150: Gordy and the Alice Lake Orb

Episode Transcript

[0:00:01 – 0:00:02] Erik: Welcome to Studio O.
[0:00:03 – 0:00:05] Erik: This is a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:05 – 0:00:06] Erik: My name is Eric.
[0:00:08 – 0:00:10] Adam: I am Francois Le Castor.
[0:00:11 – 0:00:13] Adam: Thank you for having me here at Studio O.
[0:00:13 – 0:00:16] Adam: Quite foggy, but windy here up the trail today.
[0:00:16 – 0:00:19] Erik: Yeah, we had a flip of the switch on the weather.
[0:00:19 – 0:00:25] Erik: It was 85 and jungly out there yesterday, and it’s looking like October weather out there now.
[0:00:26 – 0:00:27] Adam: I do like it.
[0:00:27 – 0:00:28] Adam: It’s nice.
[0:00:28 – 0:00:29] Erik: I prefer this.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:36] Erik: Coming in with a short intro track before we get back to our regularly scheduled in-the-field recordings.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:42] Adam: I’m sure it’s all reasonable field mic recordings as per usual for us.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:42] Erik: Yeah.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:46] Erik: This is what we usually, for the most part, always sound like.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:51] Erik: Be prepared for a roller coaster of emotions coming up here.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:52] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:54] Erik: I think maybe things were said.
[0:00:54 – 0:00:55] Erik: All is right with the world.
[0:00:55 – 0:00:57] Erik: We’re going to be fine.
[0:00:57 – 0:01:05] Erik: But one of the main reasons that we wanted to just quick jump on and do this is because the beer fridge, my God, the beer fridge.
[0:01:05 – 0:01:30] Erik: bless you all bless you bless your hearts bless you everyone we’re gonna just we’re gonna have a couple of little intro sponsors to to not necessarily get some beer out of the way but at the end of the day yeah that’s what we’re doing and i’m thirsty i had a long day at work you know and just to be clear like the field audio is not even close to ended i think we had some people thinking like that was maybe it for the trip yeah oh one four or nine but uh
[0:01:31 – 0:01:36] Adam: This is a ceremonial 150th episode of Tumble Home.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:37] Adam: 1-5-0.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:37] Adam: Crazy.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:38] Adam: I know.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:40] Adam: I feel like we just did 100.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:40] Erik: I know.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:42] Erik: And also, didn’t we just do 100?
[0:01:43 – 0:01:43] Adam: We did.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:46] Erik: What is that, a sesquicentennial now we’re at?
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] Adam: Oh, my gosh, it sure is.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:56] Adam: And so, you know, good excuse to drive up the trail here to Clearwater and hang out here in studio with my best man, Eric.
[0:01:57 – 0:02:01] Erik: Yeah, we’re cracking some sponsors to just make space for more.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:04] Erik: I’ve got things, like, queued up that need to, like, get into the fridge.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:10] Adam: I have, like, multiple people a day at this point, like, sending me messages on Instagram, like, where should we drop off…
[0:02:10 – 0:02:11] Adam: Art supplies.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:13] Adam: Yeah, you just keep dropping them off.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:14] Adam: We got room.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:15] Erik: We’ll give them a good home.
[0:02:15 – 0:02:21] Erik: Don’t, by any stretch of the imagination, let it sound like we’re coming off as this is a bad thing.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:26] Adam: We put the staff members here at Clearwater that broke into the beer fridge, we put them in the dungeon.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:27] Adam: We just put them down.
[0:02:27 – 0:02:28] Adam: We sent a few of them south.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:32] Adam: So they’re not a problem anymore.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:38] Adam: So rest assured, all your donations will go to Tumble Home and the beer fridge is safely secured.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:39] Erik: It’s safely secured.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:47] Erik: And then also you came up, not just for a five minute intro, but we’re also going to be getting TCC fired back up again.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:48] Erik: The projector has been cool.
[0:02:49 – 0:02:52] Erik: It’s like collecting dust in the corner, but she’s hot.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:56] Erik: We’re going to fire it up for our $5 a month patrons.
[0:02:56 – 0:02:57] Erik: We’re finally doing it.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:59] Erik: We’re finally getting to stand by me.
[0:03:00 – 0:03:01] Adam: Absolutely.
[0:03:01 – 0:03:04] Adam: And I think we both watched it yesterday.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:07] Adam: I haven’t watched that movie in probably 15 years.
[0:03:08 – 0:03:09] Erik: So it was new to me.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:13] Erik: There’s so many scenes from movies like that where you’re just like, oh, yeah, I think I’ve seen this.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:16] Adam: I remember the leeches and everything else was like, oh, wow.
[0:03:17 – 0:03:18] Erik: Yeah.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:21] Erik: I’m pretty sure I hadn’t seen it, but there were so many scenes where I was like, I think I’ve seen this.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:24] Adam: Probably my favorite Rob Reiner film.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:27] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:03:27 – 0:03:27] Adam: Preview.
[0:03:27 – 0:03:29] Adam: It’s going to get a high mark from me.
[0:03:29 – 0:03:30] Erik: That’s saying something.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:39] Erik: I have some questions on the narration and how that hall, like the timeline on how.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:42] Adam: It was pretty jarring to have a double Dreyfus feature.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:43] Adam: Yeah, back to back Dreyfus.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:45] Adam: From always to stand by me.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:47] Erik: And he’s in like two scenes.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:48] Erik: No.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:49] Adam: Powerful.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:49] Adam: Powerful.
[0:03:49 – 0:03:50] Adam: Very powerful scenes.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:51] Erik: Old Gordy.
[0:03:52 – 0:03:54] Erik: I’ve got some theories on the whole thing.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:55] Erik: Oh, good.
[0:03:55 – 0:03:59] Erik: So if you want to finally listen to us talk about Stand By Me, that one’s going to be up by the time this comes out.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:01] Erik: And we did promise three this month.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:03] Erik: We’re for sure doing Lebowski.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:03] Erik: We’re doing Lebowski.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:06] Erik: And then you had a potential audible for us.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:06] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:07] Adam: I want to do Aquaman.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:11] Erik: Something about Jason Momoa.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:11] Adam: I can’t.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Adam: Well, he’s a real hunk.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:14] Adam: He’s a real looker.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:15] Adam: That one.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:17] Adam: I mean, hubba hubba.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:20] Adam: I heard he somehow drinks beer underwater.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:23] Adam: Can’t wait to find out how that would end his name in the movie.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:24] Adam: Arthur Curry.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:27] Adam: Not what I was expecting from Aquaman.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:27] Adam: No, not at all.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:44] Adam: I have no idea what to expect from this movie, but I was going on and on at work about my theories on the merpeople and the upcoming disclosure event that’s going to occur in July and warfare in the South China Sea and intelligent life under the waters.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:47] Adam: And Adrian just goes, have you seen Aquaman?
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Adam: And I go, no.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:49] Adam: He’s like, you really should.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:53] Adam: Basically, you’ve summed up the entire movie with your conspiracy theories.
[0:04:54 – 0:05:04] Adam: So more of a vehicle for us to talk about merpeople and that possibly that humans aren’t the most intelligent species on this planet and that the call was coming from within the house this entire time.
[0:05:05 – 0:05:06] Adam: They’re not aliens.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:08] Adam: They’ve always been here in the oceans.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:16] Erik: Yeah, by that quote, I’m assuming that you have listened to the Unidentified Submerged Objects.
[0:05:16 – 0:05:17] Erik: Absolutely, yeah.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:18] Adam: Pretty good.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:19] Adam: I do like that.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:26] Adam: So anyways, that I think will be our third, although I don’t have the right kind of HBO, so I’m going to have to actually rent this one.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:28] Erik: Go down to the red box at holiday.
[0:05:28 – 0:05:30] Adam: Go down to the red box and get a DVD Aquaman.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:32] Erik: It’s probably not in a red box anymore.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:34] Erik: Cause it’s kind of like not that new anymore.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:35] Erik: It’s like four years old.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:35] Erik: Cool enough.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:41] Adam: I was assured that the special effects would be great, but I’m more interested in the theories of the, the mer people.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:41] Adam: But, uh,
[0:05:42 – 0:05:47] Adam: So that’s your preview on what’s coming up this month on TCC on the Cinema Classics.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:50] Adam: We’re getting up there on Cinema Classics.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] Adam: 150 regular episodes.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:56] Adam: We’re going to hit 25 Tumble Home Cinema Classics this month.
[0:05:56 – 0:05:57] Adam: Untold numbers of
[0:05:58 – 0:06:22] Erik: express episodes and other nonsense untold yeah and if you if you have subscribed to our patreon patreon page thank you patrons i am like two months behind in getting stuff shipped out i do i know you exist um we love you i’m just i’m very busy but um we’re not busy to where we’re going next before we get there we have to be sponsored by some public house
[0:06:23 – 0:06:26] Erik: Dry Fly, Session, India Pale Ale.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:28] Erik: These came to us from Jason.
[0:06:29 – 0:06:31] Erik: Dropped them off in, I think, one of the first days we were open.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:34] Erik: Jason Momoa, star of Aquaman.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:40] Adam: Thank you, Arthur Curry and Jason, for these beers.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:41] Adam: Oh, my.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:46] Adam: These are shucking up in the Ozarks.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:47] Adam: The fly on here is looking really nice.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:49] Erik: I think they maybe got a little too cold.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:52] Erik: Like this one’s actually frozen.
[0:06:52 – 0:06:52] Adam: Oh.
[0:06:53 – 0:06:55] Erik: So that’s probably why it foamed like that.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:57] Erik: I guess I got to turn down the beer fridge.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:57] Erik: My Lord.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:58] Erik: Take it easy.
[0:06:58 – 0:06:59] Erik: I’m going to go do that right now.
[0:07:00 – 0:07:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:00 – 0:07:02] Adam: Well, you’re going to have to get that taken care of.
[0:07:02 – 0:07:03] Adam: Yep.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:03] Adam: But yeah.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:07] Adam: Anyways, thanks for everybody, you know, for the art supplies.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:09] Adam: the future art spies that are on their way.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:18] Adam: Uh, thank you for everybody that’s listening and enjoying our in the field audio and, putting up with our shenanigans and, uh,
[0:07:19 – 0:07:20] Adam: That’s what it’s all about.
[0:07:20 – 0:07:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:22] Adam: And maybe by next week.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:22] Adam: What in tarnation?
[0:07:23 – 0:07:24] Erik: What in tarnation?
[0:07:24 – 0:07:26] Adam: We’re going to introduce you to the bun blower.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:30] Adam: We’re going to get to, this week, learn a little bit more about our new friend, the duck.
[0:07:30 – 0:07:34] Erik: Oh, he does come into his own as his own character.
[0:07:34 – 0:07:36] Erik: And we did officially file papers.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:39] Erik: He is now legally our adopted son.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:41 – 0:07:42] Adam: We brought him into the home.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:45] Adam: We’re making him a quilt.
[0:07:45 – 0:07:47] Erik: Oh, that’s very nice.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:47] Adam: He’s going to stay cozy.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:51] Adam: Each panel is a different day of his adventures.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:51] Erik: Exactly.
[0:07:52 – 0:07:53] Erik: The pictographs.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:55] Erik: The group of seven canoes.
[0:07:56 – 0:07:57] Erik: The beaches of Alice.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:02] Erik: And so many more things that we’re going to find out about right now.
[0:08:15 – 0:08:18] Erik: What are you giving the dry flies from Jason?
[0:08:19 – 0:08:27] Adam: The artwork alone is worth a high grade, but the dry fly, the Session Ale, pretty darn good.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:31] Adam: I’m going to go ahead and give it six out of five mmms.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:35] Erik: Yeah, and we kind of blew right by where these are from.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:38] Erik: They’re from St. James, Missouri.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:48] Erik: And I don’t know who Al Agnew is, but I’m sure by me saying that, I’m going to be truly exposed as somebody who doesn’t know anything about fly fishing.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:50] Erik: Al Agnew?
[0:08:51 – 0:08:52] Adam: You got Al Agnew fly?
[0:08:52 – 0:08:55] Adam: The Al Agnew?
[0:08:55 – 0:08:59] Adam: He’s like the James Audubon of flies, for sure.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:00] Adam: He just draws them?
[0:09:00 – 0:09:02] Adam: Yeah, and ties them.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:02] Adam: Oh.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:06] Adam: So, well, you know, business calls.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:07] Adam: All right, back to the show.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:33] Adam: Welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:36] Adam: We’re coming to you live from the beach on Alice.
[0:09:37 – 0:09:41] Adam: This is the nicest beach I have ever been on.
[0:09:41 – 0:09:43] Adam: I’m joined by my good friend, Eric.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:44] Adam: My name is Francois Lecastre.
[0:09:44 – 0:09:45] Adam: Hello, Eric.
[0:09:45 – 0:09:46] Adam: Hello.
[0:09:46 – 0:09:49] Erik: Nicest beach is just in general of all time or in the Boundary Waters?
[0:09:50 – 0:09:51] Adam: All-time number one.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:53] Adam: Going right to the top of the list.
[0:09:53 – 0:09:55] Adam: I’ve been at some pretty nice Boundary Waters beaches.
[0:09:55 – 0:09:57] Adam: I’ve been at some beaches in the Pacific.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:58] Adam: Eric, have you ever heard of it?
[0:09:58 – 0:09:59] Adam: It’s an ocean.
[0:10:00 – 0:10:01] Adam: I have heard of the Pacific Ocean, yes.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:09] Adam: We’re out here in our underwear, and it’s 85 degrees, and life is good, folks.
[0:10:09 – 0:10:10] Adam: Let me tell you.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:11] Adam: Episode 0150.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:14] Adam: Is that the sesquicentennial?
[0:10:17 – 0:10:27] Adam: is brought to you by White Zinfandel boxed wine without the box and Fireball.
[0:10:27 – 0:10:29] Adam: I guess we also have Fireball.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:32] Adam: We got a double rare, double sponsorship.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: Possibly a Grackle.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:39] Erik: There’s been Grackles all day today.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:43] Adam: The Grackle migration is on.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:45] Adam: We’ve seen the baby goose today.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:53] Erik: We’re going to run down the whole trip between Lake 3 and where we are now, and that is definitely part of it.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:55] Erik: We didn’t just see one baby goose.
[0:10:56 – 0:10:57] Erik: One goose pup, as you called it.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:00] Adam: Turns out they’re pups.
[0:11:01 – 0:11:02] Adam: Turns out they’re pups.
[0:11:02 – 0:11:06] Adam: When you got more than five of them, the geeslings become goose pup.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:10] Erik: Sponsored, as always, by our friends on Patreon.
[0:11:11 – 0:11:11] Adam: Thank you.
[0:11:11 – 0:11:13] Erik: Thank you.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:16] Adam: A special shout-out to our friends on Patreon.
[0:11:17 – 0:11:19] Adam: This beach is incredible.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:24] Adam: We’re really enjoying it, and you’re all here with us.
[0:11:24 – 0:11:25] Adam: We can feel it.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:27] Erik: I mean, this is…
[0:11:29 – 0:11:32] Erik: Yeah, we’ve already asked ourselves multiple times, like, is this real?
[0:11:33 – 0:11:39] Erik: It is maybe one of the largest sand beaches I’ve literally ever seen.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:40] Erik: And there is a campsite at it.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:42] Erik: And I mean, boy.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:43] Adam: Tom Hanks is here.
[0:11:43 – 0:11:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:44] Adam: Tom Hanks.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:45] Erik: Just Wilson.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:46] Erik: Tom Hanks is not here.
[0:11:48 – 0:11:50] Adam: It’s a pretty wild beach.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:51] Adam: It’s huge.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:51] Erik: It’s massive.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:55] Erik: We’ll do a full review on it tomorrow morning, but we should bring you up to speed.
[0:11:56 – 0:12:01] Erik: When we last left you, Adam was gingerly trotting towards the brown volcano on Lake 3.
[0:12:01 – 0:12:02] Erik: Did you make it?
[0:12:02 – 0:12:03] Adam: I was spryly trotting.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:06] Adam: I did go down the wrong trail at first.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:10] Adam: I was like, there might be consequences for this mistake.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:12] Adam: But I was able to backtrack.
[0:12:14 – 0:12:44] Erik: re uh equate myself with the trail and find the brown volcano and it had a lid yes it was a really nice looking brown volcano it is it was lidded it was close though i gotta i would be lying if i said it wasn’t it was close i know the uh two years ago when we were on the heart of the park trip we left you cliff cliff hung on the fact that uh there was a potential wildfire in the distance i think the cliffhanger of whether or not you were going to make it to the latrine just as intense
[0:12:46 – 0:12:46] Adam: It was close.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:50] Adam: Like I said, honestly, it was too close.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:51] Adam: Way too close.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:51] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:52] Erik: Too close.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:53] Erik: Too close for comfort.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:57] Adam: I think anybody who’s been in the Boundary Waters probably has been there.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:05] Adam: The consequences of a lot more meat in the diet and then instant coffee.
[0:13:06 – 0:13:09] Adam: Definitely has nothing to do with the amount of wine out of a bag we’ve drank.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:10] Erik: No.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:12] Adam: That had nothing to do with it at all.
[0:13:12 – 0:13:16] Erik: No, I mean, it’s a non-starter, non-factor.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:18] Adam: I’m getting a lot of sun, too.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Adam: I’m not used to that.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:21] Adam: I’m pretty pasty.
[0:13:21 – 0:13:25] Erik: Yeah, so we did finish…
[0:13:26 – 0:13:46] Erik: breakfast, packing up, and in the process of packing up, we were talking about how leading up to this trip, the impetus for choosing Lake One as an entry point was a bit of a meme decision based on some of the stories we had heard about how crazy the number chain is.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:47] Erik: And like…
[0:13:47 – 0:13:51] Erik: I didn’t really necessarily get a sense that it was like a zoo out there.
[0:13:51 – 0:13:57] Erik: But after we last left you, we were kind of in the final stages of packing up.
[0:13:57 – 0:14:07] Erik: And I think nine, if not more, canoes went by heading out and heading in.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:11] Erik: And there was one group of four tandem Kevlar’s.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:12] Erik: I’ve never seen this before.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:14] Erik: Four tandem Kevlar’s.
[0:14:14 – 0:14:14] Adam: Have you seen this?
[0:14:15 – 0:14:15] Adam: Have you heard about this?
[0:14:16 – 0:14:19] Erik: Out of eight people, there was one canoe paddle.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:21] Adam: All kayak paddles.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:24] Adam: And now, you know, we’re inclusive.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:27] Adam: All paddles and boats are welcome on Tumulam.
[0:14:28 – 0:14:29] Adam: We’ve never seen it before.
[0:14:29 – 0:14:30] Adam: And they were cruising, though.
[0:14:31 – 0:14:31] Adam: They were cruising.
[0:14:31 – 0:14:33] Adam: We did pass them eventually.
[0:14:33 – 0:14:35] Adam: Like, we did leave them in our dust a little, but…
[0:14:36 – 0:14:37] Adam: They were cruising.
[0:14:37 – 0:14:38] Adam: They were doing all right.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:41] Adam: Probably because we took the shortcut out of Lake 3.
[0:14:41 – 0:14:42] Erik: There was just too many.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:46] Erik: I think they were just stopping too often to talk and reconfigure.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:50] Adam: Yeah, we were going hard Niswada niche.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:51] Erik: Niswada niche, yeah.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:54] Erik: All paddles matter and are welcome.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Adam: We don’t care.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:57] Adam: Honestly, at this point, I’d try it, honestly.
[0:14:57 – 0:15:00] Adam: I’d be like, two years ago, I’d be like, that’s ridiculous.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:03] Adam: What kind of person paddles with a kayak paddle?
[0:15:03 – 0:15:04] Adam: I don’t care anymore.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:06] Adam: I feel like those people were cooking.
[0:15:06 – 0:15:07] Adam: They were cooking.
[0:15:07 – 0:15:13] Erik: If you had two kayak paddles and, like, a Min 2 going constantly, you’d probably go, like, six miles an hour.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:15] Adam: Maybe we got to get our asses out of our heads.
[0:15:15 – 0:15:20] Adam: Like, if you and I both had a big kayak paddle, we’d probably be doing even more.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:21] UNKNOWN: I mean.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:26] Erik: I just want to make sure that I heard that you just said get our asses out of our heads.
[0:15:28 – 0:15:28] SPEAKER_00: Is that what you meant?
[0:15:29 – 0:15:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:30 – 0:15:30] SPEAKER_00: That checks.
[0:15:30 – 0:15:30] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:15:31 – 0:15:31] SPEAKER_00: Correct.
[0:15:31 – 0:15:32] SPEAKER_00: Okay.
[0:15:32 – 0:15:32] SPEAKER_00: Checks out.
[0:15:32 – 0:15:35] Erik: I mean, if you think about it long enough, it does still make sense.
[0:15:35 – 0:15:40] Erik: So, yeah, we, I mean, we’ve been essentially experiencing.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:46] Adam: We came in on the butt of, like, we came in out of the asses of the heads.
[0:15:47 – 0:15:47] Adam: We’re here.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:49] Erik: I don’t even know what that means.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:52 – 0:15:56] Erik: We woke to a bit of a cloudy morning, and it’s just been slowly clearing ever since.
[0:15:57 – 0:16:06] Erik: There was, like, a distant southeast rumbling thunderstorm wall at one point, but it was, like, never moving, and it was never threatening.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:09] Adam: It was just when we were on Hudson, you know?
[0:16:09 – 0:16:12] Adam: So, more evidence that nobody likes Hudson.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:19] Erik: Well, Hudson seems about as comparable to, like, some of the Gunflintside fire…
[0:16:20 – 0:16:26] Erik: Areas like Alpine, Hudson, and the south side of Insula today were pretty moonscape-y.
[0:16:26 – 0:16:27] Adam: It was pretty rough.
[0:16:27 – 0:16:30] Adam: It was, you know, we were just like, it’s sticks.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:31] Adam: It’s very dire.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:36] Adam: Like, it puts you in a weird mood to be in the sticks for so long.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:36] Adam: You know, we were…
[0:16:37 – 0:16:38] Adam: We were cruising today.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:43] Adam: I don’t know how many miles we did, but, like, we were in the zone for a while there on the sticks.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:48] Erik: Yeah, it’s, I think, between, like, 13 and 15, maybe a little bit more than that.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:49] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:16:49 – 0:16:49] Erik: I didn’t…
[0:16:54 – 0:17:00] Adam: Like it feels, it feels like real good because when you’re in the sticks, it’s like, this is neat.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:01] Adam: It’s kind of neat.
[0:17:02 – 0:17:08] Adam: But as soon as you get back to the trees, it was like this uplifting experience in which both of my elbows magically felt a lot better.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:13] Adam: And started to like, they stopped creaking and they just started to like whistling a little bit.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:14] Adam: It was a beautiful thing.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:18] Adam: It’s really setting a nice tempo up front there in the bow.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:20] Erik: I have a question, though, for you.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:25] Erik: Have you ever heard the wolf cry at the blue corn moon?
[0:17:25 – 0:17:29] Adam: The only time I ever heard that was on Sheppo Lake.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:35] Adam: That was a long time ago, and it is kind of a sad memory.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:39] Erik: Well, I’ll try to ask you a more uplifting question.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:41] Erik: Have you ever seen the color of the wind?
[0:17:42 – 0:17:43] Adam: Yeah, I did, actually.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:49] Adam: It was the same trip, and, you know, all I can say is, like, people should definitely go to Shepo.
[0:17:49 – 0:18:00] Adam: You’re going to have a magical time, possibly find a friend that you had long lost that now you got to, like, reconnect with.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:01] Adam: You never know.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:06] Adam: But Shepo, honestly, seems like it answers both questions.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:08] Erik: I think I think it does.
[0:18:08 – 0:18:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:09 – 0:18:21] Erik: So like Lake three obviously was our starting point when we had a few miles to put behind us before getting into kind of back to back to back a championship.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:42] Erik: garden walk portages to get into hudson which was like kind of not great of a experience it was fine obviously it’s still the boundary waters but yeah it was just like matchsticks as far as the eye could see it was jarring it was definitely jarring to say the least but
[0:18:43 – 0:18:45] Adam: It was still, like, fun to go through there, though.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:50] Adam: Yeah, it was… Knowing what we know now, 10 years since the fire.
[0:18:50 – 0:18:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:54] Adam: And, you know, you kind of keep that in mind when you’re going through it.
[0:18:54 – 0:18:56] Erik: Well, and we knew we were getting to greener pastures.
[0:18:58 – 0:19:11] Erik: And, yeah, then the 105-rod longest portage of the day into Insula, which was, like… We finally did have to, like, run into people eventually.
[0:19:11 – 0:19:12] Erik: Oh, sorry.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:19] Erik: I jumped the gun a little bit on the first portage out of Lake 4 into the little in-between lake.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:23] Erik: We came around the corner and we’re like, okay, that’s the portage there.
[0:19:24 – 0:19:28] Erik: Oh, there’s just two geese standing on the portage landing?
[0:19:28 – 0:19:31] Adam: You really did jump the gun on this goose baby story.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:32] Adam: This is really great.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:33] Adam: It was.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:34] Adam: Eric, you saw him first.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:36] Adam: You were like, there’s like two goose standing.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:41] Adam: standing right on the portage, and I’m like, they are, actually.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:42] Adam: I can see them.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:43] Adam: What are they doing?
[0:19:43 – 0:19:45] Adam: And I was like, this isn’t good.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:47] Adam: I’ve seen this before, trout fishing.
[0:19:48 – 0:19:51] Adam: Getting hissed at by a goose, you know, they’re up to something.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:55] Adam: And you’re like, all right, well, I don’t want to bother a goose.
[0:19:56 – 0:19:57] Adam: I mean, they could mess us up.
[0:19:58 – 0:20:04] Erik: Yeah, well, we came in very cautiously and then slowly realized, oh, there’s six…
[0:20:05 – 0:20:06] Erik: Goose pups.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:08] Adam: I think it ended up being seven of them.
[0:20:09 – 0:20:10] Adam: Very cute.
[0:20:10 – 0:20:11] Adam: Super cute.
[0:20:12 – 0:20:13] Adam: They were very cute.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:15] Adam: They were literally two day old.
[0:20:15 – 0:20:17] Adam: Maybe one day old.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:18] Adam: They were sick.
[0:20:18 – 0:20:21] Erik: We definitely woke one up from a nice morning nap.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:22] Adam: I felt tired.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:23] Adam: That was pretty bad.
[0:20:24 – 0:20:27] Erik: They kind of started slowly moving off of the portage landing.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:30] Erik: And then we got one light like…
[0:20:33 – 0:20:38] Erik: It wasn’t like those kind of almost come at you, open their wings up.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:41] Adam: I had the paddle up because I was expecting one to charge us.
[0:20:41 – 0:20:44] Erik: I was expecting a bit of a charge as well.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:50] Adam: When you come on the side of a stream, like when you’re trout fishing, there’s no way around it.
[0:20:50 – 0:20:53] Adam: And you’re like, all right, I’m in your stuff.
[0:20:53 – 0:20:55] Adam: You’re not happy with this.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:57] Adam: We’re going to have to fight.
[0:20:57 – 0:20:58] Adam: That’s the way it is.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:03] Adam: But I thought maybe in this scenario we were going to maybe be able to avoid it, but…
[0:21:03 – 0:21:04] Adam: We actually were, actually.
[0:21:04 – 0:21:05] Adam: There was no fight.
[0:21:05 – 0:21:10] Erik: Well, and I think it was all due to the fact that we did end up lashing.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:14] Erik: Soothing voices.
[0:21:14 – 0:21:17] Erik: We were hanging out with Chuck the Duck yesterday, but he took off.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:21] Erik: So we now have lashed in Gordo the Duck.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:22] Erik: Gordy.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:23] Erik: Gordy’s in the front.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:24] Erik: Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Duxworth.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:25] Erik: He’s up front.
[0:21:25 – 0:21:31] Erik: And I think that’s what allowed us access through is that they saw that we were friends.
[0:21:31 – 0:21:33] Adam: They’re a friend of the wet bird.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:33] Adam: Yes.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:35] Adam: Old wet bird.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:39] Erik: Those people, the eight behind us, probably had a heck of a time getting by those geese.
[0:21:39 – 0:21:41] Adam: They’re probably still back there fighting them right now.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:46] Adam: They’re like, we can’t ethically advance this goose barricade.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:48] Erik: But it was cool either way.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:51] Erik: I mean, say what you will about the goose.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:53] Erik: They can be, you know, not everybody’s favorite.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:56] Erik: I’m sure Sully probably isn’t a huge fan of the goose.
[0:21:56 – 0:21:57] Adam: That was crazy, though.
[0:21:57 – 0:22:02] Adam: We saw, like, they literally were two-day-old, three-day-old goose pups.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:02] Adam: Yep.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:04] Erik: We also got on that little, like…
[0:22:05 – 0:22:21] Erik: In between Lake 4 and Hudson, we were paddling, and, like, we got an incoming, like, speaking of Sully, incoming, like, full-blown, like, landing loon, like, the closest landing loon I’ve ever seen.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:22] Adam: Yeah, I saw that thing coming in.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:23] Adam: I was like, watch out.
[0:22:23 – 0:22:25] Adam: We got a bogey coming in hot.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:27] Adam: And they had the feet down.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:28] Adam: Dropped those big flappers.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:30] Adam: They got the flappers.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:31] Adam: He’s got them down.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:33] Adam: And we’re like, oh, well, he’s coming in hot.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:38] Adam: Comes in, literally, like, it hit water 10 feet behind Eric.
[0:22:38 – 0:22:40] Adam: It was a very smooth landing.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:41] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:22:41 – 0:22:42] Adam: Very graceful.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:49] Erik: Almost like it’s part of his inherent nature to know how to do that.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:50] Erik: But, yeah, that was cool, too.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:53] Erik: Yeah, just generally, like…
[0:22:55 – 0:23:18] Erik: perfect slash beautiful day in the boundary waters i mean we got out to insula and had to kind of poke our way through the water like seems a little low there’s some spots on the map where it showed blue and we just pulled up and i was like that’s just a wall of grass okay um not pull through one sneaky little trick we did was that was back on hudson or a four even
[0:23:19 – 0:23:25] Adam: We did end up pulling around on some people, and they all looked at it, and they’re like, no, we can’t get through.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:26] Adam: Was this on four?
[0:23:26 – 0:23:27] Erik: No, it was like three.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:39] Erik: Yeah, it was basically like right as we were leaving, a group of paddlers headed out, and they went south of an island after having turned because we were like, oh, I guess they can’t make it through there.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:41] Erik: But I’m like, there’s a huge chunk of blue on the map.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:43] Erik: There’s no way we shouldn’t be able to make it through there.
[0:23:44 – 0:23:47] Erik: Hey, if the mic’s not in front of your face, you don’t get to talk at them.
[0:23:48 – 0:23:51] Erik: We’ve had this conversation in the past and I hate to do it live on the mic right now.
[0:23:53 – 0:23:55] Erik: Three, two, one.
[0:23:56 – 0:24:05] Erik: But then yes, the family, I’m sure who looked at the wall of grass and rocks were very shocked to see us just appear north of the island.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:10] Adam: Yeah, we put a real move on them.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:20] Adam: And we turned, like, what should be, like, a third-mile advantage or possibly a 1,800-rod advantage.
[0:24:21 – 0:24:21] Erik: 1,800-rod.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:26] Adam: Yeah, we closed that gap in short order.
[0:24:27 – 0:24:35] Adam: And then, you know, we were talking about this before, you know, when you get here alongside somebody out in the open water, like, everybody just kind of paddles at the same speed.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:36] Erik: It can be a little weird.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:38] Adam: That’s fine.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:39] Adam: I like it.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:40] Adam: They’re cool people.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:42] Adam: We saw those people with the tie-dye shirts.
[0:24:43 – 0:24:45] Erik: Yeah, we saw all kinds of fun people out here today.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:48] Adam: And then we stopped for lunch, and then here they come again.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:57] Adam: And we got to see them again, and we tried to tell them about the virtues of going to fish dance to see the pictos.
[0:24:58 – 0:25:00] Adam: You did tell them about the fish dance pictos.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:00] Adam: I told you.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:06] Adam: I was like, if we get back on the double portage and they’re still there, we got to tell them about fish dance.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:11] Adam: And they weren’t there, you know, and we got back and it was like, we ran into those other people.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:14] Adam: The hell, you know.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:14] Adam: We missed them.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:31] Erik: We did end up answering the question that they had as to what the, it sounds like somebody’s trying to start a helicopter or a motor up, and we told them that it was a rough grouse, which I remember when I was up here for the first time, first couple of times, like, I didn’t know what that sound was coming from the woods.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:32] Erik: It does not sound like an animal.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:35] Adam: It sure as heck doesn’t.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:40] Adam: But, yeah, so we dropped a little knowledge on them.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:43] Adam: We might see them out here.
[0:25:43 – 0:25:46] Adam: Honest to God, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw that gang again.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:47] Erik: Maybe.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:49] Adam: Because we were like, you got to get to fish dance.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Adam: We haven’t even been to fish dance.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:53] Adam: We’re out here giving people advice.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:55] Adam: You’ve got to go see it.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:56] Erik: You’ve got to.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:57] Adam: Well, I mean, I don’t know.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:59] Adam: At this point, you’ve got to trust them.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:04] Adam: Sometimes, yeah, all right, so we didn’t look at individual data on campsites.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:08] Adam: But I sure as heck was checking out the undercoat.
[0:26:08 – 0:26:12] Adam: That’s a real nice true coat on that pictograph site.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:14] Adam: I was looking at pictures online for sure.
[0:26:14 – 0:26:16] Adam: Nate, I was packing up.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:18] Adam: So, I mean, I know what’s down there.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:20] Adam: It’s like, it’s right there.
[0:26:21 – 0:26:23] Adam: We’ve never been closer to fish dance.
[0:26:24 – 0:26:36] Erik: Yeah, we are like as the crow flies, like a little over a mile, but it would require us to go back and around kind of essentially where we came from, do a 20 and a 70 rod portage to get in there.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:50] Erik: I think we’re going to crank up the weather radio, see what the wind forecast is giving us, and make the final decision as to whether or not that’s maybe a morning little half day trip run we can make before…
[0:26:50 – 0:27:05] Erik: Considering how little we’ve fished today and the fact that we’re at, albeit, about as banana boat boys beach excursion site as possible, the aspects of actually fishing from here…
[0:27:06 – 0:27:08] Erik: Probably.
[0:27:08 – 0:27:09] Erik: You can’t fish from a beach.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:12] Adam: Yeah, plus I broke the bobber.
[0:27:13 – 0:27:14] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:27:14 – 0:27:19] Adam: So how many portages have we gone through safely without ruining the bobber?
[0:27:19 – 0:27:21] Adam: We made it all the way through Insula.
[0:27:21 – 0:27:24] Adam: Insula took literally the entire day.
[0:27:24 – 0:27:25] Adam: It’s a huge lake.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:29] Erik: It doesn’t look like it necessarily on a map, but, like, there’s no straight way.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:32] Erik: You’re constantly, like, bobbing and weaving and turning.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:39] Erik: And everybody at this point, by all accounts, we were, you know, there’s, like, what, two, four, six, like…
[0:27:40 – 0:28:05] Erik: almost 20 campsites on the southern part of that lake but it’s so burnt that they all just look like who would ever like you could tell like you made the comment you were like i think if somebody was camped at that site when the fire came through they would have just died yeah because it was there might be some ghouls in there it looked like a real ghoulish like the whole southern half of the lake and then we paddled and paddled and i was like certain
[0:28:06 – 0:28:10] Adam: We were in the northern half of the lake, came around the corner, more burn.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:19] Adam: It’s, the scope of it, like, really, to me, Eric, I didn’t think it was going to be that big, but Insula’s a really big lake.
[0:28:20 – 0:28:27] Erik: It is, and so that definitely explains why the entire northern half of Insula’s campsites were occupied.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:32] Erik: I think we saw one campsite not occupied in the main Big Bay, like Williamson Island.
[0:28:32 – 0:28:38] Erik: All the islands were packed with groups.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:40] Adam: They were really good-looking groups.
[0:28:40 – 0:28:50] Erik: Good-looking groups and good-looking sites, but, like, it makes sense, like, if I was coming through and some of the sites that we paddled by, if that was my option, I mean, you’d just be on a day like today, too.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:55] Erik: You’d just be sitting out in, like, the 10-year-old, like, jackpines getting scorched.
[0:28:56 – 0:29:02] Erik: It’s not even one of those situations where, like, out on Seagull where the fire went through, it’s like…
[0:29:03 – 0:29:10] Erik: a lot of those big trees around the campsites have kind of been protected, and they didn’t fully get scorched.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:13] Erik: So you feel like you’re in a campsite when you’re in it.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:17] Erik: If you look out on the lake, you’re like, oh, this has been burned or whatever.
[0:29:17 – 0:29:22] Erik: But those campsites on the south side of Insula look like they were burned to the ground.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:23] Adam: That’s no campfire.
[0:29:24 – 0:29:25] Adam: It’s a rolling crown fire.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:29] Erik: Very nice.
[0:29:29 – 0:29:30] Erik: We also talked about…
[0:29:33 – 0:29:41] Erik: I think we had this conversation in the past about who we would maybe consider coming out here and having a fun time with in the canoe.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:49] Erik: And I think at one point I said Hunter S. Thompson or maybe Sigurd Olsson, but I would be very self-conscious.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:53] Erik: And we were joking today about how…
[0:29:54 – 0:30:02] Erik: how hard it would be to get an Alex Jones type out here without, like, having him just fully swamp a canoe at every landing.
[0:30:03 – 0:30:07] Adam: Or, like, die of a heart attack immediately.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:09] Adam: But you know what I’m saying?
[0:30:09 – 0:30:09] Adam: Like…
[0:30:10 – 0:30:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:20] Adam: At first, it’s like, I don’t want to hang out with Alex Jones, but it’s like, well, maybe the Boundary Waters is the perfect medicine for somebody like that.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:26] Erik: Yeah, he needs nitroglycerin and some Boundary Waters medicine, some natural medicine.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:38] Erik: But then it also got us talking about, like, literally right before we fired up this mic, we both shook our hands and said if either of us ever die on a trip out here, that we are not required to portage each other out.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:42] Erik: No, I’m not ever portaging a corpse.
[0:30:43 – 0:30:43] Erik: No.
[0:30:43 – 0:30:44] Erik: No, that’s, sorry.
[0:30:44 – 0:30:50] Erik: You can, at the very least, you can get into my dill den and fire up the Garmin inReach SOS button.
[0:30:51 – 0:30:55] Adam: Well, yeah, I would do that for sure, but I would definitely just, like, put you up by the heap over there.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:57] Adam: By the heap?
[0:30:57 – 0:30:59] Adam: Yeah, put me by the heap.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:01] Adam: Yeah, that’s fine.
[0:31:01 – 0:31:10] Erik: Yeah, so then we kind of got into, like, the back end where you’re like, I think we’re almost done with insula, and then you take, like, a corner to the southeast.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:14] Adam: Three short portages or one short portage with more paddling.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:17] Adam: At this point, I got to say, my elbows were hurting pretty bad.
[0:31:19 – 0:31:44] Adam: uh i normally don’t really feel paddling in my arms like that i think i’m like a pretty decent paddler but at this point in the day i was like feeling it and he’s like you can take three short portages and get to halas or take one short portage and paddle a little bit more but i’m glad we did choose the river yeah the koishui river south of that section was like my favorite part of the koishui
[0:31:44 – 0:31:45] Erik: Yeah, for sure.
[0:31:45 – 0:31:50] Erik: It was, like, that last stretch, that last mile, where it was, like, super narrow, nice and deep.
[0:31:50 – 0:31:54] Erik: We weren’t worrying about having to constantly run into, like, submerged boulders.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:57] Erik: Like, Insula is just, like, a minefield of, like, hull wreckers, too.
[0:31:57 – 0:31:58] Erik: Like, that’s the other thing.
[0:31:59 – 0:32:04] Erik: Once you get to the northern half of the lake, I mean, it was beautiful, and I do respect it, but, like…
[0:32:05 – 0:32:07] Adam: Oh, we were dipping for sure.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:10] Erik: There were so many times where it was like, you can’t get that close to shore.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:17] Erik: Otherwise, there’s like just below the surface, there’s like a whole scratched up like jagged rock that’s going to dash your canoe.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:19] Adam: Here’s our gut reaction of the day.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:23] Adam: We’re like, we got to wait until we get back in the trees to dip.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:24] Adam: Essentially.
[0:32:25 – 0:32:26] Adam: Which is what we did try.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:31] Adam: I kind of had to dip early because I was like, I’m literally dying of thirst right now.
[0:32:31 – 0:32:32] Erik: I need to get a sip.
[0:32:33 – 0:32:39] Adam: It looks pretty deep, but then Insula is goofy because, like, all of a sudden you’ll see, like, a little mini shoal.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:41] Adam: Middle of nowhere.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:41 – 0:32:42] Adam: You’re out in the middle.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:44] Adam: You’re like, look at that thing.
[0:32:45 – 0:32:48] Adam: I wish we had, like, if we had a GPS, you’d mark those things.
[0:32:48 – 0:32:48] Adam: That’d be cool.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:50] Adam: That’d be insane fishing spots.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:51] Erik: That would be nice.
[0:32:51 – 0:33:04] Erik: Yeah, and then, so speaking of dipping, we only ended up, I think we mentioned this on the first In the Field episode on this trip about how my water bottle got taken over by leeches.
[0:33:04 – 0:33:09] Erik: So then it was like, okay, we have to kill this, like, little under a half liter of leeches.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:15] Erik: Glenlivet, which is, you know, probably a little bit more than should be had all at once.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:16] Erik: You should be, like, slamming that.
[0:33:17 – 0:33:29] Erik: No, we were really slamming it, and we didn’t quite finish it all last night, so we both had a little snifter this morning to kill it, so that I got my water bottle back, I flushed it out, I was fresh and dandy, I had water all to myself, and then, like…
[0:33:30 – 0:33:37] Erik: The third portage of the day, for whatever reason, yesterday’s Moscato bag sprung a leak.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:40] Erik: So then I had to dump all my water and turn it into a booze bottle again.
[0:33:40 – 0:33:42] Erik: And then I was out of water.
[0:33:43 – 0:33:46] Erik: But we have subsequently drained that Moscato.
[0:33:46 – 0:33:49] Erik: And I do have my own devoted Nalgene.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Erik: So I know you were all worried.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:53] Adam: It’s important to stay hydrated.
[0:33:54 – 0:33:56] Adam: But we were all worried about you.
[0:33:57 – 0:33:59] Adam: Like, you seemed a little off.
[0:33:59 – 0:34:02] Adam: I was trying to give you my water bottle, and you’re like, I can’t drink out of this.
[0:34:03 – 0:34:13] Erik: No, I definitely can, because last night we were sharing a water bottle, yours in between the two hammocks, and I definitely drank the whole thing, so that when you woke up in the morning, there was nothing.
[0:34:14 – 0:34:18] Adam: And I apologize for that, but… Yeah, well, you can hear it in my voice.
[0:34:18 – 0:34:19] Adam: I’m still dry.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:25] Adam: I’ll never get that esophagus lube back.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:26] Adam: You’ll get it back.
[0:34:26 – 0:34:27] Adam: I can promise you.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Adam: Maybe in day three.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:29] Adam: Maybe in day three for sure.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:31] Erik: Yeah, so that’s where we’re at.
[0:34:32 – 0:34:38] Erik: And then we got out onto Alice and it was like, you know, the whole day, like you look at a map, Insula, it’s like, boof, that’s a big lake.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:42] Erik: But you never really get like a full open water view because there’s so many points.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:46] Adam: Yeah, Insula’s a goofy like river lake.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:49] Adam: Yeah, it’s like there’s not big open water.
[0:34:49 – 0:34:56] Adam: Honestly, my elbow is hurt from insula, but it looks like a little pond on the map.
[0:34:56 – 0:34:58] Erik: My right wrist hurts from J-stroking.
[0:34:59 – 0:35:07] Erik: But then we get out of the Kawishawi River, and all of a sudden it’s just like Alice just opens up into this ocean of a lake that we haven’t seen in a long time.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:14] Adam: That portage, that 10-rod portage from insula down to the Kawishawi River going to Alice,
[0:35:15 – 0:35:19] Adam: I got to give a special, extra special shout-out to that one.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:24] Adam: It literally is one of the nicest, like, top ten portages I’ve ever seen.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:25] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:31] Adam: It’s fine mosses, like a weird amount of bird.
[0:35:33 – 0:35:36] Adam: It was a really nice portage.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:40] Erik: I’m surprised how quiet this beach site is with bird activity because it’s been so birdy all day.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:42] Erik: But that portage, yeah, it was like…
[0:35:42 – 0:35:46] Erik: It had like a Johnson Falls feel to it where it was like…
[0:35:47 – 0:36:15] Erik: like kind of dark ferny and both landings were just like gravel landings basically like this sand beach just set it down and let it do its thing yeah i wonder what the purpose of the 60 45 and 30 through carol and hum lake into alice would be this must be nice there’s one campsite on carol yeah that’s why yeah we could go down and review some campsites on fish dance tomorrow maybe
[0:36:16 – 0:36:17] Erik: We’re going to crank up the radio.
[0:36:17 – 0:36:20] Erik: We’re going to see what the weather bot says.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:26] Erik: Maybe, I don’t know, I’m not hopeful, but see if we can catch the game seven of Leafs and Habs.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:30] Erik: Otherwise, we’ll have to wait until after dark and maybe get some AM BBC going.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:32] Erik: Go Leafs.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:36] Erik: Yeah, I think at this point I’m still go Leafs.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:41] Erik: I’ll say go Leafs, but if they gave up a 3-1 lead, I just, like, whatever.
[0:36:42 – 0:36:47] Erik: I kind of want them to just go out just so they can feel the pain of their disappointing team in general.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:51] Erik: That might be too harsh, but, like, jeez, come on.
[0:36:51 – 0:36:54] Adam: You had this whole thing wrapped up.
[0:36:55 – 0:36:57] Adam: Seriously, they were up 3-1.
[0:36:57 – 0:36:58] Adam: I mean, come on.
[0:36:59 – 0:36:59] Adam: Jeez.
[0:36:59 – 0:37:03] Erik: Not the Leafs if they don’t collapse or get very close to just collapsing.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:08] Adam: I hate them, but I don’t hate them.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:12] Adam: I dislike the Leafs, but I just want them to win also.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:14] Erik: It’d be fun to see them in the second round.
[0:37:14 – 0:37:15] Erik: They’re a good team.
[0:37:15 – 0:37:16] Erik: I mean, yeah.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:17] Erik: Get it together.
[0:37:17 – 0:37:18] Erik: Get it together.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:19] Erik: So we’re out here.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:21] Adam: We all want you to win.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:23] Erik: Beach bod living.
[0:37:23 – 0:37:26] Erik: The sun is still like hours from going down.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:26] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:29] Erik: Were we six, seven fingers from the shoreline?
[0:37:29 – 0:37:30] Erik: The horizon?
[0:37:30 – 0:37:32] Erik: We got clothes drying.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:33] Erik: We both took a May dip.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:37] Erik: And, yeah, we’ve got a good supply.
[0:37:37 – 0:37:43] Erik: We just harvested a piece of, like, glorious, like, just leaning up against a tree driftwood cedar.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:45] Erik: We didn’t even have to cut.
[0:37:45 – 0:37:46] Erik: It was just, like, leaning.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:47] Adam: I made you.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:50] Adam: I was like, we got to go back for that.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:51] Adam: Both of us were like, I don’t know.
[0:37:52 – 0:37:53] Adam: That looked pretty good.
[0:37:53 – 0:37:54] Erik: That was very good.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:55] Erik: We slammed on the brakes.
[0:37:55 – 0:38:00] Adam: We did kind of, you know, because we did put the brakes on.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:01] Adam: We’re like, look at that thing.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:04] Adam: And we got it.
[0:38:04 – 0:38:05] Adam: It’s pretty good.
[0:38:06 – 0:38:11] Erik: It’s like an eight-foot length, like, old cedar husk that we jammed in the back.
[0:38:11 – 0:38:13] Erik: You had Gordo up front.
[0:38:13 – 0:38:17] Erik: And I’m sure, I don’t think anybody saw us, but I’m sure we looked like a real, did you see it?
[0:38:17 – 0:38:18] Erik: It was a jalopy.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:38:19 – 0:38:21] Erik: Yeah, a real character canoe.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:25] Erik: So, yeah, I think we’re going to leave it there.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:27] Erik: We might come back tonight.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:28] Erik: We might not.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:30] Erik: Probably not.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:41] Erik: Tomorrow, though, we’ve got some fun new gear items that have kind of been teased in terms of how they have been accompanying us on this trip.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:46] Erik: But we haven’t actually reviewed them and our opinions on them.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:47] Erik: We got axes.
[0:38:47 – 0:38:48] Erik: We got paddles.
[0:38:48 – 0:38:49] Erik: We got rainflies.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:52] Erik: We’ve got to talk more about that axe.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:54] Erik: We’ve got a whole axe book.
[0:38:54 – 0:38:58] Erik: We’re going to throw down some… Grand Poirot’s Briche.
[0:38:58 – 0:39:00] Erik: Some terminologies on you.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:02] Erik: Make Monk proud.
[0:39:05 – 0:39:07] Adam: You’re really worried about poor Monk.
[0:39:07 – 0:39:09] Adam: You’re more worried about him than I am, I think.
[0:39:10 – 0:39:11] Adam: I am definitely worried.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:14] Adam: I hope Monk knows that we’re doing our best.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:15] Erik: We are.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:22] Erik: We haven’t even really gotten to use it because last night we just like all of a sudden got into the rain and then we were just under the rain flies all night.
[0:39:22 – 0:39:28] Erik: So with this sweet, sweet dried cedar, I just, I mean, I think, I feel like the splitting is going to be…
[0:39:30 – 0:39:33] Adam: What about this husk of a tree over here?
[0:39:33 – 0:39:36] Erik: Well, you’ve got to talk about your Silky Boy, too.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:39] Erik: I think this is your first in-the-field Silky Boy adventure, right?
[0:39:41 – 0:39:44] Adam: Well, I don’t know if that’s true, but the Silky Boy is a fine saw.
[0:39:45 – 0:39:48] Adam: And it’s doing quite well, I would say.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:50] Adam: Exemplary.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:52] Adam: Substantial.
[0:39:55 – 0:39:56] Adam: Motherlode.
[0:39:56 – 0:39:59] Adam: These are things I think of when I think of the Silky Boy saw.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:04] Adam: Christ Almighty is right out here.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:05] Adam: And the track.
[0:43:56 – 0:43:58] Adam: Hey, Scotty, pass the buns.
[0:43:59 – 0:44:00] Adam: Sure thing, Dad.
[0:44:01 – 0:44:02] Adam: What in tarnation?
[0:44:02 – 0:44:08] Adam: These are smushed smithereens from the makers of the candlestick that talks.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:09] Adam: Coglins.
[0:44:11 – 0:44:12] Adam: Brought to you by crazy old Maurice.
[0:44:13 – 0:44:13] Adam: Coglins.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:15] Adam: Bun blowers.
[0:44:15 – 0:44:17] Adam: Buns all smushed up in camp.
[0:44:17 – 0:44:20] Adam: You’re going to fluff them buns back up.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:25] Adam: Coglins, bun blowers, get them now.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:26] Adam: $1.99, limited time offer.
[0:44:41 – 0:44:47] Erik: Good morning from bird camp.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:51] Erik: We have been unzotted.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:53] Erik: And we are still friends.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:54] Erik: Adam is still here.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:58] Adam: He must have took the canoe and left on the night.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:00] Adam: But, no, we’re all good.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:06] Erik: Yeah, there was just a little too much sun on the beach yesterday.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:07] Erik: That’s what we’re going to say happened.
[0:45:08 – 0:45:18] Erik: But we did just successfully complete what I believe to be a first-time third-day breakfast of biters.
[0:45:19 – 0:45:21] Erik: Have we gone that far into a trip with biters?
[0:45:22 – 0:45:23] Adam: Possibly.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:27] Adam: It wouldn’t surprise me, but I don’t really call any day three biters.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:29] Adam: Usually they don’t last.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:34] Adam: These were, got to say, they were in pretty rough shape, but they still went down real nice.
[0:45:35 – 0:45:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:36 – 0:45:44] Erik: At the potential threat of us talking about it again, I don’t remember because we talked about it so much amongst ourselves.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:48] Erik: Did we ever talk about the screaming deal at Zupp’s?
[0:45:49 – 0:45:50] Erik: Of the different sizes.
[0:45:51 – 0:45:53] Erik: There was a 10-pound bag.
[0:45:53 – 0:45:55] Erik: No, there was a 100 count for $10.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:58] Erik: You’re talking about the beef was the 10-pound log.
[0:45:58 – 0:45:59] Erik: No, yes, the beef.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:01] Erik: There was an absurd amount of logged beef at Zupp’s.
[0:46:01 – 0:46:02] Erik: Like, I don’t understand.
[0:46:03 – 0:46:06] Adam: We’re going back to get some logged beef for Eric to feed the crew.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:08] Adam: He’ll be able to feed them for a couple days on that beef.
[0:46:09 – 0:46:16] Erik: Yeah, you were, like, potentially hypothesizing that, like, maybe the school or the hospital has to come over and get its meat because there was so much meat.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:24] Adam: There’s some sort of institutional, like, loaf of meat out there that’s being fed by those tubes of beef at Zupp’s.
[0:46:24 – 0:46:25] Adam: But I’m very intrigued, like.
[0:46:26 – 0:46:30] Adam: Because we couldn’t even, we didn’t get our normal ground beef shipment on Memorial Day weekend.
[0:46:31 – 0:46:34] Adam: And so I was like, maybe I’ll bring a couple tubes of meat back.
[0:46:36 – 0:46:40] Adam: But I don’t know, the source of this beef, highly questionable.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:42] Erik: Yeah, it was an absurd rate for that meat.
[0:46:42 – 0:46:45] Erik: It was like 99 cents a pound.
[0:46:45 – 0:46:47] Adam: 99 cents a pound is like ridiculous.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:48] Adam: Like, is that beef?
[0:46:48 – 0:46:48] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:55] Adam: But I mean, for those Wally shoppers in there, zooting around in their carts with a dead look in their eyes.
[0:46:56 – 0:46:58] Adam: Uh, that’s just the, just what the doctor ordered.
[0:46:58 – 0:47:00] Erik: Eric, what the doctor ordered.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:01] Erik: I was, that was crazy.
[0:47:01 – 0:47:07] Erik: But also like the pizza biter deal was like a 50 pack was on sale for a buck 99.
[0:47:07 – 0:47:10] Erik: And then there were a hundred packs for nine, nine 99.
[0:47:10 – 0:47:13] Adam: Well, I saw it cause the, the a hundred packs were on the end cap.
[0:47:13 – 0:47:14] Adam: I seen them first.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:16] Adam: I was like nine 99 for a hundred pack.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:17] Adam: That’s not bad.
[0:47:17 – 0:47:19] Erik: But then I was like, I don’t think we could do 100.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:20] Erik: That’s kind of crazy.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:20] Adam: Let’s just get 50.
[0:47:21 – 0:47:22] Adam: So I went down the aisle.
[0:47:22 – 0:47:26] Adam: And then there they are in there next to the pizzas is the pizza biters.
[0:47:26 – 0:47:27] Adam: And they’re 50 counts.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:29] Adam: And they were $5.99.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:33] Adam: It was like a hand-drawn, sharpied price tag sign.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:34] Adam: $5.99.
[0:47:34 – 0:47:35] Adam: And then that was crossed out.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:39] Adam: It looked like it was a sign from the old Price is Right, like way back.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:40] Adam: 80s Price is Right sign.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:48] Adam: And then that was crossed off with a sound effect even.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:50] Adam: 199, now 199 for a 50 count.
[0:47:50 – 0:47:51] Adam: So you could have gotten like three.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:52] Adam: I’m not good at math.
[0:47:52 – 0:47:53] Adam: You could have gotten four of those.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:59] Adam: You could have gotten 200 for less than the price of one bag of 100.
[0:47:59 – 0:48:00] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:03] Adam: So you could have gotten four different flavors.
[0:48:03 – 0:48:04] Adam: You could have gotten all the flavors, Eric.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:05] Erik: Yeah, we could have.
[0:48:05 – 0:48:13] Erik: We ended up going with the Supreme, which has all the meats of the rainbow, including chorizo salivary glands.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:17] Adam: Multiple kinds of glands.
[0:48:17 – 0:48:23] Adam: We were talking last night about doing a side podcast in which we’d visit all the Zups locations, including the resort on Lac La Troie.
[0:48:25 – 0:48:43] Adam: and uh just do like a episode per location yeah kind of how there’s a guy who does a series on like going to visit old dead malls but we just do that that format for zups and we just like wander around like comparing like well we’ll get the deal on meat here at this at the babbitt zups this is nuts
[0:48:44 – 0:48:46] Erik: Look at these slack-jawed weirdos.
[0:48:47 – 0:48:49] Erik: There’s a number of dead mall people online.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:50] Erik: My favorite is Dan Bell.
[0:48:51 – 0:48:52] Erik: Just shout out to him.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:56] Adam: I suppose that could be like a video podcast.
[0:48:56 – 0:49:00] Adam: That might benefit from some visuals to go with the audio.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:49:01 – 0:49:14] Erik: But yeah, so I mentioned that we’re coming out from the bird campsite because my Lord, obviously the springtime, we’ve got all of our songbirds peeping, squealing, squawking in the woods, which I love.
[0:49:14 – 0:49:21] Erik: But man, over the course of the last 12 hours over the night, it was like every other like water bird was out there.
[0:49:21 – 0:49:24] Erik: Like at one point it sounded like there was like a seagull fight happening.
[0:49:25 – 0:49:25] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:49:26 – 0:49:29] Erik: And then, like, there was tons of loons, geese flying overhead.
[0:49:29 – 0:49:32] Erik: There was an eagle in the area that was doing its squealy squawk.
[0:49:33 – 0:49:38] Erik: And I woke up at one point and had the wherewithal.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:41] Erik: Just in the middle of the night, I woke up and I heard an owl, like, very close.
[0:49:41 – 0:49:45] Erik: So I found the field mic and just fired it up for, like, a minute straight.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:47] Erik: And it’s just, like, the deadest silence.
[0:49:47 – 0:49:53] Erik: And then in the very distance, you can just hear, whoo, whoo.
[0:49:53 – 0:49:55] Erik: So I’ll put that in there.
[0:49:55 – 0:49:57] Erik: We’ll see what that actually sounds like.
[0:49:58 – 0:50:06] Erik: But I went to bed after my share of biters on the fire last night with some beautifully split.
[0:50:06 – 0:50:17] Erik: We finally got the hunter’s axe going last night to split up our favorite of the woods, which is some very fine cedar that we found on the way through the Kawishwi River.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:23] Erik: And there’s just a large, really old, dry log in camp that the silky boy took down for us yesterday, too.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:29] Adam: and uh yeah it’s like a pure hollow uh like old heritage cedar yeah
[0:50:30 – 0:50:32] Erik: Our timelines got a little skewed last night.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:36] Erik: So I was on my schedule and Adam was on his.
[0:50:36 – 0:50:40] Erik: So I actually ended up going to bed a little bit earlier than him.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:46] Erik: And you had a bit of an experience that you’ve been basically telling me all about this morning.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:49] Erik: And I have to be honest, I do believe you.
[0:50:49 – 0:50:53] Erik: But the thing that I’m most disappointed about is that I didn’t get to see it.
[0:50:53 – 0:50:57] Adam: Yeah, I tried to get you up, but I didn’t do a very good job.
[0:50:58 – 0:50:59] Adam: Let me see this thing.
[0:51:00 – 0:51:04] Adam: So yeah, I just ate 20 biters for breakfast.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:07] Adam: Eric wouldn’t even eat one because he ate so many biters last night.
[0:51:07 – 0:51:10] Adam: Because I was in a trance-like state.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:13] Adam: Have you ever been in this state after you sit in the sun for too long?
[0:51:14 – 0:51:18] Adam: I literally felt like I was in my body, but I couldn’t talk.
[0:51:19 – 0:51:20] Adam: But, like, I was paralyzed.
[0:51:21 – 0:51:24] Adam: But, like, I felt like I was awake, but I wasn’t sure if I was.
[0:51:25 – 0:51:28] Adam: Like, watching Eric eat the biters last night, like, I wasn’t hungry.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:29] Adam: I couldn’t eat.
[0:51:29 – 0:51:33] Adam: And I was just, like, felt like I was just cross-eyed, like, sitting in my chair.
[0:51:34 – 0:51:35] Erik: You did look like you were just sleeping.
[0:51:36 – 0:51:37] Adam: At one point, I definitely fell asleep.
[0:51:37 – 0:51:45] Adam: Like, I had way too much sun, and I was just maybe one sip too many of the fireball at the beach party.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:49] Erik: Not the go-to beach drink of choice, I think.
[0:51:49 – 0:51:51] Adam: Yeah, I wish we would have had margaritas, you know.
[0:51:52 – 0:51:53] Adam: But I don’t know.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:53] Adam: It was weird.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:56] Adam: Like, I was just like, I wasn’t.
[0:51:57 – 0:52:00] Adam: I was just kind of napping, I guess, you know, but I was like, I felt like I was awake.
[0:52:00 – 0:52:06] Adam: It was a very strange, like I was, I felt like I was trying to talk to Eric, but like I couldn’t make any words happen.
[0:52:07 – 0:52:10] Adam: Like I was trying to talk to you telepathically and it wasn’t working.
[0:52:10 – 0:52:10] SPEAKER_00: No, it wasn’t.
[0:52:11 – 0:52:11] Adam: At all.
[0:52:13 – 0:52:17] Adam: And then it’s like basically like dark, you know, fast forward a couple hours.
[0:52:17 – 0:52:22] Adam: It’s like dark and like Eric’s like putting stuff away and going, yeah, I’m going to bed, you know, and I’m like, uh.
[0:52:23 – 0:52:30] Adam: Like, as you’re, like, finally going to bed, then, like, I kind of, like, snapped out of it, and the stars were, like, coming out, and I’m like, I don’t know, maybe I’m going to stay up.
[0:52:31 – 0:52:33] Adam: I got, like, a third wind, like, in the night.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:37] Adam: I put on, uh, I found I had dark side of the moon downloaded.
[0:52:37 – 0:52:39] Adam: I got my old phone with me.
[0:52:39 – 0:52:43] Adam: Like this is like a camera, but I had some like albums downloaded to it.
[0:52:43 – 0:52:44] Adam: I found dark side of the moon.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:49] Adam: I put that on and got out the daddy juice and started to slap in the bag again.
[0:52:49 – 0:52:52] Adam: And it was like, Oh, I’m like wide awake all of a sudden.
[0:52:52 – 0:52:55] Adam: This is what happens when you take a three hour nap in the afternoon.
[0:52:55 – 0:53:02] Adam: So like I fed the fire, I got the fire going again and I’m like listening to some good tunes and like,
[0:53:03 – 0:53:04] Adam: Yeah, it was just a beautiful night.
[0:53:04 – 0:53:06] Adam: Like, the stars were out.
[0:53:06 – 0:53:12] Adam: There were some weirdos, like, out night fishing with, like, huge bright headlamps on at one point, like, pretty close to our campsite.
[0:53:12 – 0:53:14] Adam: And I was like, I hope they’re not coming over here.
[0:53:14 – 0:53:17] Adam: I’m, you know, I was definitely feeling a little zotted.
[0:53:18 – 0:53:20] Adam: But I was there, you know, I was back, like, I could talk again.
[0:53:21 – 0:53:24] Adam: And I went over and, like, I went over and, like, visited Eric in his hammock.
[0:53:24 – 0:53:26] Adam: I don’t know what he was even doing.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:30] Adam: I was just like, hey, I don’t know if I was trying to get you to get back up or just wanted to, like.
[0:53:30 – 0:53:36] Erik: I think you kind of were, but I was, like, I was reading the first page of A Brief History of Time.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:40] Adam: And then I turned the page and there was, like, a whole series of charts and graphs.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:41] Adam: And I was like, I got to go to bed.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:46] Adam: Yeah, I basically was just going over to tell Eric, like, I’d successfully actually gotten my hammock put up.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:47] Adam: Don’t worry.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:48] Adam: You don’t have to worry, Eric.
[0:53:49 – 0:53:53] Erik: Yeah, I did help you find your headlamp before I shuffled off into my fugue state.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:57] Adam: So, and I’ve got a much better set.
[0:53:57 – 0:54:01] Adam: Like, I was a pretty low boy set on the first night on Lake 3.
[0:54:02 – 0:54:08] Adam: But here I’m sitting in two cedars really nice, like, way almost too high, almost overcompensated.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:08] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:09 – 0:54:11] Adam: So I’m just sitting by the fire back here.
[0:54:12 – 0:54:18] Adam: We’ll get to the campsite review later, but this is just an amazing, amazing spot in this little bay here.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:21] Adam: And, you know, it’s June now.
[0:54:21 – 0:54:23] Adam: Today is June.
[0:54:23 – 0:54:24] Adam: June 1.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:27] Adam: I’d say sunset’s at least 9 something now.
[0:54:28 – 0:54:29] Adam: It’s got to be 9, like for true sunset.
[0:54:30 – 0:54:34] Adam: And then, you know, it must have been 10, 30, 11 because it was actually dark enough where I could see the stars.
[0:54:35 – 0:54:38] Adam: And the lake is, as it is right now, like dead calm.
[0:54:39 – 0:55:08] Erik: not a whisper of wind mirror reflection right now and last night even i was able to get up at one point and relieve myself and noticed like just the like infinite from like top to bottom stars and reflection of stars it was pretty incredible i wish i would have had more time to like just sit and enjoy it but yeah i mean it was like you know this was one of those nights where i’m like i’m staying up late like i’m here now you know i got my nap in so daddy can stay up late
[0:55:09 – 0:55:20] Adam: I’m sitting here, and, like, I’m not, like I said, I put on Dark Side of the Moon, and this is after I had, like, tried to reassure slash wake up Eric, and he’s not getting up.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:22] Adam: I was like, well, it’s a party of one right now.
[0:55:22 – 0:55:23] Adam: I’m going for it.
[0:55:23 – 0:55:29] Adam: I, like, dug, I actually, Eric had put all, like, the stuff away, and so I had to, like, I dug out into both the new barrels I got.
[0:55:30 – 0:55:32] Adam: We never got to talk about those barrel packs, too.
[0:55:32 – 0:55:35] Erik: Oh, there’s a whole gear review section that we’ll do at some point.
[0:55:35 – 0:55:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:36 – 0:55:40] Adam: I dug out the, I got out the wine and I found a Snickers.
[0:55:40 – 0:55:45] Adam: That was one of my dinner was because Eric ate all the pizza biters and like I couldn’t eat pizza biters because I was too hot.
[0:55:45 – 0:55:46] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:48] Adam: I was way off schedule.
[0:55:48 – 0:55:49] Adam: All right.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:51] Adam: So we’ve established this like it’s pretty late.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:56] Adam: The people in the canoe with the lights had like long ago, like paddled back off to wherever they came from.
[0:55:57 – 0:56:01] Adam: And then the campsite up on the north side of the lake had some real rowdy folk up there.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:03] Adam: Looked like, sounded like they were having a good old time.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:09] Adam: But even they had started to quiet down, so it had gotten real quiet and just eerily still out here.
[0:56:11 – 0:56:15] Adam: And I’m just sitting on the beach here by the fire watching the stars on the reflection of the pond.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:18] Adam: Alice, it’s a good pond.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:19] Adam: It’s a good pond.
[0:56:19 – 0:56:20] Adam: I give it six out of five.
[0:56:21 – 0:56:21] Adam: Mmms.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:26] Erik: And so here’s where it gets weird.
[0:56:26 – 0:56:28] Adam: Is this thing still on?
[0:56:28 – 0:56:30] Adam: Here, I need to have a sip of wine before I get to the weirdness.
[0:56:30 – 0:56:31] Erik: Is anybody out there?
[0:56:32 – 0:56:32] Adam: Anybody listening?
[0:56:33 – 0:56:33] Adam: Dad?
[0:56:33 – 0:56:33] Adam: Dad?
[0:56:35 – 0:56:40] Erik: Yeah, no, you, basically, it was the first thing that you said when I came over and started the coffee water.
[0:56:40 – 0:56:46] Erik: You were like, oh, man, I saw the weirdest slash scariest thing that I’ve ever seen in the Boundary Waters last night, so.
[0:56:47 – 0:56:49] Adam: Oh, I was straight up scared.
[0:56:49 – 0:56:50] Adam: All right, so here’s what happened.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:53] Adam: I’m looking out, watching the stars.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:57] Adam: I’ve been watching for a while, you know, and all of a sudden it’s like, is that, like, Mars?
[0:56:57 – 0:56:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:04] Adam: I’m looking due east, slightly southeast, kind of over at, what is the name of the lake?
[0:57:04 – 0:57:05] Adam: West.
[0:57:05 – 0:57:05] Adam: Hum.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:06] Adam: West.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:07] Adam: Straight west.
[0:57:07 – 0:57:08] Adam: We’re on the east shore.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:11] Adam: I’m looking straight west, a little southwest.
[0:57:12 – 0:57:15] Adam: I’m like, is that like a red dot in the sky?
[0:57:15 – 0:57:16] Adam: And it’s like, is that Mars?
[0:57:16 – 0:57:19] Adam: Or maybe it’s got to be a planet, right?
[0:57:19 – 0:57:20] Adam: It’s too red.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:22] Adam: Like, this is bizarrely red.
[0:57:22 – 0:57:26] Adam: And I’m sitting here watching it, and…
[0:57:27 – 0:57:29] Adam: I’m like, is it getting bigger, though?
[0:57:29 – 0:57:31] Adam: And sure enough, I’m sitting here watching it.
[0:57:31 – 0:57:34] Adam: I got my headlamp on, and I’m like, turn the headlamp off.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:36] Adam: I’m like, what is going on over there?
[0:57:36 – 0:57:37] Adam: It’s getting bigger.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:43] Adam: So at this point, we’re literally on the last track of Dark Side of the Moon.
[0:57:43 – 0:57:46] Adam: All this happened literally the last track of Dark Side of the Moon.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:53] Adam: So it all happened pretty quickly, is what I’m saying, from the moment I noticed it to the conclusion of this event.
[0:57:54 – 0:57:57] Adam: Or at least I think it only took one track of Dark Side of the Moon.
[0:57:57 – 0:57:59] Adam: Maybe I listened to Dark Side of the Moon three more times.
[0:57:59 – 0:58:00] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:58:01 – 0:58:04] Adam: So, I mean, there was like hardly any battery left on my machine this morning.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:08] Adam: So I’m like, I’m going to walk because I’m going to set the picture for you.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:17] Adam: It’s maybe five rods from, no, it’s four rods from the fire pit down to the water’s edge.
[0:58:17 – 0:58:18] Adam: And it’s all sand beach.
[0:58:19 – 0:58:21] Adam: It’s a big, like super deep beach.
[0:58:23 – 0:58:30] Adam: So I, like, shuffle my way down to the very edge of the water, and I’m kind of staring at it, and, like, sure as heck, it is getting bigger.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:34] Adam: It starts as, like, what I thought was the size of, like, a planet, you know?
[0:58:34 – 0:58:36] Adam: Have you seen a planet at night?
[0:58:36 – 0:58:37] Adam: It’s obvious.
[0:58:37 – 0:58:38] Adam: It’s not a star.
[0:58:38 – 0:58:39] Adam: It’s a planet.
[0:58:39 – 0:58:45] Adam: But by the time I got down to the water’s edge, it’s, like, now it’s grown to, like, a very large red light.
[0:58:45 – 0:58:48] Adam: And I’m, like, I think it’s coming this way.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:50] Adam: And at this point, I’m, like, screaming like Eric.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:51] UNKNOWN: Eh!
[0:58:53 – 0:58:55] Adam: Yeah, like, I didn’t want to be full-on screaming.
[0:58:55 – 0:58:57] Adam: Like, I thought it could hear me maybe or something.
[0:58:57 – 0:59:00] Adam: Like, it definitely, at this point, I was like, it’s coming right at us.
[0:59:01 – 0:59:02] Adam: It’s over the lake now.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:06] Adam: Like, at first, I thought it was, like, over the far horizon, like, way over by hum.
[0:59:07 – 0:59:09] Adam: But now it’s, like, clearly above the lake.
[0:59:09 – 0:59:10] Adam: Here’s the weird part, no reflection.
[0:59:11 – 0:59:12] UNKNOWN: Oh, that’s what I was going to ask.
[0:59:12 – 0:59:13] Erik: We hadn’t talked about that.
[0:59:13 – 0:59:16] Adam: Yeah, no reflection into the water and absolutely no sound.
[0:59:17 – 0:59:23] Adam: And at this point, it’s like, you know, earlier we had seen the people in the boat kind of over by these rocks to the left.
[0:59:23 – 0:59:25] Adam: And they had bright headlamps on.
[0:59:25 – 0:59:28] Adam: Like now it looks like it’s that bright.
[0:59:28 – 0:59:32] Adam: Like, you know, a large like miner’s headlamp of red light, though.
[0:59:33 – 0:59:34] Adam: And it’s like definitely coming right at me.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:37] Adam: And at this point, like I realize it’s coming right at me.
[0:59:38 – 0:59:40] Adam: And so I, like, kind of shuffled back up by the fire pit.
[0:59:40 – 0:59:41] Adam: And I told Eric this.
[0:59:41 – 0:59:44] Adam: I was, like, literally, like, crouched down behind the bench hiding.
[0:59:45 – 0:59:48] Adam: And, like, I’m, like, it, like, saw me, you know.
[0:59:48 – 0:59:49] Adam: Like, I felt like it was coming right at me.
[0:59:49 – 0:59:50] Adam: And so I’m watching it.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:57] Adam: And it literally gets to, like, I’d say, I don’t know, another, like, 10 rods off the shore.
[0:59:57 – 1:00:00] Adam: Like, it’s pretty close and, like, massive red light at this point.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:03] Adam: No sound, no reflection.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:05] Adam: It’s just this dull, like, but bright red.
[1:00:06 – 1:00:07] Adam: It wasn’t, like, shiny.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:08] Adam: Does that make sense?
[1:00:08 – 1:00:08] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[1:00:09 – 1:00:13] Adam: And then, like, as I’m like, holy shit, this thing’s going to come right in.
[1:00:15 – 1:00:19] Adam: It, like, veers hard to the south and, like, went behind those trees where that bird is right now, Eric.
[1:00:19 – 1:00:19] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:00:20 – 1:00:26] Adam: Like, right there, you know, and I’m like, it’s got, I’m like, literally, it was like, I’m going to, I was, like, wanting to go get you.
[1:00:26 – 1:00:30] Adam: Like, I was literally scared to, like, leave the fire pit area because I was like, is it out there?
[1:00:30 – 1:00:31] Adam: What was that?
[1:00:33 – 1:00:40] Adam: Then the song ends and I kind of calmed down and I was like, well, that was very odd.
[1:00:40 – 1:00:43] Adam: Like one of the scariest, like weirdest, I don’t know what that was.
[1:00:43 – 1:00:51] Adam: Like the only thing I can rationally think of was that one of these other cameras on the lake was flying a night drone and was messing with us somehow.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:55] Adam: But Eric was pointing out, it’s like almost impossible to fly those things at night.
[1:00:55 – 1:00:58] Adam: like with the kind of drone that most people would have.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:00] Adam: And like I said, I know what a drone sounds like.
[1:01:00 – 1:01:05] Adam: It’s that high-pitched, you know, zero sound, you know, and there’s no wind.
[1:01:05 – 1:01:07] Erik: Could have been a government drone maybe.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:08] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:01:08 – 1:01:11] Adam: But it seemed like it was so low and close that like it would have had to have made a noise.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:15] Adam: like military ones that are just like the fixed wing ones.
[1:01:15 – 1:01:17] Adam: Those things are silent, completely silent.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:20] Adam: It was like full glider mode.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:20] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:20 – 1:01:21] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:01:21 – 1:01:21] Adam: It was freaky.
[1:01:22 – 1:01:27] Adam: Uh, like just, you know, it was like the same kind of color as the pictographs.
[1:01:28 – 1:01:29] Adam: It’s that red ochre.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:35] Adam: It wasn’t like, uh, it wasn’t like luminous, like where it was, you know, twinkling like a Christmas light.
[1:01:35 – 1:01:39] Adam: It was just like a dull, but like very broad, like it was like,
[1:01:40 – 1:02:09] Adam: clearly red but like not twinkly um by the sounds of it head in the direction of fish dance it did like it went due south like it like abruptly changed course that was the weirdest part of it was because it was like maybe it’s just like maybe it is like some sort of shooting star or something like and it’s just way in the distance but like the the weird like calm lake is making it like amplified or something but like no it like clearly was like out over the top of the lake and like
[1:02:09 – 1:02:13] Adam: pretty much right in front of our beach by the time it got to its closest point.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:15] Adam: And it was moving very fast.
[1:02:15 – 1:02:24] Adam: But, yeah, when it veered, that’s when I could tell how fast it was really going because it did like a 90-degree and gone down to the south.
[1:02:24 – 1:02:25] Adam: And it was like, holy smokes, Gus.
[1:02:27 – 1:02:35] Adam: So I basically like, uh, I turned off all the music and like, just kind of sitting here and like, let the fire kind of die down.
[1:02:36 – 1:02:37] Adam: And then, uh, that was the end of my night.
[1:02:37 – 1:02:40] Adam: I was like, all right, I’m gonna, I’m gonna hit the hay.
[1:02:40 – 1:02:41] Adam: Cause Eric didn’t wake up.
[1:02:41 – 1:02:44] Adam: I was like screaming for Eric and he, he was out, you know?
[1:02:44 – 1:02:49] Adam: So, so I don’t know what the hell I saw, but it was odd to say the least.
[1:02:50 – 1:03:15] Adam: yeah tumblehomecast at gmail.com any thoughts experiences i’ve seen shooting stars before you know they can get like super bright and then they’ll yeah like they’ll dissipate or whatever but this is not what this was it was coming like flat it never like gained or lost any elevation you know if i could recreate it in my mind it just looked like it came from across the lake like above those trees a pin of light like directly at us on a beeline
[1:03:16 – 1:03:45] Adam: got very bright like almost like you know the size of like if you could imagine like uh i feel like a truck was parked out on the ice out there like a size of like a vehicle’s headlight like that’s how big it was like a fist of light if you hold your hand out in front of you i know it was about like four fingers up off the horizon yeah it was always above the horizon too like even from when it got close it like remained above the where the trees would be on the distant shore i don’t know yeah like i’m like honestly god like
[1:03:45 – 1:03:49] Adam: I’ve seen some weird things in the sky, but nothing I would be like, that was for sure a UFO.
[1:03:49 – 1:03:51] Adam: And even this, it’s like, I don’t know.
[1:03:52 – 1:03:54] Adam: It was definitely the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in the night sky.
[1:03:55 – 1:03:59] Adam: And it unfortunately happened, like, all by myself.
[1:03:59 – 1:04:01] Adam: And, of course, they’re just like, did you get a picture of it?
[1:04:01 – 1:04:01] Adam: I was like, no.
[1:04:01 – 1:04:04] Adam: I didn’t even, like, comprehend to, like, try and grab my phone.
[1:04:04 – 1:04:04] Erik: Yeah.
[1:04:05 – 1:04:07] Adam: And it was playing Dark Side of the Moon.
[1:04:07 – 1:04:09] Adam: You know, I didn’t want to disturb the music.
[1:04:09 – 1:04:10] Adam: No.
[1:04:11 – 1:04:13] Adam: Yeah, it was freaky.
[1:04:13 – 1:04:13] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:04:14 – 1:04:14] Adam: But then…
[1:04:16 – 1:04:43] Adam: just as like soon as it was there it was gone you know like I said it all happened like within one track of Dark Side of the Moon and then the music ended and I was just like oh then the fear went away like I wasn’t like I wasn’t like I was able to like still relax and I didn’t go like immediately to bed I was like huh well that was really weird like I’m gonna I’m just gonna sit here for a while in the silence so I don’t know what do you think hit us up on Instagram tumblehomecast
[1:04:44 – 1:04:47] Adam: Or on Gmail, tomohomecast at gmail.com.
[1:04:48 – 1:04:49] Adam: We’re accepting fan theories.
[1:04:51 – 1:04:54] Adam: Was this just a manifestation of fireball whiskey?
[1:04:55 – 1:04:58] Adam: I think that’s probably going to be what most people think right away.
[1:04:58 – 1:04:59] Adam: Pretty much, right?
[1:04:59 – 1:05:01] Adam: We’re drinking wine and fireball, both red.
[1:05:01 – 1:05:01] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:02 – 1:05:02] Erik: Yeah, maybe.
[1:05:03 – 1:05:05] Adam: Maybe I was having a mild stroke.
[1:05:05 – 1:05:06] Adam: A mild stroke.
[1:05:07 – 1:05:09] Erik: Well, let’s not have that.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:11] Erik: Because like we said, we did make a pact yesterday.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:13] Erik: I am not hauling your body out of here.
[1:05:13 – 1:05:15] Erik: The corpse pact of 2021.
[1:05:15 – 1:05:17] Erik: Do we need to get more detailed with it?
[1:05:17 – 1:05:28] Erik: Like how you do like, all right, you have your mental faculties are still in play, but your bottom half doesn’t work and you can’t use your right hand.
[1:05:28 – 1:05:30] Erik: Do you want to pull the plug?
[1:05:30 – 1:05:31] Adam: Yes or no?
[1:05:31 – 1:05:31] Adam: Yes.
[1:05:33 – 1:05:34] Erik: So, yeah.
[1:05:34 – 1:05:34] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:05:35 – 1:05:39] Erik: I think what I take away from it is that I’m just disappointed I didn’t get to see it, because it sounds crazy.
[1:05:40 – 1:05:46] Erik: So, just chalk that one up for another one of the unexplained mysteries of the universe.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:50] Adam: The lights of Alice.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:51] Erik: The Hum Light.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:55] Adam: Yeah, it came from Hum Lake, actually, so I’m going to call it the Hum Light.
[1:05:56 – 1:05:57] Adam: Hum Light.
[1:05:58 – 1:05:58] Adam: Hum’s Light.
[1:06:00 – 1:06:01] Adam: Daddy is thirsty.
[1:06:02 – 1:06:03] Erik: Daddy is thirsty.
[1:06:03 – 1:06:04] Erik: It is dead calm out here.
[1:06:05 – 1:06:06] Erik: We are going to decide.
[1:06:06 – 1:06:16] Erik: We were kind of tossing it around as to if we were going to backtrack down to fish dance to the pictos or just gun it for Thomas for as much fishing action as possible.
[1:06:16 – 1:06:22] Erik: But it’s hard to rationalize not going down and checking them out considering we are as close as we are.
[1:06:22 – 1:06:27] Erik: How many other times are we going to be out on this sweet side of Alice?
[1:06:28 – 1:06:29] Adam: Fish dance is…
[1:06:29 – 1:06:44] Adam: two full days of effort for any good paddler like from any direction you could approach it from you know three different ways we kind of figured out and they’d all be a long haul yeah it’s really in the middle of nowhere like it’s even more heart of the park than our heart of the park stuff we did
[1:06:44 – 1:07:08] Adam: yeah you can’t get out from the south at all basically it’s just a dead end lake i wonder what those campsites down there are like it’s kind of crazy that there’s four of them down there yeah but anyways yeah we were just talking this morning too like how on our quetico trip like how many different like amazing pictographs do we just breeze right by like without any like attempt to even find them yeah you know nowadays it’s like they’re it’s something that i’m more interested in at least now and
[1:07:09 – 1:07:14] Adam: to be this close to it and not go, like, I don’t know when I’m going to have another chance to go to fish dance.
[1:07:14 – 1:07:15] Adam: It may never happen again.
[1:07:15 – 1:07:17] Adam: So it’s like, look at this day.
[1:07:17 – 1:07:18] Adam: I mean, it’s perfect.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:21] Adam: So basically we’re, we’re skipping frittata.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:25] Adam: We might do a frittata lunch or like an early frittata dinner tonight with the kielbasa.
[1:07:26 – 1:07:35] Adam: Um, but, uh, yeah, I think we’re just going to basically like pack up kind of earlier than normal and just hit it, get down there, check those out.
[1:07:36 – 1:07:37] Adam: And then we’re still going to get to Thomas.
[1:07:37 – 1:07:37] Adam: Like,
[1:07:38 – 1:07:40] Adam: relatively with probably a ton of daylight.
[1:07:40 – 1:07:40] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:45] Erik: They’re long, long-ass days.
[1:07:45 – 1:07:50] Erik: Like, we were talking, too, like, once you get out here and you stop looking at the clock, how skewed your perception is.
[1:07:50 – 1:08:01] Erik: Like, we were sitting at the beach yesterday recording our fireball track, and it was probably, like, 6.30, and it was like, it feels like it’s 3 in the afternoon.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:03] Erik: We don’t even have to think about getting dinner going.
[1:08:03 – 1:08:05] Erik: And then, like, oh, well, it’s kind of getting dark.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:10] Erik: Like, if I was at Clearwater, like I was saying to Adam, like, if I was at Clearwater, by the time
[1:08:10 – 1:08:12] Erik: We were just starting dinner.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:16] Erik: I probably would have been, like, winding down for the day after having eaten, like, two hours prior.
[1:08:17 – 1:08:17] Erik: But you’re out here in the light.
[1:08:18 – 1:08:20] Erik: It’s like, well, why not take advantage of it?
[1:08:20 – 1:08:23] Erik: So we’re just living by the sun.
[1:08:23 – 1:08:26] Erik: Once you get out here long enough, that’s just the way you got to do it.
[1:08:27 – 1:08:29] Adam: By the sun, die by the sun.
[1:08:29 – 1:08:30] Adam: Die by the red light.
[1:08:30 – 1:08:31] Adam: Don’t worry, everyone.
[1:08:31 – 1:08:35] Adam: We’re still friends, and the red light didn’t transmute into my mind.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:38] Adam: It didn’t give me any nightmares or anything weird.
[1:08:38 – 1:08:38] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:39] Erik: We’ll see.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:42] Erik: Maybe it’ll be like that vaccination.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:44] Erik: It’s going to manifest itself sometime down the line.
[1:08:45 – 1:09:00] Erik: Well, we should do, before we close out this track, we’ll do, I think it’s been made readily obvious by our comments thus far, is we are at another, I would say, A-plus campsite here on the east side of Alice.
[1:09:00 – 1:09:07] Erik: I think there’s a prevalence of sand beaches on this lake on the east side of Alice.
[1:09:07 – 1:09:10] Erik: It is a beach bum’s dream.
[1:09:11 – 1:09:17] Erik: I was disappointed Adam didn’t have any Margaritaville downloaded and no Buffett.
[1:09:18 – 1:09:18] Adam: No Beach Boys.
[1:09:18 – 1:09:23] Adam: I thought for sure I had Brian Wilson’s smile on my machine, but that’s not on there.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:24] Adam: Dark Side of the Moon is, though.
[1:09:24 – 1:09:25] Adam: Thank God.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:26] Adam: Thank God.
[1:09:26 – 1:09:28] Adam: Yeah, a bunch of weird stuff downloaded on this thing.
[1:09:28 – 1:09:31] Erik: But yeah, it is a Moonrise Kingdom-esque cove.
[1:09:33 – 1:09:43] Erik: With an expansive, just perfectly graduated beach up to where the fire pit area is just like perfectly flat.
[1:09:43 – 1:09:49] Erik: The beach extends all the way back up into the woods where you’ve got like the most luxurious tent pads.
[1:09:50 – 1:09:53] Erik: I’m sure you can just throw down a sleeping bag and be fine back up in there.
[1:09:54 – 1:09:55] Erik: Multiple groves.
[1:09:56 – 1:09:58] Erik: I probably had one of my greatest, like, wake-up-in-the-morning hammock.
[1:09:59 – 1:10:03] Erik: Like, just, like, lift your head up, and you’re like, oh, there’s the lake.
[1:10:03 – 1:10:04] Erik: Glass calm.
[1:10:04 – 1:10:05] Erik: It was all foggy this morning.
[1:10:05 – 1:10:05] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:10:06 – 1:10:06] Erik: It was pretty sweet.
[1:10:06 – 1:10:10] Erik: So, I mean, yeah.
[1:10:10 – 1:10:11] Erik: I don’t even know if we need to get into the specifics.
[1:10:11 – 1:10:14] Erik: We haven’t been to the latrine yet, but.
[1:10:14 – 1:10:15] Adam: We’re about to do the shuffle.
[1:10:15 – 1:10:16] Adam: We’re about to do the trot.
[1:10:16 – 1:10:22] Adam: I’ve been perfectly timed out to, like, end the campsite review and, like, hustle up to the brown volcano.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:22] Adam: Yep.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:32] Erik: Yeah, A-plus across the board, except maybe depending on where you come down on your love or hate of sand.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:38] Erik: And I’m not going to make any Star Wars meme comments here, but it’s kind of one of those things that you just don’t even really think about.
[1:10:39 – 1:10:43] Erik: It’s just in, like, the way that it kind of gets into things and how you have to set stuff down.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:46] Erik: Like, you can’t just chuck the bag of wine down, otherwise…
[1:10:47 – 1:10:48] Erik: You don’t want to sand up your schnozzle.
[1:10:48 – 1:10:53] Erik: There’s also sort of like little like things that like have like working parts.
[1:10:53 – 1:10:55] Erik: Like you don’t want to get sand in your silky boy joint.
[1:10:56 – 1:11:02] Erik: You got to look out for just some of those and also absolutely zero fishing potential.
[1:11:02 – 1:11:03] Erik: It’s obviously a sand beach.
[1:11:04 – 1:11:09] Erik: And unless you have like a 20 foot cane pole with a bait caster set up, you’re not getting into the deeps.
[1:11:09 – 1:11:11] Adam: Yeah, no, it’s pretty shallow, like a ways out too.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:13] Adam: I mean, we both swam.
[1:11:13 – 1:11:14] Adam: I didn’t go that far out.
[1:11:14 – 1:11:16] Adam: I just kind of went and jumped in and got, you know,
[1:11:16 – 1:11:18] Adam: just got wet like a bird and then came back out.
[1:11:18 – 1:11:24] Adam: Eric did a little more swimming, but you could walk a ways out there before it’d be like deeper than your neck.
[1:11:25 – 1:11:26] Adam: And it’s all sand, you know?
[1:11:26 – 1:11:29] Adam: So it’s like, I don’t know, ain’t gonna be any slip bobber fish in here, so.
[1:11:30 – 1:11:32] Erik: Yeah, we made that decision and that’s just the trade-off.
[1:11:32 – 1:11:33] Erik: You want to sand beach?
[1:11:33 – 1:11:40] Erik: Yeah, you’re probably just going to be just beach relaxing and not being able to tend to much fishing.
[1:11:40 – 1:11:47] Erik: And I know that that can be kind of a game changer for you, especially if you’ve got kids as intensely fishing as that one we saw yesterday.
[1:11:47 – 1:11:48] Erik: It was like any time…
[1:11:49 – 1:11:50] Adam: Anytime you’re stopped, you’re fishing.
[1:11:50 – 1:11:52] Erik: Yeah, and that’s just what most kids are like.
[1:11:52 – 1:11:55] Erik: If you’re not moving, then I’m casting into the water.
[1:11:55 – 1:12:01] Erik: But unfortunately, not an option at this site, but I think everything else greatly makes up for it.
[1:12:01 – 1:12:09] Erik: And if you’re just looking at the map, we are the second one to the north from basically the south side.
[1:12:10 – 1:12:14] Erik: So there’s a point where it goes down to the Kawishui River and to Fish Dance.
[1:12:14 – 1:12:16] Erik: There’s a site on that point that was occupied.
[1:12:17 – 1:12:18] Erik: It didn’t look great, but I didn’t get that close.
[1:12:19 – 1:12:20] Adam: I would say we’re on 10.
[1:12:20 – 1:12:22] Adam: I don’t know about your system, but I think we’re on 10.
[1:12:23 – 1:12:34] Erik: Yeah, so just to the east of that point, the second campsite up, but there are also a number of other beach sites that I have camped on on Alice, and it’s kind of a unique feature.
[1:12:35 – 1:12:37] Erik: Not very many sand beaches in the Boundary Waters, but…
[1:12:38 – 1:12:50] Erik: This west side, I tell you, we haven’t necessarily commented on it thoroughly enough, but, man, oh, man, the portages over here make those Vento unit portages look like hellscapes.
[1:12:50 – 1:12:58] Erik: It’s these gravelly landings, state trail park, like state park trail grade, like footing.
[1:12:59 – 1:13:03] Adam: I commented on it, but the one portage on the Kalishui River between Insula and Allis,
[1:13:04 – 1:13:05] Erik: That was a beautiful portage.
[1:13:05 – 1:13:07] Adam: One of the neatest portages I’ve ever been on.
[1:13:07 – 1:13:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:08 – 1:13:09] Erik: It takes a lot out of the whole, like…
[1:13:11 – 1:13:39] Erik: wear and tear on your body when you get nice portages like that you’re not like crouching awkwardly on jagged rocks trying to get all your gear out you can just like stand next to the canoe in a nice gradual sholey sandy gravelly landing like we really only experienced like one like kind of poor landing and it was still like totally fine so he’s doing the latrine scoot he’s not quite trotting yet but have you laid eyes on the latrine
[1:13:40 – 1:13:42] Erik: He’s taking everything back there, even the deck of cards.
[1:13:44 – 1:13:57] Erik: Well, all right, well, we’re going to, one of these tracks, we’re going to have you yell out the grade, but we’re going to end again with a cliffhanger, probably not an episode cliffhanger, but a track cliffhanger.
[1:13:57 – 1:14:05] Erik: Come back to see if Adam finds the latrine successfully or has to do something terrible.
[1:14:06 – 1:14:06] Erik: See ya.
[1:14:11 – 1:14:15] Erik: Grant’s Forge axes are forged by very professional smiths.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:25] Erik: The proof of this professionalism is that they are able to forge axes with such precision that no supplementary work to hide mistakes in the forging is needed.
[1:14:26 – 1:14:30] Erik: At Gransfors Brux, the forging craft is allowed to take its time.
[1:14:30 – 1:14:32] Erik: The smiths do not work by the piece.
[1:14:33 – 1:14:36] Erik: They take care and do the right forging from the beginning.
[1:14:37 – 1:14:45] Erik: There is no need to stone or grind or smooth or paint the axes in order to hide or eliminate imperfections in the forging.
[1:14:46 – 1:14:51] Erik: A smith at Gransfors Brux has nothing to hide, and he is proud of his professional standards.
[1:14:52 – 1:15:01] Erik: When he is satisfied with his work and has accepted his acts, he marks the head with his initials beside the company’s crown label.
[1:15:05 – 1:15:09] Erik: We’re coming at you from Thomas.
[1:15:09 – 1:15:10] Erik: Couple of bitey boys.
[1:15:10 – 1:15:11] Erik: Not in the way that you think.
[1:15:12 – 1:15:13] Erik: We’re just all bit up.
[1:15:14 – 1:15:15] Erik: Flies are out.
[1:15:16 – 1:15:23] Erik: Not to the extent that a head net is required, but we’re getting the back arms a little nibbled on.
[1:15:23 – 1:15:26] Erik: I had a deer fly chomp onto me.
[1:15:27 – 1:15:34] Erik: And then there’s just like general camp flies that don’t seem to be doing much besides just buzzing around.
[1:15:36 – 1:15:43] Erik: The craziest thing that we’ve experienced at this campsite is the ground bee that we witnessed yesterday.
[1:15:45 – 1:16:06] Erik: crawl into a hole and then like back its way out and then like cover the hole with the dirt it’s like it looks like an anthill i thought it was an anthill right away but it’s very clearly like a little ground like bee of some sort but he seemed friendly enough yeah do you think he’ll come back later and undig the hole or
[1:16:08 – 1:16:11] Adam: He left something in there for a rainy day.
[1:16:11 – 1:16:15] Erik: I don’t know if it’s a food plot, potential egg laying.
[1:16:15 – 1:16:17] Erik: But there’s a bunch of them around.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:18] Erik: Never really seen that before.
[1:16:19 – 1:16:36] Erik: We were also watching last night at the Sand Beach campsite the World War II or World War I Red Baron aerial fighter pilot display of the dragonfly picking off flies that were just kind of lazily flying around.
[1:16:36 – 1:16:38] Erik: The way that that thing would dart up from the ground.
[1:16:39 – 1:16:41] Erik: I’ve never seen the from below attack like that.
[1:16:42 – 1:16:44] Erik: He was picking them off one by one though.
[1:16:46 – 1:16:49] Erik: It’s hot, and we’re in the shade, and we’re tired.
[1:16:50 – 1:17:01] Erik: It wasn’t a long run today, but a 240 double portage from Alice to Thomas is, you know, you do that double portage, that’s four times 240.
[1:17:01 – 1:17:02] Erik: You do the math.
[1:17:03 – 1:17:03] Adam: It’s a lot.
[1:17:03 – 1:17:04] Adam: It’s like 900.
[1:17:04 – 1:17:05] Erik: 900.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:06] Erik: Almost 1,000.
[1:17:07 – 1:17:08] Erik: 40 short.
[1:17:08 – 1:17:11] Erik: 960 to be exact, I think my math is correct.
[1:17:12 – 1:17:16] Erik: But yeah, we’re going to quick run down before this episode go-ons and gets.
[1:17:16 – 1:17:22] Erik: A couple of the new items we’ve got out here that I think everybody in the party is happy with.
[1:17:24 – 1:17:24] Adam: Yeah, oh yeah.
[1:17:26 – 1:17:27] Adam: What do you want to start?
[1:17:27 – 1:17:30] Adam: These new food packs you got on the barrels.
[1:17:31 – 1:17:31] Adam: Yeah.
[1:17:31 – 1:17:32] Adam: Double-barreled.
[1:17:32 – 1:17:38] Adam: We’re a double-barreled heat-seeking shotgun of a trip right now with two blue barrels.
[1:17:39 – 1:17:40] Adam: I don’t know who makes the blue barrel.
[1:17:41 – 1:17:43] Erik: Yeah, you kind of just get those from, like, anybody.
[1:17:43 – 1:17:45] Adam: Blue barrel with a locking lid on it.
[1:17:45 – 1:17:51] Adam: And then last year we had this big one last year, and that was it.
[1:17:51 – 1:17:55] Adam: And so this year we’re going with a big one and, like, I would say it’s a medium.
[1:17:56 – 1:17:57] Erik: Well, there’s two sizes.
[1:17:57 – 1:18:00] Erik: There’s 60-liter and 30-liter, and we’ve got the big one and the small one.
[1:18:02 – 1:18:06] Adam: Last year we had the big one in a granite gear pack.
[1:18:07 – 1:18:09] Adam: Eric’s got these fancy new things.
[1:18:10 – 1:18:11] Adam: CCS?
[1:18:11 – 1:18:12] Erik: Custom sewing.
[1:18:12 – 1:18:34] Erik: So in my experience as an outfitter, and I don’t typically throw too many gear brands under the bus, and this isn’t fully throwing a gear brand under the bus, but a product of Granite Gears, they’re like vapor bed, the blue harness that holds the big blue bear barrel where you can still see the entire barrel.
[1:18:35 – 1:18:39] Erik: is not properly designed to hold.
[1:18:39 – 1:18:48] Erik: Specifically, the 60-liter one, if you’ve got like a five-day trip’s worth of food fully loaded in there, there’s just…
[1:18:49 – 1:18:57] Erik: Unless you’re extra, extra careful with how you’re picking them up and taking them off of your shoulders, there’s just way too many points of stress that…
[1:18:58 – 1:19:04] Erik: we end up seeing those packs come back on a regular basis at Clearwater with specifically the shoulder strap area.
[1:19:05 – 1:19:08] Erik: The, the, the sewing basically just fails.
[1:19:08 – 1:19:12] Erik: And then all of a sudden you’re looking at like, they’ll come back.
[1:19:12 – 1:19:18] Erik: It’ll be like half of a strap sewn on and all you can, you can just imagine the next time somebody lifts up a mega pack, it’s just going to rip.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:21] Erik: And then you’re out in the park without a shoulder strap.
[1:19:21 – 1:19:22] Erik: Like that sounds like a nightmare.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:23] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:24] Adam: That’s no bueno.
[1:19:24 – 1:19:27] Adam: It’s got a, you know, you can kind of horse it around in other ways, but,
[1:19:28 – 1:19:31] Adam: It wouldn’t be any fun losing a strap failure like that.
[1:19:31 – 1:19:32] SPEAKER_00: No.
[1:19:34 – 1:19:59] Erik: food like that it’s not like light gear where you can all right we’ll just throw the sleeping bags in there and call it good and just one shoulder it over the portage but so uh yeah we invested in these uh cook custom sewing barrel packs which essentially is just like a Duluth pack where it’s like a fully like cinching top with straps that come over the top and the barrels just fit in them entirely
[1:20:00 – 1:20:10] Erik: And I’ve had much more confidence in lifting these things than the Granite Gear Blue guys last year, which is just like all straps.
[1:20:10 – 1:20:19] Erik: Like these Granite or these Cook Custom Sewing bags is like the same quality material as like his Duluth pack style canoe packs.
[1:20:19 – 1:20:19] Erik: Yeah.
[1:20:20 – 1:20:27] Erik: And the added bonus is there’s room on top of the bear barrel with like a little bit of like a cinch zone.
[1:20:27 – 1:20:35] Erik: But then the flappy guy that flips on top and then gets buckled down has like a considerable amount of gear that you can pack in as well.
[1:20:35 – 1:20:41] Adam: Yeah, we had the cast iron on top of the big one at the start of the trip, but it was a little unruly.
[1:20:41 – 1:20:45] Adam: But like you can just imagine you can fit a whole cast iron on the top pouch.
[1:20:45 – 1:20:47] Adam: So it’s a good amount of space up there.
[1:20:48 – 1:21:13] Erik: great options for like day use stuff we’ve kind of like over the last few days up there yeah the last few days we’ve adjusted what’s been in there for stuff that we need to get access to more often so i can’t recommend the bare barrel system a highly recommend no more hanging the days of hanging the dirt are over i mean the bare barrel and b the durability of these and the fact that they’re
[1:21:14 – 1:21:20] Erik: Like, I don’t have to worry about them at all, and they come with that extra space.
[1:21:21 – 1:21:21] Erik: Top notch.
[1:21:22 – 1:21:29] Erik: Very happy with the Clearwater decision to get these, and then also just the personal decision.
[1:21:29 – 1:21:32] Erik: Like, these are going to be my go-to Bear Barrel bags going forward.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:32] Erik: Is that your decision?
[1:21:33 – 1:21:33] Erik: Yes.
[1:21:33 – 1:21:35] Adam: It’s a Clearwater decision.
[1:21:35 – 1:21:35] Erik: It was mine.
[1:21:35 – 1:21:38] Erik: Clearwater, those people did right in getting these.
[1:21:39 – 1:21:42] Erik: So, I don’t know where you’re at in your Bear Barrel, your food…
[1:21:43 – 1:22:11] Erik: storage wars these days but um yeah there’s a couple of different sizes that custom sewing makes for the bare barrels and like i said i don’t know i think like i think paragas sells like just the barrels themselves but you can find them online if you go to like any industrial like container website oh yeah i know a few yeah oh yeah well we’ll put in the show notes a few of our favorite industrial container website uh purchasing sources
[1:22:12 – 1:22:22] Erik: So, yeah, that has been probably the biggest change for, I think, for Clearwater and for me.
[1:22:22 – 1:22:27] Erik: Like, I feel much more confident sending these bags out than the Grand Gear blue ones.
[1:22:28 – 1:22:34] Adam: I got to say, having the big and the small version, too, and, like, splitting the stuff up into two.
[1:22:35 – 1:22:45] Adam: So neither of them are like unbearably heavy either, especially like, you know, the first couple of days of a trip when you have everything jammed into one barrel, that thing can be a real tank.
[1:22:45 – 1:22:45] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[1:22:46 – 1:22:49] Adam: Uh, so it’s nice to like, these are both been pretty reasonable.
[1:22:49 – 1:23:00] Adam: The liquid bag, the smaller of the bags that was like all the liquids, uh, that one was actually, I think the heaviest pack on the first day, but now we’ve done some good work on, uh, and, uh, lightening the load.
[1:23:01 – 1:23:04] Adam: And I think that one’s no longer the heaviest, but, um,
[1:23:04 – 1:23:07] Adam: Yeah, it’s been, they’ve been really nice to carry.
[1:23:07 – 1:23:13] Adam: And they got the extra, like, tote, like, what do you call them, extra handles all over them.
[1:23:13 – 1:23:18] Adam: So, like, they’re real, like, nice for, like, picking them up sideways and, like, lowering them into the boat.
[1:23:18 – 1:23:20] Adam: Real, like, a lot of control.
[1:23:20 – 1:23:48] Erik: yeah there’s like two side straps and then one on the top but it’s that one on the bottom that’s like a key grabber so you can like you said like fully like especially if you’re carrying rods in like we are like strapped into the side of the canoe you can’t just be like a maniac when you’re getting done with the portage and although your body wants to just like drop the thing like a ton of bricks into the canoe you need to be a little bit more like delicate so you don’t snap a rod tip but the fact that the
[1:23:49 – 1:24:13] Erik: the packs have handles on the top and the bottom really allows you to like perfectly place them like you’re working at like a a large shipping port and you’ve got that big crane guy that can just drop it right where it needs to go and everything is just like super solid like even though like yeah both packs were pretty maxed out that liquid one was as dense as a dying sun on day one i was never worried about like yee this strap is feeling like it’s getting a little creaky yeah yeah
[1:24:13 – 1:24:37] Adam: no there’s only like none of the packs this year like really require a assistance to get it on like last year i think both packs like at the start especially we were like basically having to help each other get the packs on and get them in the boat together like you couldn’t like one person couldn’t handle some of those that was first day packs that was some heavy stuff i think we were singling last year still too right i don’t know
[1:24:37 – 1:24:40] Erik: I think the days of single portaging are over for me.
[1:24:40 – 1:24:41] Adam: Yeah, no way.
[1:24:41 – 1:24:42] Adam: I’m too old for that.
[1:24:42 – 1:24:51] Erik: Yeah, it’s just, I don’t know, it just makes it way more, like, you don’t have to worry about, like, compressing that thing down, like, to the point where it’s like, I don’t know where this is going to go.
[1:24:51 – 1:24:54] Erik: And then, yeah, just the weight of a pack like that and a canoe.
[1:24:54 – 1:24:57] Erik: Yeah, I don’t have the legs like I used to.
[1:24:58 – 1:25:03] Erik: And especially on this trip, like, really the 240 from Alice to Thomas was the biggest portage of our trip.
[1:25:03 – 1:25:04] Adam: It wasn’t really that bad.
[1:25:04 – 1:25:10] Adam: You know, there’s a section where you had to walk through a creek, but, you know, who hasn’t had to do that once or twice?
[1:25:11 – 1:25:11] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[1:25:11 – 1:25:18] Adam: You know, we also, I just remember, too, like the CCS Rain Flyer, we really leaned on on night one to double up.
[1:25:18 – 1:25:19] SPEAKER_00: We did.
[1:25:19 – 1:25:21] Adam: And that is also new to our trips.
[1:25:22 – 1:25:23] Adam: It’s brand new.
[1:25:23 – 1:25:27] Adam: I mean, that was like the first time it had been pulled out of the bag, like fresh, brand new P-cord.
[1:25:27 – 1:25:27] Adam: Yeah.
[1:25:28 – 1:25:30] Adam: You know, crisp, green tarp.
[1:25:32 – 1:25:34] Adam: So that thing did great too.
[1:25:34 – 1:25:35] Adam: I believe it’s a 12 by 12.
[1:25:36 – 1:25:37] Adam: So it’s a little bit bigger than my old one.
[1:25:38 – 1:25:41] Adam: And so yeah, I’ve had that, but I just haven’t had to use it yet.
[1:25:41 – 1:25:43] Adam: So really this is the first trip where that’s been out.
[1:25:43 – 1:25:47] Adam: Like that, you know, has been leaned on as the main rain fly for me.
[1:25:48 – 1:25:49] Adam: Thing’s great.
[1:25:49 – 1:25:49] Adam: I love the color.
[1:25:50 – 1:25:51] Erik: I love that color, too.
[1:25:51 – 1:25:55] Erik: I think the only thing is, like, obviously it was raining for, like, two plus hours straight on that.
[1:25:56 – 1:26:07] Erik: And it was starting to drip through that middle section where it’s got all the, like, the very middle of the tarp where it’s got that, like, different fabric with the hanging loops.
[1:26:08 – 1:26:08] Erik: Yeah.
[1:26:09 – 1:26:09] Erik: And the…
[1:26:11 – 1:26:17] Erik: Fly does get sent with seam seal, and that is the one thing that didn’t get seam sealed before it came out.
[1:26:17 – 1:26:19] Erik: It’s not necessarily a knock on the product.
[1:26:19 – 1:26:24] Erik: I think we just should have put some seam seal on it, and it was raining forever, and it was just barely starting to drip through.
[1:26:24 – 1:26:25] Erik: It wasn’t, like, leaking.
[1:26:26 – 1:26:32] Erik: So get some seam seal on the top of that peak, and, yeah, that thing’s going to be solid for many years to come.
[1:26:34 – 1:26:38] Erik: The Silky Boy is, I think, on its first Boundary Waters trip, at least…
[1:26:39 – 1:27:06] Adam: like with us together yeah i was trying to think back because i got like last fall and i don’t think i actually took it on any trips in the fall uh so yeah i mean i’ve been using it for it feels like a year at this point but yeah it’s really that’s the first big camping trip it’s gotten brought on at least in the boundary waters i’ve definitely brought it like car camping situations but haven’t really got to use it a ton camping that thing really mauls
[1:27:06 – 1:27:18] Erik: It’s nice for big stuff because, like, it takes out, like, the gauge, like, the width of the blade is, like, so wide that I’ve noticed, like, I also do still have the Sven.
[1:27:18 – 1:27:20] Erik: The Sven saw, I think, is nice for, like, little stuff.
[1:27:21 – 1:27:24] Erik: But the silky, it’s the Katana.
[1:27:25 – 1:27:29] Erik: is a little bit much for, like, trying to cut, like, small stuff.
[1:27:29 – 1:27:31] Erik: You just can’t, like, get a good, like, grip into it.
[1:27:32 – 1:27:38] Erik: But if you’ve got, like, a decent diameter, like, dry chunk, like, that thing rips through that once you get it going.
[1:27:38 – 1:27:44] Adam: There’s some nice-looking cedar that got left here, so I’m going to try and, like, rip those up, I think, with that.
[1:27:45 – 1:27:46] Adam: So, yeah, it’s really great.
[1:27:46 – 1:27:49] Adam: I mean, it’s, like, literally, like, a hand-powered chainsaw.
[1:27:51 – 1:27:57] Erik: And it’s like super compact and it packs up like almost the same exact size, maybe just a little bit like girthier than the Svensa.
[1:27:58 – 1:28:04] Adam: Yeah, no, I mean, it’s pretty convenient just like you can throw it in the pack or strap it on the top of one of them or whatever.
[1:28:04 – 1:28:08] Adam: So, yeah, that’ll definitely be coming on a lot of trips for us.
[1:28:09 – 1:28:09] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:28:10 – 1:28:24] Erik: Oh, the one thing that we haven’t really mentioned but is now currently been introduced into the fray is the Winona brand carbon fiber bent shaft paddle that I’ve got out here.
[1:28:25 – 1:28:26] Erik: You need some juice?
[1:28:26 – 1:28:26] Erik: Yeah.
[1:28:28 – 1:28:36] Erik: Yeah, I think up to this trip, I have been basically paddling a wooden bent shaft paddle for like 12 years.
[1:28:37 – 1:28:48] Erik: And I finally decided again to like kind of make an upgrade at Clearwater in the bent shaft canoe paddle realm and went with the Winona brand.
[1:28:49 – 1:28:51] Erik: And yeah, it’s crazy how…
[1:28:53 – 1:29:20] Adam: much you like you once you get into it like you don’t notice it but like for me right away it was like this is crazy i feel like i’m gonna break it but it is like yeah it’s still incredibly strong and no i’ve had mine now i’ve had that zavaral it’s like 10 ounces i’ve had it for what six seven years now probably seven years and it’s brand new still it’s got a little scratching on it but it’s like it’s almost impossible to scratch it i mean i’ve hit a lot of like rocks and dinged it and
[1:29:20 – 1:29:50] Adam: whatever you know and i am i haven’t necessarily been gentle on it i’m not being reckless i don’t want to give that impression um mr zavarro i don’t know they don’t even make them anymore i feel like i got like a rare gem because you can’t yeah that’ll that’s going to be you know like i said it’s a seven years pretty good use on it and it’s still like tip-top shape and uh yeah i don’t know i’m one of the best purchases of my life for sure so um yeah they’re
[1:29:50 – 1:30:15] Adam: they’re sweet you know it does add up those ounces on the arms it does add up yeah it’s cumulative you gotta watch it when you first switch to it though you can almost like blow an elbow out because you can you can go too hard torquing yeah too much torque almost yeah you gotta take it down a notch because the your arm is used to throwing that wood around oh no i guess i that was just a reaction i did not mean to hit the friendly bee like that but i did hit him nothing
[1:30:17 – 1:30:18] Erik: He’s back.
[1:30:19 – 1:30:19] Erik: Or she.
[1:30:19 – 1:30:20] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:30:22 – 1:30:23] Erik: Yeah.
[1:30:23 – 1:30:25] Erik: We got some blade action.
[1:30:25 – 1:30:26] Erik: We got…
[1:30:27 – 1:30:28] Adam: Fancy blades.
[1:30:28 – 1:30:30] Erik: Yeah, we’re out here fancy blading it.
[1:30:30 – 1:30:31] Erik: Like, we’re…
[1:30:31 – 1:30:32] Erik: I don’t even know who.
[1:30:32 – 1:30:34] Erik: There’s a reference there somewhere.
[1:30:35 – 1:30:38] Erik: Yeah, we have not run into any fish yet.
[1:30:38 – 1:30:39] Erik: Have not really.
[1:30:39 – 1:30:41] Erik: And that’s the opposite.
[1:30:41 – 1:30:43] Erik: It is for a lack of trying.
[1:30:43 – 1:30:43] Erik: Oh, for sure.
[1:30:44 – 1:30:48] Erik: Yeah, we’ve just been, I don’t know, just kind of enjoying the…
[1:30:49 – 1:30:52] Erik: I don’t know, just not fishing.
[1:30:52 – 1:30:57] Erik: But we do have a fillet knife in the knife man.
[1:30:58 – 1:31:01] Erik: And also a cheese cutting knife that just went into action.
[1:31:01 – 1:31:06] Erik: And also a solid cured meat log.
[1:31:07 – 1:31:13] Erik: And those are a couple of knives from a friend of the show, Paige May, at Wilderness Effects.
[1:31:13 – 1:31:15] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[1:31:15 – 1:31:17] Adam: Give them a follow on Instagram.
[1:31:17 – 1:31:40] Erik: you go it’s just that’s a true shout out the uh the puko it just ripped through like i have one of those just like classic plastic gsi plates and usually when i’m like cutting cheese or like meat or anything i’ll just like put it right on my lap and then just use my leatherman and be like but like i bucked i like pulled out the puko which is like
[1:31:41 – 1:32:02] Erik: a chunk of metal honed down into like the scariest edge you can imagine and it has a beautiful spalted birch handle the whole thing is made from scratch including the blade um not i could not be happier with it but i was like i don’t feel safe cutting cheese on my lap i feel like it’s gonna go right through this plate
[1:32:03 – 1:32:07] Adam: I like the term for a knife that’s made from scratch.
[1:32:07 – 1:32:09] Adam: Yeah, this is all made from scratch.
[1:32:09 – 1:32:10] Adam: It is.
[1:32:10 – 1:32:11] Adam: Basically.
[1:32:11 – 1:32:13] Adam: It’s just funny to put it that way, but it’s true.
[1:32:13 – 1:32:14] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[1:32:14 – 1:32:17] Adam: Literally, does yours have any, like, moose antler in it?
[1:32:17 – 1:32:17] Erik: Yeah, it does.
[1:32:17 – 1:32:18] Erik: It’s got…
[1:32:19 – 1:32:32] Erik: So the main handle is, like, a very beautiful, like, stabilized, spalted birch, and then right up at the end of the, you know, the part there, I’m sure anybody that knows anything about knives…
[1:32:33 – 1:32:47] Erik: cringing right now same thing with axe like there’s this the thing up by the end where it turns in from the handle into the blade there’s uh there’s stacked moose antler and like this really cool like blue leather i think it’s the tang yeah it’s the tang
[1:32:48 – 1:32:49] Adam: Oh my God, they’re shaking their head.
[1:32:50 – 1:32:51] Adam: Oh my God.
[1:32:51 – 1:32:54] Erik: These guys are not barely even enthusiasts.
[1:32:54 – 1:32:55] Erik: Yes, we are.
[1:32:55 – 1:32:56] Adam: We’re definitely not experts.
[1:32:56 – 1:32:58] Adam: We’re not phony.
[1:32:58 – 1:33:00] Adam: We’re not phoning it in, but we’re not phony either.
[1:33:00 – 1:33:01] Adam: Yeah, right.
[1:33:01 – 1:33:03] Erik: But yeah, if you’re looking for a…
[1:33:03 – 1:33:04] Adam: I’m happy to admit when I don’t know something.
[1:33:05 – 1:33:05] Erik: Yeah.
[1:33:05 – 1:33:06] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:33:06 – 1:33:07] Adam: There’s a lot I don’t know.
[1:33:08 – 1:33:09] Adam: Yeah, for sure.
[1:33:09 – 1:33:10] Adam: I’m learning something new every day.
[1:33:10 – 1:33:11] Erik: Oh, I know.
[1:33:12 – 1:33:16] Erik: Yeah, so the puko, we also have a fillet knife, which I can’t imagine.
[1:33:16 – 1:33:18] Erik: If we run into a fish, we would be able to, like…
[1:33:18 – 1:33:23] Erik: We could put together, like, a sashimi board with that fillet knife.
[1:33:23 – 1:33:24] Erik: Yeah.
[1:33:24 – 1:33:30] Erik: So, like, it’s sturdy, but it’s, like, you could, like, bend the thing, like, a 747’s wing.
[1:33:31 – 1:33:36] Erik: It’s so, like, you could get into all the nooks and cranny on any fish that we may not catch.
[1:33:36 – 1:33:37] Adam: We could get the crannies.
[1:33:37 – 1:33:39] Adam: I don’t know about the nooks, though.
[1:33:40 – 1:33:43] Adam: But, yeah, we’re definitely going to catch a fish.
[1:33:43 – 1:33:47] Adam: We’ve just been relaxing since we pulled in still early in the day.
[1:33:47 – 1:33:50] Adam: We still got, like, 18 hours of daylight left here.
[1:33:50 – 1:33:50] SPEAKER_00: Yeah, pretty much.
[1:33:51 – 1:33:56] Adam: On June 1st, and the sun’s up until midnight, so we’re not in a hurry to get fishing.
[1:33:56 – 1:33:59] Adam: But we have salted minnows, which is also a new thing.
[1:34:00 – 1:34:00] Adam: Yeah.
[1:34:00 – 1:34:06] Adam: And first time we’re trying it, we’re on the perfect campsite, and we’ll talk more on this maybe next week’s episode.
[1:34:07 – 1:34:28] Adam: on what we’re doing as far as like trying to bottom bounce rig these uh salted minnows thanks to shout out to andy at tuscarora lodge on his youtube channel check out the salted minnow video that’s the recipe i used that’s made from scratch too we try and make everything from scratch as much as possible you know this is an artisan’s trip
[1:34:29 – 1:34:30] Adam: Yeah, for sure.
[1:34:30 – 1:34:33] Adam: It’s a heritage, uh, heritage kind of boundary waters podcast.
[1:34:33 – 1:34:36] Adam: And that’s the kind of, we’re heritage tripping always.
[1:34:36 – 1:34:38] Adam: Uh, so yeah, a lot of new things.
[1:34:38 – 1:34:41] Adam: We’re definitely gonna, we’re going to get the, I am going to fish.
[1:34:41 – 1:34:43] Adam: I’m like, I have to switch up.
[1:34:43 – 1:34:47] Adam: I have this, I gotta get the bottom bouncer rig all tied up, but we’re, we’re doing it.
[1:34:47 – 1:34:49] Adam: We got a good looking spot over here.
[1:34:49 – 1:34:54] Adam: Uh, Eric’s scouted out a good looking spot over behind us that I think is going to be perfect.
[1:34:54 – 1:34:58] Adam: Like it’s a super steep drop off down to like a hundred feet out there.
[1:34:59 – 1:35:01] Adam: So who the hell knows what’s going to happen.
[1:35:02 – 1:35:03] Adam: But I got floating jig heads.
[1:35:04 – 1:35:04] Erik: Nice.
[1:35:05 – 1:35:06] Adam: You going to Carolina rig it up?
[1:35:07 – 1:35:09] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know if I’m going to Carolina or Lindy rig it yet.
[1:35:10 – 1:35:12] Adam: I’m not sure.
[1:35:12 – 1:35:13] Adam: These are all just appetizers.
[1:35:13 – 1:35:15] Adam: This is the real meat.
[1:35:15 – 1:35:19] Adam: It’s from our friend Monk E. What was his last name?
[1:35:19 – 1:35:20] Erik: No, don’t say it.
[1:35:21 – 1:35:22] Adam: No.
[1:35:23 – 1:35:25] Adam: Monk at Paragus.
[1:35:25 – 1:35:28] Erik: We’ve been shouting a lot of people out.
[1:35:28 – 1:35:33] Adam: Monk at Paragus went above and beyond to sell this next product to Eric.
[1:35:33 – 1:35:34] Adam: You had to really work them.
[1:35:35 – 1:35:40] Adam: You worked a salesmanship, earned that commission month.
[1:35:40 – 1:35:41] Erik: Yeah.
[1:35:41 – 1:35:49] Erik: When I get enough lunch beers in me in Ely, I am the easiest sell you could possibly imagine.
[1:35:49 – 1:35:51] Adam: We’re in downtown Ely.
[1:35:52 – 1:35:54] Adam: We just got to run in and get a big Nalgene.
[1:35:55 – 1:35:56] Adam: So we walk in.
[1:35:57 – 1:36:01] Adam: But as we’re going over there, you’re like, well, we forgot to bring anything to split wood with.
[1:36:02 – 1:36:03] Adam: Well, I don’t know.
[1:36:03 – 1:36:05] Adam: We just didn’t have our normal unit, you know.
[1:36:05 – 1:36:08] Erik: Yeah, no, I totally forgot the little, I just usually bring the S-twing.
[1:36:08 – 1:36:11] Adam: Yeah, we’re not bringing, you know, the fancy stuff out, you know.
[1:36:11 – 1:36:12] Adam: Well, maybe we are now.
[1:36:13 – 1:36:15] Adam: Yeah, we’re getting, we’re turning into fancy boys.
[1:36:15 – 1:36:16] Adam: We’re real fancy now.
[1:36:16 – 1:36:20] Adam: So we walk in the plane and he’s like, I’m just going to look at these axes quick.
[1:36:21 – 1:36:21] Adam: They had a bunch of them.
[1:36:22 – 1:36:23] Adam: They had the little child’s axe.
[1:36:24 – 1:36:24] Adam: They did, yeah.
[1:36:24 – 1:36:28] Adam: We’ve told the story of the axe purchase at this point and how hastily it was.
[1:36:28 – 1:36:28] Erik: It was great.
[1:36:28 – 1:36:35] Erik: How I’m sure Monk was waiting for somebody to pull that axe off the wall to tell me or anybody all about it.
[1:36:35 – 1:36:38] Erik: And I just at the moment were like, I couldn’t care less.
[1:36:39 – 1:36:42] Adam: He had to get the little axe key.
[1:36:42 – 1:37:05] Erik: to unleash them the axe from the wall yeah which ones you got you get the hunters i did get the i did get the hunters which is actually we were reading in the axe book that came with it that uh it received the first and only design award from the swedish society of crafts and designs that’s a real thing yeah i guess society yeah
[1:37:07 – 1:37:19] Erik: Yeah, and I mean, obviously, the thing, like, you read, you’ve heard some of the ad reads that have been in this episode, but I also thought it was really cool that the initials of the Smith…
[1:37:20 – 1:37:27] Erik: is imprinted onto the axe head, and I, again, we just worked, this whole section is just shouting everybody out.
[1:37:27 – 1:37:37] Erik: Gotta go ahead and shout out Michael Sundberg, or Mikael, sorry, I don’t know what the appropriate Swedish pronunciation is, but I got MS on my blade, so…
[1:37:38 – 1:37:38] Erik: You got a Sundberg.
[1:37:39 – 1:37:40] Erik: I got a Sundberg.
[1:37:40 – 1:37:45] Erik: It seems like an excellently crafted axe.
[1:37:45 – 1:37:46] Erik: I think the…
[1:37:46 – 1:37:47] Erik: I guess if there was anything…
[1:37:48 – 1:37:52] Erik: It’s perfect for doing like… Last night when we had that cedar, the kindling, it was like…
[1:37:52 – 1:37:53] Erik: It was a dream.
[1:37:53 – 1:37:56] Erik: I mean, almost too much of a dream.
[1:37:56 – 1:37:57] Erik: Like, you got to be careful with those things.
[1:37:58 – 1:37:59] Erik: But I could see there’s like…
[1:38:00 – 1:38:03] Erik: It’s nice and lightweight, but it’s got enough weight behind it.
[1:38:04 – 1:38:14] Erik: But I could see if you’re dealing with like that first night on Lake 3 when we had that kind of, you know, like old dried spruce where there’s like a knot every four inches, you need a little bit more weight behind the handle.
[1:38:15 – 1:38:18] Erik: It could be just a tad bit heavier for…
[1:38:19 – 1:38:46] Erik: nastier splits if it’s not like straight grained wood so maybe in the future the next time i’m uh hastily trying to go on a banjo trip i’ll buy the uh i couldn’t tell if it was the forest hatchet or the small forest axe that would be a a little bit of a higher maybe also like in the late fall or winter for getting bigger stuff i really want to get that child’s uh i want the child’s axe for gordy that’s not in here
[1:38:46 – 1:38:53] Adam: I want to buy it for Gordy when he gets his little sombrero and his cheese upgrades.
[1:38:54 – 1:39:05] Erik: Yeah, we do also, I think that’s it for new gear, but next year we’re hoping to introduce a Bao Gordo cheese situation.
[1:39:06 – 1:39:17] Adam: Either there’s two models out there that one would be like you remove his head and he’s just full of nacho cheese in the middle, but somehow like heated with a
[1:39:18 – 1:39:23] Adam: you know, a solar unit up on the nose and, uh, it keeps that cheese hot the whole trip.
[1:39:24 – 1:39:25] Adam: Uh, yeah, that would be one option.
[1:39:25 – 1:39:35] Adam: The other would just be to have like an insert where you can install like a can of easy cheese and that would be cleaner and wouldn’t weigh nearly as much and it wouldn’t require electricity either.
[1:39:35 – 1:39:35] Erik: Yeah.
[1:39:35 – 1:39:38] Erik: You just have like coming out of his beak is just the white nozzle.
[1:39:39 – 1:39:39] Adam: The beak.
[1:39:39 – 1:39:40] Adam: Yeah.
[1:39:40 – 1:39:43] Adam: Cheese beak dispenser on Gordy coming next season.
[1:39:43 – 1:39:45] Adam: Uh, can’t wait for that.
[1:39:45 – 1:39:46] Adam: I think that’s probably the way to go.
[1:39:46 – 1:39:46] Adam: We did,
[1:39:47 – 1:40:11] Adam: zip tie gordy in uh to his seat there so eric got his uh p cord back he’s in there solid like i don’t even think you have to take him off when we drive home no he’s always just staying there from now on you just gotta watch him on the portages i haven’t roughed him up yet i’ve been keeping him clean but you gotta watch that nose a little bit more yeah we definitely want to get him a little cowboy hat or a sombrero of some sort for next year as well or maybe even later this year but
[1:40:12 – 1:40:18] Erik: I feel like the rancidness of the just loose nacho cheese option is probably not best.
[1:40:18 – 1:40:24] Erik: So I think we should try to make some contraption so that you can just put a cartridge of Easy Cheese or Cheese Whiz in there.
[1:40:24 – 1:40:25] Adam: Right out of the beak, yeah.
[1:40:25 – 1:40:26] Adam: I love it.
[1:40:27 – 1:40:29] Adam: Yeah, that was pretty sweet.
[1:40:30 – 1:40:31] Adam: We’ve been having a lot of fun with Gordy.
[1:40:31 – 1:40:36] Adam: Still nobody has even commented or noticed, apparently, Gordy’s riding in front of the boat.
[1:40:37 – 1:40:50] Adam: yeah that’s what i mean i think we just need to up the ante if that thing dispensed cheese and it had a fun hat on yeah they had a little sombrero you know people would be like hey that’s a nice ducky got there nice wet bird
[1:40:50 – 1:40:51] Erik: Oh, you know what else you could do?
[1:40:52 – 1:41:04] Erik: If you did the container of cheese, I guarantee if you got a holster for it high enough up in the cavity of Gordy, you could also have below him like a small bag of wine.
[1:41:04 – 1:41:07] Erik: And then you could also have a dispenser on the bottom coming out.
[1:41:08 – 1:41:09] Adam: Yeah, just the schnozzle.
[1:41:09 – 1:41:10] Adam: Just the schnozzle, yeah.
[1:41:14 – 1:41:15] Erik: Then you’d get people stopping.
[1:41:15 – 1:41:16] Adam: Then people would want to say hi.
[1:41:16 – 1:41:18] Adam: Hey, what’s with the duck?
[1:41:18 – 1:41:20] Erik: You mean Gordy?
[1:41:21 – 1:41:22] Adam: My son?
[1:41:23 – 1:41:24] Adam: Give me this daddy juice.
[1:41:25 – 1:41:29] Erik: He has definitely been our go-to mascot.
[1:41:29 – 1:41:31] Erik: I just can’t believe we got a duck.
[1:41:34 – 1:41:35] Adam: Tied to the canoe with zip ties right now.
[1:41:36 – 1:41:37] Erik: He’s in there pretty sturdy.
[1:41:37 – 1:41:38] SPEAKER_00: He’s looking great.
[1:41:38 – 1:41:39] Adam: We’ll be back.
[1:41:39 – 1:41:42] Adam: Come to see the pictured rocks.
[1:41:42 – 1:41:45] Erik: Yeah, I was going to say, we’ll be back at the beginning of next week’s episode.
[1:41:45 – 1:41:46] Erik: We’ll recap our day today.
[1:41:46 – 1:41:49] Erik: We did get to experience some fine pictos.
[1:41:49 – 1:41:51] Adam: He’s seen a lot already.
[1:41:51 – 1:41:52] Adam: He’s only been with us for two days.
[1:41:52 – 1:41:53] Adam: I was like, we got it in the air.
[1:41:53 – 1:41:55] Adam: I’m like, he’ll always be there.
[1:41:55 – 1:41:57] Adam: Eric’s like, we’ve had him for two days.
[1:41:57 – 1:41:59] Adam: Just slow your roll.
[1:41:59 – 1:41:59] Adam: But I’m like, no.
[1:42:00 – 1:42:03] Adam: The only thing I can see now is maybe you’ve got to get a second duck for the back.
[1:42:03 – 1:42:05] Erik: Oh, that’s where you could have the schnozzle.
[1:42:06 – 1:42:11] Adam: Yeah, that one front duck is cheese, back duck is schnozzles of wine.
[1:42:11 – 1:42:12] Erik: Yeah, that would even things out.
[1:42:13 – 1:42:14] Erik: You don’t want to put a bunch of weight up front.
[1:42:14 – 1:42:17] Adam: I think you really would have both are schnozzles, really.
[1:42:17 – 1:42:18] Adam: Yeah.
[1:42:18 – 1:42:20] Adam: It’s a schnozzle of cheese and a schnozzle of wine.
[1:42:21 – 1:42:24] Erik: Just to keep the equilibrium there for portaging.
[1:42:24 – 1:42:27] Adam: I think we might have to change the name of the boat now from Ghost to Gordy.
[1:42:27 – 1:42:30] Adam: I thought you were going to say schnozzle.
[1:42:33 – 1:42:38] Adam: Yeah, well, we’ve got an embarrassment of riches out here on fancy new gear.
[1:42:39 – 1:42:40] Adam: Yep.
[1:42:40 – 1:42:44] Adam: Yeah, you know, we’re just, I got floating jig heads.
[1:42:44 – 1:42:46] Adam: We got plenty of wine left.
[1:42:48 – 1:42:55] Erik: I’m trying to put down a little bit of wine today so we can empty out this liquid pack for our rapid-fire adventure up to Ensign.
[1:42:55 – 1:42:56] Erik: Oh, boy.
[1:42:56 – 1:43:03] Erik: I mean, that’s the cherry on the meatball is our experience up on Ensign.
[1:43:03 – 1:43:11] Erik: It’s been, I think, basically three years of this podcast of me basically shitting on Ensign and how I got attacked by a bear.
[1:43:12 – 1:43:13] Erik: So we’re finally going back.
[1:43:13 – 1:43:16] Erik: We said we’d never do it, but boy, oh, boy, we’re doing it.
[1:43:16 – 1:43:17] Adam: We’re joking.
[1:43:18 – 1:43:19] Adam: We’re definitely going back.
[1:43:19 – 1:43:22] Adam: And Eric even said we can camp at the exact site of the bear attack.
[1:43:24 – 1:43:25] Adam: I said, no, let’s not do that.
[1:43:25 – 1:43:26] Erik: And that was that.
[1:43:26 – 1:43:28] Erik: I thanked you for making that recommendation.
[1:43:29 – 1:43:29] Adam: Sneak preview.
[1:43:29 – 1:43:34] Adam: I think we’re going to camp on the, it’s an island that’s like one half acre.
[1:43:34 – 1:43:36] Adam: And it’s got five different campsites on it, it looks like.
[1:43:37 – 1:43:39] Adam: The whole thing is just red dots on the Fisher map.
[1:43:40 – 1:43:41] Adam: There’s barely an island in there.
[1:43:41 – 1:43:43] Adam: It’s just a bunch of red dots all in a cluster.
[1:43:43 – 1:43:44] Adam: It’s an atoll.
[1:43:44 – 1:43:46] Erik: Yeah, that island has an STD.
[1:43:46 – 1:43:47] Erik: There’s so many red dots on it.
[1:43:47 – 1:43:49] Erik: I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.
[1:43:50 – 1:43:52] Erik: We’re going to try to stay on the east end, but who knows?
[1:43:52 – 1:43:57] Erik: We might just get swept up into the twister that is the Ensign Zoo.
[1:43:57 – 1:43:59] Erik: Although there are defenders out there, I know.
[1:43:59 – 1:43:59] Erik: We’ll see.
[1:43:59 – 1:44:00] Erik: We could be turned.
[1:44:01 – 1:44:03] Adam: Listeners, does anybody know what kind of fish are in Ensign?
[1:44:04 – 1:44:05] Erik: Didn’t do any research.
[1:44:06 – 1:44:06] Adam: We didn’t look at it.
[1:44:07 – 1:44:09] Adam: I guarantee you there’s lake trout in this lake.
[1:44:09 – 1:44:16] Adam: And I think after we finish up this track, we’ll have a little more wine, and I think it’s about time to get fishing.
[1:44:16 – 1:44:24] Adam: So we’ll have a fishing update from Thomas, a recap of the day, including taking our son Gordy to the Picto’s,
[1:44:25 – 1:44:28] Adam: on fish dance, and so much more.
[1:44:28 – 1:44:29] Adam: Maybe… Not next week.
[1:44:29 – 1:44:32] Erik: Next week, maybe answers to the red orb in the sky.
[1:44:33 – 1:44:34] Adam: Was it…
[1:44:34 – 1:44:40] Adam: It’s obviously a hallucination, but maybe… We have a new theory has emerged, actually, since we last touched on that.
[1:44:41 – 1:44:45] Adam: New shit has come to light.
[1:44:45 – 1:44:46] Adam: And it’s a red light.
[1:44:47 – 1:44:48] Adam: And we also realized that…
[1:44:50 – 1:44:56] Adam: that we started the episode with, uh, run and run and red lights by the avalanches.
[1:44:57 – 1:45:11] Adam: And we also maybe realized too, this is a future night discussion is did Kingpin already rip off her idea to have a gritty remake of beauty and the beast is, uh, Bill Murray’s character has a rose in his bowling ball.
[1:45:12 – 1:45:20] Adam: When the final pedal falls off, he, uh, he finally becomes a good person and treats the Amish with respect and,
[1:45:21 – 1:45:21] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:45:22 – 1:45:26] Adam: Some could argue that it is sort of a remake of Beauty and the Beast when you think about it.
[1:45:26 – 1:45:26] SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
[1:45:27 – 1:45:31] Adam: But we’re having a hard time really remembering what happens in Kingpin, so that one might have to wait.
[1:45:31 – 1:45:32] Erik: Yeah.
[1:45:32 – 1:45:33] Adam: I think that’s all the previews we’ve got for you.
[1:45:33 – 1:45:34] Erik: I think so.
[1:45:34 – 1:45:36] Adam: We’re in a pretty sweet site here.
[1:45:36 – 1:45:38] Adam: I already tested the latrine.
[1:45:38 – 1:45:43] Adam: Apparently this is number 13 on Thomas, so you can do the math on that one.
[1:45:44 – 1:45:46] Erik: Well, that’s just the number on the latrine itself.
[1:45:46 – 1:45:51] Erik: But we’ll come back with the proper number, at least according to my scale.
[1:45:51 – 1:45:56] Adam: Yeah, I don’t think it is going to be 13, but it could be if you wanted to twist the numbers a little.
[1:45:56 – 1:45:58] Adam: All right, bud.
[1:45:58 – 1:46:00] Adam: Well, there’s never been any twisting of numbers on this show.
[1:46:00 – 1:46:03] Adam: No, we only go by the book.
[1:46:03 – 1:46:06] Adam: That’s what we do, and that’s how we’re going to raise Gordy.
[1:46:08 – 1:46:13] Adam: Sorry, maybe you’re not going to be able to go out for hockey until your math scores come up.
[1:46:14 – 1:46:15] Adam: And what happened?
[1:46:15 – 1:46:18] Adam: Did you get grass stands on your sombrero again?
[1:46:18 – 1:46:19] Adam: Gordy, what are you doing?
[1:46:19 – 1:46:20] Adam: It’s algae stands.
[1:46:21 – 1:46:21] Adam: Dodd.
[1:46:22 – 1:46:22] Erik: All right.
[1:46:24 – 1:46:25] Erik: Slap that bag.
[1:46:27 – 1:46:27] Adam: Woo!
[1:46:29 – 1:46:30] Adam: Cracked Erratic.
[1:46:31 – 1:46:34] Adam: Starring Peter Dinklage and Steve Buscemi.
[1:46:34 – 1:46:35] Adam: As the teacup.
[1:46:35 – 1:46:36] Adam: As the teacup.
[1:46:37 – 1:46:39] Adam: Not the mother teacup.
[1:46:39 – 1:46:39] Adam: No.
[1:46:40 – 1:46:43] Adam: Brenda Brethlin is going to play the mother teacup, of course.
[1:46:58 – 1:46:59] UNKNOWN: so so
[1:47:29 – 1:47:30] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[1:48:05 – 1:48:06] UNKNOWN: Bye.