go look for them pictos, and I’ve always assumed we should do that trip in May or early June, but I have no confidence that that river is going to be full of water.
[0:22:53 – 0:22:58] Adam: I think the issue with that one is the wild rice late in the year, so we will not have to contend with the wild rice yet.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:00] Erik: No, you got that going for you.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:03] Adam: Yeah, I don’t think it’s going to be high water in there.
[0:23:03 – 0:23:06] Erik: Probably not, but there’s still going to be plenty of water.
[0:23:06 – 0:23:07] Erik: It’s a route.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:08] Adam: It’s a route.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:10] Erik: Have you been up the Gunfland Trail this spring yet?
[0:23:11 – 0:23:12] Erik: No, not lately.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:13] Erik: Crazy.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:16] Erik: I’ve had to make multiple runs up there for…
[0:23:17 – 0:23:17] Erik: Yes, sir.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:23] Erik: The job I’ve been working, which is now over and means I have to get back to normal work.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:25] Erik: But like, I don’t know.
[0:23:26 – 0:23:27] Erik: Something’s going on up there.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:27] Erik: Like two…
[0:23:28 – 0:23:33] Erik: Of the just like all-time forever beaver dams that you’ve just driven by for your whole life.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:34] Erik: Fully blown out.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:37] Erik: Just like down to that one right before Clearwater Road.
[0:23:37 – 0:23:37] Erik: Uh-huh.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:40] Erik: That’s just like down to nothing.
[0:23:40 – 0:23:41] Adam: It’s just like dirt.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:47] Erik: And then there’s also that one past where the old gun flint goes off to where Judy used to live.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:47] Erik: Right.
[0:23:48 – 0:23:49] Erik: That one’s on the road.
[0:23:50 – 0:23:52] Erik: It’s overflowing, and it’s over the road.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:53] Erik: Okay, I saw pictures of that.
[0:23:53 – 0:24:06] Erik: The highway department’s idea to try and keep it off the road was to become the beaver, and they’ve tried piling wood and crap in the shoulder to keep the pond at bay.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:08] Adam: That’s not going to work.
[0:24:09 – 0:24:10] Adam: That’s not how that works at all.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:10] Erik: Humans can’t beaver.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Erik: I’m sorry.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:12] Adam: No, it doesn’t go upstream.
[0:24:13 – 0:24:13] Adam: Stop beavering.
[0:24:13 – 0:24:14] Adam: You can’t.
[0:24:15 – 0:24:17] Adam: You can only stop water from going downstream.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:19] Adam: You can’t stop it from going upstream.
[0:24:20 – 0:24:21] Erik: Or just being settled.
[0:24:21 – 0:24:22] Erik: It’s not moving.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:23] Erik: It’s just sitting in a low area.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:27] Adam: They need to get some dynamite out and some TNT is what they need.
[0:24:28 – 0:24:36] Erik: That whole stretch of highway past where the old gunflint starts and where it kind of re-catches the gunflint is so rough.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:37] Erik: This is not even a road.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:40] Adam: No, it’s some bumpy terrain up in there.
[0:24:41 – 0:25:01] Erik: yeah bumpy like just huge heaves and then like the whole middle lane is just like it’s just like a bowling gutter it’s like there’s nothing in there except for tire chewing just horribleness well i am heading up to like trails end in like a couple weeks so well i’ll get to experience it then the changes
[0:25:02 – 0:25:06] Erik: And then the other one is up towards the King’s Landing.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:07] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:11] Erik: There’s one of those other ones that used to just be like, there’s got to be moose in there.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:14] Erik: And now it’s just like a mud, like dry mud pit.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:15] Erik: It’s crazy.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:17] Erik: I was like, did they blow these up on purpose?
[0:25:17 – 0:25:18] Erik: It kind of looks like they did.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:20] Erik: Like, why would this be fully drained?
[0:25:20 – 0:25:25] Erik: And then why is the one that’s causing the most problems still not blown up?
[0:25:25 – 0:25:26] Adam: Yeah, and they can’t do that.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:27] Adam: I guess.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:28] Adam: It would be unethical.
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:31] Erik: Is there anything that’s ethical anymore?
[0:25:32 – 0:25:34] Erik: Define ethical in 2026.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:36] Erik: Moving on.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:37] Erik: Do your best.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:38] Erik: Do your best.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:47] Adam: Do your best to get an entire Kekakabic episode in in under an hour due to the contract.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:48] Adam: Then we’re at 25 minutes.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:50] Adam: They’re going to TNT us.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Adam: We’re going to be in big trouble.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:56] Adam: We’re going to be leaking all over the road if we don’t hustle this thing up, Eric.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:57] Adam: We’re all blown out.
[0:25:58 – 0:25:58] Adam: Yeesh.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:04] Adam: Boy, that podcast is really at its limit.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:04] Adam: Yeah, it is.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:07] Erik: Again, using Paddle Planner.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:19] Erik: And we do, for future reference and for the current reference, we’re working off of Fisher, the most… Yeah, I texted Eric.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] Adam: I was like, we got to include the maps.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:27] Erik: Farthest above and beyond map company out there for just all of the reasons, aesthetics.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:32] Erik: You know, you do have your Nat Geos over there, which I think are number two, honestly.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:34] Adam: I like my Nat Geos.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:36] Adam: That’s no secret here on Tumble Home.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:39] Erik: But we’re working with F11.
[0:26:40 – 0:26:50] Erik: So if you want to follow along at home, we’re going to start by looking at some of these campsites and hope that there’s reviews for all of them, if not most.
[0:26:51 – 0:26:51] Adam: There are.
[0:26:51 – 0:26:53] Adam: There are, I think.
[0:26:53 – 0:26:53] Erik: We’ve been promised.
[0:26:54 – 0:26:56] Adam: There’s a couple that only have one review.
[0:26:56 – 0:26:57] Adam: Yeah, it’s by Ben.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:58] Adam: It’s by Brother Ben.
[0:26:58 – 0:27:00] Adam: But we’ll try to shake it up.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:02] Adam: No, I was texting with Ben.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:07] Adam: I was like, hey, what did you think of the episode?
[0:27:07 – 0:27:11] Adam: Are you okay with this, just reading your website on the podcast like this?
[0:27:13 – 0:27:39] Adam: and he said he was and the only feedback was please don’t just only read my reviews though so we’re going to try and shake it up a little and read some of Ben’s reviews because they’re great and then some of the other short funny reviews that you find yeah there are a couple gems in here for a keck I was reading through them as I was trying to get the boy to bed right before podcasting so boy boy go to bed boy is an hour and 15 minutes past your bedtime what are you doing show your eyes
[0:27:40 – 0:27:48] Erik: Well, you’re the one that chose to raise a child in the God-forbidden zone where for two months of the year, it never gets dark.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:52] Adam: Yeah, we’re going camping on the solstice.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:52] Adam: We’re not even there yet.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:54] Adam: Two weeks from the solstice.
[0:27:54 – 0:27:59] Adam: Last night, the baby girl woke up at like 11 and I go in there and she just starts going…
[0:27:59 – 0:28:24] Adam: porch porch porch and i was like what all right the stars are out so i just took her out and walked out on the porch and we looked at the stars for like 10 minutes and then i put her back in bed and she fell asleep very sweet i was telling natalie about this and she’s like she was probably saying pouch which is like a little applesauce pouch or something because she’s always hungry and instead of giving her a treat i just took her out and we watched the stars instead
[0:28:25 – 0:28:34] Erik: Well, it kind of reminds me of I was, you know, down in Baja as I like to do in the winters and feel like I’m really, you know, I’m learning the language.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:39] Erik: I’m like basically like, you know, pretty much like a Spanish guy.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:41] Erik: You’re half Spanish for sure.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:44] Erik: And like this was towards the end.
[0:28:44 – 0:28:48] Erik: So I was like, all right, I got all my – I’ve been here for a couple of months now.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:49] Erik: Like I can interact.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:55] Erik: And it was at like one of the classic Mexican bodega, which is basically just like –
[0:28:56 – 0:29:15] Erik: also the home and mostly run by the family if something comes up like the an adult will be alerted but you’re mostly working with children a lot of these places yes it was like a i don’t know like a five four five year old girl just like yeah i want to buy these 24 pacificos small girl
[0:29:16 – 0:29:20] Erik: And I knew I’d been there a number of times, so I knew how much it costs.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:23] Erik: But I had like a number of like…
[0:29:23 – 0:29:24] Erik: I had like an odd…
[0:29:24 – 0:29:26] Erik: I think it was like towards the end, like I said.
[0:29:26 – 0:29:30] Erik: So I had a number of like weird small bills and coins.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:32] Erik: So I’m like trying to get rid of all this stuff.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:34] Erik: And so I like hand basically…
[0:29:34 – 0:29:35] Erik: I know it’s like this is the right amount.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:36] Erik: I hand it all over.
[0:29:36 – 0:29:37] Erik: But you know, it’s a five-year-old.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:40] Erik: And so she’s counting and doing the thing.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:43] Erik: And then the mom comes over and she’s like, oh…
[0:29:44 – 0:29:44] Erik: This is good.
[0:29:45 – 0:29:45] Erik: She Lorne.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:46] Erik: She Lorne.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:47] Erik: She learned to count.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:49] Erik: But I heard, she’s Lorne.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:52] Erik: And I was like, oh, con mucho gusto, Lorne.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:57] Adam: Like a five-year-old girl in Baja Mexico’s name is Lorne.
[0:29:57 – 0:29:59] Adam: Yeah, that’s a pretty common name in Baja.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:02] Erik: I was like two steps out the door, and I was just like, Lorne.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:03] Erik: No.
[0:30:04 – 0:30:05] Erik: No, I did that all wrong.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:05] Erik: Nope.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:07] Erik: And they were probably like, what?
[0:30:08 – 0:30:10] Erik: You’re, what?
[0:30:10 – 0:30:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:15] Erik: So that’s one of my favorite parts is the retroactive.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:16] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:16 – 0:30:16] Adam: Figuring it out.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:19] Adam: Well, mine was like almost a whole day later.
[0:30:19 – 0:30:21] Adam: A whole day later.
[0:30:21 – 0:30:22] Adam: I just have to be clear.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:27] Adam: The whole reason I brought it up is because even at 11 at night, the stars were out, but it was still like not quite dark.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:29] Adam: It’s June 6th.
[0:30:30 – 0:30:30] Adam: Today?
[0:30:30 – 0:30:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:31] Adam: Yes.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:34] Adam: And it was, yeah, at 11 o’clock, it was still not quite dark.
[0:30:36 – 0:30:38] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:38] Adam: No, it’s…
[0:30:39 – 0:30:41] Adam: It was 95% dark, but still, like, that’s absurd.
[0:30:41 – 0:30:46] Erik: Yeah, it’s 9, 10, 9, 15 right now, and I can still see details and trees out there.
[0:30:47 – 0:30:47] Adam: Porch.
[0:30:48 – 0:30:49] Adam: Lorne the Porch.
[0:30:49 – 0:30:50] Adam: Lorne.
[0:30:50 – 0:30:50] Adam: She Lorne.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:52] Erik: She Lorne.
[0:30:52 – 0:30:52] Erik: Nice to meet you, Lorne.
[0:30:54 – 0:30:55] Erik: Thanks for the Pacificos.
[0:30:55 – 0:30:57] Adam: Thanks for the Pacificos.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:58] Adam: Keep the change.
[0:30:58 – 0:30:59] Adam: You filthy Lorne.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:28] Erik: yeah f11 we’re doing it we’re gonna do all 16 of these and uh yeah it’s a miracle of modern science if we get in under an hour at this point but guaranteed to be under an hour every week promise you it’s our promise to you you can trust us again uh maybe i’ll do a few and then maybe since there’s so many yeah we do four at a time yeah there gives us each four four four four that’s 16 and uh
[0:31:31 – 0:31:32] Erik: I hope you remember.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:37] Erik: I mean, you’ve had your whole life to train for this to know how the Danielson system works.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:41] Adam: I would say this lake is challenging for the Danielson system.
[0:31:41 – 0:31:46] Erik: I did it a few different times in my head, and I think I’m going to continue with how…
[0:31:46 – 0:31:49] Adam: I think I know what you’re going to do.
[0:31:49 – 0:31:52] Adam: As long as we have the same number for the Hot Dog Island.
[0:31:53 – 0:31:55] Erik: Well, yeah, either way, however you do it.
[0:31:56 – 0:31:59] Erik: I mean, well, I could do it in a way that you wouldn’t get Hot Dog Island.
[0:31:59 – 0:32:01] Adam: No, I don’t care who gets Hot Dog Island.
[0:32:01 – 0:32:02] Adam: I just – I don’t know.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:06] Adam: I just – I have a guess right now as to what number Hot Dog Island would be.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:07] Adam: Sure.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:10] Adam: So I’m hoping I’m right, and I’m not going to reveal if I am or not.
[0:32:11 – 0:32:11] Erik: Okay.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:13] Adam: Unless I’m right.
[0:32:13 – 0:32:14] Erik: Well, yeah, you have to reveal it.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:16] Adam: I’ll reveal what not.
[0:32:16 – 0:32:18] Erik: Whether I’m right or not, I won’t reveal it.
[0:32:18 – 0:32:19] Erik: Well, that’s no fun.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:22] Adam: Yeah, that’s not really fun or that’s not sporting.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:36] Erik: So number one is unquestionably the farthest western site on the, I like your idea on the kind of more of an abstract interpretation of what the shape of the lake looks like.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:40] Erik: It’s like, you know, laying in the grass and looking up at the clouds instead of like
[0:32:40 – 0:32:45] Erik: No, it’s a horsey pony that a woman from the Depression made for her palsy daughter.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:48] Erik: No, this is more, you know, use your imagination.
[0:32:48 – 0:32:51] Adam: I don’t know what my original was.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:53] Adam: For what it looks like?
[0:32:53 – 0:33:00] Adam: My original was it was a lawnmower with like a really Popeye arm, beefy arm guy pushing the lawnmower.
[0:33:01 – 0:33:01] Erik: Oh, just the arm.
[0:33:02 – 0:33:03] Adam: Yeah, just getting the arm.
[0:33:03 – 0:33:03] Adam: I see that.
[0:33:03 – 0:33:07] Adam: And I guess the kick ponds are like the, you know, the shoulders or something.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:09] Erik: Yeah, it could be that too.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:12] Adam: Maybe the South Ironman knife is the head?
[0:33:13 – 0:33:14] Erik: Oh, no, we can’t go there.
[0:33:14 – 0:33:15] Adam: Okay, don’t do that.
[0:33:16 – 0:33:17] Adam: What is Eddie Falls, then?
[0:33:17 – 0:33:18] Adam: The jug?
[0:33:19 – 0:33:20] Erik: It’s definitely the jug.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:20] Adam: The jug.
[0:33:20 – 0:33:23] Erik: Campsite 1473…
[0:33:26 – 0:33:29] Erik: The farthest western campsite on Kakakabic.
[0:33:30 – 0:33:32] Erik: Trout-riddled Kakakabic.
[0:33:32 – 0:33:33] Erik: Cliff-riddled.
[0:33:34 – 0:33:36] Adam: Lousy with cliff and trout.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:39] Erik: Yeah, it’s just lousy with everything.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:43] Erik: This campsite has only been reviewed one time.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:45] Erik: One review.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:46] Erik: It’s a one-star rating.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:49] Erik: Number of ratings, one.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Erik: Zero good tent pads.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:53] Erik: One average max tent pad.
[0:33:55 – 0:33:57] Erik: Wow, 52826.
[0:33:58 – 0:34:00] Erik: Thank you, Brother Ben.
[0:34:00 – 0:34:03] Adam: Brother Ben was just out there scraping this one in for us.
[0:34:04 – 0:34:10] Erik: The landing is very narrow, cut into the brush, and would be easy to miss if you’re not looking carefully along the shore.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:15] Erik: It sits just behind a tiny island a few feet from shore, and the campsite is tucked back behind that.
[0:34:16 – 0:34:17] Erik: It’s a real Tucker delight.
[0:34:18 – 0:34:22] Erik: The campsite itself is basically a small circle cut into the brush, about 20 feet.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:28] Erik: Two big spruce fire grate is next to the brush, and there is not much charcoal.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:31] Erik: So this does not look like a site that gets used very much.
[0:34:32 – 0:34:34] Adam: I like the use of the word charcoal there on that one.
[0:34:34 – 0:34:35] Adam: That’s good.
[0:34:35 – 0:34:35] Adam: Good usage.
[0:34:35 – 0:34:36] Adam: Not much.
[0:34:37 – 0:34:37] Erik: Not much.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:42] Erik: No seating around the fire grate, but the view out onto the lake is actually decent.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:46] Erik: There is one possible tent pad, but I would not call it good.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:48] Erik: A little lumpy.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:49] Erik: That’s lumpy.
[0:34:49 – 0:34:54] Erik: Even though it is close to being usable, the latrine is up a hill with one short, steep section to climb.
[0:34:54 – 0:35:01] Erik: Overall, this is a very small, lightly used site, though I still think it is a little bit better than the one to the north.
[0:35:01 – 0:35:03] Erik: Ooh, cannot wait to get to the one to the north.
[0:35:03 – 0:35:05] Adam: Yeah, the one to the north.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Adam: Directly to the north.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:09] Adam: Just a little bit farther to the east.
[0:35:10 – 0:35:11] Erik: Just barely.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:12] Erik: Number of ratings, two.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:14] Erik: Average rating, one star.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:24] Erik: Let’s go with Nelson S. on this one.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:26] Erik: This is from 2017.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:28] Erik: Old school.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] Erik: Old school from Nelson.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:32] Erik: Old school paddle planner.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:42] Erik: Had to camp here 5-13-17 because all other sites on the west, southwest end of the lake were taken.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:47] Erik: On May 13th, all the sites were taken.
[0:35:47 – 0:35:47] Erik: That’s crazy.
[0:35:47 – 0:35:49] Erik: I guess it is a hot lake trout lake.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:50 – 0:35:52] Erik: That seems absurd, though.
[0:35:52 – 0:35:55] Erik: And we had traveled 13 hours already.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:56] Adam: That’s a day.
[0:35:56 – 0:35:57] Adam: Jeez, yeah.
[0:35:57 – 0:35:59] Adam: You just give me anything at that point.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:00] Adam: So you had seven to nine hours of daylight left then?
[0:36:02 – 0:36:03] Erik: May 13th, yeah.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:04] Erik: We had plenty of time.
[0:36:04 – 0:36:06] Erik: We rolled in a two in the afternoon.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:10] Erik: One star because it has a fire grate and a latrine, but that is all it has.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:14] Erik: So it’s implying that they would have given it zero stars.
[0:36:14 – 0:36:15] Adam: Yeah, they could have.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:17] Erik: The landing is overgrown with brush.
[0:36:17 – 0:36:20] Adam: I don’t think you can give a zero star rating on a paddle planner.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:21] Erik: No, I don’t think so.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:24] Erik: Pretty much just a last choice bivouac site.
[0:36:25 – 0:36:26] Erik: Port Nostorum.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:27] Erik: Is that how you say that word?
[0:36:27 – 0:36:28] Erik: Bivouac?
[0:36:28 – 0:36:30] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:32] Adam: Phonetically?
[0:36:32 – 0:36:34] Erik: What does bivouac actually mean?
[0:36:34 – 0:36:35] Erik: Yeah, I’ve always wondered.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:36] Adam: I know a bivy sack.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:40] Adam: Yeah, I’ve always been too scared to actually ask.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:47] Adam: So what better place to do that than on a podcast that millions of people are listening to live in Technicolor?
[0:36:49 – 0:36:49] Erik: Um…
[0:36:51 – 0:36:52] Erik: Is bivouac a French word?
[0:36:52 – 0:36:53] Erik: It’s got to be French, yeah.
[0:36:53 – 0:36:55] Erik: Yes, bivouac is a French word.
[0:36:55 – 0:36:57] Erik: Just means like sleeping hole.
[0:36:58 – 0:37:03] Erik: Originally comes from the 17th century Swiss German word bivouac.
[0:37:03 – 0:37:04] Erik: Bivouac.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:06] Erik: Meaning extra guard or night watch.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:08] Erik: So it’s like, you know.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:11] Adam: Yeah, you got to post a sentry.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:14] Erik: All you’re doing is sitting with your little extra night jacket on.
[0:37:14 – 0:37:15] Adam: Up against a tree.
[0:37:15 – 0:37:16] Erik: Yeah, just the watch camp.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:18] Adam: With a loaded gun.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Adam: Exactly.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:19] Adam: Exactly.
[0:37:20 – 0:37:42] Adam: got a loaded pistol just laid across your lap just just try me yeah don’t even think about it well see you know so you have to put all right question for the group anybody hit us up on the email that may or may not exist has anybody ever posted a guard uh other than other like aside from a bear situation
[0:37:43 – 0:37:46] Adam: Have you ever posted a guard while in the Boundary Waters?
[0:37:46 – 0:37:47] Adam: You got first shift.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:54] Adam: Anybody leaving somebody awake every night to guard the camp in the bivouac situation?
[0:37:54 – 0:38:02] Erik: Have we not ostracized any ex-military listeners completely at this point?
[0:38:02 – 0:38:03] Erik: I don’t know if you’re going to get much response on that.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:06] Adam: Nobody’s posting a guard, I’m assuming.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:07] Adam: No, probably not.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:10] Adam: I’d be shocked if anybody answered yes to this question.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:11] Adam: I was just goofing around.
[0:38:11 – 0:38:13] Erik: But I want an answer, but I’m just being realistic.
[0:38:13 – 0:38:15] Erik: I highly doubt it.
[0:38:15 – 0:38:25] Erik: Not in like the realist sense of the term, but maybe, maybe in like a, you know, teenage boundary artist trip where you get freaked out about beavers stealing your paddles.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:27] Erik: I’ll take first shift.
[0:38:27 – 0:38:28] Erik: I’ll take first watch.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:31] Adam: Wake me up at three.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:31] Erik: Exactly.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:32] Erik: Exactly.
[0:38:32 – 0:38:33] Erik: I watched Master and Commander last night.
[0:38:34 – 0:38:35] Erik: All-time classic.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:37] Erik: There’s some watches in that.
[0:38:37 – 0:38:37] Erik: Some boats.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:38] Erik: And some boats.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:39] Adam: Tell me about it.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:41] Adam: A couple boats in that one, I think.
[0:38:41 – 0:38:44] Erik: That movie’s barely over 20 years old, and it’s still one of those hilarious things to say.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:47] Erik: That movie’s got some great tumble homes.
[0:38:47 – 0:38:49] Erik: They don’t make movies like that anymore.
[0:38:49 – 0:38:50] Adam: Oh, I should watch that.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:51] Adam: That sounds like a great idea.
[0:38:51 – 0:38:52] Erik: We should throw it out.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:52] Erik: We should throw it out.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:53] Erik: It’s honestly one of my favorite.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:55] Erik: I think it’s my favorite Peter Weir movie.
[0:38:55 – 0:38:56] Erik: How long is that one?
[0:38:56 – 0:38:57] Erik: Right up there with Picnic at Hanging Rock.
[0:38:58 – 0:39:00] Erik: It’s like two hours and 20 minutes.
[0:39:00 – 0:39:00] Adam: Not too bad.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:02] Adam: Not too bad.
[0:39:02 – 0:39:08] Erik: It’s like one of my favorite movies that legitimately does not have a villain or a woman, which is mainly why I love it.
[0:39:09 – 0:39:10] Erik: There’s no women in it.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:15] Erik: Oh, Eric.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:16] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:18] Adam: Keep digging that hole, brother.
[0:39:18 – 0:39:19] Erik: I got nowhere to be.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:21] Erik: I’m fine in my hole.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:23] Erik: Moving to the east, number three.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:26] Erik: Campsite number three on the North Shore.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:30] Erik: Just east, northeast of campsite number two.
[0:39:30 – 0:39:31] Erik: Are we following along?
[0:39:31 – 0:39:33] Erik: Does anybody have any questions?
[0:39:33 – 0:39:35] Adam: This is why we told you which map to follow along on.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:36] Adam: Get your F-11 out.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:36] Erik: Yep.
[0:39:37 – 0:39:39] Erik: Campsite 1405 if you’re on Paddle Planner.
[0:39:40 – 0:39:43] Erik: This is the first halfway decent looking campsite.
[0:39:44 – 0:39:47] Erik: It’s a three-star rating out of three reviews.
[0:39:47 – 0:39:47] Erik: Up in there.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:48] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:49] Erik: Three good tent pads.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:53] Erik: Four average max tent pads.
[0:39:55 – 0:39:56] Erik: Uh…
[0:39:59 – 0:40:04] Erik: I’ll read… We gotta… We’ll get back to Brother Bent, because the other two reviews on this are very, like, one sentence.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:05] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:40:05 – 0:40:07] Erik: And the one is roomy, nice view.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:08] Erik: Roomy.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:11] Erik: Three stars from pretty much everybody.
[0:40:11 – 0:40:15] Erik: This campsite is mostly sheltered and sits on top of about an eight-foot ledge.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:19] Erik: I landed the canoe and then walked up to the campsite.
[0:40:21 – 0:40:26] Erik: Well, I’m not going to.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:26] Erik: Good.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:32] Erik: I’m not going to do any editing for these reviews, but that seems like a sentence that could be completely omitted.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:33] Erik: I’m sorry, Brother Ben.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:33] Adam: Moving on.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:37] Adam: It just shows that he really took the time to really assess the site.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:38 – 0:40:41] Erik: There are trees lining the shore in front of the fire grate, so the site is somewhat sheltered.
[0:40:42 – 0:40:46] Erik: The main campsite area is a very large open rectangle, about 50 by 20.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:52] Erik: Fire grate is on one side, closest to the landing, and the rest of the area can be used for tent pads or lounging.
[0:40:53 – 0:40:59] Adam: I like how Brother Ben assesses the size and shape of the general main camp area pretty routinely.
[0:40:59 – 0:41:02] Erik: Very black and white, a thing that we’d never bring.
[0:41:02 – 0:41:04] Adam: Yeah, like the size of this campsite.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:07] Erik: Square footage.
[0:41:07 – 0:41:09] Adam: He’s got the drafting paper out.
[0:41:10 – 0:41:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:10 – 0:41:13] Erik: Sitting at home with like, well, I know my tent’s six by eight.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:16] Erik: My screen house is eight by eight.
[0:41:16 – 0:41:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:17 – 0:41:18] Erik: Oh, 50 by 20.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:18] Erik: I’ll be fine.
[0:41:19 – 0:41:20] Adam: This campsite is about 50 by 20.
[0:41:20 – 0:41:23] Adam: It looks like a little horsey on an old broom.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:26] Adam: Generally in the shape of an old horsey.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:27] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:29] Erik: It’s a thousand square foot campsite.
[0:41:30 – 0:41:31] Erik: One bed, two bath.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:32 – 0:41:33] Erik: Half bath.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:34 – 0:41:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:37] Erik: It’s got great shiplap going on.
[0:41:39 – 0:41:43] Erik: What’s the stupid thing where they do the water spout above the stove?
[0:41:43 – 0:41:43] Erik: The pot filler?
[0:41:44 – 0:41:44] Erik: It’s got a pot filler.
[0:41:45 – 0:41:48] Adam: This campsite’s about 25 by 25.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:51] Adam: It looks like Rod Brindamore being haunted in a nightmare.
[0:41:52 – 0:41:53] Adam: No, we’re done with Rod Brindamore.
[0:41:53 – 0:41:54] Adam: We’re done with all of that.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:56] Adam: Never done with Rod Brindamore.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:58] Erik: I feel like we really…
[0:42:01 – 0:42:05] Erik: an amazing opportunity for us that would be even more hyper niche than what we’re already doing.
[0:42:07 – 0:42:09] Erik: On top of already having just so much time to like do this kind of thing.
[0:42:10 – 0:42:11] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:18] Erik: Would be like a, you know, those like, like house hunters shows where they do like the,
[0:42:19 – 0:42:23] Erik: This one bed, two baths, 1,400 square foot.
[0:42:23 – 0:42:29] Erik: Just to do that style of editing and wipes just for a campsite review would be hilarious.
[0:42:30 – 0:42:31] Erik: That should be the goal for this fall.
[0:42:31 – 0:42:35] Erik: So start doing your research on House Hunters and House Hunters International.
[0:42:35 – 0:42:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:36 – 0:42:39] Erik: And just generally house buying shows.
[0:42:39 – 0:42:40] Erik: There’s no shortage.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:41] Erik: No, there’s a lot.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:42:43 – 0:42:45] Erik: Anyway, back to campsite 1405.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:50] Erik: There is another good tent pad behind the fire grate, reached by a short trail to a small clearing.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:55] Erik: I also found a couple more places where tents could go if I followed the latrine a little ways.
[0:42:55 – 0:42:56] Erik: Those are my spots.
[0:42:56 – 0:42:57] Erik: I like to be up by the latrine.
[0:42:57 – 0:43:00] Erik: Yeah, that’s just very convenient.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:03] Erik: Powell Movement Tracker.
[0:43:04 – 0:43:14] Erik: Moving just over to the east on the southern tip of the bottom of a little point just west of the portage down in from Pickle.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:15] Adam: 1406.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:16] Adam: This one’s a banger, huh?
[0:43:16 – 0:43:18] Erik: This one looks like it might be the best site so far.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:19] Erik: It’s got eight reviews, four average ratings.
[0:43:23 – 0:43:32] Erik: I love it when we get more than a couple reviews so that the averages move into the hundredth decimal.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:34] Erik: 2.29 is the average tent pad rating.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:37] Erik: This is a sound rating.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:39] Erik: 3.83 is the average max tent pads.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:43] Erik: Let’s go with Flynn.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:43] Erik: Flynn.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:46] Erik: From 2018 on this one.
[0:43:47 – 0:43:50] Erik: I like this system now where you kind of just scroll, see the length.
[0:43:50 – 0:43:51] Erik: What do I want to do?
[0:43:51 – 0:43:54] Erik: Do I want to do a tiny one, a little medium one?
[0:43:54 – 0:43:56] Adam: I’m glad you went with Flynn on this one.
[0:43:56 – 0:43:57] Erik: Flynn.
[0:43:57 – 0:43:58] Erik: Let’s see what Flynn has to say.
[0:43:58 – 0:44:00] Erik: This is almost 10 years old.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:04] Erik: From June 2nd.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:04] Erik: Wow.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:05] Erik: Just a week ago.
[0:44:07 – 0:44:08] Erik: Eight years ago.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:16] Erik: Got here in high early June winds and had some white knuckle moments with waves and gusts from the southeast.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:20] Erik: Yeah, that does not seem like the greatest wind direction for trying to get into this campsite.
[0:44:20 – 0:44:21] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:22] Adam: That’s a lot of fetch.
[0:44:23 – 0:44:25] Erik: That’s, yeah.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:27] Erik: This lake has fetch potential.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:31] Erik: We cut into the wind twice and landed at this site.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:36] Erik: We were a little beat from the wind and four portages from knife and the waves on kick.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:39] Erik: Little did we realize this site was really nice.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:43] Erik: There’s a good amount of room for tents and a nice common area as well.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:49] Erik: Fire area is indeed exposed to wind, but holy buckets, is that view gorgeous.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:54] Erik: Fishing from shore with rattle traps yielded two nice 18-inch Lakers.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:55] Erik: Wow.
[0:44:56 – 0:45:01] Erik: And just 150 feet northeast of the landing and only 30 feet from shore.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:06] Erik: At 30 to 80-foot drop-off, we caught four good 16 to 18-inch Lakers.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:09] Erik: That is some hard-hitting fishing data right there.
[0:45:09 – 0:45:10] Erik: Give me the depths and everything.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:12] Erik: That’s one of those things where you’re like, what’s the fishing?
[0:45:12 – 0:45:12] Erik: Ah.
[0:45:13 – 0:45:16] Erik: And then all of a sudden you’re just like, what are we even talking about?
[0:45:16 – 0:45:16] Adam: Rattletraps.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:21] Erik: And then this person just in one sentence gives you all the information you need to know.
[0:45:21 – 0:45:24] Erik: Size, depth, how far off a shore, what you were using.
[0:45:24 – 0:45:25] Erik: Got the time of year.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:27] Erik: I didn’t even finish it.
[0:45:27 – 0:45:32] Erik: Four good 16 to 18 inch Lakers in the rain with jigs and white twister tails.
[0:45:32 – 0:45:32] Adam: Yeah, there you go.
[0:45:32 – 0:45:34] Erik: Got to bite every other cast.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:36] Adam: Twister Tail is a real champ of a lure right there.
[0:45:37 – 0:45:37] Adam: Sure is.
[0:45:37 – 0:45:42] Erik: This site is gorgeous, has an incredible view, and has access to some excellent fishing right nearby.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:46] Erik: I will stay here again if I come to Keck.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:48] Erik: If I come to Keck.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:48] Erik: Thank you, Flynn.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:51] Adam: Way to go, Flynn.
[0:45:51 – 0:45:53] Adam: Is there another one in there?
[0:45:53 – 0:45:56] Adam: There’s a short one on that one that I screen grabbed.
[0:45:56 – 0:46:01] Adam: It was by I Hear the Rain, which gave up a four-star.
[0:46:02 – 0:46:05] Adam: This is the review from 2017.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:07] Adam: Excellent campsite.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:10] Adam: There’s an open stargazing hill a short walk west from camp.
[0:46:11 – 0:46:12] Erik: That’s a good tip.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:13] Erik: I like that.
[0:46:13 – 0:46:14] Erik: Stargazing hill.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:15] Adam: I want a stargazing hill.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:19] Adam: Not very many campsites feature a stargazing hill.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:22] Erik: No, it’s like the solarium of homes.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:23] Erik: Not everyone comes with them.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:25] Erik: You don’t always want one.
[0:46:25 – 0:46:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:25 – 0:46:28] Erik: When you have an access to one, you’re going to use it.
[0:46:28 – 0:46:28] Adam: Take advantage.
[0:46:29 – 0:46:30] Erik: All right, I added four.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:35] Erik: We’re in terms of the Danielson scale question.
[0:46:35 – 0:46:36] Erik: This is where things get…
[0:46:38 – 0:46:39] Erik: You know, a little dicey.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:42] Adam: Yeah, no, I was just going to run the North Shore.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:44] Erik: You were just going to run the North Shore.
[0:46:44 – 0:46:47] Erik: I did that originally when I was looking at it.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:52] Erik: But I think if I was being true to the form, we would move one up.
[0:46:53 – 0:47:17] Erik: on the north shore and then go down to the south shore campsite oh and then to hot dog island okay and then up to just i like to move from west to east yes prioritizing what’s first to the west and then whatever is so you want to go this one this one that one then to there or down to here
[0:47:17 – 0:47:20] Erik: I can see it both ways in terms of this lake.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:25] Adam: This is maybe one of the most challenging Danielson scale decisions.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:30] Adam: You don’t want me to just go finish off the top row and then typewriter it back down.
[0:47:30 – 0:47:35] Erik: I think we’ve got to go typewriter on this one, honestly, when I was going through it in my mind and just looking at it.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:37] Erik: It makes no sense to follow the North Shore.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:41] Adam: Yeah, I think you just follow that, but then leave these two.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:45] Adam: Or do you just go these two into those two and then come back and do…
[0:47:47 – 0:47:48] Erik: I think you leave the ones on the south shore.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:51] Erik: The farthest one to the east has got to be 16.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:53] Erik: This one?
[0:47:53 – 0:47:53] Erik: Yes.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:58] Adam: Yeah, so you’re going like, and then like, and then this?
[0:47:58 – 0:47:58] Erik: Typewriter.
[0:47:59 – 0:47:59] Adam: Hmm.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:00] Adam: Okay.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:03] Erik: So I would say, yeah, stay on the North Shore at this point.
[0:48:03 – 0:48:04] Erik: I’ll try my best.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:05] Erik: Just moving to the East.
[0:48:06 – 0:48:20] Erik: Speaking of Danielson, I was at Buck’s today, and the one Danielson product that caught my eye in the Coghlan’s shelf in the back row was the, like, ladies’ pee cup thing, and I just stared at it for two minutes straight, just wondering why.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:22] Erik: Why does this have to be the one product with my name on it?
[0:48:23 – 0:48:24] Adam: You’re the P-Cup guy now?
[0:48:24 – 0:48:25] Erik: I guess.
[0:48:25 – 0:48:27] Adam: Hold on, I’ve got to adjust my microphone here.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:30] Adam: Do you need the Fisher access?
[0:48:30 – 0:48:31] Adam: I don’t need it.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:32] Adam: I got you.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:34] Adam: All right, we’re moving to…
[0:48:34 – 0:48:38] Adam: So we’ve decided we’re going to typewriter this thing, and I’m sticking with the North Shore here, going into Campsite 5.
[0:48:40 – 0:48:42] Adam: Just west of the portage into Pickle.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:44] Adam: We’re almost going to Pickle here.
[0:48:44 – 0:48:49] Adam: This is a three-star site, campsite, 1407 with a three-star rating.
[0:48:50 – 0:48:51] Adam: And how many reviews?
[0:48:52 – 0:48:53] Adam: Where does it say how many reviews you got?
[0:48:54 – 0:48:55] Adam: Number of ratings, just one.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:57] Adam: Probably just Brother Ben.
[0:48:57 – 0:48:58] Adam: Looks like Brother Ben made it here.
[0:48:59 – 0:49:01] Adam: Nope.
[0:49:01 – 0:49:04] Adam: Free Leo 1 was here in 2025.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:08] Erik: What was the year?
[0:49:08 – 0:49:10] Adam: 2025, June.
[0:49:11 – 0:49:13] Adam: We stayed here as a one-night layover.
[0:49:14 – 0:49:17] Adam: It was not our favorite campsite, but adequate for a quick stay.
[0:49:17 – 0:49:19] Adam: The kitchen was not convenient to the rest of the site.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:26] Adam: since it is raised above the main area, did not have a flat rock next to the fire grate for a stove, and the logs were okay but not great.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:32] Adam: There was a flat rock outside the kitchen area we used, but it wasn’t convenient to the main area.
[0:49:32 – 0:49:38] Adam: The kitchen area is exposed and does not have decent trees nearby to hang utensils, trash, or a tarp.
[0:49:39 – 0:49:43] Adam: The landing had some big rocks to deal with when unloading, but an okay place for the canoe.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:49] Adam: The tent pad we used was good and the most level of the trip.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:51] Adam: The best feature was the latrine.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:58] Adam: It is in an open glade, decent separation from the main area, and lightly used.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:09] Adam: It might have been better if we had more time to work on placement of packs and creating a better working area, but we didn’t have the energy or the time to do that much.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:11] Adam: Thank you, FreeLeo1.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:12] Erik: Thank you.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:18] Erik: We should, I mean, it probably is because there’s not too many of these in the Bodgewaters.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:20] Adam: The best part is the latrine.
[0:50:20 – 0:50:22] Erik: I love the usage of the term glade.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:23 – 0:50:24] Adam: Get me in a glade.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:25] Adam: That’s where I need to be.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:28] Erik: Everybody needs some glade time.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:32] Erik: Moving east on the North Shore, typewriter style.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:33] Erik: Typewriter style.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:35] Adam: We’re going, this one’s a real banger up here.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:36] Adam: We’re just south of SEMA.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:38] Erik: No.
[0:50:38 – 0:50:41] Erik: Between SEMA and Keck, the little tank lake.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:42] Erik: Yeah, the little Keck lake.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:43] Erik: Little Keck.
[0:50:44 – 0:50:45] Adam: This is another four star.
[0:50:45 – 0:50:46] Adam: I think this one…
[0:50:47 – 0:50:48] Adam: I believe this one’s a banger.
[0:50:49 – 0:50:51] Adam: We got seven ratings on this one.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:51] Adam: Nice.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:52] Adam: And… Oh, boy.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:57] Adam: Oh, boy.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:03] Adam: Yeah, I definitely – I was going to read this one if I got this one, so I’m going with – I might read a couple in here.
[0:51:03 – 0:51:09] Adam: I got a show run from Riley Smith, 2023, with a four-star rating.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:11] Adam: And I had this one screen grabbed as well.
[0:51:13 – 0:51:16] Adam: This was uploaded in 2023, but the visit date was 2021.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:18] Adam: This was a nice site.
[0:51:18 – 0:51:22] Adam: Lots of room to sit and enjoy one of the Boundary Waters’ most special lakes.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:28] Adam: We took an adventure out from here to see the pictographs and the old fire tower remains.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:30] Adam: Unique area for sure.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:33] Erik: Where are the old fire tower remains?
[0:51:33 – 0:51:45] Adam: So if you’re looking on, hold on, if you’re on Paddle Planner, because the Kakakabic Trail flows south of here, through here, and it’s actually listed on the big map here in the studio.
[0:51:45 – 0:51:46] Adam: Oh, shit, yeah, of course.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:54] Adam: The Kakakabic Lookout Tower, and there’s like a spur trail from the kek that comes down to the lake, and there’s apparently a fire tower off of that.
[0:51:54 – 0:52:03] Erik: There is also an old ranger – well, it’s an old cabin, but the Forest Service has reappropriated it to store.
[0:52:04 – 0:52:05] Erik: Storage cabin.
[0:52:06 – 0:52:13] Erik: Not old, but I think like latrines and fire grate parts that they go out and haul to different sites and stage in the winter with dog sled.
[0:52:14 – 0:52:15] Erik: That was 15 years ago.
[0:52:15 – 0:52:16] Erik: I don’t know if they’re still doing that.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:22] Adam: This one says it’s a hidden gem, a five-star rating from 2015.
[0:52:22 – 0:52:26] Adam: It just says hidden gem.
[0:52:26 – 0:52:26] Adam: Not anymore.
[0:52:27 – 0:52:27] Adam: Big site.
[0:52:28 – 0:52:28] Erik: Hidden gem.
[0:52:28 – 0:52:31] Erik: We’re going to post some information about this hidden gem.
[0:52:31 – 0:52:39] Adam: I noticed this on a bunch of them, but Montana Paddler in 2022 says there’s a nice five-foot cliff jump into deep water.
[0:52:39 – 0:52:39] Adam: Nice.
[0:52:39 – 0:52:43] Adam: Large tent pads in the kitchen and great hammock spots along the shore.
[0:52:43 – 0:52:44] Adam: All right.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:45] Adam: I think we’ve done this one justice.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:45] Erik: Hammock info.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:46] Erik: Hammock info.
[0:52:46 – 0:52:52] Adam: 14.22 seems like it’s got something for everybody, and it’s kind of in the middle of the lake all by itself.
[0:52:52 – 0:52:53] Erik: That is the other thing that’s going on.
[0:52:53 – 0:52:58] Erik: It’s like closest next site is maybe a little under a mile away.
[0:52:58 – 0:53:03] Adam: Yeah, you got a lot of room, and you’re over here by the Keck Lakes.
[0:53:04 – 0:53:11] Adam: This is that spur trail over here, which is a ways away from this campsite that they claim they went over to the fire tower.
[0:53:12 – 0:53:13] Adam: That would be off of this thing.
[0:53:13 – 0:53:15] Erik: A little barrier island action.
[0:53:15 – 0:53:15] Erik: Yeah.
[0:53:16 – 0:53:17] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:18] Adam: I’m not good at your…
[0:53:18 – 0:53:21] Erik: I’m at the wrong angle to be using this trackpad right now.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:24] Adam: But yeah, you’re in your own little bay in here.
[0:53:25 – 0:53:25] Adam: It sounds awesome.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:26] Adam: But I don’t know.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:33] Adam: Yeah, somewhere near here is the pictographs, but I’m not going to say where, but I’m kind of moving my cursor around and showing Eric where I think.
[0:53:33 – 0:53:36] Adam: But also, I think right here, Eric, maybe.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:36] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:39] Adam: I believe they’re on the North Shore.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:44] Adam: I know for a fact they’re on the North Shore somewhere facing south, as they should be.
[0:53:45 – 0:53:47] Adam: But I don’t know exactly where.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:52] Adam: I lost all my old maps that had that information.
[0:53:53 – 0:54:15] Adam: so i have to go digging again next up we’re moving we’re still moving to the east campsite 14 23 this is the way it’s going we got seven ratings on this one too who baby what was the overall rating on this thing uh three oh no that was no this is a three star site yeah amazing
[0:54:19 – 0:54:23] Adam: I don’t know, it should probably be more De Maroney in 2024.
[0:54:24 – 0:54:31] Adam: It’s true that this site has a kitchen perched on a cliff, but there are multiple pads if you follow the trails, as has been noted.
[0:54:32 – 0:54:38] Adam: The path to the east from the campsite takes you to a forested tent pad and then up along the cliff to multiple beautiful overlooks.
[0:54:39 – 0:54:45] Adam: At the end of this trail, there’s a great little area for a one-person tent or a hammock that is a spectacular place to wake up.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:49] Adam: High above the lake with a panoramic view east and south.
[0:54:49 – 0:54:53] Adam: Note that the actual site is quite a bit further east than where it is marked.
[0:54:54 – 0:55:00] Adam: The landing is due east of the marker, just below the shoreline, just before the shoreline turns east-northeast.
[0:55:01 – 0:55:01] Adam: There you go.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:03] Erik: Okay.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:07] Adam: Good information there, and it sounds like a real dreamer.
[0:55:07 – 0:55:10] Adam: I don’t know how this is only getting a three-star site when it’s being described in that way.
[0:55:11 – 0:55:12] Adam: Brushy Slope, though.
[0:55:12 – 0:55:13] Adam: This one says Brushy Slope.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:14] Adam: Yeah, Brushy Slope.
[0:55:14 – 0:55:15] Adam: We got a one-star.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:17] Adam: Ooh, there’s a two, a one-star.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:24] Adam: Was going east on Keck trying to find a site after seeing 1422 is taken.
[0:55:24 – 0:55:25] Adam: We couldn’t even find this one.
[0:55:25 – 0:55:27] Adam: They’re right along the cliffs.
[0:55:27 – 0:55:29] Adam: Went right up to 1424 and so glad we did.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:31] Adam: That was fantastic.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:32] Adam: So that’s where we’re heading next.
[0:55:32 – 0:55:36] Adam: We’re going to skip this one, I guess, because somebody couldn’t find it.
[0:55:36 – 0:55:39] Adam: And they’re going for this one down here in this little…
[0:55:39 – 0:55:41] Adam: The dongle, the hanging dongle.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:43] Adam: We’re over here in the earlobe here.
[0:55:43 – 0:55:47] Adam: This is a four-star site, 1424.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:49] Adam: This is one of the better-reviewed sites on the lake.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:51] Erik: Looks like a nice protected bay it’s got up in there.
[0:55:52 – 0:55:53] Adam: Holy moly.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:54] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:55:54 – 0:55:58] Adam: This one’s got a couple big fans here.
[0:55:58 – 0:56:01] Adam: We’ve got a five-star rating from Side Bel Airs.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:04] Adam: Great site, nice views, swimming and camping.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:05] Adam: Five stars.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:06] Adam: Camping?
[0:56:06 – 0:56:07] Adam: No way.
[0:56:07 – 0:56:08] Adam: There’s camping, you say.
[0:56:09 – 0:56:18] Adam: This one is from Jiedin53 with a five-star rating from 2021.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:19] Adam: Great site.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:24] Adam: We fit a full nine-person northern tier crew in 2019 with four tents.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:28] Adam: I also stayed here almost the same date in 2020 with my family.
[0:56:29 – 0:56:31] Adam: Kekakabic cliffs are amazing and just beautiful.
[0:56:32 – 0:56:36] Adam: Plenty of spots to hang a hammock and a large open site kind of up a hill.
[0:56:36 – 0:56:41] Adam: So it also has a cliff jumping spot we’ve used twice now that is pretty much in camp.
[0:56:41 – 0:56:43] Adam: Just have to go around the corner further in the bay.
[0:56:44 – 0:56:47] Adam: Nice spot to hang a bear bag that suspends just a bit over the water.
[0:56:48 – 0:56:48] Erik: Wow.
[0:56:48 – 0:56:50] Adam: Hang your food over the liquid.
[0:56:50 – 0:56:51] Erik: That’s good.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:51] Adam: Good stuff.
[0:56:57 Р0:57:13] Adam: oh yeah somebody encountered a skilled chutney nine encountered a skilled bear here climbed our bear bag tree and pulled the bag closer to the tree tore a hole in the bag ate most of the food a little pi̱ata action what was the name of that chutney nine
[0:57:14 – 0:57:14] Adam: Chutney 9.
[0:57:14 – 0:57:15] Erik: Chutney.
[0:57:15 – 0:57:16] Erik: Big Chutney guy.
[0:57:16 – 0:57:17] Adam: Big Chutney.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:17] Adam: Nine of them.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:18] Adam: Big Chutney.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:18] Adam: Here we go.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:21] Adam: Gavia from 2014.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:22] Adam: Two stars.
[0:57:22 – 0:57:23] Adam: Lumpy tent pads.
[0:57:24 – 0:57:24] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:57:25 – 0:57:28] Erik: That’s all that person cares about is the sleep quality.
[0:57:28 – 0:57:36] Adam: This one is for good hiking, good views, surrounded by tall rock cliffs, good cliff jumping off the rock in the bay.
[0:57:36 – 0:57:38] Adam: That was from Woodswalker2014.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:41] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:44] Adam: I’m saying this one sounds pretty good.
[0:57:44 – 0:57:50] Adam: If we’re going to Keck, remember this one is going to be circled, I think, because if it’s open, we’re probably going to stay here.
[0:57:51 – 0:57:51] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:57:51 – 0:57:53] Adam: That one sounds really nice.
[0:57:53 – 0:57:54] Adam: Was that…
[0:57:55 – 0:57:56] Adam: That was four.
[0:57:56 – 0:57:57] Adam: That was four for me?
[0:57:57 – 0:57:57] Adam: I think so.
[0:57:58 – 0:57:58] Adam: Okay.
[0:57:58 – 0:57:59] Adam: Thank you, sir.
[0:57:59 – 0:57:59] Adam: That was fun.
[0:58:01 – 0:58:03] Adam: I need a sip of my thirsty boy.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:05] Adam: I get Hot Dog Island.
[0:58:05 – 0:58:06] Erik: I get Hot Dog Island.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:08] Adam: Hot Dog Island looks like a banger.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:09] Erik: We’re going to find out.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:13] Erik: Moving just to the east.
[0:58:13 – 0:58:13] Erik: 1420.
[0:58:14 – 0:58:16] Erik: Excuse me.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:18] Erik: 1424.
[0:58:18 – 0:58:19] Erik: This is 1425.
[0:58:19 – 0:58:20] Erik: Wouldn’t you know it?
[0:58:21 – 0:58:21] Erik: Coming down.
[0:58:21 – 0:58:22] Adam: We got the same system.
[0:58:23 – 0:58:24] Erik: It’s the same system.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:24] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:58:26 – 0:58:27] Adam: He’s our brother.
[0:58:27 – 0:58:28] Adam: Brother Ben.
[0:58:29 – 0:58:31] Adam: I don’t know if those are his numbers or they’re just Forest Service numbers.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:39] Erik: I was going to say, I think they’re Forest Service numbers, which is maybe even more confusing than whatever system I have devised in my…
[0:58:40 – 0:59:10] Erik: spiraling brain uh yeah the farthest east site of campsite reviews over here uh farthest east site on the north shore coming in from the kek ponds kek ponds this uh if uh if we do get out uh into this region um like literally one of the only places that will be new water for me is the kek ponds between eddie and kekakabik i’ve never paddled those you’ve done pickle huh
[0:59:11 – 0:59:12] Erik: I’ve come down from the north.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:14] Adam: What about Keck Lake, though?
[0:59:14 – 0:59:15] Adam: I’ve never been into Keck Lake.
[0:59:15 – 0:59:17] Adam: You’ve got to go into Keck Lake.
[0:59:17 – 0:59:19] Erik: It’s basically still just Keck Acabic.
[0:59:19 – 0:59:23] Adam: It’s the biggest keck inside the largest keck in the entire Boundary Waters.
[0:59:23 – 0:59:24] Adam: Everybody knows that.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:24] Adam: Famously.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:26] Adam: It’s still 120 feet deep.
[0:59:26 – 0:59:27] Adam: 120 feet deep.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:28] Erik: According to this Fisher F11.
[0:59:29 – 0:59:33] Erik: Like, I wonder if, like, a hill just, like, slid into the lake and cut it off.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:37] Erik: Because, like, that seems like it should just be a part of, like.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:38] Erik: Yeah, this is wrong.
[0:59:38 – 0:59:42] Erik: It’s just a crazy, for the size of Keck Lake to have that depth.
[0:59:42 – 0:59:43] Erik: I get Keckacabic.
[0:59:43 – 0:59:44] Erik: It’s a big lake.
[0:59:44 – 0:59:50] Erik: But the little Keck, a little marble in the middle, that thing’s 120 feet deep.
[0:59:51 – 1:00:04] Adam: If this is a fire grate and there’s a sausage on the grate and this east end of the lake going into the Keck Ponds is the smoke going away, the Keck Lake is like a nice piece of cedar waiting there to be thrown into the fire.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:05] Erik: Yes.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:07] Erik: I mean, Clearwater is like 120 feet deep.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:08] Adam: Right.
[1:00:08 – 1:00:08] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:08 – 1:00:10] Adam: This is not a very big lake.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:10] Adam: No.
[1:00:11 – 1:00:11] Adam: Straight down.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:12] Adam: Straight down.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:13] Adam: Kind of freaky, actually.
[1:00:13 – 1:00:14] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:15] Adam: Do you want to go in there?
[1:00:15 – 1:00:15] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:15 – 1:00:21] Adam: You’re probably going to see a one-eyed willy pirate ship sunk down at the bottom of that one.
[1:00:22 – 1:00:23] Adam: One-Eyed Willie.
[1:00:23 – 1:00:25] Adam: One-Eyed Willie’s lair is down there.
[1:00:25 – 1:00:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Erik: 1425.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:32] Adam: We got some glens and layers.
[1:00:32 – 1:00:33] Adam: Glades and layers.
[1:00:33 – 1:00:35] Adam: Glades and layers of this episode.
[1:00:35 – 1:00:36] Adam: You never saw that coming.
[1:00:36 – 1:00:37] Erik: Everybody was waiting for the Goonies reference.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:43] Erik: We’ve got two reviews on this campsite.
[1:00:44 – 1:00:45] Erik: One is three stars.
[1:00:45 – 1:00:45] Erik: One is two.
[1:00:47 – 1:00:51] Erik: The three-star review is from Gavia in 2014.
[1:00:51 – 1:00:51] Erik: Grassy.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:52] Erik: Overgrown.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:53] Adam: Tick City.
[1:00:54 – 1:00:57] Adam: Gavia’s got some, like, doesn’t like many sites.
[1:00:57 – 1:00:59] Adam: I’ve noticed Gavia’s always pretty harsh.
[1:00:59 – 1:01:01] Adam: I love Tick City.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:04] Adam: How many ticks did you get there in Tick City?
[1:01:04 – 1:01:06] Adam: Welcome to Tick City.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:07] Adam: That doesn’t sound great.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:09] Adam: I was whacking all day, and I didn’t get one tick.
[1:01:10 – 1:01:10] Adam: Yet.
[1:01:11 – 1:01:13] Adam: Maybe there’s one on me still that I haven’t found.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:15] Erik: Burrowed deep in a crevasse somewhere?
[1:01:15 – 1:01:17] Adam: I haven’t checked all the crevasses.
[1:01:19 – 1:01:20] Erik: The other review is from Brother Ben.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:23] Erik: This is from three days ago.
[1:01:23 – 1:01:24] Erik: Fresh.
[1:01:24 – 1:01:26] Erik: This is just mint fresh.
[1:01:26 – 1:01:32] Erik: I can smell this review still, and it smells swampy, muddy, and low.
[1:01:32 – 1:01:33] Erik: Oh, my.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:39] Erik: There are some very low spots, and I would be worried about rain, mud, and bugs here.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:42] Erik: The landing is okay, but right in the campsite, there is a mud pit.
[1:01:44 – 1:01:45] Erik: For wrestling.
[1:01:45 – 1:01:46] Adam: Some people like that.
[1:01:46 – 1:01:48] Adam: Some people like a mud pit, all right?
[1:01:49 – 1:01:52] Adam: Don’t yuck my yum, Ben.
[1:01:52 – 1:01:54] Adam: One time I saw a three-person canoe.
[1:01:54 – 1:01:55] Adam: It was just three hogs.
[1:01:56 – 1:01:58] Adam: Paddling it?
[1:01:58 – 1:01:59] Adam: Paddling with their little hoof.
[1:01:59 – 1:02:04] Adam: They’re just going for campsite 14, 25, rubbing their hooves together.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:06] Adam: They’re like, eee, eee.
[1:02:10 – 1:02:13] Adam: I said head to 1425, boys.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:24] Erik: Boys with a Z. Tent pads, kitchen area, latrine, and then new to the equation is mud pit availability.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:25] Adam: Quality of the mud.
[1:02:25 – 1:02:26] Adam: Quality of the mud.
[1:02:26 – 1:02:27] Adam: Mud quality.
[1:02:29 – 1:02:32] Erik: With an east wind, there was no wind moving through the site.
[1:02:33 – 1:02:34] Erik: A west wind would help.
[1:02:34 – 1:02:39] Erik: The rest of the trees are a mix of spruce, brush, aspen, birch, or similar growth.
[1:02:39 – 1:02:41] Erik: Two good tent pads.
[1:02:43 – 1:02:50] Erik: It is a large flat area that could fit two tents, and a third tent might work depending on how muddy the main camp area is.
[1:02:51 – 1:02:57] Erik: There is also an area down by the shore that would be good for hammocks, and this site can probably handle hammocks better than tents.
[1:02:57 – 1:03:00] Erik: Well, now it might be on the table for us.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:02] Erik: Yeah, mud pits.
[1:03:02 – 1:03:03] Erik: Mud pit, be damned!
[1:03:03 – 1:03:06] Erik: I want to see if there’s any pictures of said mud pit.
[1:03:12 – 1:03:14] Erik: I’m not seeing any mud pits.
[1:03:15 – 1:03:15] Erik: This doesn’t look half bad.
[1:03:16 – 1:03:18] Adam: But, again, it’s only four pictures.
[1:03:18 – 1:03:19] Adam: You got those hammock eyes.
[1:03:20 – 1:03:21] Erik: Yeah, I’m only looking for hammocks.
[1:03:23 – 1:03:26] Erik: The typewriter has completed its scroll across the top…
[1:03:28 – 1:03:30] Erik: northernmost shore of Kekakavik.
[1:03:31 – 1:03:38] Erik: And whatever the terminology, Tom Hanks, tumblehomecast.gmail.com.
[1:03:38 – 1:03:40] Erik: He’s a typewriter expert, isn’t he?
[1:03:40 – 1:03:41] Erik: Tom Hanks?
[1:03:41 – 1:03:42] Erik: I think so.
[1:03:42 – 1:03:43] Erik: He collects them.
[1:03:44 – 1:03:44] Adam: Oh, does he?
[1:03:45 – 1:03:50] Erik: He probably knows the name of like the big thing, the handle that you push and it slides back over.
[1:03:51 – 1:03:52] Erik: The replacement parts, you know.
[1:03:53 – 1:03:54] Adam: Hammer return.
[1:03:54 – 1:03:55] Erik: The hammer return.
[1:03:55 – 1:03:57] Erik: We’re returning back over to the South Shore.
[1:03:58 – 1:03:58] Erik: Just saw the pot.
[1:03:58 – 1:04:00] Adam: I have some new ribbon ink in there.
[1:04:00 – 1:04:01] Erik: I have some new ribbon ink.
[1:04:01 – 1:04:10] Erik: We’re fresh and ready to continue documenting our screed to… Punch the keys.
[1:04:11 – 1:04:11] Erik: Campsite 1466.
[1:04:13 – 1:04:19] Erik: This is just southwest of the island, the one main big island that has a campsite on it.
[1:04:19 – 1:04:20] Erik: Hot Dog Island.
[1:04:21 – 1:04:22] Adam: Sizzlin’.
[1:04:22 – 1:04:23] Erik: It’s sizzlin’.
[1:04:23 – 1:04:24] Erik: Two reviews.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:26] Erik: One star.
[1:04:27 – 1:04:28] Erik: Zero tent pads.
[1:04:29 – 1:04:30] Erik: One average max.
[1:04:31 – 1:04:33] Adam: That’s sounding great.
[1:04:33 – 1:04:38] Erik: Gavia, swampy in parentheses and quotes with an exclamation point.
[1:04:39 – 1:04:43] Erik: The rare parentheses and quotes.
[1:04:43 – 1:04:44] Adam: Yuck.
[1:04:44 – 1:04:45] Adam: Yuck.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:48] Adam: Gavia.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:49] Adam: Yuck.
[1:04:49 – 1:04:50] Adam: Gavia.
[1:04:50 – 1:04:50] Erik: That’s good.
[1:04:51 – 1:04:54] Erik: He’s my go-to reviewer on Panel Planner at this point.
[1:04:54 – 1:04:56] Adam: Gavia, just getting right to the point.
[1:04:57 – 1:04:58] Adam: Kind of like these episodes.
[1:04:58 – 1:04:59] Adam: Exactly.
[1:04:59 – 1:05:00] Adam: Just getting right to the point.
[1:05:00 – 1:05:02] Adam: Well under an hour still.
[1:05:02 – 1:05:03] Adam: Not even close.
[1:05:06 – 1:05:15] Erik: Brother Ben has reviewed this twice in 2014, very swampy and wet, and then 26 just a week ago.
[1:05:16 – 1:05:18] Erik: Stopped by to see if things had changed.
[1:05:18 – 1:05:19] Erik: They have not.
[1:05:19 – 1:05:21] Erik: Here’s an updated description.
[1:05:23 – 1:05:24] Adam: Update.
[1:05:24 – 1:05:25] Erik: Not changed.
[1:05:26 – 1:05:29] Erik: What’s the classic like Arrested Development narrator?
[1:05:31 – 1:05:32] Erik: I will change.
[1:05:32 – 1:05:33] Erik: He did not change.
[1:05:34 – 1:05:36] Adam: I’ll stop back in 10 years and it’ll probably be better.
[1:05:36 – 1:05:37] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:37 – 1:05:37] Adam: Narrator.
[1:05:38 – 1:05:38] Adam: It was not better.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:40] Adam: It was not better.
[1:05:40 – 1:05:40] Adam: It was not.
[1:05:40 – 1:05:41] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:41 – 1:05:42] Erik: Water right in camp.
[1:05:42 – 1:05:46] Erik: Fire Great even had grass growing in it, which shows how little the site is used.
[1:05:46 – 1:05:47] Adam: Oh, I love seeing, yeah.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:48] Adam: I kind of like that sometimes.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:49] Adam: I love seeing the grass in the fire pit.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:51] Adam: No charcoal, just grass.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:52] Adam: Zero charcoal.
[1:05:52 – 1:05:52] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:53 – 1:05:53] Adam: Ample grass.
[1:05:53 – 1:05:57] Erik: Fairly protected along the shoreline with spruce cedars and a couple of young white pines.
[1:05:58 – 1:05:58] Erik: Okay.
[1:05:58 – 1:05:58] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:58 – 1:06:03] Erik: One possible tent pad, but it is lumpy and uneven, so I would not call it good.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:06] Erik: This is basically a swampy emergency type site.
[1:06:07 – 1:06:10] Erik: I would not plan on staying here.
[1:06:10 – 1:06:12] Adam: You got to post a guard at this site.
[1:06:13 – 1:06:16] Erik: You got to post a bivouac guard at this site.
[1:06:16 – 1:06:18] Adam: Give him the handgun.
[1:06:18 – 1:06:19] Adam: You guys go to bed.
[1:06:19 – 1:06:21] Erik: The entire site is pretty low and right next to the water.
[1:06:23 – 1:06:25] Erik: Parentheses, quotes, exclamation point.
[1:06:25 – 1:06:26] Adam: Yuck.
[1:06:26 – 1:06:26] Adam: Yuck.
[1:06:27 – 1:06:29] Adam: Now, I’ll give you the wrist rocket.
[1:06:29 – 1:06:30] Adam: We’re all going to turn in.
[1:06:31 – 1:06:32] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:06:32 – 1:06:35] Erik: This is, yeah.
[1:06:35 – 1:06:36] Erik: I’m looking at the pictures here.
[1:06:37 – 1:06:38] Erik: This is one we would laugh at.
[1:06:38 – 1:06:40] Adam: All right, this is the worst sight on the lake.
[1:06:40 – 1:06:42] Erik: So far, I think so.
[1:06:42 – 1:06:43] Adam: Even worse than those two on the west, huh?
[1:06:44 – 1:06:44] Erik: Yep.
[1:06:44 – 1:06:46] Adam: The two on the west at least had shape.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:47] Erik: That’s true.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:48] Adam: They had definition.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:51] Adam: They had a goal.
[1:06:51 – 1:06:54] Adam: This one, it’s listless.
[1:06:56 – 1:06:58] Adam: Do something with your life.
[1:06:58 – 1:06:59] Erik: What are you even doing with your life?
[1:06:59 – 1:07:00] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:07:00 – 1:07:01] Erik: Isn’t just existing enough?
[1:07:02 – 1:07:02] Erik: Actually, it is.
[1:07:03 – 1:07:05] Erik: Campsite 1472.
[1:07:05 – 1:07:05] Erik: Hot Dog Island.
[1:07:06 – 1:07:07] Adam: The moment we’ve all been waiting for.
[1:07:08 – 1:07:09] Adam: What number are we at now?
[1:07:09 – 1:07:10] Erik: Plump when you cook them.
[1:07:11 – 1:07:12] Erik: So this is like 10.
[1:07:13 – 1:07:14] Erik: On our scale?
[1:07:14 – 1:07:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:16] Erik: Well, you did four.
[1:07:16 – 1:07:17] Erik: I did four.
[1:07:17 – 1:07:17] Erik: You did four.
[1:07:17 – 1:07:19] Erik: And then this is my third one.
[1:07:19 – 1:07:20] Erik: So this is 11.
[1:07:20 – 1:07:21] Erik: Okay.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:21] Erik: Campsite 11.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:28] Adam: My original guess was going to be 14, but I just figured it was going to be in the bottom four grouping here.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:29] Adam: I don’t know what I was thinking.
[1:07:29 – 1:07:30] Erik: Hot Dog Island.
[1:07:30 – 1:07:31] Erik: It’s sizzling away.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:36] Erik: Everybody’s been saying that.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:38] Erik: Craving.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:41] Erik: Just a plain old glizzy the other day.
[1:07:41 – 1:07:43] Erik: You just wanted a wiener.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:49] Erik: Literally, I watched two YouTube videos that did like, we’re asking three top chefs what their favorite hot dogs.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:55] Erik: And everybody’s like, the top choice for all of them was a skin on Nathan’s.
[1:07:55 – 1:08:18] Erik: nathan’s cannot be found in this community no there’s nathan’s but they’re fucking skinless get that shit out of here who’s eating everywhere that’s all they have we don’t have iga no i know you don’t i don’t go to the co-op for like a dirty glizzy i go there for some options you do have options but it’s like you know applewood farms or whatever where they like mix in like beet juice or something
[1:08:19 – 1:08:21] Adam: We actually have a lot of hot dog options.
[1:08:21 – 1:08:24] Erik: You don’t have skin on Nathan’s, though, which is what I wanted.
[1:08:24 – 1:08:27] Adam: Have you ever tried the Beeler’s Wieners?
[1:08:27 – 1:08:28] Adam: Skin on?
[1:08:28 – 1:08:29] Adam: Those are legit.
[1:08:30 – 1:08:31] Erik: I ended up getting a…
[1:08:32 – 1:08:32] Adam: Right.
[1:08:35 – 1:08:41] Adam: The warehouse says, you know, you’d be lucky to get them by the 4th of July, apparently.
[1:08:41 – 1:08:42] Adam: Well, that’d be too late.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:43] Adam: They said they’ll be back on Monday.
[1:08:43 – 1:08:44] Adam: Good.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:44] Adam: Don’t worry.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:47] Erik: I think I ended up getting a pack of Schweigert’s skin-ons.
[1:08:47 – 1:08:48] Adam: Yeah, sure.
[1:08:49 – 1:08:51] Erik: Schweigert’s.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:55] Erik: I was like, you have Nathan’s, but you have the skinless Nathan’s.
[1:08:56 – 1:08:57] Erik: What the hell?
[1:08:57 – 1:08:58] Erik: Skinless wieners?
[1:08:58 – 1:08:59] Erik: I’m not here for it at all.
[1:08:59 – 1:09:03] Adam: Any store that’s selling a skinless wiener should just be blown up with TNT.
[1:09:04 – 1:09:11] Erik: It was shocking watching this video, though, where it was like, I think there was three of them, and they each ate like, or took a bite of.
[1:09:11 – 1:09:11] Erik: A lot of hot dogs.
[1:09:11 – 1:09:17] Erik: Like 15 hot dogs, and almost every one of them was like, oh, yeah, that’s this, and just nailed it.
[1:09:17 – 1:09:19] Adam: Like, that’s a Hebrew national.
[1:09:19 – 1:09:23] Adam: I saw a macaroni and cheese episode like that, and they’re like, oh, yeah, this is Annie’s.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:25] Erik: I can tell it’s Annie’s, yeah.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:25] Adam: This is Kabat’s.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:27] Erik: Or they start working through it.
[1:09:27 – 1:09:32] Erik: They’re like, this is like a big box brand, like knockoff, like great value, I’m thinking.
[1:09:32 – 1:09:32] Erik: And it’s like, what?
[1:09:33 – 1:09:33] Adam: How do they know?
[1:09:33 – 1:09:36] Adam: Yeah, I don’t have that kind of, I’ve been working in food a long time.
[1:09:36 – 1:09:38] Adam: I do not even come close to having that kind of palate.
[1:09:39 – 1:09:41] Erik: I think the only thing I could do with at this point is bladder wash beer.
[1:09:42 – 1:09:43] Adam: Sure, you might be able to nail those.
[1:09:44 – 1:09:44] Erik: And cigs.
[1:09:45 – 1:09:45] Adam: And cigs.
[1:09:45 – 1:09:47] Erik: Give me a lineup of cigs.
[1:09:47 – 1:09:48] Adam: You can tell those.
[1:09:48 – 1:09:49] Adam: YouTube channel.
[1:09:49 – 1:09:49] Adam: Blindfold me.
[1:09:49 – 1:09:51] Erik: Anybody want to watch that?
[1:09:51 – 1:09:52] Adam: Nope.
[1:09:52 – 1:09:52] Adam: Yeah, that’s a marb.
[1:09:53 – 1:09:54] Adam: That’s a marb filter list.
[1:09:55 – 1:09:57] Adam: What color American spirit is this?
[1:09:57 – 1:09:58] Erik: That would be a challenge.
[1:09:58 – 1:09:59] Erik: That would be fun to watch.
[1:10:00 – 1:10:01] Erik: I’m sure that exists.
[1:10:01 – 1:10:02] Erik: Probably does, actually.
[1:10:02 – 1:10:05] Erik: Because there’s like 15 different American spirit colors.
[1:10:05 – 1:10:06] Adam: It’s a pretty good-sized island.
[1:10:06 – 1:10:09] Adam: Is this island bigger, or is Keck Lake bigger?
[1:10:10 – 1:10:11] Adam: Than the island?
[1:10:11 – 1:10:11] Adam: Yeah.
[1:10:12 – 1:10:14] Adam: It’s longer, but not as wide.
[1:10:14 – 1:10:17] Erik: I mean, if you jammed all the land into the lake, it’s probably pretty close.
[1:10:18 – 1:10:20] Adam: Maybe the hot dog just popped out of that hole.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:23] Adam: It fits in there perfectly.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:24] Adam: Yeah, it would, actually.
[1:10:24 – 1:10:29] Adam: If you just took this island and squished it into Keck Lake, it would fill her right in.
[1:10:29 – 1:10:37] Erik: It’s like those sandwiches where you cut the top off of a hoagie and carve out the middle and then just shove all of the ingredients into it.
[1:10:38 – 1:10:40] Adam: Sounds like a corndog is what you’re describing.
[1:10:40 – 1:10:41] Erik: Well, without the stick.
[1:10:41 – 1:10:43] Adam: Without the stick, though.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:44] Adam: Yeah.
[1:10:45 – 1:10:47] Adam: Obviously, I’m not an idiot.
[1:10:48 – 1:10:48] Adam: Yeah.
[1:10:52 – 1:10:57] Adam: Anyways, dumb homies, don’t go and shove Hot Dog Island into Keck Lake, please.
[1:10:57 – 1:10:58] Adam: No, whatever you do.
[1:10:58 – 1:10:59] Adam: Just leave it where it is.
[1:10:59 – 1:11:00] Adam: It’s perfect as is.
[1:11:00 – 1:11:01] Adam: We’re joking around here.
[1:11:01 – 1:11:02] Erik: Yeah, leave it where it is.
[1:11:02 – 1:11:03] Erik: We’re having some fun.
[1:11:04 – 1:11:08] Erik: This is a pretty well-reviewed campsite, 1472, a.k.a.
[1:11:08 – 1:11:09] Erik: Hot Dog Island South.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:17] Erik: Seven ratings, four and a half stars average, 2.5 tent pad average, 3.75 average max.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:20] Erik: Let’s go with Natty.
[1:11:21 – 1:11:22] Erik: Start just at the top.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:23] Adam: Natty.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:24]