Episode Transcript
[0:00:19 – 0:00:38] SPEAKER_01: Dr. Lear, Don in New York, New York, obviously listening to the mighty station I grew up with, WABC 77 in New York, says, obvious question, Art, why would somebody, anybody, put a creepy-looking alien on their lap?
[0:00:40 – 0:00:40] Adam: Hold on a second.
[0:00:40 – 0:00:42] Adam: It is a good question.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:43] Adam: It is not a good question.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:44] Adam: Why would you say it like that?
[0:00:44 – 0:00:45] Adam: He’s not creepy.
[0:00:45 – 0:00:46] Adam: I don’t think he’s creepy at all.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:52] Adam: Although, one of the people that saw the alien did say they thought they met the devil, Eric.
[0:00:53 – 0:00:55] Adam: Welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:57] Adam: My name is Adam.
[0:00:58 – 0:01:02] Adam: I’m joined here in studio K2 by my best man, Eric.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:03] Adam: Hello, Eric.
[0:01:03 – 0:01:03] Erik: Hello.
[0:01:04 – 0:01:08] Adam: Would you ever let a creepy alien or a nice looking alien sit in your lap, Eric?
[0:01:10 – 0:01:15] Erik: Mmm… First thoughts, no.
[0:01:17 – 0:01:23] Adam: Eventually, I listened to the whole episode, and eventually the guy who let the alien sit on his lap died.
[0:01:23 – 0:01:24] Erik: Oh.
[0:01:24 – 0:01:25] Adam: Mysterious.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:27] Adam: Some mysterious outer space poisoning?
[0:01:28 – 0:01:28] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:28 – 0:01:31] Adam: He went straight to the hospital, and they never saw his body again.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:33] Erik: You didn’t know what to do with him.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:37] Erik: You’ve got burns of a kind I’ve never seen before.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:38] Adam: You’ve got space virus.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:39] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:42] Adam: And so don’t let him sit on your lap.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:43] Adam: That’s the lesson there.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:44] Erik: Yep.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] SPEAKER_01: Creepy or even if they’re nice looking.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:51] Adam: I wouldn’t let them sit in your lap.
[0:01:52 – 0:01:52] Adam: Tumble home.
[0:01:53 – 0:01:55] Adam: A Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:01:55 – 0:02:00] Adam: We’re a proud and independent podcast brought to you by our friends on Patreon.
[0:02:00 – 0:02:00] Adam: Thank you.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:03] Adam: And shout out to everybody on Patreon.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:05] Adam: And also shout out to Art Bell.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:07] Adam: RIP.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:09] Adam: I think.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:10] Adam: We never did look into it.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:14] Adam: He’s a perpetual friend of the show.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:20] Adam: Anyways, for real though, thank you to everybody on Patreon for sponsoring this show.
[0:02:22 – 0:02:25] Adam: We’re having a good time here on Studio K2.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:33] Adam: It is Tumble Home After Dark, and we do have, it looks like, a sixer of delicious enjoyment here.
[0:02:33 – 0:02:36] Adam: We got a couple of them sponsored by Mike.
[0:02:36 – 0:02:37] Adam: We got a couple of question marks here.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:38] Adam: What do we got going on here?
[0:02:38 – 0:02:40] Adam: We got some key winner.
[0:02:40 – 0:02:43] SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:44] Erik: Brewing Company.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:49] Erik: Don’t be afraid of the dark.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:51] Erik: It’s a black ale.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:53] Erik: These are from Mike.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:55] Erik: Widowmakers.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:56] Erik: Mike.
[0:02:56 – 0:02:58] Erik: Mike, Mike, Mike.
[0:02:58 – 0:03:02] Erik: Don’t let these… Who may or may not have made it to SAG.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:04] Erik: Knife and ogish.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:08] Adam: Don’t let these beers sit in your lap.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:08] Adam: Keep them in your hand.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:11] Adam: They will widowmaker you.
[0:03:11 – 0:03:12] Adam: The Widowmakers.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:29] Erik: An early pneumatic drill without benefit of dust suppression introduced to the copper country in the 1890s contributed greatly to the mortality of miners due to prolonged… What is this?
[0:03:29 – 0:03:33] Adam: It looks like the thing we saw at the bar in Atacocan.
[0:03:34 – 0:03:35] Adam: Remember that drill bit thing?
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Adam: Yes.
[0:03:37 – 0:03:38] Adam: Or your feet.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:43] Erik: Sorry I trailed off, but sorry, Keweenaw Peninsula Brewing.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:50] Erik: Don’t need the history lesson on horrible… Let’s tell you about the black lung.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:51] Erik: Yeah, let’s hear some black lung info.
[0:03:51 – 0:03:53] Adam: Before you enjoy this nice beer.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Adam: That was pure stereo.
[0:03:58 – 0:04:02] Erik: Some theliomas of some sort were caused by…
[0:04:05 – 0:04:07] Adam: Well, this episode’s off to a banger of a start.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:09] Erik: It’s off to a great start.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:15] Adam: 1890s contributing greatly to the mortality of miners due to prolonged dust inhalation.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:23] Adam: So far, we’ve covered death by mining, death by having an alien sit in your lap, and… Did that guy die?
[0:04:24 – 0:04:25] Adam: Oh, yeah, he’s dead.
[0:04:26 – 0:04:28] Adam: They’re all dead, in fact.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:30] Adam: UV groin crotch burns?
[0:04:31 – 0:04:58] Adam: it started in the armpit actually as a growth and uh that slowly just uh you know you have to tune in that was uh episode uh i can’t i don’t think art bell has episode title like he has titles but not numbers is what i’m trying to say yeah uh that was the internet uh check that one out no that was the that was the day after roswell i’m sorry anyways you can go ahead and check it out um
[0:05:00 – 0:05:06] Adam: Tonight on Tumble Home, we’re talking about Ram.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:09] Adam: Damn, Rammers.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:18] Adam: Episode, who knows, but this is Entry Point 44, and we’re talking about Entry Point 44, Ram Lake.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:26] Adam: If there’s the soft underbelly down there by Sawbell, what is RAM?
[0:05:26 – 0:05:27] Adam: This is the hard…
[0:05:27 – 0:05:29] Adam: This might be the armpit.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:31] Erik: This is the skin tag.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:32] Erik: Oh, gosh.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:36] Erik: The hardened skin tag off to the soft underbelly.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:38] Erik: Troubling.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:41] Adam: Troubling, but also enticing.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:43] Adam: But also, I can’t stop touching it.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:44] Adam: Can’t stop touching it, yeah.
[0:05:47 – 0:06:03] Adam: oh boy ram uh i’ve done a i started a trip on ram one time and uh ended up uh first night on vista somehow and uh should have stopped on little trout probably in hindsight but uh
[0:06:04 – 0:06:24] Adam: been out to ram uh ice fishing a handful of times just out there climb the big hill and get into ram it’s a it’s a pretty nice one if you got a snowmobile that’s even better it’s kind of a long hike in from the nearest road access in the winter makes it a tough one to get to if you don’t have a snow machine eric
[0:06:24 – 0:06:30] Erik: Yeah, not an easily accessible winter lake for sure, unless there are logging operations.
[0:06:31 – 0:06:36] Erik: But it’s a, yeah, it’s entry point ram, but we’re also going to be talking a little trout lake as well.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:43] Erik: We’re going to talk about the five campsites between those two lakes, and it’s going to be a bit of a sister, brother, cousin?
[0:06:44 – 0:07:01] Erik: podcast to uh we’re gonna talk about misqua and uh and vista either next week or shortly hereafter sometime this time uh sometime near here it’s a general it’s gonna be a near here kind of deal time here now
[0:07:02 – 0:07:06] Adam: We’re definitely, though, never, ever talking about slow lake.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:08] Adam: Go to bed, bitch.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:11] Adam: Slow or slough?
[0:07:11 – 0:07:12] Adam: Slough.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:13] Adam: Slough.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:16] Adam: I think it’s slow, but we’re definitely not talking about that lake ever.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:16] Adam: No.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:18] Adam: Get out of here.
[0:07:19 – 0:07:21] Adam: Look at that thing nestled into the hills.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:25] Adam: He’s so nice looking, so deceptive.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:43] Erik: i think it’s right in the middle of a little slow yeah a little makes me sick eric yeah entry point 44 they didn’t uh they didn’t slash permits from this entry point uh there’s still one a day there’s still one a day they didn’t go to one every other day or something
[0:07:43 – 0:07:44] Erik: They did do that.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:48] Erik: I don’t remember what entry point they did that to, but they did it to one of them.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:50] Adam: Yeah, I think it’s over on the west side.
[0:07:50 – 0:07:52] Adam: Yeah, Moose River South.
[0:07:52 – 0:07:54] Erik: Another Moose River every other day scenario.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:55] Erik: Yep.
[0:07:56 – 0:07:59] Erik: But yeah, in this case, entry point 44, Ram Lake, 90 rods.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:01] Erik: You start with a portage.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:02] Erik: Seen this?
[0:08:02 – 0:08:03] Erik: You heard about this?
[0:08:03 – 0:08:07] Erik: Start with a portage off of the Lima Mountain grade.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:17] Erik: It’s not one of those classic entry points where as an outfitter you get that pleasing the lake reveals itself.
[0:08:18 – 0:08:20] Erik: You just pull up to Ram and you’re just like, hey.
[0:08:20 – 0:08:21] Adam: There you go.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:22] Adam: Climb that hill.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:22] Adam: There’s a hill.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:24] Adam: Climb it up there.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:25] Erik: Oh, what?
[0:08:26 – 0:08:26] Erik: Really?
[0:08:26 – 0:08:27] Erik: This is where we start?
[0:08:28 – 0:08:28] Adam: Yep.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:29] Adam: It is.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:30] Adam: Trust me though.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:31] Adam: It’ll be worth it.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:41] Erik: Yeah, you do end up in like a Gogebic-esque lake of the hills, lake of the clouds.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:42] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:48] Erik: Some of the purest water in this section of the Bajau waters, nothing really flows into it.
[0:08:48 – 0:08:50] Erik: I think it is the headwater.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:51] Adam: It’s a headwater to itself.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:56] Erik: It’s like a spring-fed headwater to itself, lake trout and rainbow.
[0:08:57 – 0:09:01] Adam: Some say it’s the eye of a giant that is the earth.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:07] Erik: Be a very small eye, but… Yeah.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:08] Erik: Nevertheless.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:08] Erik: Teensy.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:11] Adam: It’s the teensy giant eye ram.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:09:13 – 0:09:14] Adam: Yeah, it’s a real beaut.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:16] Adam: It’s its own little thing there.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:17] Adam: It’s its own little thing?
[0:09:17 – 0:09:19] Adam: It’s its own little thing, and it’s doing it right.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:21] Adam: It’s definitely doing it right.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:29] Erik: It’s got two campsites on it, and then you’ve got three portages before you get to another lake, which is Little Trout, before you find other campsites.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:30] Erik: So it’s…
[0:09:34 – 0:09:48] Erik: it proves itself in a interesting way as to how to like, this is one of those few entry points that I feel like timing kind of doesn’t really matter.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:51] Erik: It’s not one of those entry points where you’re like, we got to be in sunrise.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:52] Erik: Dodd.
[0:09:53 – 0:10:16] Erik: right sunrise get your pipe packed we gotta be on the move we should basically be on the water when the sun is cresting the horizon because like either you just stop on ram or you even going to little trout you’re gonna be there like well before lunchtime so like this is an entry point where you can get a little bit of a later start
[0:10:17 – 0:10:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:23] Adam: The time I went in here on the trip, we were like on trout to the Island site for lunch.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:24] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:32] Erik: And with one permanent day early to stop, like you really, the only other people you’re competing with would be exiters.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: Oh yeah.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:36] Adam: But how many people are really exiting out Ram though?
[0:10:38 – 0:10:39] Erik: Not very many, but some do.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:45] Adam: Yeah, it’s probably been done before, but that’s not the conventional play here.
[0:10:45 – 0:10:56] Erik: But if you’re bringing in a lot of gear, if it’s close to one of your first trips, even just a day one run to Little Trout, it’s going to…
[0:10:57 – 0:10:58] Erik: That’s going to take you a bit.
[0:10:58 – 0:11:00] Erik: Yeah, it ain’t easy.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:10] Erik: Those portages through there, especially that 90-rod portage off the road up into Ram, that’s basically straight uphill.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:14] Erik: And then you would be like, oh, God, all right, fine.
[0:11:14 – 0:11:16] Erik: As long as we can just go all uphill, I’m fine.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:24] Erik: But then there’s a crazy mini wall at the end when you drop down onto Ram that managing canoes is quite tricky.
[0:11:24 – 0:11:26] Adam: Yeah, you got to rappel down into that.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:27] Adam: It is.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:28] Erik: To get down.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:31] Erik: And then the portages in between Ram and Little Trout are…
[0:11:31 – 0:11:32] Adam: There are no picnics.
[0:11:33 – 0:11:33] Erik: No, they’re like…
[0:11:33 – 0:11:34] Erik: There are definitely no garden walks.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:37] Erik: It’s like little… Like, they’re kind of Quetico-esque in a way.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:43] Erik: Where it says, boulder strewn, no regard for, like, lay of the land.
[0:11:43 – 0:11:43] Adam: Going this way.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:47] Erik: Yeah, we’re going over… Why do I feel like I’m climbing again?
[0:11:48 – 0:11:51] Erik: How have I, I’ve dropped, I’ve climbed, I’ve dropped.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:58] Erik: And we’ll get to the, probably in the next episode or whenever we revisit the second part of this, the Little Trout to Misquot portage.
[0:11:58 – 0:12:02] Erik: We’ve talked about this, I think, in the top 10 worst portages in the Boundary Waters.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:04] Erik: Yeah, it’s got a bad attitude.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:06] Erik: It’s got a bad attitude for sure.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:09] Erik: But even the portages, the shorties.
[0:12:09 – 0:12:15] Erik: Some of the tougher, shorter portages, specifically the 80-round portage from Ram to Croft.
[0:12:16 – 0:12:35] Erik: is uh it’s nothing i mean it’s not gonna kill you but you look at an 80 rod portage and you’re kind of just like hi i can do it whatever yeah but yeah keep in mind it’s it’s uh it’s a an intense skin tag section of the park
[0:12:36 – 0:12:40] Adam: Yeah, and by the time you get to rum, you’re definitely going to want to be getting your rum out.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:44] Erik: Yeah, you’re going to be ready for that island sight and a little trout.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:47] Adam: Yeah, and hindsight, I can’t believe we went beyond that.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:49] Adam: Very foolish, as I’ve said.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:54] Adam: Didn’t appreciate what we had there with the island site on Trout.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:54] Adam: It’s a beaut.
[0:12:56 – 0:12:56] Adam: We will get there.
[0:12:56 – 0:13:02] Adam: I guess we’re going to start with the campsites on Ram, probably, or what do you got lined up for us here, Eric?
[0:13:02 – 0:13:03] Erik: Well, I don’t know.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:07] Adam: Who knows what the legality at this point is.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:11] Adam: Look at this crap website we’re looking at.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:20] Erik: Yeah, the legality of the reading from a website that I am no longer associated with, but these are all my words and all my pictures.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:23] Adam: What’s the legality of them still having your story up on their website, though?
[0:13:23 – 0:13:25] Erik: Kind of dirty, isn’t it?
[0:13:25 – 0:13:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:25 – 0:13:26] Erik: Kind of dirty.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:27] Erik: We’re starting at Little Trout.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:32] Erik: We’re starting from the north and the west, as is tradition.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:35] Adam: Yeah, this is where you should stop on day one.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:37] Adam: Yeah, don’t go any farther than Little Trout.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:40] Adam: So one of these three sites is your first night camp, hopefully.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:42] Adam: Little Trout.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:43] Adam: It’s a butte.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:44] Adam: It’s a real butte.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:45] Erik: Yep.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:45] Erik: Little Trout Lake.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Erik: Located in the middle.
[0:13:47 – 0:14:08] Erik: slash heart of the misquah hills this relatively remote 125 acre lake is most easily accessed accessed through entry point accessed through entry point 44 ram lake and four medium-length portages it should be said that you could come down probably the next closest entry point would be
[0:14:09 – 0:14:11] Erik: Liz and Swamp from the north.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:13] Erik: Who knows?
[0:14:14 – 0:14:16] Erik: What do they have for permits these days?
[0:14:16 – 0:14:16] Erik: Three?
[0:14:16 – 0:14:17] Erik: Did they get shaved one?
[0:14:17 – 0:14:18] Erik: I think they did get shaved.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:19] Adam: They did get shaved.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:20] Erik: They got shaved.
[0:14:20 – 0:14:24] Adam: They got… Liz only has one L. One L and one Z now.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:26] Adam: They got quota shaved.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:28] Frenchy: They took one of the Z’s off.
[0:14:28 – 0:14:28] Erik: Yep.
[0:14:29 – 0:14:46] Erik: here you will find relative solitude three subpar yet reasonable campsites and above average fishing for native lake trout the fact that only one permit can enter through ram from the south and that the overly challenging for its length 200 rod from the north
[0:14:47 – 0:14:53] Erik: Via Misqua keeps most of the riffraff out means you can almost always guarantee campsite availability here.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:55] Adam: I think you’re going to get one for sure.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:58] Adam: If you make it there, you know.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Adam: I think that’s doable.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:02] Adam: Maybe we’ve got to get a RAM permit this year and go to Little Trout.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:03] Adam: Maybe.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:05] Adam: Maybe this is our spring trip.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:10] Adam: Just like a nice one-nighter, two-nighter, and a little trout for a lake trout opener.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:13] Erik: This is a good section for the surf and turf trip, though.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:14] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:14 – 0:15:16] Erik: There’s good groose out there.
[0:15:16 – 0:15:18] Erik: Could do a rough grouse trip in the fall.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:20] Adam: A lot of good killing options in there.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:21] Adam: Great killing options.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:21] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[0:15:22 – 0:15:24] Adam: Excellent A-plus killing.
[0:15:24 – 0:15:25] Erik: The killing fields.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:26] Erik: In the hills.
[0:15:26 – 0:15:37] Erik: Starting from left to right, as always, from Little Trout, we’re on the North Shore, just east of the 190 previously mentioned bear of a portage from Little Trout up to Miskwa.
[0:15:37 – 0:15:38] Erik: Campsite number one.
[0:15:41 – 0:16:01] Erik: it’s the first one this campsite small just to the east of the portage in demesqua is fine enough it runs mostly parallel with the shore of the lake and has a nice level fire grade area with two tent pads nearby i’d camp there the landing is unremarkable but it does seem like it could grow on you in terms of coziness
[0:16:02 – 0:16:05] Erik: It offers the best views of any campsite on the lake.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:06] Erik: Tent pads, too.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:10] Erik: Landing C+, fire-grade area, B-.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:11] Erik: Overall, B-.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:14] Adam: Yeah, looks like a pretty nice one, though.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:15] Adam: Good cedar.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:16] Adam: Good cedar.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:18] Adam: It’s a little steep.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:20] Adam: By that view, it’s a little steep, but I like it.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:21] Erik: A little steep?
[0:16:21 – 0:16:22] Erik: Wow, look at this wall of text.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:24] Erik: You get to read.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:25] Adam: You want to read all that?
[0:16:25 – 0:16:26] Adam: Jesus, who did this?
[0:16:27 – 0:16:29] Adam: This is some poor HTML.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:30] Adam: I’m in.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:31] Adam: Yeah, I can read.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:33] Adam: Campsite 2, the island campsite.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:38] Adam: I’ve got some thoughts on island camping, and I have no idea what I said.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:40] Erik: I wrote this years, many years ago.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:41] Adam: This is from Young Eric.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Erik: Young me.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:53] Adam: The concept of camping on a remote island within the BWCA always tickles the intrinsic animal instinct of providing safety and comfort.
[0:16:54 – 0:17:03] Adam: Especially when scanning the map, it seems our eyes always gravitate towards the red dots that find themselves out in the middle of the blue and our imaginations run wild.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:16] Adam: There are excellent island campsites out there, but it seems in my experience the ideas that get built up in anticipation greatly over-represent what you will typically find on an island campsite in actuality.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:24] Adam: I think the feeling that island campsites typically underwhelm is due to building them up in our minds before we actually see them.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:30] Adam: In reality, the blueprint of an island campsite in the BWCA is pretty much the same as any other.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:37] Adam: Though harder to quantify, there is always an added feeling of unique safety that comes from finding yourself
[0:17:37 – 0:17:38] Adam: camped on an island.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:44] Adam: With all that in mind, it can be said that this campsite is pretty underwhelming in person.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:52] Adam: It has a nice little landing with a huge white pine that greets you, but then the path leads up into a camp and that’s where things start to disappoint.
[0:17:53 – 0:18:03] Adam: Sitting atop the middle of the island, any of the physical proof of your existence on an island is removed by the fact that the campsite itself is entirely surrounded by forest.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:09] Adam: A couple of somewhat uneven tent pads can be found along with ample hammock space as well.
[0:18:10 – 0:18:16] Adam: The fire-grade area is probably the most disappointing feature here, though, as it feels pretty shabby.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:26] Adam: The grade itself is very close to the ground, is surrounded by a single log bench, and looks out into a wall of tree.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:31] Adam: Maybe I am being too hard on this spot, but on paper, it’s pretty lackluster.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:35] Adam: I guess the concept of island camping boosts this somewhat.
[0:18:36 – 0:18:43] Adam: Tent pads 2, landing B+, fire grade area C-, overall C. Aye, aye, aye.
[0:18:44 – 0:18:51] Adam: Yeah, it’s an island campsite, and it’s hard to give an island campsite a C. I have been here, though, and I had a great time.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:52] Adam: I didn’t camp, though.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:53] Adam: Just a lunch spot, Eric.
[0:18:55 – 0:19:07] Adam: I would have graded it higher in my memory than a C for sure, but that’s because we literally fired up the hand crank radio and heard a Jordy Nelson touchdown while we were eating our salami lunch there.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:32] Adam: yeah and like i said at the onset i had wished in hindsight that we had just stayed because we ended up on a real s hole uh uh i think we were on vista one a real s hole which we’ll get to in the next part of this series i don’t even think i reviewed the it’s bad it was like literally it was just they ended up there because it was the last spot available as it got dark
[0:19:32 – 0:19:40] Adam: And then we were all in there and we’re like, wow, we could have had that island on Little Trout and not killed ourselves going into Miskwa today.
[0:19:40 – 0:19:46] Erik: Yeah, we paddled by and just saw like a full burlap sack full of mosquitoes and just kept going.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:48] Adam: Yeah, no, that Vista one site, aye, aye, aye.
[0:19:48 – 0:19:49] Adam: Aye, aye, aye.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:50] Adam: It stinks, Eric.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:55] Adam: But this, I think you’re going to be, I think you’re a little harsh on the island.
[0:19:55 – 0:19:57] Adam: It seemed like there was multiple landings, too.
[0:19:57 – 0:19:59] Adam: Did you explore this possibility?
[0:19:59 – 0:20:03] Adam: I feel like there was multiple different landings.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:05] Adam: The landing that we did find was pretty good.
[0:20:05 – 0:20:07] Adam: It’s not that big of an island, really, but…
[0:20:08 – 0:20:09] Adam: Yeah, you’re right, though.
[0:20:09 – 0:20:12] Adam: The campsite itself is kind of just up in the middle of the island.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:18] Adam: You can barely even see the lake from any direction, which is weird for an island campsite.
[0:20:18 – 0:20:19] Adam: I’ll give it that.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:28] Erik: I am surprised now looking forward to campsite three that campsite three has a higher grading, which is the last campsite on the lake.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:44] Erik: On the northeast corner, kind of in a back bay, and my thoughts and my feelings on this campsite from, man, I don’t know, six, seven years ago?
[0:20:44 – 0:20:44] Erik: 2002.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:53] Erik: Tucked around the backside of a point on the north shore of the lake is where you will find this quaint little campsite.
[0:20:54 – 0:21:02] Erik: It has an average landing and decent little fire green area that offers up close views of the lake, which I can imagine make for a lovely evening around the fire.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:03] Erik: Because of the fire.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:12] Erik: The tent pads and hammock options can be found out the back of the site with views of the lake on the other side, considering it is located on a point.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:18] Erik: Overall, a very private, nice site that might be the best one on the lake depending on how you quantify island life.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:19] Erik: Quantified.
[0:21:20 – 0:21:25] Erik: Yeah, if you’re an island boy, yeah, probably not the best site.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:28] Erik: But tent pads 2, C plus landing, fighter grade B.
[0:21:29 – 0:21:30] Erik: Overall, B.
[0:21:30 – 0:21:32] Adam: The island site got the worst grade.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:34] Erik: Interesting.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:35] Erik: It kind of did.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:39] Erik: Yeah, who HTML’d this page?
[0:21:39 – 0:21:40] Adam: Why is RAM over there?
[0:21:40 – 0:21:41] Adam: Right justified.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:42] Adam: The hell’s going on here?
[0:21:43 – 0:21:44] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:21:44 – 0:21:45] Adam: Maybe JavaScript that thing.
[0:21:46 – 0:21:47] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:49] Erik: Well, we’re moving on.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:51] Adam: No campsites on rum.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:51] Erik: No.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:52] Adam: I’m going to go ahead and say it.
[0:21:52 – 0:21:54] Erik: No campsites on rum or croft.
[0:21:55 – 0:21:57] Adam: Yeah, I’m okay with that, but I don’t know.
[0:21:57 – 0:21:59] Adam: I kind of wouldn’t mind camping on rum.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:03] Erik: I think there’s a little island on one of those lakes, isn’t there?
[0:22:04 – 0:22:04] Erik: Tiny.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:09] Adam: Definitely not campable, but I mean, anything’s campable if you try hard enough.
[0:22:10 – 0:22:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:12] Erik: Or if you’re in Quetico.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:15] Adam: So, yeah.
[0:22:16 – 0:22:17] Adam: Ram, though.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:18] Adam: Ram is pretty nice.
[0:22:19 – 0:22:20] Adam: Have you ever camped on a ram?
[0:22:21 – 0:22:22] Erik: I’ve camped at both sites.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:22] Adam: You have?
[0:22:22 – 0:22:24] Adam: Wow, all right.
[0:22:24 – 0:22:24] Adam: I’m not.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:26] Adam: I’m not at all.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:29] Adam: I’ve been in there a few times, but not camped.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:34] Adam: This beautiful 70-acre Entry Point Lake offers two great campsites.
[0:22:35 – 0:22:39] Adam: Decent fishing for both lake and rainbow trout and relative solitude.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:47] Adam: Access is via an entirely uphill 90-rod portage from the east with permit for Entry Point 44…
[0:22:50 – 0:22:51] Erik: 44.
[0:22:52 – 0:22:53] Erik: Do they use the numbers anymore?
[0:22:53 – 0:22:54] Erik: I don’t even know.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:59] Adam: What are you giving this Q&A?
[0:23:00 – 0:23:01] Adam: Widowmaker, by the way.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:04] Adam: I’m giving it a 5 out of 7 black lungs.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:09] Adam: Oh, my.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:11] Adam: I’m going to give it a four.
[0:23:11 – 0:23:13] Adam: I’m going to give it a four out of five.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:17] Erik: Gravelly.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:19] Adam: Yeah, you got it.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:20] Adam: You got it.
[0:23:22 – 0:23:24] Adam: Don’t let the tough portage discourage you, though.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:26] Adam: The climb is definitely worth it.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:30] Adam: I’ve seen people flip a snowmobile on this portage.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:30] Adam: Backwards.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:31] Erik: Because it’s so steep.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] Erik: It’s that steep.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:33] Adam: It’s ridiculous.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:43] Adam: There is something deeply satisfying about paddling across this lake on a calm morning with sunlight streaking through the crystal blue clear waters beneath you.
[0:23:44 – 0:23:48] Adam: There are solid numbers of good-sized lake trout in those clean waters as well.
[0:23:49 – 0:23:54] Adam: And though not represented in any surveys, it has been stocked with rainbow trout in the past.
[0:23:55 – 0:24:01] Adam: Any experience with catching rainbow trout here will typically be of the fingerling variety.
[0:24:01 – 0:24:02] Adam: Campsite 1!
[0:24:03 – 0:24:03] Adam: Campsite 1!
[0:24:04 – 0:24:04] Adam: Hello!
[0:24:05 – 0:24:07] Adam: Does anybody have any questions?
[0:24:08 – 0:24:10] Adam: Sitting right up next to the stunningly clear waters.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Adam: Hello.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:12] Adam: Look at that.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:15] Adam: It’s like a tropical beach scene there.
[0:24:15 – 0:24:16] Adam: That’s crazy, clear water.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:24] Adam: Sitting right up next to the stunningly clear waters of this lake is a spot just east of the portage into Croft Lake.
[0:24:25 – 0:24:26] Adam: Croftay.
[0:24:27 – 0:24:36] Adam: Large boulders do make the landing a bit tricky, but the fire grade area is well laid out and its proximity to the water makes it for easy slip bobber fishing.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:41] Adam: And the drop off from the camp makes for easy casting as well.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:42] Adam: There you go.
[0:24:43 – 0:24:51] Adam: There are at least two tent pads in this site, though probably closer to three with nice hammock options out of the back into the woods as well.
[0:24:51 – 0:24:56] Adam: For what it’s worth, this is a great area to find roofed grouse in the fall.
[0:24:57 – 0:25:01] Adam: As Eric said, this is a real surf and turf multi-kill operation.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:07] Adam: Dealey Bob, pretty nice area for the old surf and turf.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:08] Adam: We didn’t get the grades.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:10] Adam: You got to scroll back up there.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:11] Adam: Tent pads, two plus.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:12] Adam: Landing, C plus.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:14] Adam: Fire grade area, B.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:15] Adam: Killing is an A.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:17] Adam: And overall, this is a B plus.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:20] Erik: First time we’ve seen the killing grade.
[0:25:20 – 0:25:21] Erik: I didn’t know you did that.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:22] Adam: Killing grades.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:23] Adam: That’s a rare grade there.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:24] Adam: Very nice.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:27] Adam: Oh, there’s a…
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] Frenchy: I see somebody in a canoe.
[0:25:29 – 0:25:31] Frenchy: Oh, my.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:35] Adam: This next one is one where you could probably walk to in a pinch.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:37] Adam: Maybe you’ll get to that in the overview.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:39] SPEAKER_01: You’re spoiling the surprise.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:48] Erik: I am not aware of any access to Campsite 2 on RAMP, but I’m sure there’s probably some gorilla trails in the woods.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:49] Erik: Yeah, you can sneak it.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:49] Erik: I’ve sneaked it.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:54] Erik: Trip lines and booby traps and Viet Cong pits.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:57] Adam: Oh, there’s pits and tunnels.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:58] Adam: Spiked pits?
[0:25:58 – 0:25:58] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:00] Adam: You don’t want to end up in one of those.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:01 – 0:26:01] Adam: Let me tell you.
[0:26:01 – 0:26:03] Adam: Spike those tips with rabies.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:04] Adam: Pro tip early.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:06] Adam: Don’t fall in the pits.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:09] Erik: Do not fall in the pits at Campsite 2.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:13] Erik: Besides that, this is one of the more unique spots in the area.
[0:26:13 – 0:26:18] Erik: It is perched high atop a massive slab of Canadian Shield.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] Erik: Where did it get the visa?
[0:26:21 – 0:26:25] Erik: Offering unimpeded views of almost the entire lake below.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:36] Erik: The biggest drawback to this campsite is the landing area and its options, especially when it comes to trying to get gear from that landing up to camp.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:45] Adam: yeah you do need some ropes yeah you need a kevin bacon belay situation you do wear a helmet for sure wear your helmets
[0:26:46 – 0:26:50] Adam: When you’re pulling the Duluth back up or down, get your helmets out.
[0:26:50 – 0:26:51] Erik: Yeah, both up and down.
[0:26:51 – 0:27:09] Erik: And if it’s going to be windy and you don’t want to have your canoe just like kind of very near, not that it’s a big lake, but getting a canoe up in the camp, I think you’d probably be better off just like plunging it into the woods and tying it off to a tree down at the landing, which is not great either.
[0:27:09 – 0:27:12] Adam: Yeah, as long as you tie it off.
[0:27:12 – 0:27:16] Adam: I noticed you did not note this, but there is a rope bridge also.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:18] Adam: It can be a lot of fun.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:23] Erik: Just remember, if you want to keep it from wobbling, you have to straddle your legs out hard.
[0:27:23 – 0:27:27] Adam: Yeah, push out on the guide rails.
[0:27:28 – 0:27:29] Erik: There is one…
[0:27:34 – 0:27:36] Erik: This is a comment about landings.
[0:27:37 – 0:27:56] Erik: Just to refresh everybody’s memories, if you get too lost in the comments about whitewater summer, there is one right alongside the rock slab that is the closest to camp, but carrying a pack up the narrow path seems dicey at best, and there really isn’t any place to store the canoe.
[0:27:56 – 0:28:03] Erik: Though farther away from camp, there is a second landing with more open space down the lake a bit further.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:15] Erik: Once you get all your gear hauled up into camp, you will be treated to a perfectly perched fire-grade area with plenty of space behind for a number of tents and hammocks.
[0:28:16 – 0:28:17] Erik: Three pads.
[0:28:18 – 0:28:18] Erik: Sea landing.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:21] Erik: Sea minus, I should say.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:23] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:28:24 – 0:28:26] Erik: Solid A fire great area overall.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:27] Erik: B plus.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:36] Erik: I think it’s my lock of the week favorite campsite from the two lakes mentioned already.
[0:28:36 – 0:28:37] Adam: This is the best one.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:39] Adam: The one right by the landing.
[0:28:39 – 0:28:40] Adam: I think it is.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:41] Adam: By the main port of gin.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:51] Erik: It’s not one of those issues where you’re not going to have to be worrying about it with the only single permit allowed in per day.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:55] Erik: It’s not, you know, you’re not going to be watching a stream of people going in or out.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:57] Erik: Maybe a little bit out.
[0:28:57 – 0:28:58] Erik: Maybe.
[0:28:58 – 0:29:01] Erik: Depending on how people are breaking up their trips.
[0:29:01 – 0:29:05] Erik: But this is, I think, Ram.
[0:29:08 – 0:29:26] Erik: is kind of a nice i don’t know if i would necessarily say like first time trip but a great like quick trip you want to just get in yeah get in like a pretty hell like a pretty solid like boundary waters experience it’s not like
[0:29:27 – 0:29:33] Erik: well, let’s just go and we’ll just get a Lake One permit and we’ll go find the first campsite we get to.
[0:29:34 – 0:29:39] Erik: And then you spend the whole time just watching 30 groups paddle by all day.
[0:29:39 – 0:29:41] Adam: Or even like SAG, like RAM.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:43] Adam: It’s its own little thing there.
[0:29:43 – 0:29:46] Erik: It kind of offers just like that perfect with one permit a day.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:49] Erik: Pretty remote off the beaten path.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:52] Erik: You’re already down some pretty remote roads.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:55] Erik: I think it even could be a pretty good time for even first-timers.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:08] Adam: It’s a little tough, I would say, but it is also reasonably easy for like if you want to just do like a one or two nighter or something.
[0:30:09 – 0:30:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:09 – 0:30:17] Adam: You’re not going to have to expend too much energy getting in there, but it’s enough of a difficulty where it will kind of keep, as I think you said earlier, the riffraff out.
[0:30:18 – 0:30:26] Erik: Yeah, and what the other option would be is, hey, first or second, you’re kind of feeling your way into what you’re capable of.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:28] Erik: You know, whatever.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:30] Erik: Get it a relatively early start.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:33] Erik: Almost a guarantee you’re going to get a site on RAM.
[0:30:34 – 0:30:42] Erik: Maybe you get out there, you spend a day, and it’s kind of like, okay, I’ve sort of got an idea on this Boundary Waters thing.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:45] Erik: And then you can give yourself a little bit more of that experience by…
[0:30:47 – 0:31:07] Erik: portaging and paddling two more lakes in and then finding a site on little trout it could be i mean a pretty solid like four-day trip for kind of beginners who also really like to fish because if you don’t really like to fish then you’re gonna move doing here yeah you’re gonna move well past this area go shooting
[0:31:08 – 0:31:09] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:31:09 – 0:31:14] Erik: You could just walk the trails outside of either of those two campsites on Ram.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:16] Erik: There’s definitely grouse in there.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:18] Erik: At least there were a few years ago.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:22] Adam: That’s a cyclical population.
[0:31:22 – 0:31:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:24] Erik: It’s a good start, though.
[0:31:24 – 0:31:28] Erik: I mean, and then we will be talking in the near future about how you could extend this.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:34] Erik: You could do a coordination with an outfitter to either have a vehicle dropped
[0:31:35 – 0:31:39] Erik: on one side or the other, or have a planned pickup time.
[0:31:39 – 0:31:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:41 – 0:31:46] Erik: Or you could get dropped off by an outfitter and then end at a place where there’s a phone.
[0:31:47 – 0:32:01] Erik: Any of the conversations that I ever had with people who were trying to put together routes in this section of the Bajewaters, the skin tag section of the Bajewaters, as we’ve mentioned, is it’s always easier to start at Ram than to end there because…
[0:32:02 – 0:32:15] Erik: It’s probably in the 90th percentile of Boundary Water’s entry points that is an almost guarantee that you’re not going to have any kind of a cell phone coverage or
[0:32:17 – 0:32:46] Erik: arguably you probably aren’t even going to be able to pick up art bell on the am radio right in this spot are you probably in there arguably it’s in the it’s in the deep of the misquot i was going to say it’s probably arguably up there with like probably like bower trout ram and then maybe a couple of i don’t even know if they would necessarily qualify some soft underbelly entry points in terms of like just how remote they are
[0:32:47 – 0:32:51] Erik: No cell phone service and like how far you are from like a major road.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:52] Erik: Yeah, no.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:54] Erik: I mean, it’s a holiday into those spots, you know.
[0:32:54 – 0:33:07] Erik: Like Bower Trout, if you come out of there and your outfitter is not there, like you’re looking at a mile hike out to the closest road, which is then maybe in the summer, like a vehicle an hour.
[0:33:07 – 0:33:08] Erik: Maybe.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:08] Erik: Maybe.
[0:33:09 – 0:33:12] Erik: I mean, maybe you could hike down to the campground.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:17] Erik: So you have to be a little bit more careful about coordinating.
[0:33:18 – 0:33:19] Erik: And most outfitters are good.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:24] Erik: Obviously, mistakes happen, but it doesn’t happen very often at all.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:34] Erik: But it is a little bit easier on the mind to know that you are ending at a place where either you have access to your vehicle, access to a phone, or access to an outfitter or something.
[0:33:34 – 0:33:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:33:35 – 0:33:50] Erik: My recommendation going forward in the couple of episodes that we’re going to have here would be to start at Ram or Bower Trout or Morgan and head up and west and north instead of ending at them.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:54] Adam: Yeah, it’s definitely a riskier play ending at Ram.
[0:33:54 – 0:34:07] Erik: But if you’ve got two or three vehicles, four or six people, then yeah, park one at Ram, park one at Bower Trout, park one at Morgan, park one at Ram, and do a loop to have access to both vehicles.
[0:34:07 – 0:34:20] Erik: But even worst case, beyond that, you could do a park at one of them, get off the water early, and then plan on a walk down the grade.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:23] Erik: on the off chance you might run into a vehicle.
[0:34:23 – 0:34:31] Erik: And if you don’t, then sure, you’ve got about an hour to an hour and a half hike from any of those entry points to get a vehicle.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:36] Adam: Yeah, I guess I’m pretty intrigued by the idea of just going in at Ram and then back out.
[0:34:37 – 0:34:37] Adam: Sure.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:40] Adam: And just staying at Little Trout for a couple nights.
[0:34:40 – 0:34:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:46] Adam: You know, I had a chance at it, and I passed on it, and I kind of regret it.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:55] Adam: I wish I had stayed on Little Trout, even though, as we’ve just seen, none of the campsites in here got a glowing review, but the solitude, though, what’s that worth?
[0:34:55 – 0:34:56] Adam: Yeah, it’s a quaint little trip.
[0:34:56 – 0:35:01] Adam: The killing grades are amazing in here, and I’d kind of like to make a trip of this.
[0:35:01 – 0:35:09] Erik: Yeah, not always, but in the last half a year, putting a large blanket, because I’m not 100% sure when this is coming out.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:10] Erik: What year is it?
[0:35:10 – 0:35:17] Erik: Putting out a huge blanket on the conversation about how different likes came to a house party.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:18] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:35:18 – 0:35:22] Erik: I feel like Ram and or Little Trout, they didn’t come to the house party.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:26] Erik: They’re still sitting at home in their one-room log cabin knitting.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:28] Erik: peacefully next to the fire.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:30 – 0:35:36] Erik: Ram and or little trout is the bear from the cover of Sleepy Time Tea.
[0:35:37 – 0:36:01] Adam: oh yeah such a cozy scene there’s some cozy lakes they are cozy yeah the cozy little chain the little cozy chain the wind it’s yeah it might pick up like the idea of this being the whatever the skin tag region maybe this is just the slippers of the boundary waters yeah skin tag that’s a little nasty yeah let’s think about it i mean slippers can be nasty too but they’re also cozy
[0:36:01 – 0:36:02] Adam: Fresh slippers.
[0:36:02 – 0:36:04] Adam: Yeah, the cozy slipper.
[0:36:04 – 0:36:06] Erik: Warms next to the fire.
[0:36:06 – 0:36:11] Adam: Of the Boundary Waters, and that’s a nice thing, and I think anybody would want to camp there.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:37] Erik: Yeah, I’m glad we came around on a description of this section and that we have the opportunity to spend the last little bit here trying to get the picture of skin tags out of your mind and cozy bears napping in rocking chairs into it because that is actually, at the end of the day, what I feel like describes this section of the bonjour is much more appropriately.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:39] Adam: It does, yeah, for sure.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:47] Adam: All right, well, you know, cozy up next to the fire, maybe throw an extra log of cedar in there, and get out your kebabs.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:54] Adam: Hopefully you packed a nice kebab that is 90% shrimp and put that on the fire grate.
[0:36:54 – 0:36:57] Adam: You’re going to have yourself a really good time.
[0:36:57 – 0:37:06] Adam: For Tumble Home Boundary Waters Podcast, coming to you from the coziest section of the park, my name has been Adam.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:12] Adam: and I’m feeling pretty snuggly, and I’m joining here in K2 with my good friend Eric.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:14] Adam: Thank you for being here tonight, Eric.
[0:37:15 – 0:37:21] Adam: I think it’s time for us to maybe prepare some s’mores to maybe wash down these kebabs.
[0:37:22 – 0:37:24] Erik: I’m going to start a kettle of tea.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:37:25 – 0:37:31] Erik: And imagine myself in that cover of Sleepy Time Tea.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:37] Adam: Yeah, maybe we’ll read a story after we’re done with the tea.
[0:37:37 – 0:37:40] Adam: The coziest of skin tags.
[0:37:40 – 0:37:41] Erik: No!
[0:37:41 – 0:37:42] Erik: No, not skin tags.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:43] Erik: We’re done with those.
[0:37:43 – 0:37:45] Erik: I got those surgically removed.
[0:37:45 – 0:37:46] Erik: Tint, tint.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:47] SPEAKER_01: Bum, bum, bum, bum.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:47] Adam: Tint, tint.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:48] Adam: Tint, tint.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:49] UNKNOWN: Tint, tint.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:51] SPEAKER_01: Tint, tint.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:07] Frenchy: A way out west there was a fella.
[0:38:08 – 0:38:10] Frenchy: Fella I want to tell you about.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:13] Frenchy: Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.
[0:38:13 – 0:38:19] Frenchy: At least that was the end of his love in Parangavim, but he never had much use for it himself.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:24] Frenchy: This Lebowski, he called himself the dude.
[0:38:24 – 0:38:28] Frenchy: Now, dude, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:35] Frenchy: But then, there was a law about the dude that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:38] Frenchy: And a law about where he lived like, wise.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:43] Frenchy: But then again, maybe that’s why I found the place during the dinarista.
