254: BWCA Blowdown II-Up and Up and Up and Up

Episode Transcript

[0:00:20 – 0:00:21] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[0:00:39 – 0:00:40] Adam: Welcome!
[0:00:41 – 0:00:42] Adam: Are we live?
[0:00:42 – 0:00:43] Adam: Yes!
[0:00:43 – 0:00:44] Adam: Hey!
[0:00:44 – 0:00:45] Adam: Where’s the little light?
[0:00:46 – 0:00:49] Adam: Welcome to Tumble Home, Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:50 – 0:00:51] Adam: My name is Adam.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:55] Adam: Joining me here in Studio V with The View is my dear friend Eric.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:57] Adam: Good evening, Eric.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:57] Erik: Uh…
[0:00:58 – 0:00:59] Adam: Look alive over there.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:01] Adam: Sorry.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:02] Adam: Guten Abend.
[0:01:04 – 0:01:06] Erik: It’s been a couple of weeks, actually.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:07] Erik: Yeah.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:08] Erik: We’re a little rusty.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:10] Erik: Cat’s out of the bag.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:13] Erik: Yeah, the mics are being held in the hands.
[0:01:13 – 0:01:14] Erik: That’s also throwing things off.
[0:01:15 – 0:01:16] Erik: The mic stands.
[0:01:17 – 0:01:18] Erik: They’re in the shed.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:18] Erik: We are not.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:35] Erik: So yeah, there’s going to be a lot of coordination tonight between myself and this microphone and trying to read some excerpts from the continued coverage of the Gunflint Falling book.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:37] Erik: But I think I’ll manage.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:38] Erik: We’ll be okay.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:44] Adam: Episode 254 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:46] Adam: I’m looking forward to part two of this book.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:46] Erik: Nice.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] Adam: I’m on the edge of my seat.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:48] Erik: I bet.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:51] Adam: And we do have a beer sponsor.
[0:01:52 – 0:01:54] Adam: We have some art supplies for me tonight.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:55] Adam: He’s crying.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:56] Adam: It’s a huge bag.
[0:01:56 – 0:02:01] Erik: I see that you have gone ahead and crossed out my name of the Eric and Adam.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:02] Erik: I don’t know who did that.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:08] Adam: Maybe Trevor and maybe Hopalicious snuck into the shed and crossed that off.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:11] Adam: It’s a massive paper bag.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:12] Adam: It’s like two paper bags.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:13] Adam: Double-lined.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:14] Adam: Double-lined.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:21] Adam: Yeah, and it’s got a big blue ribbon, a multifaceted blue ribbon.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:26] Adam: Looks like a bow echo on top of a stratocumula cloud up on top here.
[0:02:27 – 0:02:28] Erik: Perfect description.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:34] Adam: SRC incoming, and I’m going to dig into this, Eric.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:34] Erik: Okay.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:34] Erik: Okay.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:43] Erik: Yeah, it’s full-blown July, and oh, that’s a card, a nice card.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:46] Erik: Whoa, is that a lure?
[0:02:46 – 0:02:46] Erik: It’s a lure.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:50] Erik: Badger Club, nice.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:59] Adam: All right, I’m making an executive decision since I’m drinking for myself tonight, and there’s a bunch of beer in this bag.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:04] Adam: We got probably two more episodes left of the Gunfoot and Falling series, so
[0:03:05 – 0:03:10] Adam: I think I have not looked at who sponsored this, but this one’s going to be for the next two episodes.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:13] Adam: We had plenty of beer here for two weeks, and there’s two different kinds.
[0:03:13 – 0:03:16] Adam: There’s a whole other kind in there, which I’m not going to look at.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:17] Erik: Oh, you’re just doing the old…
[0:03:17 – 0:03:18] Adam: I can feel down into the confetti.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:18] Erik: Yep.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:20] Erik: Oh.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:30] Erik: The old local nature center that you would go to in second grade where you just stick your hand in the box and feel the coon tail or whatever.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:31] SPEAKER_00: It’s a viper’s nest.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:31] SPEAKER_00: Oh, God.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:33] Adam: Yeah, we got…
[0:03:33 – 0:03:33] Adam: Hold on.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:34] Adam: So there’s…
[0:03:34 – 0:03:35] Erik: Mind the hook.
[0:03:35 – 0:03:36] Adam: Mind the hook.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Adam: I’m going to throw…
[0:03:37 – 0:03:39] Adam: This one’s going back then for next week.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:42] Adam: There’s two postcards with the lures attached.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:43] Erik: Lures.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:44] Adam: Lure.
[0:03:44 – 0:03:48] Adam: We’re going to start off with Kings Canyon National Park, established in 1941.
[0:03:49 – 0:04:18] Adam: and it looks like we have a uh i don’t know what would you call this it’s some sort of uh fly it’s a very large fly large fly yes i’m not a fly fisher um so i don’t know what you would call this kind of rig it’s definitely not called a rig is this you heathen is that a streamer that looks like a streamer a popper a dipsy i’m getting them all yeah you’re gonna strip your line into the current and uh reef this thing through the uh slippage
[0:04:19 – 0:04:19] Erik: Yep.
[0:04:20 – 0:04:21] Erik: I think Robert Redford said that.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:25] Adam: I’m haunted by waters.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:26] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:04:26 – 0:04:27] Erik: I stepped on your line.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:28] Erik: Or was it Mitchum?
[0:04:29 – 0:04:30] Adam: Mitchum, come over here.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:34] Adam: I’m going to come over here and I’m going to feed you a tiny one.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:35] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:38] Adam: That’s what Mitchum would say.
[0:04:38 – 0:04:41] Erik: Who’s our favorite guy from?
[0:04:41 – 0:04:42] Erik: I can never remember his name now.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:45] Erik: Our favorite actor from A River Runs Through It?
[0:04:46 – 0:04:46] Erik: The dad.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:51] Adam: He’s also a viper in Top Gun.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:52] Adam: Tom Skerritt.
[0:04:53 – 0:04:54] Adam: Yes, Skerritt.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:57] Erik: It’s been a long time since we’ve talked about our love for that man.
[0:04:57 – 0:05:20] Adam: boys my lord is very disappointed in you today there’s definitely a strange connection between scarrett and mitchum i feel scarrett’s probably like the grandson of mitchum it’s all connected maybe scarrett is the boy from uh scarrett’s the boy yeah from the western mining town exactly yeah that’s my dad
[0:05:20 – 0:05:21] Erik: Clegan’s Wastes.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:24] Erik: What is it?
[0:05:24 – 0:05:26] Erik: Clinger’s Bay.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:29] Erik: What’s the name of that nasty town that they live on in Night of the Hunter?
[0:05:30 – 0:05:31] Erik: I got nothing.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:32] Erik: Scanlon Swamp.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:34] Erik: It’s horrible sounding.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:37] Erik: Anyway, that was last week’s TCC.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:37] Erik: Stay tuned this week.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:39] Erik: We’ve got D3, by the way.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:42] Adam: D3 coming out this week.
[0:05:42 – 0:05:42] Adam: That’s a banger.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Adam: Well, I don’t know.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:46] Adam: I should give this away.
[0:05:46 – 0:05:48] Adam: It’s my favorite of the Mighty Ducks somehow.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:50] Adam: Erickson Shambles.
[0:05:52 – 0:05:54] Adam: He’s not happy about this at all.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:56] Erik: No, bring your tissues, though.
[0:05:56 – 0:05:58] Erik: Things get emotional, as we’ve said.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:59] Erik: They get real.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:01] Adam: For both Hans and Jans.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:04] Erik: Yeah, we do be that man.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:06] Erik: We both be that man.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:08] Adam: Be the miracle.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:09] Erik: Be that man.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:16] Adam: Eric and Francois, thank you for sharing your love and passion for the BWCA.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:19] Adam: Moreover, your humor is a gift to us all.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:21] Adam: Happy paddling.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:26] Adam: This is from our friend on Discord, Betty’s Pies.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:27] Adam: With a Z.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:28] Adam: Is that a Z?
[0:06:29 – 0:06:30] Adam: Betty’s Pies.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:36] Erik: I saw an R Minnesota post the other day about the most overrated place in Minnesota, and Betty’s Pies was in there.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:37] Erik: Oh, really?
[0:06:37 – 0:06:42] Erik: It wasn’t the most and or top upvoted comment, but I did appreciate it.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:51] Erik: I scrolled and looked close on the comments to see if there was maybe a tumble homie in there making some deep, deep reference that only a fellow tumble homie would have understood, but I didn’t see him in there.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:52] Erik: Didn’t happen.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:55] Erik: I think it’s just general knowledge at this point.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:57] Adam: Generally accepted that it’s a hack job.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:58 – 0:07:03] Erik: Enough people have driven by and screamed obscenities as they drove by that it’s just well known.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:04] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:05] Erik: Betty’s Pies.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:07] Adam: We don’t make the pies.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:08] Erik: We don’t make the pies.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:09] Adam: Imported.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:10] Adam: Maybe they do.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:10] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:12] Adam: Maybe we should stop in there.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:14] Adam: We should probably.
[0:07:14 – 0:07:15] Adam: We’ll be the final judge of this.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:17] Erik: Maybe that should be one of the last things we do.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:20] Erik: We’ll find out when their last day is and we’ll just go there and do like a live.
[0:07:20 – 0:07:22] Adam: Go on the last day of the season and then go paddle bog.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:23 – 0:07:24] Erik: Yeah, go paddle bog.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:26] Adam: Just throw the pie in the middle.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:26] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:27 – 0:07:29] Adam: Or leave it in one of the closed campsites.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:34] Erik: I love that you just said paddle bog, not even an attempt to camp on bog.
[0:07:36 – 0:07:38] Adam: We’re not camping on bag.
[0:07:38 – 0:07:39] Adam: No.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:45] Adam: We got ourselves a six-pack here, Badger Club Amber Lager out of Verona.
[0:07:45 – 0:07:46] Erik: That’s a first time.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:50] Adam: Yeah, I never had Lake Louie brewing out of Verona.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:51] Adam: Verona?
[0:07:51 – 0:07:52] Adam: What’s Lake Louie?
[0:07:52 – 0:07:53] Erik: Is that Wisconsin?
[0:07:53 – 0:07:54] Erik: Wisconsin?
[0:07:54 – 0:07:58] Adam: That’s southwest of Madison, off the Beltway Beltline.
[0:07:59 – 0:08:00] Adam: What is it called?
[0:08:00 – 0:08:00] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:00] Adam: Holy moly.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:01] Adam: That’s your neck of the woods.
[0:08:01 – 0:08:02] Adam: Hopalicious.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:03] Adam: What do they call that?
[0:08:03 – 0:08:04] Adam: The Beltway?
[0:08:04 – 0:08:05] Adam: The Beltline.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:06] Adam: The Beltline?
[0:08:06 – 0:08:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:07 – 0:08:09] Adam: If you’re heading out west, you got to hop on the Beltway.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:16] Erik: Is that a reference to the obesity epidemic that’s happening in those parts, or is it some kind of a road system?
[0:08:16 – 0:08:22] Adam: It’s just they’re like, there’s the little miniature junior freeway that goes around Madison.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:22] Adam: Oh, sure.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:22] Adam: Sure.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:25] Adam: Yeah, if you’re trying to head west.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:28] Erik: It sounds like they’re trying to sound like they’re a bigger city than they actually are.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:43] Adam: You know how most big cities have an interstate that goes through the middle, like across, and then they have the big one that goes to 694 or whatever that goes around the whole thing, like a big loop, and then anything outside of that is just truly wretched?
[0:08:43 – 0:08:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:44 – 0:08:46] Adam: It’s like that, but it only goes around half of Madison.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:46] Erik: I see.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:49] Adam: So Verona is, unfortunately, on the outside looking in.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:51] Adam: There’s plenty of great stuff in Verona.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:55] Adam: A lot of good trout fishing just down south and west from the Beltline.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:58] Adam: So, yeah, there’s two lanes of pure mayhem.
[0:08:59 – 0:08:59] Erik: Sure.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:00] Adam: People are crazy.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:04] Adam: Driving way over the speed limit gave me a lot of anxiety.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:05] Adam: I always tried to avoid it when I was down there.
[0:09:05 – 0:09:08] Adam: Avoid the… That’s probably why I don’t know what it’s called anymore.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:09] Erik: Avoid the Beltline.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:09] Erik: Don’t…
[0:09:10 – 0:09:14] Adam: It’s probably, if you just imagine putting me on there now, I was a pretty good driver when I lived down there.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:15] Erik: Yeah, you got to be.
[0:09:16 – 0:09:16] Adam: I mean, I’m still a good driver.
[0:09:16 – 0:09:18] Adam: I’m just not up to that speed.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Adam: Fast heel toed.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:21] Adam: All right, I’m cracking into Badger Club.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:22] Adam: Let’s go.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:23] Erik: I like the artwork.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:27] Erik: It’s very appropriate for this time of year.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:32] Erik: I’d say very patriotic.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:35] Adam: Eric, just clean this table.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:39] Erik: The table’s very easily recleanable.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:42] Adam: It’s got like a beer lure on it here.
[0:09:42 – 0:09:43] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:44] Adam: It looks like that is a popper.
[0:09:44 – 0:09:44] Adam: That’s a popper.
[0:09:45 – 0:09:46] Erik: Nailed it.
[0:09:46 – 0:09:47] Erik: We know our lures.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:48] Adam: I know about lures, Eric.
[0:09:49 – 0:09:53] Adam: One time I caught 51 bass on a MEP spinner.
[0:09:54 – 0:09:55] Adam: Colorado bled.
[0:09:56 – 0:09:58] Adam: One time on the Sugar River I caught…
[0:10:00 – 0:10:02] Adam: 10 brown trout and a grass carp.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:05] Erik: I’m a popper.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:06] Erik: Grass carp?
[0:10:06 – 0:10:09] Erik: Is that real or is that like the swamp robin or whatever we saw?
[0:10:09 – 0:10:10] Adam: The swamp sparrow.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:12] Adam: It’s a green-eared warbler.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:17] Adam: Yeah, the Sugar River is down by Verona there.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:18] Adam: It’s pretty good trout fishing.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:19] Adam: Warm water.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:20] Adam: I like the sound of that.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:23] Adam: I don’t understand how the trout are surviving in there, but yeah.
[0:10:23 – 0:10:25] Adam: Is it tubable like the Apple River?
[0:10:26 – 0:10:29] Adam: I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody on a tube in there, but you probably could.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:31] Erik: You aware of the depravity that is the Apple River?
[0:10:32 – 0:10:32] Adam: Yeah, I’ve heard.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:35] Erik: Get your coolers out.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:35] Erik: Get your…
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Erik: Tubing rivers.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:45] Erik: Get your big Borat neon green onesie and… We tried to tube the Plover River when I was at Bent Point.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:47] Adam: But it’s full of sticks.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:49] Erik: Yeah, I bet you just got shredded.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:49] Erik: Devilment.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:50 – 0:10:52] Adam: And yeah, my tube…
[0:10:52 – 0:10:53] Adam: I even brought a backup tube.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:54] Adam: Neither of them made it to the end.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:57] Adam: I just ended up walking down the Plover River back into…
[0:10:58 – 0:11:18] Erik: back into steven’s point backup tube pretty sad we knew somebody who claimed to have tubed down the cross river yeah right between like cross bay lake and gunflint and i don’t know how that would be humanly possible i’ve i’ve seen sections of that and it’s uh it sounds pretty close to your plover attempt
[0:11:19 – 0:11:21] Adam: Yeah, the Pobro is doable.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:24] Adam: I just should have brought an aluminum canoe and not a tube.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:26] Adam: Not a tube.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:29] Adam: Probably didn’t need to bring the Mad Dog 2020s.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:30] Erik: No.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:31] Erik: Well, you probably did.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:33] Erik: Otherwise, it would have been even less interesting.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:35] Adam: It would have been a really long walk without it.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:35] Adam: Right.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:38] Adam: For fortifying the feet.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:40] Adam: Welcome to the club.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:42] Adam: No bouncers, no passwords.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:43] Adam: Just an open door.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:45] Adam: Golden hour never ends.
[0:11:46 – 0:11:48] Adam: So take a load off and crack open a liquid pause.
[0:11:49 – 0:11:50] Adam: We saved you a seat.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:52] Adam: I was hoping they were going to tell me what Lake Louie is.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:54] Adam: I lived down there for a while.
[0:11:54 – 0:12:01] Adam: I don’t know the name of the belt line, but none of the Madison Chain Lakes is named Louie, is it?
[0:12:01 – 0:12:03] Adam: Am I that far off?
[0:12:04 – 0:12:04] Erik: What are you asking me for?
[0:12:04 – 0:12:05] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:05] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:12:05 – 0:12:07] Erik: I don’t even know what the belt line is.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:09] Adam: Anybody know what Lake Louie is referencing?
[0:12:09 – 0:12:14] Adam: Or is this just some guy named Louie from Verona?
[0:12:14 – 0:12:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:14 – 0:12:15] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:12:15 – 0:12:16] Erik: Tumblehomecast at gmail.com.
[0:12:16 – 0:12:16] Erik: Hit us up.
[0:12:16 – 0:12:18] Erik: This is depressing.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:21] Adam: Tumblehomecast and Instagram picture app.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:23] Adam: Hit me up in the DMs if you know.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:25] Adam: I could probably Google this.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:26] Erik: That’s all right.
[0:12:27 – 0:12:29] Adam: Anyways, thanks, Betty’s Pies, for the Lake Louie.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:34] Adam: It was a real hot one here today, so this is pretty refreshing.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:42] Adam: I’m going to give it 9 out of 10 bow echoes incoming.
[0:12:42 – 0:12:44] Erik: Sounds good and dangerous.
[0:12:44 – 0:12:47] Adam: Yeah, I don’t think these are going to be that dangerous.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:48] Adam: Not as dangerous as…
[0:12:49 – 0:12:50] Adam: It looks like they’re 6.5% though.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:50] Adam: What?
[0:12:50 – 0:12:50] Adam: 6.5%?
[0:12:51 – 0:12:53] Adam: I don’t know how that’s 6.5%.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:56] Adam: That’s pretty light tasting.
[0:12:56 – 0:12:58] Adam: Pretty refreshing for a 6.5%.
[0:12:58 – 0:12:58] Adam: Watch out.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:07] Adam: Can sneak up on you like the 6.48 a.m. weather report by Terry Stewart.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:08] Erik: Do you still remember any of those?
[0:13:08 – 0:13:08] Erik: Signing off.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:11] Adam: Stewart was the main guy.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:12] Adam: I remember Stewart was the main guy.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:16] Erik: I think he finished by saying, everything will be fine.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:18] Erik: Enjoy your holiday.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:21] Adam: Yeah, he did say that.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:27] Erik: He rude those words, or maybe he didn’t, but others who may have heard it probably did.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:29] Erik: We’re going to get back into it here.
[0:13:31 – 0:13:36] Erik: With our coverage from the future.
[0:13:36 – 0:13:37] Erik: 25 years on.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:39] Erik: Just a couple of days ago.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:41] Erik: 25 years to the day.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:47] Erik: Saw a nice Star Tribune little write-up on the 25th anniversary.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:57] Erik: Didn’t necessarily take too much more away from it than I have learned from Carrie Journalism Griffith’s fine work in the book here.
[0:13:57 – 0:14:01] Erik: But it’s nice to remind people of that event.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:03] Erik: Kind of crazy.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:21] Erik: One of the things that I for sure have taken away from this at the time that it happened, and we’ll get into this a little bit more in detail when I start getting into my notes here, but just how few people from the cities even knew anything was happening.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:25] Erik: Because there was no reports.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:27] Erik: It wasn’t on the news.
[0:14:27 – 0:14:31] Erik: People were finding out that their family, friends, or loved ones…
[0:14:33 – 0:14:37] Erik: were affected by this storm when they were getting out of the woods and calling.
[0:14:37 – 0:14:38] Adam: When they didn’t show up?
[0:14:39 – 0:14:42] Erik: Or they were calling and they were like, you were supposed to come out tomorrow.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:42] Erik: What’s going on?
[0:14:42 – 0:14:46] Erik: And they were like, oh yeah, I’m on my way to the hospital in Duluth.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:52] Erik: I guarantee you that would have been pretty quick news, I feel, this day and age.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:56] Adam: There’s probably a line for the payphone on the SAG public access.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:58] Adam: Anybody got a quarter?
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Adam: I gotta call my mother.
[0:14:59 – 0:15:03] Erik: There was a crazy amount of lines in some certain places.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:10] Erik: I don’t know if that was one of them, but there were cell phones then, and there were cell phone coverage.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:12] Erik: In 99?
[0:15:12 – 0:15:13] Erik: 99, yeah, crazy.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:24] Adam: That was the kind that was only in your car, and it was like in a big box, and then you still had a cord for the headset to be connected down to the phone unit.
[0:15:24 – 0:15:27] Erik: I think you’re a little bit off, maybe like by five years.
[0:15:27 – 0:15:38] Erik: I remember having like a pretty small-ish, I mean, it couldn’t do anything besides like call and text cell phone by like 2001.
[0:15:38 – 0:15:41] Adam: I’m trying to remember what year I got my first cell phone now.
[0:15:42 – 0:15:43] Erik: I mean, I do remember having a beeper.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:45] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:45] Adam: I had a pager.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:46] Adam: Gave dude a beeper.
[0:15:47 – 0:15:48] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:51] Erik: I just used it to get sports scores.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:52 – 0:15:55] Adam: It wasn’t the Mountain Dew pager that you could win with Mountain Dew points.
[0:15:56 – 0:15:58] Erik: Oh, when you collect the 20-ounce caps or whatever?
[0:15:58 – 0:16:01] Adam: Yeah, you turn those in, 100 of them, and you get a beeper.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:19] Erik: yep i had my mountain my mountain dew beeper and my uh marlboro backpack that i saved up from all my uh cowboy killers that i smoked in uh third grade when that was a thing still travel with that marlboro duffel too yeah hang on to that thing they built that thing to last
[0:16:19 – 0:16:20] Erik: Yeah, yeah.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:28] Erik: It just, when I shaved the beard down into the mustache, it just materialized next to me again, too, as well as a pack of cigarettes rolled up.
[0:16:28 – 0:16:31] Erik: It just kind of softly rolled up into my sleeve.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:34] Erik: So I’m smoking again.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:38] Erik: Not drinking, but I’m burning heaters like a real red-faced cowboy.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:41] Adam: You’re going to get some leather boots.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:45] Erik: Somebody told me I look like Tom Selleck the other night.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:46] Erik: Uh-huh.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:47] Erik: That was high praise.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Erik: That’s a good compliment.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:48] Adam: That’s pretty nice, yeah.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:57] Erik: She was a very drunk old lady from California, but still, she was squinting through one eye, but you know.
[0:16:57 – 0:16:58] Adam: Tell you what, mister.
[0:16:58 – 0:17:01] Erik: And she said she was currently reading a biography on him.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:05] Erik: So I’m just like, you’re just looking for Tom Selleck in the world.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:06] Erik: You got Selleck on the brain, lady.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:07] Erik: Top of mind right now.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:10] Erik: Oh, my.
[0:17:10 – 0:17:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:11 – 0:17:18] Erik: Well, we could just talk about mustaches and cigarettes all night, but let’s get back into it.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:20] Erik: We got to start with Ralph Bondi.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:22] Erik: As you remember, he was…
[0:17:24 – 0:17:26] Erik: Or maybe you don’t remember, but I’ll refresh your memory.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:28] Erik: He was a member of the Ely Area Honor Guard.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:34] Erik: He was excited for the annual 4th of July parade.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:37] Erik: Big fan of flags, I am sure.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:39] Adam: He’s very fond of flags.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:41] Erik: I mean, that’s what you get into the honor guard for.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:44] Erik: There’s specific rules when those flags go by.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:46] Erik: You see that post on the Facebook page lately?
[0:17:47 – 0:17:47] Erik: No.
[0:17:47 – 0:17:50] Erik: I’m not on Facebook, but somebody shared it with me.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:56] Erik: The local sheriff in town here posted the flag etiquette as to what you’re supposed to do when flags go by during parades.
[0:17:56 – 0:17:58] Adam: Are you supposed to wear them as clothing?
[0:17:58 – 0:18:02] Erik: You were supposed to stand up and not salute unless you were in the military.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:06] Erik: And you don’t salute the small ones, the little ones that the kids wave.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:07] Erik: You don’t have to worry about saluting those.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:08] Adam: Only the official flag.
[0:18:08 – 0:18:09] Erik: The big ones that are on trucks.
[0:18:10 – 0:18:10] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:18:10 – 0:18:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:20] Erik: After being delayed until 2, he decided to drive across town to his house and wait until then.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:24] Erik: As the storm rolled into town, it slammed into his car.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:28] Erik: Quote, I thought the big maple tree and big basswood were going to blow over.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:29] Erik: I couldn’t see anything.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:33] Erik: Branches started pummeling his car as he slowed to a crawl.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:37] Erik: Creeping along, avoiding debris in the road, he neared a side street.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:45] Erik: Quote, “‘And then out of the alley comes this big thing, this big ball rolling,’ recalled Ralph.
[0:18:45 – 0:18:50] Erik: He finally recognized it as an empty four-person tent, seemingly empty.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:53] Erik: It rolled straight into and under his car.”
[0:18:54 – 0:18:56] Erik: I went over the top of it and kept going.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:57] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:18:57 – 0:19:02] Erik: He got home and it took him an hour to untangle the mess from the chassis of his car.
[0:19:02 – 0:19:05] Erik: But he was ready by two for the rescheduled start of the parade.
[0:19:06 – 0:19:06] Adam: All right.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:09] Adam: Do not let that mess up your parade timing.
[0:19:09 – 0:19:15] Erik: No, I just love the idea of a loose tent just like slamming into your car and just being like, I must continue home.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:17] Erik: Need to get prepped for the parade.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:20] Adam: I ran over a tube tent on the way to the parade.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:23] Erik: Tube tent probably would never blow away.
[0:19:23 – 0:19:25] Erik: Just funnel the air right through there.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:25] Adam: Exactly.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:26] Adam: That’s perfect.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:27] Adam: Streamlined.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:28] Adam: Stake it.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:29] Adam: Extra stakes.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:30] Erik: Yeah, just an extra stake or two.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:33] Erik: Make sure you point it in the direction of the wind, though.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:33] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:40] Erik: A number of other first responders returned to town for the start of the parade, noticing a bit of wind damage here and there, but nothing major.
[0:19:41 – 0:20:00] Erik: None of them or the other officials, pilots, and managers in the surrounding areas had any idea what kind of damage was being wrought on the wilderness to their east and north, and in the cases of Toftee and Grand Marais, in the cases of Toftee and Grand Marais North, or just how dramatically it would affect their coming weeks and careers.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:16] Erik: Michelle Oreo, that’s O-R-I-E-U-X, Oreo, was the trip leader of a group of five camped on Lake Pauley on the morning of the 4th, having traveled there two days prior.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:19] Erik: That day was very unusual.
[0:20:20 – 0:20:23] Erik: The humidity was so high we knew a storm was coming.
[0:20:24 – 0:20:43] Erik: After a morning of unsuccessful fishing, adjacent island wood gnoming, and diapering it in the lake with their PFDs to cool off from the heat, they all ended up back at around lunchtime to see the skies to the west that their campsite faced turn ugly.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:52] Erik: As the winds came up, the decision was made to stay out closer to the lake and take their chances on getting pelted by driving rain as opposed to falling trees.
[0:20:54 – 0:20:59] Erik: One of the group’s members, Christina, said, the thing that was remarkable to me was how quickly the wind came up.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:02] Erik: At first, we thought it was normal rain.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:07] Erik: So when the wind started, there was stuff blowing around the campground.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:11] Erik: People began to chase down and secure stuff so it wouldn’t blow away.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:16] Erik: And then the wind just started going up and up and up and up.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:18] Erik: Four ups.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:20] Adam: Still going up.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:22] Erik: Yeah, not quite seven, but four.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:23] Erik: Yikes.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:24 – 0:21:28] Erik: Another member of the group, Mark, wrestled and hung on to a flapping tarp.
[0:21:29 – 0:21:33] Erik: As I’m watching the tarp and wondering, is this going to hold?
[0:21:33 – 0:21:34] Erik: What’s going to happen?
[0:21:35 – 0:21:36] Erik: I was glancing at the trees.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:39] Erik: Just hang on to that tarp, Mark.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:40] Erik: Whatever you do.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:42] Erik: He remembers.
[0:21:43 – 0:21:44] Adam: Am I not good enough anymore?
[0:21:44 – 0:21:45] Erik: What’s the deal?
[0:21:48 – 0:21:49] Erik: Can I hack it anymore?
[0:21:49 – 0:21:55] Erik: I was watching, sorry, he remembers, I saw how violently the trees were shaking.
[0:21:55 – 0:21:59] Erik: I was watching it, but was not really comprehending what was happening.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:06] Erik: I would see the tree swaying back and forth violently, and then all of a sudden, just like that, it swung away.
[0:22:06 – 0:22:08] Erik: But it didn’t do the bounce back thing.
[0:22:08 – 0:22:12] Erik: I was like, okay, when is it going to start coming back?
[0:22:12 – 0:22:16] Erik: It took me a few seconds to realize the tree had snapped off and was falling down.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:32] Erik: And that’s when I kind of rolled it all the way as it was coming down and realized it was coming right in the line with Lisa, which is another member of their party, because she had just gone down to the water’s edge to pull up her canoe.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:38] Erik: This was a lightweight solo canoe, so I’m sure that thing was just getting tossed around like those birds the other day, last week.
[0:22:38 – 0:22:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:45] Erik: As I’m watching the tree, I think I was watching it because it was one of the trees the rainfly was tied to.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:50] Erik: It just came down and right along her line and just brushed the left side of her head.
[0:22:51 – 0:22:53] Erik: She was knocked out.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:57] Erik: It would have been a very, very different outcome if it had landed on her.
[0:22:58 – 0:23:09] Erik: On top of the wind, the torrential rain turned a chaotic scene opaque, like driving in the left lane of the Audubon during a monsoon without windshield wipers or a windshield.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:13] Erik: Mark yelled out over the chaos, she’s down, she’s down.
[0:23:15 – 0:23:19] Erik: Michelle recalled, food was flying everywhere, trees were flying, it was chaos.
[0:23:19 – 0:23:23] Erik: Everything was straight line winds, the campsite was falling apart.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:29] Erik: Soon as I heard Mark say Lisa was down, we all ran down, honestly expecting that she was dead.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:32] Erik: That was my and Mark’s first thought, we later admitted.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:48] Erik: Vicki Brockman and her two trip partners, this is another group, and her two trip partners, Jan and Sue Ann, were camped on Alpine Lake and planned on exiting the wilderness that next day, the next day.
[0:23:49 – 0:23:57] Erik: Just like everything else or everywhere else in the park that morning, the day started unsettlingly humid and calm with ominous dead calm reflections.
[0:23:57 – 0:23:58] Erik: Ominous DCRs.
[0:23:58 – 0:24:00] Erik: Oh, DCRs.
[0:24:01 – 0:24:03] Erik: You don’t want those as far as the eye could see.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:04] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:05] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:12] Erik: With little view to the west, the incoming storm was more sensed than perceived long in advance.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:16] Erik: And as the first fat drops of rain descended upon them, they moved into their tent.
[0:24:18 – 0:24:23] Erik: A little description of their experience from inside the tent here.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:31] Erik: They were expecting to wait out the storm in relatively dry quarters, though it was hard not to notice the intensifying elements.
[0:24:32 – 0:24:37] Erik: Contrary to a typical squall, the winds kept increasing and increasing.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:44] Erik: The blow began buffeting their nylon walls like a jib in a gale, enveloping them on all sides.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:51] Erik: There was a moment, with the winds blowing harder, when it felt as though the tent might be picked up and carried away.
[0:24:52 – 0:25:01] Erik: In response, Jan stretched across the floor, placing her hands against one wall and her feet against the other, hoping to keep it from collapsing.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:05] Erik: The gale out of the west-southwest began shaking the treetops.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:07] Erik: Vicky sat up.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:10] Erik: The peak of their tent had a screen window.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:14] Erik: Vicky, concerned about the sudden onslaught, peered into the forest behind them.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:17] Erik: Most of the trees were pine.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:20] Erik: Their stiff, needled arms were flailing in the squall.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:23] Erik: And then the rains grew worse.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:26] Erik: Water spilled out of the sky, drenching their nylon walls.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:30] Erik: The outburst intensified the shaking trees.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:35] Erik: Through the downpour, Vicki watched a distant treetop snap off.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:36] Erik: Then another.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:43] Erik: She screamed to her companions, dropped to the floor, turned onto her side, and leaned into the nylon side to help Jan anchor their tent.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:47] Erik: Fearful of a falling tree, she shielded her head with her arm.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:55] Erik: To the northwest of their tree stood a 60-foot jack pine, its trunk at least a foot in diameter.
[0:25:56 – 0:26:02] Erik: While they struggled to keep the tent anchored, they heard the sickening sound of the tree being pulled up by its roots, starting to topple.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:11] Erik: There was an interminable moment while the maelstrom howled and the tree, as though in slow motion, continued to fall.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:19] Erik: And then it pounded down on top of them, slantwise, flattening the paper-thin walls and the three women who lay inside.
[0:26:20 – 0:26:22] Erik: The tree pinned Sue Ann to the ground.
[0:26:22 – 0:26:26] Erik: The trunk lay across her side and chest, and she struggled to breathe.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:31] Erik: When she opened her mouth to gulp air, the heavy rain prevented her from catching her breath.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:35] Erik: Vicki took a direct blow from the jack pine’s trunk.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:43] Erik: Fortunately, her arm protected her head, but because she was on her side, her hip absorbed the full force of the impact.
[0:26:43 – 0:26:47] Erik: When it landed, Sue Ann said, We could all hear something crack.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:56] Erik: Vicki remained conscious, but excruciating pain was accompanied by the sickening certainty that something in her lower extremities had been seriously injured.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:59] Erik: And that’s when I started screaming, Vicki said.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:06] Erik: Because Jan’s feet had been angled towards Vicky’s head, several of the tree branches had fallen on top of her.
[0:27:07 – 0:27:09] Erik: She too was pinned to the ground.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:12] Erik: Jan got the end of the tree, Sue Ann said.
[0:27:14 – 0:27:18] Erik: The storm was still howling around them, the skies filled with lightning and thunder and a deluge.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:24] Erik: There was nothing they could do but ride out the bad weather and wait for the uproar to subside.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:27] Erik: Vicky was the most grievously hurt.
[0:27:28 – 0:27:35] Erik: Her first thought was that she’d broken a leg, but the side of her hip had been higher than her tapering thigh.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:41] Erik: Now, she was held tight between the ground and the fallen jackpine, as though fastened in the jaws of a vice.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:44] Erik: Sue Ann wasn’t much better.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:47] Erik: The tree trunk and branches lay across her chest and side.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:52] Erik: She was now managing to catch her breath, but she couldn’t crawl out from under the tree.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:55] Erik: Jan was pinned only by her feet and lower legs.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:59] Erik: Branches were holding her down like the scraggly fingers of a wicked hand.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:06] Erik: Under the onslaught of rain, they struggled to keep breathing, tensing their bodies against the storm.
[0:28:07 – 0:28:10] Erik: So, there we were, concluded Sue Ann.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:14] Adam: So, there we were.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:15] Erik: So, there we were.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:16] Erik: End of story.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:20] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:28:20 – 0:28:25] Erik: I think the first group probably had the right move to stay out in the open.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:27] Erik: Stay mobile.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:29] Erik: You never know, though.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:31] Erik: You know, it’s just going to be rain.
[0:28:32 – 0:28:32] Erik: Let’s stay dry.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:34] Erik: Nice to stay dry.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:36] Erik: But I don’t know.
[0:28:36 – 0:28:41] Adam: Yeah, the protocol that you hear of, you know, yeah, get out and look at the treetops.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:45] Adam: Stare up into the rain while it’s raining.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:48] Adam: And, you know, zig and zag as needed.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:51] Adam: That’s the protocol.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:54] Adam: That or like get out of your tent and like kneel on your life jacket.
[0:28:54 – 0:29:09] Erik: Well, when lightning is striking, yeah, that’s technically what you’re supposed to do is just basically crouch on, like, make sure you’re not on a root of a tree and make sure nothing falls on your head when you’re out there and just get wet.
[0:29:10 – 0:29:14] Erik: Kind of goes against everything that you want as a human, though.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:19] Adam: Yeah, I’ve never managed to get myself to go outside of a tent during the storm at night.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:21] Adam: I was like, I’ll just ride it out.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:25] Erik: Yeah, well, at least it was during the day.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:27] Erik: A night storm would be like, I’m not going out there.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:29] Erik: What am I going to do?
[0:29:29 – 0:29:30] Erik: That would be for sure.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:37] Erik: If it was a full-blown, if this storm had happened at night and I was out there, I would just be like, I’m just putting my hands up.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:39] Erik: Whatever happens, happens.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:45] Erik: I’m not going to try and like spot in like the flashes of lightning a huge branch coming down on me.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:50] Erik: But if it was daytime, I’d probably get out and try to keep my whereabouts.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:52] Erik: At least I’d like to think I would.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:54] Erik: Who knows?
[0:29:54 – 0:29:57] Adam: I mean, we generally flip a canoe over or sit under a rainfly.
[0:29:57 – 0:30:01] Adam: It’s shocking how many of these people didn’t manage to even have a rainfly up.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:03] Erik: Mark was dealing with that tarp.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:04] Adam: Yeah, he wrestled that thing.
[0:30:04 – 0:30:05] Adam: He had that tarp.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:06] Erik: Do I still have it?
[0:30:07 – 0:30:08] Adam: Do I still have it?
[0:30:09 – 0:30:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:11] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:15] Adam: That’d be tough to go out there and do the right thing.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:16] Erik: Totally, yeah.
[0:30:16 – 0:30:24] Erik: I mean, it’s one of those rare situations where the right thing is going to very quickly make you very uncomfortable.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:26 – 0:30:28] Erik: And still isn’t 100% safe either.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:28] Erik: No.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:30] Adam: The tent feels really safe, but…
[0:30:31 – 0:30:38] Adam: I’d be way more concerned with not a whole tree falling on me, but just a random branch flying off or a top of a tree flying off.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:41] Adam: Those things can travel a good distance away from the main source.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:42] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:44] Adam: And land in really weird spots.
[0:30:44 – 0:30:47] Adam: Just getting hit by a Widowmaker, really.
[0:30:47 – 0:30:49] Erik: Yeah, I mean, just the top of a tree.
[0:30:49 – 0:30:51] Adam: Would do some serious damage.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:51] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:52] Adam: I don’t know why.
[0:30:52 – 0:30:58] Adam: We had an ash tree came down in the yard this week.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:03] Adam: Sometime in the last six days, a little very large ash tree came down.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:08] Adam: I was out walking Arrow yesterday, and I came around the corner, and it was like, huh, what the heck?
[0:31:08 – 0:31:08] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:08 – 0:31:09] Erik: Those are usually pretty hardy.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:10] Erik: They don’t come down very often.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:20] Adam: Yeah, I had another one that was like a twin, and the other side of it had come down a couple years ago, and so I kind of figured this tree was on its way out.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:29] Adam: So I wasn’t that surprised to see the other half had fallen, though, but still, when I saw it up that first half, it didn’t appear to be infested or anything, so I don’t know what the deal was.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:31] Erik: But yeah, I mean, the ground is like… Good firewood.
[0:31:32 – 0:31:34] Erik: Obviously so wet right now.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:37] Erik: Probably just go out in the yard and push a tree over if you want it.
[0:31:37 – 0:31:39] Adam: I can’t imagine having one of those fall on you, though.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:46] Adam: Just finding it down and then having a really nice afternoon to work on just clearing a path through it.
[0:31:46 – 0:31:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:47 – 0:31:51] Adam: That took a long time, and you know how it is.
[0:31:51 – 0:31:58] Adam: You’re just trying to move some branches that you cut, and you’re stepping on one of them, and you sort of tangle your feet into the other one.
[0:31:58 – 0:31:58] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:03] Adam: Trees, branches are such, you know, difficult.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:04] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:05] Erik: They’re just difficult.
[0:32:05 – 0:32:08] Erik: It’s just one of those things that this book, I don’t know.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:17] Erik: I don’t know if it’s even possible to fully take the time for Carrie to describe.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:19] Erik: Because like you said, one tree.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:19] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:20] Erik: It’s a pain.
[0:32:21 – 0:32:22] Erik: It’s a huge pain in the ass.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:23] Erik: You think you got it.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:24] Erik: Just tangled in it.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:29] Erik: And then you’re trying to grab it, and it’s pinched, and it’s bent, and there’s leaves, and it’s nasty.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:40] Erik: I mean, these people probably weren’t prepared with gloves and nice equipment, and so you’re trying to get yourself wrenched out, and everything’s just… And then you just… That’s one tree.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:48] Erik: You take into account over 100,000 on a couple of islands in some of these places where they all just tipped over.
[0:32:49 – 0:33:11] Adam: and yeah i mean a chainsaw doesn’t even begin to yeah it was one ash that fell on top of a pretty good size balsam and then like pin that down so then you got to be worried about that thing springing back out of there if you cut the wrong branch first and yeah that’s two trees that became entangled on my property and i had access to a chainsaw and it was still like yeah it was an afternoon
[0:33:11 – 0:33:13] Erik: No, my God, the cleanup efforts, I don’t know.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:16] Erik: I can’t even imagine.
[0:33:16 – 0:33:24] Erik: Back on Lake Polly, the four other members of the group reached Lisa, who had been nearly crushed by a falling tree.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:28] Erik: The first thing they noticed was the unconscious woman trembling and convulsing.
[0:33:29 – 0:33:30] Erik: She was having a seizure.
[0:33:31 – 0:33:33] Erik: It was very obvious that she was not well.
[0:33:34 – 0:33:37] Erik: We were concerned she was going into shock, Mark recalled.
[0:33:39 – 0:33:45] Erik: Ray, another member of the party, noted, When we got to her, you could tell her pupils were dilated.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:47] Erik: Her whole body was convulsing on the ground.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:49] Erik: I mean, it was significant.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:52] Erik: Like getting hit with a baseball bat.
[0:33:53 – 0:33:54] Erik: The side of her head was smashed.
[0:33:54 – 0:33:56] Erik: I don’t think she could open that eye.
[0:33:56 – 0:33:58] Erik: Her whole face was terribly swollen.
[0:33:59 – 0:33:59] Erik: She looked terrible.
[0:34:01 – 0:34:09] Erik: As the temperature plummeted and the rain continued to fall, she was suddenly and dangerously exposed in her attire of a bikini top and shorts.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:12] Erik: The tough decision was now upon them.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:20] Erik: Move someone with a head and neck injury with the possibility of real permanent damage or leave her exposed to elements to succumb to hypothermia.
[0:34:22 – 0:34:23] Erik: We made a choice.
[0:34:23 – 0:34:23] Erik: Move her.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:26] Erik: I think that they made the right choice.
[0:34:26 – 0:34:28] Erik: We made a choice, said Katrina.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:30] Erik: She couldn’t stay where she was at.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:36] Erik: We decided we’d do the best we could with everyone doing it all at once in a synchronized manner.
[0:34:37 – 0:34:39] Erik: In that moment, Lisa woke up.
[0:34:40 – 0:34:42] Erik: When I came to, I was on my back in the rocks.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:48] Erik: Rain was pelting me in the face and the four of them, Mark and Christina and Ray and Michelle were huddled.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:51] Erik: They were going through their plan of what they needed to do.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:56] Erik: At that time, really, what was going through my head is what the hell just happened?
[0:34:57 – 0:34:58] Erik: Because I didn’t know, right?
[0:34:58 – 0:35:08] Erik: Pain was, you know, I was being pelted I had pain I knew something huge had happened I felt horribly nauseous and dizzy I couldn’t focus on anything
[0:35:10 – 0:35:11] Erik: The group used a tarp.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:13] Erik: Good thing he hung on to that tarp.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:14] Adam: Way to go, Mark.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:23] Erik: As a stretcher to carry her up to the somehow not destroyed tent with a vomit stop along the way.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:26] Erik: They got her into dry clothes and a sleeping bag.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:31] Erik: Mark pulled out the packed first aid kit and rifled through the accompanying pamphlet.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:34] Erik: You know those little pamphlets that have the tips in the back?
[0:35:35 – 0:35:36] Adam: Ibuprofen is basic.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:39] Erik: Reading it for the first time, usually how it goes.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:42] Erik: Okay, what are we supposed to do in this case?
[0:35:42 – 0:35:43] Erik: Asked Mark.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:43] Erik: Gauze.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:44] Adam: Get the gauze out.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:54] Erik: I got some little tiny tweezers in a vial and some diphenhydramine.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:59] Erik: It says if they have a blow to the head and they start vomiting, you need to get them out.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:00] Erik: Ray responded.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:01] Erik: Okay.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:09] Erik: The pamphlet helped them determine she was, in fact, in shock and severely compromised and should not be moved again without help.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:17] Erik: Lisa recalled, as they were having that conversation, I think one of the things I heard was, well, it’s the Boundary Waters.
[0:36:17 – 0:36:22] Erik: Can we have them come in with a motorized vehicle or a plane or whatever to get her?
[0:36:23 – 0:36:30] Erik: And I do remember laying there and thinking to myself, if I’m not taken out in a plane, I’m going out in a body bag.
[0:36:30 – 0:36:32] Erik: I was very matter-of-factly thinking that.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:35] Erik: I knew it was serious, whatever it was.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:36] Erik: I knew it was really serious.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:48] Erik: After counting the 18 toppled trees in camp, the decision was made to send two paddlers for help.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:58] Erik: Mark and Christina packed some granola bars and water before heading down to their canoe and shoving off to the south, their car, and hopefully help.
[0:36:59 – 0:37:03] Erik: Neither of them could tell what the six portages ahead of them had in store.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:06] Erik: Back on Alpine.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:15] Erik: Jan eventually freed herself from the squashed tent, only to realize Vicky and Sue Ann were pinned by the weight of a 12-inch jack pine.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:29] Erik: Although their small camp saw was starting to make slow work of the tree, it was noticed that at any point, if any cut was made, it would only bring more weight down on the two of them and surely make matters and injuries worse.
[0:37:30 – 0:37:34] Erik: The only way out was to lift the tree, which alone was impossible.
[0:37:35 – 0:37:39] Erik: Jan yelled across Alpine to a campsite they knew had been occupied the night before.
[0:37:40 – 0:37:46] Erik: And two men in their 20s came over and together were able to remove the tree from the two women.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:53] Erik: And Sue Ann was able to more or less brush off the light crushing experience and move around.
[0:37:53 – 0:37:54] Adam: Just a light crushing.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:55] Erik: Just a light crushing.
[0:37:55 – 0:37:56] Erik: And a jack pine too.
[0:37:56 – 0:37:57] Erik: You know those things.
[0:37:57 – 0:37:59] Erik: Just gnarly, nasty, twisted things.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:06] Erik: They’re not the prettiest of trees, and I can’t even imagine getting mildly crushed by one.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:10] Erik: So they were able to get Sue Ann unpinned.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:12] Erik: Vicky was still unable to stand.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:19] Erik: And the thoughts quickly moved to the portage and trying to get help.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:27] Erik: And knowing that the portage that separated them and Siegel, what it would look like compared to the campsite that surrounded them.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:38] Erik: The next logical thought was the need for a medevac and more help to lift up the tree a little bit more to get Vicky out.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:42] Erik: They began sending messages with every canoeist that passed by.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:56] Erik: Nicole Selmer and her crew on Foretown estimated that four inches of rain came down in the first ten minutes of the storm, and that they would not have survived had they been more directly hit by the derecho.
[0:38:57 – 0:39:04] Erik: Besides the many downed smallish trees, the portage they had been working on basically became a flowing stream.
[0:39:05 – 0:39:10] Erik: Many of the larger trees that had come down to the south and east of them remained standing.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:21] Erik: Their crew moved back to their disheveled campsite on Foretown and salvaged enough material from each of their tents to create one intact tent for the night, and they all jammed in together.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:31] Erik: They spent the night listening to the radio chatter about beaver planes taking off and assisting folks to the south of them like some proto-live podcast.
[0:39:33 – 0:39:35] Erik: With nowhere else to land…
[0:39:37 – 0:39:50] Erik: Pete and Dwayne, who were stuck on land, well, with nowhere else to drive, Pete and Dwayne, who were stuck on land at the Moose Lake Landing, got back in their boat with an axe and a crosscut saw to try and assist on the water with search and rescue.
[0:39:52 – 0:39:56] Erik: Pete recalls Moose Lake being like an ocean.
[0:39:57 – 0:40:04] Erik: Nothing like the typical large white caps that you would see, but huge surfing waves, he described.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:05] Erik: Surfing waves?
[0:40:05 – 0:40:06] Erik: Surfing waves.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:07] Erik: Oh.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:08] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:10] Erik: I’d love to see it in, you know…
[0:40:11 – 0:40:14] Erik: Maybe through a screen, like a TV screen.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:17] Adam: I’d like to see it in a Champlain.
[0:40:18 – 0:40:19] Erik: Yes.
[0:40:19 – 0:40:22] Erik: Yeah, with nice sweet tail surf waves.
[0:40:22 – 0:40:23] Adam: What’s the best surfing canoe?
[0:40:24 – 0:40:25] Erik: Yeah, probably a Champlain.
[0:40:25 – 0:40:25] Erik: Hit us up.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:28] Adam: Tomohomcast at gmail.com.
[0:40:28 – 0:40:31] Erik: With a spray-skirted Champlain.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:32] Erik: It’s a big skirt.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:33] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:40:34 – 0:40:34] Erik: That’s a lot of material.
[0:40:35 – 0:40:36] Adam: It’s a whole lot of boat.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:47] Erik: After stopping in at some remote cabins and freeing a fishing boat that was pinned at the wood-like portage, the two men ended up back at the island where they had implored a group of canoeists to stop earlier.
[0:40:48 – 0:40:54] Erik: The previously picturesque island, festooned with stately Norway pines, was now ravaged.
[0:40:55 – 0:41:00] Erik: Trees were now a horizontal mess of destruction and the group who did decide to stop was shell-shocked.
[0:41:01 – 0:41:18] Erik: After deciding their canoes were intact enough to be paddled after one that had blown away, so they had to go and retrieve a canoe, they eventually made their way back to the public access.
[0:41:19 – 0:41:21] Erik: Pete and Dwayne continued on up the lake.
[0:41:21 – 0:41:22] Adam: We got public.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:23] Erik: Yeah, we got public.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:24] Erik: Lots of public.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:31] Erik: The one thing from the Pete and Dwayne part of the story is how many times they had to basically tell people like, okay, we get it.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:33] Erik: Because everybody was just like, you should have seen it, man.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:35] Erik: The wind, it was crazy.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:38] Erik: Everybody wanted to like, they were all just jacked up on the adrenaline of the storm.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:41] Erik: And these guys were like, we got to make sure everybody’s okay.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:43] Adam: Surely our campsite saw the worst of this storm.
[0:41:43 – 0:42:09] Erik: oh man there’s a really good uh part about some uh i’ll give you one guest group of uh paddlers who thought they were the only ones that experienced it and they must have for sure experienced it the worse than anybody else some boy scouts yeah that’s khaki scouts yeah uh oh man oh man we’re having another badger club like louis badger club number two
[0:42:12 – 0:42:18] Erik: As they made it to the juke in the lake, you know that little juke on moose that kind of separates moose from newfound?
[0:42:20 – 0:42:24] Adam: Yeah, I think that’s where the Sasquatch is throwing boulders at people.
[0:42:25 – 0:42:25] Erik: Was that where that was?
[0:42:25 – 0:42:27] Adam: Yeah, I believe so.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:31] Adam: From the spooky episode last fall.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:34] Erik: We got a quote here.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:37] Erik: This is from Pete coming up Moose Lake.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:41] Erik: All of a sudden, I caught myself, Pete recalled.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:43] Erik: There was just something.
[0:42:44 – 0:42:53] Erik: He had worked this area of the Boundary Waters for approximately two decades, and during that time, he’d grown intimately familiar with Moose, Newfound, and the other lakes up this chain.
[0:42:54 – 0:42:55] Erik: Something in the narrows didn’t look right.
[0:42:56 – 0:42:57] Erik: And then Pete realized.
[0:42:58 – 0:43:01] Erik: Trees weren’t in the spots where they had been before.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:04] Erik: Huge towering white pines were gone.
[0:43:04 – 0:43:08] Erik: I looked down the lake and islands and everything was completely leveled.
[0:43:09 – 0:43:13] Erik: In places all you could see were stumps and root systems flipped up in the air.
[0:43:14 – 0:43:16] Erik: Everything was running southwest to northeast.
[0:43:17 – 0:43:20] Erik: Trees just flattened all in one direction.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:24] Erik: There was another zigzag narrow separating Newfound Lake from Sucker Lake.
[0:43:25 – 0:43:29] Erik: When Pete and Dwayne boated through it, they were again stunned by what they saw.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:38] Erik: These were these giant, big white pines on the right-hand side, and they always had an eagle’s nest, Pete recalled.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:44] Erik: Eagle’s nests are among the largest nests in the bird kingdom, especially in the bargewaters.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:49] Erik: Sometimes they are used year after year, and some have been estimated to weigh at least a tonne.
[0:43:50 – 0:43:51] Adam: For a nest?
[0:43:51 – 0:43:52] Adam: I guess, yeah.
[0:43:52 – 0:43:54] Adam: That’s a nice bird fact for you.
[0:43:54 – 0:43:55] Adam: Ton of nest.
[0:43:56 – 0:43:56] Erik: All right.
[0:43:57 – 0:44:02] Erik: Now the trees, the eagle’s nests, everything was gone, Pete said.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:10] Erik: The only remaining remnant was the stump of a 300-year-old white pine sticking up out of the pile of a fallen forest.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:26] Erik: Pete and Dwayne would spend the majority of their afternoon helping a man named Jeep clear the motorboat portage, the prairie portage, so the day fishermen who had been up on Basswood could get off the water in case more weather was on the way.
[0:44:27 – 0:44:28] Adam: Call me Jeep.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:30] Adam: They call me Jeep.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:39] Erik: Yeah, that’s the, when they finally got that all cleared out, they said there was literally hundreds of people lined up at prairie portage to get across.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:40] Erik: Sure.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:41] Erik: Just to get off Basswood.
[0:44:42 – 0:44:43] Adam: Let me out of here.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:46] Erik: Yeah, Jeep.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:48] Adam: Call me Jeep.
[0:44:48 – 0:44:49] Adam: 100 Jeeps.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:50] Adam: Call me Jeep.
[0:44:51 – 0:44:52] Adam: I’m a Jeep driver.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:52] Adam: Proof.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:54] Adam: No, not proof.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:55] Adam: Jeep.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:55] Adam: Jeep.
[0:44:56 – 0:44:57] Adam: See you at the pit.
[0:44:58 – 0:44:59] Erik: pit party this weekend.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:00] Erik: See you there.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:02] Adam: I’ll be there.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:02] Erik: I’ll be there.
[0:45:03 – 0:45:12] Erik: Law enforcement officer Chip Elkins drove out the Fernberg Trail headed east northeast out of Ely.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:13] Erik: What was the guy’s name?
[0:45:13 – 0:45:14] Erik: Chip Elkins.
[0:45:14 – 0:45:14] Adam: Chip.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:16] Erik: We got public.
[0:45:18 – 0:45:19] Erik: Chip’s going to hear from a lot of public.
[0:45:19 – 0:45:25] Erik: Approximately 20 miles up the Fernberg was the Moose Lake Road turnoff heading north into the wilderness.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:30] Erik: The northern tier scout base was near the end of Moose Lake Road.
[0:45:30 – 0:45:38] Erik: Chip knew that if he drove up Moose Lake Road and turned north heading to the scout base, he’d get a good sense of what damage, if any, had struck the BWCA.
[0:45:39 – 0:45:47] Erik: By mid-afternoon, shortly after the storm passed through Ely, Chip was on the road, driving a route that followed the same path the winds had taken as they passed through town.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:51] Erik: As he traversed the Fernberg, what he saw unnerved him.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:55] Erik: The woods on either side of the road were filled with downed trees.
[0:45:56 – 0:45:59] Adam: I thought you were going to say it was like parade clowns or something.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:02] Erik: Yeah, a bunch of parade debris all the way out of the Fernberg.
[0:46:02 – 0:46:04] Adam: Parade debris got blown all the way up to the Fernberg.
[0:46:04 – 0:46:06] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:07] Erik: That would be unnerving.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:08] Erik: That would be.
[0:46:08 – 0:46:10] Adam: If you just were driving down the Fernberg and you saw a clown.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:11 – 0:46:12] Adam: With one of those little cars.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:16] Erik: Yeah, the whole honor guard is all the way up here.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:17] Adam: It’s missing its nose.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:20] Erik: That would be unnerving.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:22] Erik: There were sections in the forest.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:31] Erik: There were sections in which the forest was still standing, but there were increasing sections in which the trees had toppled into a surreal latticework of fallen trunks.
[0:46:32 – 0:46:37] Erik: By the time he reached Moose Lake Road, the turn north, the scout camp was impassable.
[0:46:38 – 0:46:39] Erik: Driving to the base was out of the question.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:43] Erik: Simply no way to get through or around so many downed trees.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:52] Erik: Not long after they decided to head back down the Fernberg Trail, Chip’s cell phone began ringing.
[0:46:53 – 0:47:00] Erik: Inexplicably, him and Bruce began fielding emergency calls from deep inside the BWCA.
[0:47:01 – 0:47:12] Erik: As the two men drove in Chip’s official vehicle, they took notes on a yellow legal pad, identifying and, as more emergency calls came in, prioritizing which calls should be answered first.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:24] Erik: Unbeknownst to either of them, the local Minnesota State Patrol had temporarily routed all 911 calls coming into the MSP office from cell phones in the wilderness to Chip’s official phone.
[0:47:26 – 0:47:28] Adam: And it’s a hand-cranked cell phone, too.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:28] Adam: This is 99.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:31] Adam: You had to hand-crank it up.
[0:47:31 – 0:47:34] Adam: He first had to page himself and then answer the phone.
[0:47:34 – 0:47:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:36] Erik: Oh, man.
[0:47:36 – 0:47:36] Erik: I mean, yeah.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:43] Erik: I don’t even know, like, how cell phones work now, really, to be able to manage that many phone calls.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:47] Adam: They can turn anybody’s phone into a 911 hotspot?
[0:47:47 – 0:47:48] Adam: I guess.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:49] Erik: That’s what happened.
[0:47:50 – 0:47:50] Adam: Okay.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:54] Erik: When the decision was made, the skies must have been sunny.
[0:47:54 – 0:48:03] Erik: No one at MSP or anywhere else outside of northeastern Minnesota could have foreseen how the weather would change and what impacts it would have on those in its path.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:08] Erik: My phone lit up and we’re driving down the road taking calls, Chip recalled.
[0:48:09 – 0:48:13] Erik: As we continued to the seaplane base, we began to prioritize medevac flights.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:20] Erik: Some victims of the storm had minor cuts and bruises, others broken bones, and still others were more serious.
[0:48:22 – 0:48:23] Erik: Yeah, poor Chip.
[0:48:24 – 0:48:25] Adam: So what happened to the parade, though?
[0:48:26 – 0:48:27] Adam: The parade happened.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:28] Adam: They rescheduled it and went off?
[0:48:28 – 0:48:30] Adam: They rescheduled it and then it happened, yeah.
[0:48:30 – 0:48:31] Erik: No problem.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:33] Erik: When it went through Ely, it didn’t sound like it was…
[0:48:33 – 0:48:33] Erik: It wasn’t full power yet.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:34] Erik: It wasn’t too bad.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:38] Erik: It was just enough to blow a timberline into old Ralph Bondi’s pickup truck.
[0:48:38 – 0:48:39] Erik: Was it a timberline?
[0:48:39 – 0:48:40] Erik: Probably.
[0:48:40 – 0:48:43] Erik: It was probably a Tex hanging in one of the outfitters in town, you know?
[0:48:44 – 0:48:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:44 – 0:48:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:47] Adam: Yeah, so they did have the parade.
[0:48:47 – 0:48:48] Erik: Yes, the parade did happen.
[0:48:48 – 0:48:49] Adam: I’m glad to hear it.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:56] Adam: I saw a post on Facebook and somebody was wondering where the information was for the 4th of July parade in Grand Marais.
[0:48:57 – 0:48:57] Adam: Was there even one?
[0:48:58 – 0:48:59] Adam: Yeah, there was.
[0:48:59 – 0:49:00] Adam: Oh, this person was heated.
[0:49:01 – 0:49:01] Adam: Heated?
[0:49:01 – 0:49:02] Adam: They’re heated.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:04] Erik: Like, why is there no information?
[0:49:04 – 0:49:06] Erik: I can’t give you no information.
[0:49:06 – 0:49:11] Erik: Like I said, I don’t have no information about the parade, ma’am.
[0:49:12 – 0:49:15] Adam: She was, like I said, livid about the lack of parade information.
[0:49:15 – 0:49:20] Adam: So I’m just glad to find out that the Ely parade was able to go off in a delayed fashion.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:25] Erik: Well, like I said, we had the flag etiquette post posted about parades.
[0:49:25 – 0:49:28] Erik: So I’m assuming that there was a parade.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:28] Erik: That’s why.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:31] Adam: Always bow to the horse with the flag.
[0:49:31 – 0:49:32] Adam: Yes.
[0:49:33 – 0:49:35] Adam: That horse, it’s got the biggest flag.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:37] Adam: Then you know that’s the king horse.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:40] Erik: Yeah, that wasn’t the mini horse that you saw up there again, was it?
[0:49:40 – 0:49:41] Erik: No.
[0:49:41 – 0:49:43] Adam: Well, I did see a mule coming over here.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:46] Adam: A loose mule startled me pretty well.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:48] Adam: I was like, were you in the parade?
[0:49:48 – 0:49:49] Adam: How did you get up here?
[0:49:49 – 0:49:50] Erik: Just shook its head.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:52] Adam: No, I ain’t telling you nothing, mister.
[0:49:52 – 0:49:53] Adam: It’s so ominous.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:54] Adam: I know.
[0:49:54 – 0:49:56] Erik: Start the night with a mule encounter on the road.
[0:49:57 – 0:49:58] Adam: It definitely shook me a little bit.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:04] Erik: Yeah, so we’re kind of back to the Lake Pauley crew.
[0:50:05 – 0:50:11] Erik: Mark and Christina traveled south with only their clothes on their backs, some water, and a few granola bars.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:16] Erik: It had taken them six hours on the way in and only two on the way out.
[0:50:16 – 0:50:19] Adam: They made it through six portages in two hours?
[0:50:19 – 0:50:25] Erik: Well, so on the way out, because it had rained so much, they were able to like, have you ever done that little bit between Lake Pauley and Kawishowee?
[0:50:27 – 0:50:27] Adam: No, actually.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:30] Adam: I’ve only been up to Square.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:31] Adam: Okay, yeah.
[0:50:31 – 0:50:33] Adam: So I haven’t gone north of Square.
[0:50:33 – 0:50:45] Erik: So after that, it’s a lot of just like kind of like Frost River-esque, like where you just have to get out of the canoe because it’s just not enough water.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:53] Erik: So basically they were able to just like, because they had just gotten like, sounds like four inches of rain in an hour.
[0:50:53 – 0:50:56] Erik: They were able to just shoot a lot of those little passageways.
[0:50:57 – 0:51:00] Erik: They didn’t have any gear and they were going with the current.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:26] Erik: yeah going with the flow yeah so they got out it pretty like when i originally was reading this i was like oh god that sounds like a horrible like i’m trying to get out yeah of that and then like they actually didn’t encounter like they they said they were stepping over a lot of trees but it wasn’t that like crazy just like full wall of trees like you would have maybe expected like the portage between seagull and alpine was basically impassable yeah i
[0:51:26 – 0:51:26] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:32] Adam: I guess I never really thought of Polly as being in the hit zone for this event.
[0:51:33 – 0:51:35] Erik: I think it was… Yeah, it seems south when you think of it.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:40] Adam: So maybe they didn’t take the full effect of the storm down there?
[0:51:40 – 0:51:41] Erik: Yeah, I think it was…
[0:51:41 – 0:51:43] Erik: They definitely weren’t in that like…
[0:51:44 – 0:51:52] Erik: that main line that kind of, we looked on the map last week, right down in the middle, the same thing with the, the four town people, they were kind of on the North end of it.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:55] Erik: And these guys were kind of on the South end of it.
[0:51:56 – 0:52:02] Erik: I mean, still some damage, but it wasn’t just like that hand of God laying down an entire hillside of trees all at once.
[0:52:03 – 0:52:12] Adam: Yeah, well, in the earlier passage when he said they were going to send two people for help and they had six portages to get back to the vehicle, it was like, oh, they’re not going to make it.
[0:52:12 – 0:52:13] Erik: No, yeah, that’s what I thought.
[0:52:13 – 0:52:13] Erik: They made it.
[0:52:14 – 0:52:15] Erik: Yeah, they made it out that same day.
[0:52:15 – 0:52:23] Erik: And upon reaching their vehicle at the Kawishwee Lake landing, they needed to drive south because there was no cell phone coverage there.
[0:52:24 – 0:52:25] Adam: Yeah, you’re in the middle of nowhere.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:27] Erik: You’re still not really in a great spot.
[0:52:27 – 0:52:28] Erik: There’s no payphone there.
[0:52:28 – 0:52:31] Adam: No, it’s like an hour and a half to Toft from there.
[0:52:31 – 0:52:34] Erik: Yeah, I don’t think there’s really cell phone service there now.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:35] Adam: There isn’t.
[0:52:35 – 0:52:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:37 – 0:52:43] Erik: But fortunately, well, unfortunately, they quickly got behind a line of vehicles that were working on downed trees on the road.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:49] Erik: But fortunately, it was on a hill high enough that they were able to get just enough of a signal to make a call.
[0:52:50 – 0:52:51] Adam: Who do you think they were connected with?
[0:52:52 – 0:53:15] Erik: at&t yes directly to at&t no chip elkins chip he’s just out there fielding all these calls and after they uh kind of gave them the quick whereabouts uh the critical the critically injured state of their paddling partner uh he took and in he also they also said to look for an orange tarp mark’s tarp
[0:53:16 – 0:53:17] Adam: Marks Tarps.
[0:53:18 – 0:53:20] Erik: Is that the title of this episode?
[0:53:20 – 0:53:20] Erik: Marks Tarps?
[0:53:21 – 0:53:22] Erik: No.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:22] Erik: We’ll find a better one.
[0:53:23 – 0:53:24] Adam: RIP Dan Cook.
[0:53:24 – 0:53:25] Adam: That’s the name of the episode.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:28] Erik: Green Tarps.
[0:53:28 – 0:53:34] Erik: He assured them that they were on the top of the list for the seaplane with EMTs aboard.
[0:53:35 – 0:53:36] Adam: You’re in a real pickle.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:41] Erik: Even though he was just getting all of these phone calls, he didn’t want to say it.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:43] Adam: He was just promising them all, you’re the top of the list.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:44] Adam: Yeah, you guys are the top of the list.
[0:53:44 – 0:53:46] Adam: You’re God’s favorite customer.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:50] Erik: Yeah, it’s like the guy in the Chinese restaurant episode of Seinfeld.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:51] Adam: Five, ten more minutes.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:54] Adam: Chip wasn’t trained for this job.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:56] Adam: He doesn’t know how to disappoint these people.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:57] Erik: You guys are top of the list.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:04] Erik: I can triage, but not when I have to tell somebody to their face at what level you’re at.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:05] Erik: You’re at the top of the level.
[0:54:05 – 0:54:06] Erik: You’re right there.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:08] Erik: We’re flying now.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:09] Erik: I’m flying a plane right now.
[0:54:09 – 0:54:10] Adam: I’m personally flying a plane.
[0:54:12 – 0:54:13] Erik: I promise you.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:15] Adam: We’ll see you in five minutes.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:18] Erik: They actually did get a plane out there right away.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:21] Erik: One of the more shocking aspects of this part of the story.
[0:54:22 – 0:54:23] Adam: How many planes they got working?
[0:54:23 – 0:54:25] Adam: You got any info on the fleet?
[0:54:25 – 0:54:26] Erik: Not the exact numbers.
[0:54:26 – 0:54:29] Erik: How many beavers are we talking?
[0:54:29 – 0:54:33] Erik: Maybe when I get into the real black and white incident management notes.
[0:54:33 – 0:54:35] Erik: Yeah, you got to read the protocol on the back.
[0:54:35 – 0:54:37] Erik: At the end, I’ll give you some blow-by-blow numbers.
[0:54:37 – 0:54:39] Adam: I want to know more.
[0:54:39 – 0:54:41] Adam: I want to know exactly how many airplanes.
[0:54:41 – 0:54:45] Erik: Yeah, in the finale, I’ll give you some blow-by-blow hard numbers on planes.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:46] Erik: Thank you.
[0:54:46 – 0:54:50] Erik: Makes and models, you know, gallons in each plane.
[0:54:50 – 0:54:51] Adam: Yes, chef.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:52] Adam: Horsepower.
[0:54:52 – 0:54:53] Adam: Yes.
[0:54:53 – 0:55:04] Erik: But anyway, so they get this plane, this float plane out, and EMTs get there, and they quickly realize that Lisa was going to need a backboard to be moved safely.
[0:55:04 – 0:55:32] Erik: shockingly they did not have one with them which i was like what how is that even why carrie why aren’t you pointing out how like ridiculous it is that they it sounded like they were pretty clear with chip what had happened you’d think yeah in an emt like a medevac situation they literally had to get back in the plane and fly back to ely for a backboard couldn’t just used a tree huh
[0:55:32 – 0:55:33] Adam: Or Mark’s tarp.
[0:55:34 – 0:55:35] Adam: Or a canoe paddle.
[0:55:36 – 0:55:39] Erik: They had egregious oversight, in my opinion.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:42] Adam: Yeah, it seems like they could have fashioned one out of something.
[0:55:43 – 0:55:47] Adam: But also… Strap her to the pontoon on the plane.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:48] Erik: I mean, after…
[0:55:49 – 0:55:51] Erik: It’s not like you just happened by these people.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:54] Adam: You were flying there specifically… You went out there to get somebody who got clobbered by a tree.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:57] Erik: Specifically for a medical evacuation.
[0:55:57 – 0:56:00] Erik: Those things just like… Just strap it to the wing.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:02] Adam: Yeah, they should just always have a couple.
[0:56:03 – 0:56:04] Erik: Yeah, totally.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:05] Adam: One on each wing.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:05] Erik: Yeah, perfect.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:06] Erik: Perfect.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:08] Adam: They could have just ripped the flaps off.
[0:56:09 – 0:56:12] Adam: One of the beavers, you got enough room on Polly, you don’t need the flaps.
[0:56:12 – 0:56:15] Erik: Yeah, there’s not that much room on Polly.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:19] Erik: It’s kind of crazy, actually, that they were able to land and then take off on Polly.
[0:56:20 – 0:56:24] Erik: I wonder if there was anybody that was stuck on like a small lake, you know?
[0:56:24 – 0:56:25] Adam: Yeah, too small.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:27] Erik: Yeah, just circling like a loon to get out.
[0:56:28 – 0:56:29] Adam: Just sending in the whirlybirds.
[0:56:30 – 0:56:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:30 – 0:56:38] Erik: After Mark and Christina got word that their friend had been found, they then had to make the trip back in.
[0:56:39 – 0:56:41] Erik: Which also sounds demoralizing.
[0:56:42 – 0:56:43] Erik: Like, okay, great.
[0:56:43 – 0:56:45] Erik: We’re going to go back and get all of our stuff.
[0:56:45 – 0:56:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:48 – 0:56:50] Adam: Couldn’t throw it out on the plane for them?
[0:56:51 – 0:56:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:58] Erik: I mean, by the sounds of things, they were just literally getting flagged down, stopping and helping, taking off, stopping, helping.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:01] Erik: So there probably wasn’t just like, yeah, just throw your packs in.
[0:57:01 – 0:57:01] Erik: Sure.
[0:57:02 – 0:57:03] Erik: But who knows?
[0:57:05 – 0:57:10] Erik: Back on Alpine, it had now been six hours that Vicky had spent pinned to the ground by a fallen jack pine.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:15] Erik: The whole time, they had sent word with every group to paddlers to send for help.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:39] Erik: um after dispatching fellow pilot wayne erickson to lake paulie picking up the medical team with the canoe so that they could paddle into the small body of water off hansen lake okay so that’s probably what they would do strop off a canoe they’re hauling canoes but they don’t got backboards they got canoes loaded with doctors yeah
[0:57:39 – 0:57:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:40 – 0:57:41] Erik: Another pilot, Pat Lowe.
[0:57:42 – 0:57:45] Erik: Some of these names sound like vaguely familiar.
[0:57:45 – 0:57:47] Adam: These are fake names.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:47] Adam: Yeah, maybe.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:49] Adam: They just made them up.
[0:57:49 – 0:57:52] Erik: Pat Lowe got word of a woman needing to be medevaced out of Alpine.
[0:57:53 – 0:57:55] Erik: I dropped off the medic team on Hanson Lake with a canoe.
[0:57:57 – 0:57:59] Erik: Recalled… What the heck was his name?
[0:58:00 – 0:58:00] Erik: Pat.
[0:58:00 – 0:58:00] Erik: Pat Lowe.
[0:58:00 – 0:58:01] Erik: Pat Lowe.
[0:58:02 – 0:58:05] Erik: And then I proceeded to Alpine Lake, which is at the end of the Gunflint Trail off of Seagull.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:06] Erik: It was 7.44 p.m.,
[0:58:08 – 0:58:15] Erik: At this point, all Pat knew was that, quote, a woman had been in her tent and a big tree came down and I think broke both of her legs.
[0:58:17 – 0:58:23] Erik: Because the injury sounded severe, another medic with the necessary equipment accompanied Pat to Alpine.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:31] Erik: The pilot’s flight from Ely all the way to Hanson Lake and then onto Alpine was more startling than anything else he had seen that day.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:39] Erik: His northeasterly trajectory took him along the same path as the blowdown, over the exact middle of the most severe damage.
[0:58:40 – 0:58:46] Erik: Approximately two-thirds along the length of that route, his trip took him over at Kekikabik Lake in the middle of the Boundary Waters.
[0:58:47 – 0:58:51] Erik: Kekikabik had a little administrative ranger cabin in there, Pat explained.
[0:58:52 – 0:58:56] Erik: Historically, before the blowdown, the Kek cabin was really hard to see by air.
[0:58:57 – 0:58:59] Erik: There was just two little islands out front.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:06] Erik: Normally, the cabin was so hidden by the forest, it was difficult to spot, unless you knew where to look and what you were looking for.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:15] Erik: On Pat’s flight to Alpine on July 4th, however, he peered ahead and saw flattened forest clear out to the horizon.
[0:59:16 – 0:59:21] Erik: At that moment, he made a radio call to the sea base and the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center.
[0:59:22 – 0:59:26] Erik: but also anyone else who had access to his radio channel, which was public and open.
[0:59:27 – 0:59:31] Erik: The Keck cabin looks like the little house on the prairie, Pat commented.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:39] Erik: Many were listening on that channel and heard Pat’s remarks, including fire management officer Jim Hines.
[0:59:40 – 0:59:49] Erik: Anyone familiar with the remote Keck cabin would have had a hard time imagining how wilderness, once covered by dense, mature forests, now looked like a prairie.
[0:59:53 – 0:59:54] Erik: Did you know that there was a cabin out there?
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Adam: Nope.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:57] Adam: I’ve never even been on Keck.
[0:59:57 – 0:59:59] Erik: That was… Yeah, we were eyeing that one up this spring.
[1:00:00 – 1:00:00] Erik: Could have been on the route.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:01] Erik: Could have been us.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:02] Adam: On the Big Lake route.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:04] Erik: Could have been us.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:05] Adam: Is it still there?
[1:00:06 – 1:00:06] Erik: Yeah, it is still there.
[1:00:06 – 1:00:08] Erik: I remember when we used to do…
[1:00:08 – 1:00:15] Erik: When I used to run dogs, occasionally we would hear about Outward Bound would help the Forest Service by…
[1:00:16 – 1:00:41] Erik: taking their dog teams with um fire grate and latrine supplies uh-huh out to the cat cabin there’s also one on the south end of insula the secret little porridge that comes up uh up on that lake too and then that’s how a lot of those more remote campsites get serviced with latrines and supplies for fire i thought i heard there’s one on little sag too maybe
[1:00:42 – 1:00:42] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[1:00:42 – 1:00:43] Erik: I don’t know about that one.
[1:00:43 – 1:00:45] Erik: I knew about the one on Keck.
[1:00:46 – 1:00:47] Erik: It was crazy, though.
[1:00:47 – 1:00:48] Adam: Administrative cabin.
[1:00:48 – 1:00:49] Erik: Yeah, little house.
[1:00:49 – 1:00:52] Adam: It’s got a nice little desk in there and a ledger.
[1:00:53 – 1:00:57] Erik: Yeah, little sweetie in the corner, a little fire.
[1:00:57 – 1:00:58] Erik: Sounds nice.
[1:00:59 – 1:01:01] Adam: So you weren’t able to use it as a dog musher?
[1:01:01 – 1:01:03] Adam: It’s not like it’s open to the public?
[1:01:03 – 1:01:04] Erik: I don’t think so, no.
[1:01:04 – 1:01:06] Adam: They don’t got a lot of public in there.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:07] Erik: No, public’s not allowed.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:08] Erik: I never saw it.
[1:01:08 – 1:01:17] Erik: I never got to go on the trip, but I just always heard like, oh, we’re doing a forest service run up to the cabin to drop off fire grates.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:18] Adam: A bunch of latrines.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:20] Erik: Yeah, stacked high.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:27] Erik: Just get those slow, just grind it out, you know, Siberian freighters just to grind it up there.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:35] Erik: I just like the concept of the little house on the prairie cabin just fully exposed.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:39] Erik: Where are we at?
[1:01:39 – 1:01:54] Erik: Finally, Pat Lowe, in the dying light of the day, landed on Alpine Lake and with the help of four other rescuers from Wilderness Canoe Base, finally loaded Vicky into the beaver and were airborne by 8.43, headed for Ely.
[1:01:55 – 1:01:56] Adam: So how’d they get her out of that tree?
[1:01:57 – 1:02:04] Erik: Well, there was – so the Wilderness Canoe Base, there’s another big part of the book is the Wilderness Canoe Base and everything that was ravaged there.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:17] Erik: They sent out a crew in a john boat and they were just like – they knew that they had just made the – I think it was that year actually that they made the new restrictions for motors on Seagull.
[1:02:17 – 1:02:21] Erik: They couldn’t go past Three Mile Island, but they were like, we got to – we’re just going to go.
[1:02:21 – 1:02:23] Erik: So they buzzed all the way down to the end of the lake.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:23] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:28] Erik: And then took a canoe up the river that goes around the portage because the portage was impassable.
[1:02:29 – 1:02:31] Adam: I was going to say, yeah, that river is looking like a better option there.
[1:02:31 – 1:02:32] Erik: Yeah, for sure.
[1:02:32 – 1:02:35] Erik: That’s where everybody that was leaving, that’s where they ended up finding.
[1:02:35 – 1:02:38] Erik: They’d go around the corner and actually just run the river down.
[1:02:39 – 1:02:42] Erik: So there ended up being like almost eight people at this campsite.
[1:02:42 – 1:02:46] Erik: And they were finally able to just lift the tree off of her enough and get her out.
[1:02:48 – 1:02:55] Erik: On the way out, Pat noticed a group of Boy Scouts waving a flare, and he put the plane down on Eddy Lake to check on them.
[1:02:56 – 1:02:56] Adam: All right.
[1:02:57 – 1:03:00] Adam: I’m going to read a little bit about this experience.
[1:03:00 – 1:03:01] Adam: Okay, yeah.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:02] Adam: Boy Scouts on Eddy?
[1:03:04 – 1:03:06] Erik: I could see people in canoes waving.
[1:03:06 – 1:03:07] Erik: I circled around.
[1:03:07 – 1:03:09] Erik: It was a group of Boy Scouts, adults, and a few kids.
[1:03:10 – 1:03:17] Erik: Pat quickly determined he had just enough daylight to land, render assistance if needed, and still return to the sea base before dark.
[1:03:17 – 1:03:24] Erik: According to the flight logs he would later share with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center, he landed on Eddy Lake at about 8.48 p.m.
[1:03:26 – 1:03:30] Erik: I thought if it was something severe I could drop the EMT off and continue on.
[1:03:30 – 1:03:31] Erik: So we dropped in there.
[1:03:32 – 1:03:34] Erik: The scouts were pretty shook up, Pat recalled.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:38] Erik: They thought they were the only ones who had been hit, so they wanted immediate attention.
[1:03:42 – 1:03:44] Erik: Light shots fired from Pat there.
[1:03:44 – 1:03:49] Erik: Pat quickly explained how widespread the event had been, that their group was not the only group affected.
[1:03:50 – 1:03:59] Erik: Further, he explained he already had an injured person, Vicky, who lay in the cargo hold with something seriously wrong, so he could only provide help if someone needed immediate attention.
[1:04:00 – 1:04:04] Erik: In the end, they determined one of the boys had a broken collarbone.
[1:04:05 – 1:04:09] Erik: So, Pat explained, we grabbed the kid and one of the adults and took off for Ely.
[1:04:09 – 1:04:10] Erik: It was 8.58.
[1:04:11 – 1:04:14] Erik: Thankfully, Pat’s stop on Eddy Lake had taken only 10 minutes.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:22] Erik: He landed on Chagua Lake with his passengers at 9.17 p.m. By then, it was right on the edge of dark, so we were done for the day.
[1:04:22 – 1:04:25] Erik: Oh, those Boy Scouts, man.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:29] Adam: Get one of us on the plane.
[1:04:29 – 1:04:30] Erik: Get me out of here.
[1:04:31 – 1:04:31] Erik: Oh, God.
[1:04:32 – 1:04:32] Erik: Oh, boy.
[1:04:33 – 1:04:34] Erik: Yeah.
[1:04:34 – 1:04:38] Erik: We can’t go 10 episodes without at least throwing some scouts under the bus.
[1:04:39 – 1:04:42] Erik: They’re not all bad, but it’s always them, you know?
[1:04:42 – 1:04:43] Erik: God.
[1:04:45 – 1:04:45] Adam: Help!
[1:04:45 – 1:04:46] Adam: Help!
[1:04:47 – 1:04:47] Adam: We’ve been hit!
[1:04:48 – 1:04:48] Adam: Anybody else?
[1:04:48 – 1:04:49] Adam: I’m the only one that got hit?
[1:04:49 – 1:04:50] Adam: What’s the deal?
[1:04:51 – 1:04:52] Erik: No, you don’t understand.
[1:04:52 – 1:04:54] Erik: It’s been a massive event.
[1:04:54 – 1:04:55] Erik: It’s the entire Boundary Waters.
[1:04:56 – 1:04:56] Erik: Oh.
[1:04:57 – 1:04:57] Erik: Flares.
[1:04:57 – 1:04:59] Erik: Of course, they had flares, too.
[1:04:59 – 1:05:00] Adam: Flares.
[1:05:00 – 1:05:00] Adam: Pow!
[1:05:01 – 1:05:03] Erik: Just insane.
[1:05:04 – 1:05:08] Adam: I fired up a couple sparklers last night after dark.
[1:05:08 – 1:05:08] Erik: Oh, wow.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:09] Erik: On the 5th?
[1:05:10 – 1:05:33] Adam: i forgot to i didn’t i stayed up late enough on the fourth i could have lit them but i like forgot to go out after dark and light them we lit a bunch during the daytime when the boy was still awake and then i was like snakes do any snakes i had some snakes yeah i lit a whole bunch of snakes and a bunch of sparklers and then i wanted to go back out and do them at night i forgot so then last night i did it no seaplanes landed though
[1:05:33 – 1:05:34] Erik: No, nobody came.
[1:05:35 – 1:05:38] Adam: No UFOs flashed their lights at me or their beams.
[1:05:38 – 1:05:39] Erik: Yeah, right.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:43] Erik: I guess it looks like this one’s got a broken collarbone.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:44] Adam: Let’s get him on the ship.
[1:05:44 – 1:05:44] Erik: Let’s get in.
[1:05:45 – 1:05:51] Erik: Upon arrival in Ely, it was determined her injuries were too extensive and complicated for the hospital.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:53] Erik: She would need to be transferred to Duluth.
[1:05:55 – 1:06:06] Erik: After flying to the Chagua Lake seaplane base for a backboard, pilot Wayne Erickson was airborne and headed back to Lake Pauley shortly after 6 p.m. Captain Wayne on the scene.
[1:06:06 – 1:06:07] Erik: Captain Wayne.
[1:06:07 – 1:06:09] Adam: You light a match off your mustache.
[1:06:10 – 1:06:10] Adam: Sounds like it.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:13] Adam: Captain Wayne here.
[1:06:13 – 1:06:14] Adam: I’m also a doctor.
[1:06:14 – 1:06:15] Erik: Here with a backboard.
[1:06:17 – 1:06:32] Erik: I got back to Pauley shortly after 6 p.m. and Lisa was finally extricated and on her way back to Ely where she was also determined that she may have broken her neck and would need to be moved to Duluth for more x-rays as well.
[1:06:32 – 1:06:39] Erik: Lisa and Vicky would share an ambulance on the windy, dark ride down Highway 1 south to Duluth.
[1:06:40 – 1:06:57] Erik: where another wave of storms came through and they had to like slow down like 20 miles an hour and they were just barely like hanging on to like all right so that would be a hell that’d be a that’d be like a movie turn yeah ambulance gets stranded they hit a moose yeah in a deluge
[1:06:57 – 1:07:10] Erik: In Duluth, Vicki received meds for the pain, and it was determined her pelvis was crisscrossed with several hairline fractures, but more than anything else would heal just with simple bed rest.
[1:07:10 – 1:07:16] Erik: For Lisa, it was determined her injuries were going to require more treatment than simple bed rest, and she was going to need surgery.
[1:07:17 – 1:07:19] Erik: And that’s where we’re going to end today.
[1:07:20 – 1:07:21] Erik: Doctor!
[1:07:22 – 1:07:23] Erik: We’ll clean it.
[1:07:23 – 1:07:27] Erik: We’ll finally determine what exactly happened to Talisa.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:29] Erik: Talisa, Talisa.
[1:07:29 – 1:07:33] Erik: And yeah, we’ll get some final stats on the cleanup.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Erik: It wasn’t over after the sun went down.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:36] Erik: I can assure you that.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:37] Adam: I had a question.
[1:07:38 – 1:07:38] Adam: Yes.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:47] Adam: So it went all the way out to Maine and then eventually over the ocean and then circled back and got all the way back to Missouri.
[1:07:48 – 1:07:50] Adam: Now, this is not just like a wind.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:52] Adam: This is a low-pressure system.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:59] Adam: I was thinking about that more this morning, about that it looped all the way back around like that.
[1:07:59 – 1:08:08] Adam: Is that just the path that the low-pressure system took, or is it literally just a wave of wind that achieved that whole circuit in under 10 hours?
[1:08:09 – 1:08:14] Erik: I don’t know if it was associated with a specific front or a low or anything.
[1:08:14 – 1:08:17] Adam: Yeah, it was just like a mighty wind that got going and couldn’t be stopped.
[1:08:17 – 1:08:24] Erik: I just pictured it as, yeah, like, I mean, you can see it if you look at, like, the actual, like, track across.
[1:08:24 – 1:08:29] Erik: It’s just the actual, like, the bow echo itself, which…
[1:08:30 – 1:08:37] Erik: I guess could be associated with like a low in some way, shape, or form.
[1:08:37 – 1:08:44] Erik: But I always just pictured it as like the radar itself and like the winds associated with it moving across.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:51] Erik: And then like I’m still, if I didn’t see it printed in this book, I wouldn’t believe it.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:56] Erik: That it would like turn and come back inland and come like basically halfway back across the country.
[1:08:57 – 1:08:57] Erik: Right.
[1:08:57 – 1:08:58] Adam: Hutner, are you listening?
[1:08:58 – 1:09:00] Adam: Hutner, we need a clarification.
[1:09:00 – 1:09:02] Erik: Yeah, Paul Hutner, clarification.
[1:09:02 – 1:09:03] Adam: Updraft us, bro.
[1:09:04 – 1:09:04] Adam: Yeah.
[1:09:05 – 1:09:06] Erik: You’ve been updrafted.
[1:09:07 – 1:09:08] Adam: I’m here to get updrafted.
[1:09:08 – 1:09:09] Erik: Yeah, I’m here for it.
[1:09:10 – 1:09:12] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know if I can… My name’s Stewie Spirometer.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:14] Adam: I’m here to get drafted.
[1:09:14 – 1:09:15] Erik: Stewie Spidometer?
[1:09:16 – 1:09:17] Erik: Is that what you said?
[1:09:19 – 1:09:20] Adam: I’m Dewey Pointe.
[1:09:21 – 1:09:22] Adam: I need to know.
[1:09:22 – 1:09:23] Adam: Dewey Pointe.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:24] Adam: Dewey Pointe.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:26] Adam: Oh, my God, yeah.
[1:09:27 – 1:09:29] Adam: I’m here to look at dew points.
[1:09:29 – 1:09:37] Erik: Yeah, if those claims for a response aren’t, you know, heated, I don’t know what will get us hutnered at this point.
[1:09:38 – 1:09:39] Adam: Hot nose.
[1:09:39 – 1:09:41] Adam: We want to get updrafted.
[1:09:42 – 1:09:47] Erik: Yeah, so we’ll clean it up next week, and then we’ll get to the responses.
[1:09:47 – 1:09:50] Erik: So you’ve got one more week out there, Tumble Homies.
[1:09:50 – 1:09:50] Erik: It’s pinned.
[1:09:51 – 1:09:52] Erik: I pinned it.
[1:09:52 – 1:09:52] Erik: I did it.
[1:09:53 – 1:09:55] Erik: Trevor was of no help, as usual.
[1:09:55 – 1:09:57] Erik: He’s effed off somewhere.
[1:09:57 – 1:09:59] Erik: He’s gallivanting across Europe, I think.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:00] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:10:00 – 1:10:02] Adam: He’s become very rebellious this summer.
[1:10:03 – 1:10:03] Adam: Yeah.
[1:10:03 – 1:10:04] Adam: How do we reach this boy?
[1:10:04 – 1:10:04] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:08 – 1:10:09] Erik: Said he’s trying to find himself.
[1:10:10 – 1:10:10] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:10 – 1:10:11] Erik: Something about Vienna.
[1:10:11 – 1:10:12] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:12 – 1:10:14] Adam: Said he was going to look for the Van Gogh Museum.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:15] Adam: Yeah.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:16] Adam: What does that mean?
[1:10:16 – 1:10:16] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:10:17 – 1:10:19] Erik: It’s Google, Trevor, and just get on there.
[1:10:20 – 1:10:20] Erik: Search.
[1:10:20 – 1:10:21] Erik: It’s on there somewhere.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:23] Erik: So, yeah.
[1:10:24 – 1:10:25] Erik: Batten down the hatches.
[1:10:25 – 1:10:27] Erik: Bad storm stories of your own.
[1:10:28 – 1:10:30] Erik: Personal accounts of wilderness.
[1:10:31 – 1:10:34] Erik: Hopefully Boundary Waters is those the most applicable.
[1:10:34 – 1:10:36] Erik: But, you know, really any storm stories, we love them.
[1:10:37 – 1:10:38] Erik: We always love to hear them.
[1:10:38 – 1:10:43] Erik: You got one more week from today, Sunday, July 7th.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:53] Erik: If you want to add yours, we’re going to finish up next week with all the dirty numbers on the planes flying around for Adam.
[1:10:53 – 1:10:56] Adam: What’s the lowest point the barometer reached?
[1:10:56 – 1:10:56] Adam: I need to know.
[1:10:57 – 1:10:58] Erik: Yeah, science.
[1:10:58 – 1:11:00] Erik: We’ll get into some hard facts.
[1:11:00 – 1:11:10] Erik: The list of exact kinds of planes used and the name of every pilot behind them will be coming to you next week.
[1:11:10 – 1:11:14] Erik: And if you want to share your stories, we’ll probably read those too.
[1:11:15 – 1:11:21] Erik: So you get another week, our Tumble Home cast on the Reddit, on Twitter.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:24] Erik: Red Chan, as they call it on Law & Order SVU.
[1:11:24 – 1:11:26] Erik: Is that what it’s called now?
[1:11:26 – 1:11:28] Erik: The lascivious Red Chan website.
[1:11:32 – 1:11:32] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:33 – 1:11:35] Adam: Wow, rabble-rousers there on Red Chan.
[1:11:35 – 1:11:36] Erik: Gotta look out.
[1:11:36 – 1:11:39] Erik: You don’t know what they’re doing with their kiddie porn on Red Chan.
[1:11:40 – 1:11:43] Erik: Yeah, so… Good reading.
[1:11:44 – 1:11:44] Erik: Good reading.
[1:11:45 – 1:11:47] Erik: Yeah, I think I did okay.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:50] Erik: Maybe not my best, but…
[1:11:50 – 1:11:51] Erik: Not my worst.
[1:11:52 – 1:11:54] Adam: I almost made it through two of these badger clubs listening.
[1:11:55 – 1:11:56] Adam: That was some good listening.
[1:11:56 – 1:11:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:57 – 1:11:58] Adam: I’m a pretty good listener.
[1:11:59 – 1:11:59] Adam: Nice.
[1:11:59 – 1:11:59] Adam: These days.
[1:12:00 – 1:12:00] Erik: Yeah.
[1:12:02 – 1:12:03] Erik: And so are all of you.
[1:12:03 – 1:12:05] Adam: Thank you for listening.
[1:12:06 – 1:12:07] Adam: Shout out to our Patreons.
[1:12:07 – 1:12:08] Adam: We love you.
[1:12:08 – 1:12:09] Adam: We appreciate you.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:20] Adam: If anybody was playing Small Change last night, the Common Loon was the correct answer.
[1:12:20 – 1:12:22] Adam: I was screaming.
[1:12:22 – 1:12:24] Adam: I wasn’t actually calling in, but I was listening.
[1:12:24 – 1:12:25] Adam: I was screaming at the radio.
[1:12:26 – 1:12:26] Erik: Common Loon!
[1:12:27 – 1:12:28] Erik: Common Loon!
[1:12:29 – 1:12:30] Erik: What was the question again?
[1:12:30 – 1:12:32] Adam: It was just like bird questions straight up.
[1:12:33 – 1:12:38] Adam: It was just like this black and white bird with glowing red eyes is a staple in Minnesota lakes.
[1:12:39 – 1:12:40] Adam: Like it wasn’t their toughest question.
[1:12:40 – 1:12:41] Erik: I’m sure.
[1:12:41 – 1:12:44] Erik: Well, I’m glad that you didn’t call in and scream it like that.
[1:12:44 – 1:12:44] Erik: Yeah.
[1:12:45 – 1:12:46] Adam: Then 10 other people called in.
[1:12:46 – 1:12:47] Adam: I think I got a common wound.
[1:12:48 – 1:12:48] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:48 – 1:12:51] Adam: It’s been a while since I played the small change, but,
[1:12:51 – 1:12:56] Erik: Yeah, that’s the, I believe, some of the formations of some of our…
[1:12:56 – 1:12:57] Adam: I heard a loon today.
[1:12:58 – 1:13:01] Adam: I made it up with a little guy, took Pike up to Mink Lake Beach.
[1:13:02 – 1:13:05] Adam: There was about 50 locals up there on a Saturday.
[1:13:06 – 1:13:10] Adam: And there’s thunder rumbling in the distance, and it never did rain.
[1:13:10 – 1:13:13] Adam: And there’s a loon out there singing along.
[1:13:13 – 1:13:13] Adam: It was pretty nice.
[1:13:14 – 1:13:14] Adam: Very nice.
[1:13:15 – 1:13:15] Adam: It was a good day for…
[1:13:16 – 1:13:20] Adam: I didn’t go for a full-on swim, but we did some nice wading and snacking.
[1:13:20 – 1:13:43] Adam: the water temps all right it’s pretty good there in the sandy beach shallows i mean like i said we didn’t swim out but yeah yeah nice afternoon to hit up the beach for sure yeah only a couple more weeks before the leaves start falling right right a little late for it episode 254 of tumble home we got our bird of the week i forgot we got deep in the shade deep
[1:13:44 – 1:13:46] Adam: You never know where you’re going to put that bird.
[1:13:46 – 1:13:47] Adam: It’s not the loon, actually.
[1:13:47 – 1:13:50] Adam: Oh.
[1:13:50 – 1:13:51] Adam: It’s the swan.
[1:13:52 – 1:13:57] Adam: Did you watch the video that Hopalicious put up of the swan congregation on Wood Lake?
[1:13:57 – 1:13:58] Erik: Oh, yes, the Wood Lake.
[1:13:58 – 1:13:59] Erik: Yes, the bucinator.
[1:14:00 – 1:14:02] Adam: Quite the opposite of a lonesome goose.
[1:14:02 – 1:14:05] Adam: It was a whole lamentation of swan out there on Wood Lake.
[1:14:05 – 1:14:06] Erik: Yeah, my lord.
[1:14:06 – 1:14:09] Adam: I did look it up, and that is a legit way to describe it.
[1:14:10 – 1:14:11] Adam: A group of swan.
[1:14:11 – 1:14:12] Adam: Why is it so sad?
[1:14:12 – 1:14:12] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:14:13 – 1:14:13] Adam: It’s fun, though.
[1:14:13 – 1:14:14] Adam: There’s a couple other ones.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:15] Adam: Swans get a bunch.
[1:14:16 – 1:14:18] Adam: Gaggle is acceptable.
[1:14:18 – 1:14:19] Erik: Yeah, acceptable.
[1:14:19 – 1:14:21] Adam: A whiteness of swan.
[1:14:21 – 1:14:22] Erik: I don’t like that.
[1:14:22 – 1:14:31] Adam: There’s a bunch of different situational ones, though, and I think this one would apply the most, though, to the video that Hopalicious put up was a regatta of swan.
[1:14:31 – 1:14:32] Adam: Oh, yes.
[1:14:32 – 1:14:33] Erik: That’s my favorite for sure.
[1:14:34 – 1:14:36] Adam: Thank you for posting the regatta of swan hops.
[1:14:37 – 1:15:02] Erik: uh we’re uh we really enjoyed that so that was your bird of the week that was one of those games that we were going to get our hands on back in the day remember we had uh i think it was uh facts and five was the name of the game oh yeah but it came with the catalog for other games this is like old was it like old milton bradley all right games from the 60s where they were like board games of the future we could do a board game about anything anything’s a board game regatta
[1:15:03 – 1:15:03] Adam: Regatta.
[1:15:03 – 1:15:08] Erik: It’s the Cape Cod classic 1965 boat race board game.
[1:15:08 – 1:15:10] Erik: And there was the other one, which was our favorite, which was Point of Law.
[1:15:11 – 1:15:11] Adam: Point of Law.
[1:15:12 – 1:15:13] Adam: Sounds like the most boring board game.
[1:15:13 – 1:15:17] Adam: I’m going to litigate you to victory, you rascal.
[1:15:17 – 1:15:18] Erik: All right.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:21] Erik: Each of you take 10 minutes and draft up your opening statements.
[1:15:21 – 1:15:22] Erik: Oh, wow.
[1:15:22 – 1:15:22] Erik: Fun.
[1:15:22 – 1:15:23] Adam: This is great.
[1:15:23 – 1:15:25] Adam: Roll six for jury.
[1:15:27 – 1:15:29] Adam: Jury selection’s been rough.
[1:15:29 – 1:15:29] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:29 – 1:15:32] Erik: I think we actually did get our hands on, there was an ice hockey.
[1:15:33 – 1:15:34] Erik: Board game?
[1:15:34 – 1:15:37] Adam: I think I found a… You got me a copy of Regatta.
[1:15:38 – 1:15:39] Adam: Did I also get you Regatta?
[1:15:39 – 1:15:42] Adam: I have a copy of Regatta in the game cabinet.
[1:15:42 – 1:15:45] Erik: It was like insanely complicated.
[1:15:45 – 1:15:47] Adam: Yeah, we did try and actually play it and it was impossible.
[1:15:47 – 1:15:49] Erik: It was like, oh, you tacked wrong.
[1:15:49 – 1:15:49] Erik: You’re on the beach.
[1:15:51 – 1:15:52] Erik: It was so like…
[1:15:52 – 1:15:53] Adam: Roll two for Gibb flag.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:56] SPEAKER_00: Now you have the Gibb flag.
[1:15:57 – 1:15:58] Adam: Roll six for Gibb.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:03] Erik: Yeah, the only, I mean, really the only good one was the Faxon 5 classic game.
[1:16:03 – 1:16:04] Adam: Faxon 5 was good.
[1:16:04 – 1:16:07] Adam: I have another point of law, point of order.
[1:16:07 – 1:16:09] Adam: I have one more point of order for this episode.
[1:16:09 – 1:16:11] Adam: Let’s do it.
[1:16:11 – 1:16:12] Adam: Cheap Dancer reached out.
[1:16:12 – 1:16:16] Adam: Apparently a couple other people have found the pig heart.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:17] Erik: A couple other people have.
[1:16:18 – 1:16:21] Adam: Yeah, we got Cheap Dancer was the first, obviously.
[1:16:21 – 1:16:22] Adam: Of course.
[1:16:23 – 1:16:27] Adam: A few other people made it out there and found Pig Heart.
[1:16:27 – 1:16:30] Adam: And I’ve seen a few other pictures now of the addendum.
[1:16:31 – 1:16:36] Adam: And it’s somewhat of a peaking shrine at this point.
[1:16:36 – 1:16:36] Adam: Wow.
[1:16:36 – 1:16:38] Adam: Put that in the parade.
[1:16:38 – 1:16:41] Adam: Yeah, there you go.
[1:16:41 – 1:16:41] Erik: I would do that.
[1:16:41 – 1:16:42] Erik: That would be a great…
[1:16:43 – 1:17:10] Adam: float is just a boundary waters latrine somebody on a latrine somebody just standing on the trailer just looking down in the hole and shaking their head also throwing candy though oh yeah gotta be throwing candy corn yeah dipping their hand into the latrine and then flinging out mini tootsie rolls yeah it would have to be some kind of what’s the bar that Bill Murray finds at the bottom of the pool in Caddyshack
[1:17:12 – 1:17:34] Adam: baby ruth yeah just a bunch of baby roots a bunch of baby well we’re gonna get in the parade next year obviously that’s gonna happen i was totally like anti-parade all the way up until this point i don’t know we’re anti-parade anti-fireworks podcast here but i’m lighting sparklers off and then in the dark and uh yeah eric’s gonna be in the parade with me and the the peeker float
[1:17:35 – 1:17:42] Erik: The peaker float, and there’s just going to be a bucket of wet baby roosts in there that you can scoop out and just throw at the crowd and see them, watch them shriek and run.
[1:17:43 – 1:17:47] Adam: You got to really look in there and give a disapproving nod and shake of the head.
[1:17:47 – 1:17:49] Adam: I don’t like that.
[1:17:50 – 1:17:57] Erik: Anyways, I wanted to give a… Do you have any of the pictures of the other, like the proof?
[1:17:58 – 1:18:00] Adam: I had some people send them to me.
[1:18:01 – 1:18:07] Adam: I can’t remember if it was on Discord or if it was through the Instagram, but I’ve seen a few where it was like, okay, that’s clearly it.
[1:18:09 – 1:18:09] Adam: Crazy.
[1:18:09 – 1:18:11] Adam: Anyways, shout out in May.
[1:18:12 – 1:18:18] Adam: Fishing with Dynamite found it as a solo paddler, and apparently Cheap Dancer is now taking it upon himself.
[1:18:19 – 1:18:40] Adam: uh to deliver bootleg merch to anybody else who’s finding it i was like i hope you don’t feel obliged to give bootleg merch to everybody who finds this uh ridiculous shrine i feel like the next person should be now tasked with sending something along to you know what i mean like uh what were those old things chain letter yeah it’s like a chain letter um also recently found was
[1:18:40 – 1:19:05] Adam: frequent walk 1893 found it with a group of four paddlers and i did i did just see they posted a picture of it on instagram and i did give it a heart i heart this picture frequent walk frequent walk 1893 and friends uh also has uh made it out to oh pig heart island how much uh i mean like how much crap is in that latrine now
[1:19:05 – 1:19:06] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:19:06 – 1:19:15] Adam: Well, as of the last picture I saw, just the Dick Cheney and then an additional sticker from the PWCA.
[1:19:16 – 1:19:17] Erik: Just the additional sticker.
[1:19:17 – 1:19:17] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:17 – 1:19:18] Erik: Okay.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:20] Erik: I didn’t know if other people had gone out there.
[1:19:21 – 1:19:25] Adam: The whole inside of that latrine is going to be festooned with Baby Ruths.
[1:19:25 – 1:19:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:27] Erik: It’s like the opposite.
[1:19:29 – 1:19:33] Erik: The opposite of laying down flowers at a memorial.
[1:19:33 – 1:19:41] Erik: Underneath the picture of the person lost, you just go and hold it in for four days and go find the Cheney latrine.
[1:19:41 – 1:19:45] Adam: I’m going to go pay my respects to the former vice president.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:47] Erik: It’s perfect, actually.
[1:19:47 – 1:19:53] Erik: I couldn’t think of a better way to pay respects to that man who’s still kind of technically alive, I guess.
[1:19:54 – 1:19:54] Adam: Allegedly.
[1:19:54 – 1:19:55] Adam: Allegedly.
[1:19:55 – 1:19:58] Adam: Living in Cheyenne Mountain on a pump.
[1:19:59 – 1:20:22] Adam: we’ll come up to some pneumatic tubes yeah sicko anyway shout out thank you uh cheap dancer for the update and uh thank you for anybody who’s out there looking beautiful section of the boundary yeah congrats to the new the new finders crazy it’s life-changing that’s a life-changing occurrence for you yeah for me too yeah we’re all we’re happy we’re proud we’re proud we’re proud of you
[1:20:23 – 1:20:49] Erik: yeah proud of all of you but specifically those ones even more just a little bit more a little more proud it’s like a parent you know with multiple kids you ask them I’m proud of all of you but then you get them kind of in a side room they’ll tell you the truth who they’re most proud of at least that’s how I figured it goes I don’t know I’m not a parent you’ll soon know the ways of being more proud of one child over another it’s impossible how could you not be
[1:20:50 – 1:20:51] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:20:53 – 1:20:56] Adam: It seems natural, but that’s not the modern way of parenting.
[1:20:57 – 1:20:58] Adam: Get over it, man.
[1:20:58 – 1:20:59] Adam: You’re not allowed to do that anymore.
[1:20:59 – 1:21:02] Erik: You’re going to have a favorite.
[1:21:03 – 1:21:06] Adam: We’ll see which one of them beats me in a round of disc golf first.
[1:21:07 – 1:21:07] Adam: There you go.
[1:21:07 – 1:21:08] Adam: That’s who I’ll be prouder of.
[1:21:08 – 1:21:11] Erik: Do you guys have the Aramark guy come around to the co-op?
[1:21:11 – 1:21:12] Adam: Yeah.
[1:21:12 – 1:21:12] Adam: Troy?
[1:21:12 – 1:21:13] Erik: Yeah.
[1:21:13 – 1:21:14] Erik: Do you talk to him about disc golfing?
[1:21:14 – 1:21:15] Adam: Yeah, he plays.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:15] Erik: Nice.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:15] Erik: I know.
[1:21:15 – 1:21:19] Erik: I heard him mention it, but he was like, you could tell he was in a very, very much of a hurry.
[1:21:19 – 1:21:20] Adam: Yeah, no, he’s all business.
[1:21:20 – 1:21:23] Erik: He was playing somewhere down in Duluth, and I was about to ask, and I’m like, ah.
[1:21:24 – 1:21:26] Adam: Yeah, I haven’t gotten him to come up and play the home course yet.
[1:21:27 – 1:21:27] Adam: Nice.
[1:21:27 – 1:21:27] Adam: I should.
[1:21:28 – 1:21:28] Adam: Yeah.
[1:21:28 – 1:21:32] Adam: I’ve actually gotten a lot of wind of various people in town who are like, hey, I’d play.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:33] Adam: I’d play with you guys.
[1:21:34 – 1:21:35] Adam: All right, we’ll see what you got.
[1:21:36 – 1:21:36] Adam: Come on out.
[1:21:37 – 1:21:57] Erik: various wind is that the title of the episode various wind various wind i’m a strong contender right now so uh tumblehomecast at gmail.com if you get this in the next uh two hours let us know what should the title of this one be i got two or three in my notes
[1:21:58 – 1:21:58] Erik: Gat?
[1:21:59 – 1:21:59] SPEAKER_00: Gat!
[1:22:00 – 1:22:01] Erik: That’s how we ended last week.
[1:22:02 – 1:22:04] Adam: Gat wind!
[1:22:04 – 1:22:05] Erik: Gat wind?
[1:22:06 – 1:22:06] Erik: No.
[1:22:06 – 1:22:08] Erik: Yeah, happy paddling, everybody.
[1:22:08 – 1:22:09] Erik: It’s July.
[1:22:09 – 1:22:10] Erik: We’re happy to be here.
[1:22:10 – 1:22:11] Erik: Happy that you have been here.
[1:22:11 – 1:22:12] Erik: My name is Beneric.
[1:22:13 – 1:22:13] Erik: I’ll say goodnight.
[1:22:13 – 1:22:14] Erik: You can say anything else you want.
[1:22:14 – 1:22:15] Adam: My name’s Adam.
[1:22:15 – 1:22:17] Adam: Also, goodnight and a re-bednarege.
[1:22:35 – 1:23:02] SPEAKER_00: Now all of the tendons of the world are this And in the dark line of pine they spoke the truth Yes, way back old things grew honest then Paths diverge into the boring mist
[1:23:14 – 1:23:17] UNKNOWN: Get up, hide.