Episode Transcript
[0:00:01 – 0:00:01] Erik: Hello.
[0:00:03 – 0:00:08] Erik: You know we’re getting serious whenever we just come in before the loon song.
[0:00:09 – 0:00:10] Erik: Where are the loons?
[0:00:11 – 0:00:12] Erik: The loons are coming.
[0:00:12 – 0:00:30] Erik: I know a lot of you use this podcast as a way to alleviate the day-to-day, the grind, kind of get away from some of the things that we’re going to talk about here, but
[0:00:32 – 0:00:38] Erik: It’s not all fun and games, although the last few episodes that we have had have been much fun, much games.
[0:00:38 – 0:00:44] Erik: And the one coming up after this little session here is going to be why I love the park.
[0:00:44 – 0:00:55] Erik: I mean, it’s an in-the-field episode, and it’s beautiful that we have the boundary waters to be able to go out right in our backyard and take advantage of, even if it’s just for a night.
[0:00:58 – 0:00:59] Erik: So, two things…
[0:01:01 – 0:01:11] Erik: One is, I think at this point, hopefully most people have successfully transferred over from the sponsorship on Clearwater’s website.
[0:01:11 – 0:01:13] Adam: Yeah, I honestly never noticed a thing.
[0:01:13 – 0:01:15] Sarah: I could have maybe said nothing.
[0:01:15 – 0:01:16] Sarah: I didn’t really look around for it.
[0:01:16 – 0:01:18] Erik: And maybe people would have never noticed.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:19] Erik: But I wanted to be just in case.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:20] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:21] Erik: First time I’ve ever done it.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:26] Erik: And I kind of hinted maybe at why.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:28] Erik: But if you’re not 100%…
[0:01:30 – 0:01:34] Erik: in tune or aware, Clearwater Lodge and Outfitters is for sale.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:38] Erik: So if you’ve got $3.2 million laying around, throw it down.
[0:01:38 – 0:01:39] Erik: I’ll work with you.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:41] Adam: Yeah, hire me too.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:42] Adam: Okay, yeah, you can hire Adam.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:45] Adam: You can hire both of us at a very reasonable rate.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:48] Erik: Very reasonable.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:50] Adam: That’s the ultimate Patreon level.
[0:01:51 – 0:01:54] Adam: Just buy a Clearwater Lodge and employ us.
[0:01:55 – 0:01:59] Erik: Yes, it’s the $4 million level.
[0:02:00 – 0:02:02] Adam: I’m trying to win the lottery this summer.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:03] Erik: Pizza Biter Man level.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:10] Erik: Anyway, if you can’t tell, the main reason…
[0:02:11 – 0:02:16] Erik: We, on one hand, started the Patreon, the patron thing.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:23] Erik: And the main reason we split off from Clearwater is Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast, is not for sale.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:25] Erik: I want to make that very clear.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:28] Erik: That doesn’t come with the sale.
[0:02:29 – 0:02:35] Erik: So if you are out there and you are listening and you’re interested in buying Clearwater, Tumble Home is its own thing.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:39] Erik: I wanted to make sure it was its own thing before things got too far down the line.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:40] Erik: And I was waiting.
[0:02:40 – 0:02:41] Adam: I’ve got to remain independent.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:42] Erik: We are independent.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:44] Erik: We are sponsored by you.
[0:02:45 – 0:02:46] Erik: We are sponsored by us.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:50] Erik: We are sponsored by everybody who loves the Boundary Waters, and that’s the way it will always remain.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:54] Erik: We’re not going to ever have any sponsorships besides from the people.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:55] Erik: Huzzah.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:58] Erik: So, if you have any questions on that, feel free to send us an email.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:59] Erik: Huzzah.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:28] Erik: Two is I’ve just been thinking a lot lately about how we have a bit of a captive audience and the opportunity to do something with it that’s more than just taking, not so much advantage, but just basically recording ourselves out in the park and then saying, here it is, give us your money on Patreon.
[0:03:29 – 0:03:31] Erik: I hope that’s not what it comes across as.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:41] Erik: We do put that towards now, especially because we’re not sponsored by Clearwater, towards hosting, website costs, permits, all of the equipment that goes involved into it.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:45] Erik: It’s not just going into our pocket, but I’d like to do something more with it.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:52] Erik: I know we got serious with the Save the Boundary Waters episode a couple months back now, almost.
[0:03:52 – 0:03:53] Erik: Crazy.
[0:03:53 – 0:03:54] Erik: That’s almost like two months ago now.
[0:03:55 – 0:03:56] Erik: Yeah, it’s flying.
[0:03:57 – 0:04:10] Erik: But I think I want to maybe start another level on Patreon where anything past the $10 level, we’re going to just put directly towards causes that…
[0:04:12 – 0:04:28] Erik: Focus a voice towards the ears, no matter how small or cynical you want to be about them in Congress are, may go about affecting some protection towards the Bonjewaters.
[0:04:28 – 0:04:32] Erik: So sportsmen for the Bonjewaters, save the Bonjewaters, folks.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:43] Erik: Any of those, because there’s only so much that we can do just amongst the listeners and me and Adam.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:51] Erik: If it was me, I would try to do everything because it seems like we’re kind of going to hell in a handbasket real quick.
[0:04:53 – 0:04:57] Erik: in terms of the way we use things and the way we take advantage of nature.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:01] Erik: I’m going to focus on the Boundary Waters because it’s my backyard.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:04] Erik: And yeah, NIMBY, all you want.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:09] Erik: Yeah, it’s an important backyard, but it’s everybody’s backyard if you ask me.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:09] Erik: So…
[0:05:10 – 0:05:26] Erik: We’re going to start a little bit more of a focus on taking the money that people have so graciously put towards us already and put towards some better and greater causes.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:29] Erik: So look for that on the Patreon page.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:33] Erik: If you’re not already a subscriber or a patron, check that out.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:36] Erik: If you are already, that’s awesome.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:37] Erik: From the bottom of our hearts.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:37] Erik: Thank you.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:39] Erik: That’s incredible.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:44] Erik: I never thought over a year into this that we would be at the point that we are.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:47] Adam: No, I mean, it seems like that’s going, that’s flying by too.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:52] Erik: Yeah, and it is about having fun, and that’s what we want it to be.
[0:05:53 – 0:06:04] Erik: I don’t want this to be a black and white, hazy smoke, serious black leather couch discussion every week on what we need to do and what’s wrong with this country.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:10] Erik: But there’s also a point in time where you got to talk about it.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:12] Erik: So I think I’ve said my part.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:14] Erik: We’re going to…
[0:06:15 – 0:06:17] Erik: put some of those changes into action.
[0:06:17 – 0:06:18] Erik: So look for those.
[0:06:19 – 0:06:21] Erik: Um, I’ve said my piece on Clearwater.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:22] Erik: I’ve still worked there.
[0:06:23 – 0:06:23] Erik: Clearwater is great.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:26] Erik: Still come and visit, but it’s not for sale.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:26] Erik: Tumble home.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:27] Erik: The lodge is.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:33] Adam: And yeah, I mean, it, it may, it may be a while before it’s, you know, that’s a big purchase.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:39] Adam: I don’t, I wouldn’t be surprised if it sold this summer, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t sell for a couple of years either.
[0:06:40 – 0:06:40] Erik: Right.
[0:06:40 – 0:06:41] Adam: You never know.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:45] Adam: But yeah, you want to be prepared for these eventualities.
[0:06:45 – 0:06:45] Erik: Exactly.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:58] Erik: And then the whole, you know, looking to do something a little bit more with the people that have found themselves interested enough in us to support us.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:08] Erik: I feel like we can maybe parlay that into supporting the park, which has up to this point essentially supported us into getting us to where we have been.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:12] Erik: Because if we have, you know, what else do we have to talk about if it’s not the Bonjewaters?
[0:07:12 – 0:07:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:13 – 0:07:15] Erik: So without the park, we would be nothing.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:23] Erik: So with that, let’s get to some footloose, fancy-free, and fun times out in the park.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:27] Erik: And we’ll catch you guys on the flip side.
[0:07:31 – 0:07:34] Erik: Warning, this episode does contain nudity.
[0:07:34 – 0:07:37] Erik: Oh, boy.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:37] Erik: Warning.
[0:07:38 – 0:07:39] Erik: Warning.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:34] Erik: Oink, oink, oink, and welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast coming to you live and in the field from entry point 36, maybe our lowest entry point ever.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:37] Erik: Hog Creek.
[0:08:38 – 0:08:39] Erik: And I’m out here.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:42] Erik: The forest is alive and fecund with life.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:44] Erik: It smells incredible.
[0:08:44 – 0:08:45] Erik: There are bugs.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:47] Erik: There are birds.
[0:08:48 – 0:08:50] Erik: Hopefully there are fishies swimming in the lake.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:51] Sarah: There’s sunshine.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:53] Erik: Blue skies.
[0:08:53 – 0:08:56] Sarah: Beautiful scented woods.
[0:08:57 – 0:08:58] Sarah: The smell is undescribable.
[0:08:58 – 0:09:02] Sarah: It’s sweet, sprucey, green.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:06] Sarah: If a smell can be a color, that’s what it smells like.
[0:09:07 – 0:09:08] Erik: It smells green.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:19] Erik: Hopefully we can have this podcast up long enough so that eventually we can retroactively put in some smell-o-vision, smell-o-listening technologies into this episode.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:21] Erik: But for now, you’re just going to have to believe us.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:23] Erik: It smells alive out here.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:32] Erik: And it’s me, Eric, joined this week by the one and only geologist wife.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:33] Erik: Hello.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:33] Sarah: Hi.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:33] Sarah: Hi.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:35] Sarah: Oink, oink.
[0:09:36 – 0:09:37] Erik: Oink, oink from Hog Creek.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:43] Erik: We’ve got a real back-to-back-to-back AAU championships with Fred McGriff out here, leisure style.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:51] Erik: Again, we are putting in on a basically portageless entry point into Parent Lake.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:57] Erik: We’ve got a forecast for some light west winds, mid-80s, sun.
[0:10:00 – 0:10:03] Erik: 55 for a low, mid-80s and sun tomorrow.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:07] Erik: It’s summer in the Northwoods, and we’re going out to relax.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:12] Erik: I’m looking forward to a new experience down at the Hog Creek.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:21] Erik: Before we get too much farther, we should mention that we are brought to you by… Airfield Rosé.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:24] Sarah: Sponsored by…
[0:10:25 – 0:10:27] Sarah: Sarah Hinges from the Crooked Spoon.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:30] Sarah: Also Nate, best bosses ever.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:32] Sarah: Just a big shout out to them.
[0:10:32 – 0:10:35] Erik: Throwing out full names, wow.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:37] Sarah: Yeah, they deserve it.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:45] Erik: Well, it is in a Nalgene and we’re drinking it in a parking lot as per usual for entry day into the park.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:49] Erik: Just drinking in a gravel parking lot in the Superior National Forest.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:52] Sarah: We don’t have anything to… Next to a Forest Service truck.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:53] Sarah: They’re not here.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:54] Erik: No, they’re not.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:55] Sarah: They will never know.
[0:10:56 – 0:10:56] Sarah: They don’t need to know.
[0:10:57 – 0:10:58] Sarah: None of this is illegal, by the way.
[0:10:58 – 0:10:59] Erik: No, it’s not.
[0:11:01 – 0:11:04] Erik: So we don’t have anything to cheers, but cheers.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:05] Sarah: Clink.
[0:11:06 – 0:11:08] Sarah: Insert clinking noise here.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:17] Erik: Yeah, we got to finish that because rosé is not meant to be consumed warm, and it’s just going to get warmer.
[0:11:17 – 0:11:20] Sarah: Yeah, and you guys should see the pack right now.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:25] Sarah: You can tell that we’re not portaging today because the pack…
[0:11:26 – 0:11:37] Sarah: is lumpy and protruding in many different directions and it’s looking pretty terrible, but it’s gonna sit in the canoe all day, so whatever.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:44] Erik: Yeah, we’ve got a couple of bonus items, again, for this leisure-style trip.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:53] Erik: Don’t worry, we’ve got some longer expeditious-style trips coming up, but we’ve got the cast iron.
[0:11:53 – 0:12:01] Erik: We’re definitely sleeping in hammocks, but we did just bring a tent just in case the bugs are bad out there and we need a little screen reprieve.
[0:12:02 – 0:12:04] Sarah: But Eric’s tent, it’s a big Agnes, right?
[0:12:04 – 0:12:04] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:07] Erik: Big Agnes Seed House 3, they don’t even make those anymore.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:08] Sarah: It’s an amazing tent.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:12] Sarah: It’s been my favorite tent since I met you and you had it.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:14] Sarah: You bought it when you were in Colorado, maybe?
[0:12:14 – 0:12:20] Erik: Yeah, it’s been, I think, in my possession for about as long as I’ve been camping, I think.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:25] Erik: The best part about it is if you don’t want to put the rain fly up, the whole thing is just a screen.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:33] Sarah: It’s amazing for night star viewing when you want to be in a tent, but you want to be exposed.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:37] Sarah: It’s just an amazing tent, and it’s always been my favorite.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:38] Erik: It’s a nice tent.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:40] Erik: We’ve used it a ton.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:42] Erik: It’s gotten a bunch of use, and shout out Big Agnes.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:58] Erik: I can’t speak for their customer service these days, but about five, six years ago, the tent poles on the thing, one of them snapped, and I sent them an email, and free of charge, they’re like, oh, we don’t make that style of tent anymore, but we’ll fashion up.
[0:12:58 – 0:12:59] Erik: We still have the specs for those.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:03] Erik: We’ll make you a new set of poles for the tent, and they sent them out, and
[0:13:04 – 0:13:05] Erik: they didn’t fit.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:06] Erik: They were like too big.
[0:13:06 – 0:13:10] Erik: And I wrote them a message back and they were like, Oh, we must’ve thought it was this version.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Erik: We’ll make another set.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:19] Erik: So they made me two sets of brand new tent poles to replace on a tent that I had purchased like 10 years prior free of charge.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:23] Erik: So if there’s, I mean, I’ll say, I’m assuming they’re still operating like that.
[0:13:23 – 0:13:24] Erik: So shout out big Agnes.
[0:13:24 – 0:13:32] Erik: If you’re looking for a lightweight, super light tent, um, can’t beat the customer service and the all screen tent style.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:32] Erik: So, um,
[0:13:33 – 0:13:34] Erik: Looking forward.
[0:13:34 – 0:13:35] Erik: Good brand.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:40] Erik: Looking to get out on a little bit of a longer creek today.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:44] Erik: Last creek we had paddled was the Larch Creek.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:47] Erik: That was about a mile as the crow flies with some winding.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:53] Erik: The Hog Creek looks like it’s maybe closer to two and a half, three, with a lot of winding.
[0:13:53 – 0:14:00] Erik: So I want to maybe place a little bit of a wager, a bet, on how many beaver dams you think we’re going to have to pull over.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:03] Erik: Do you want to think about it for a second?
[0:14:03 – 0:14:03] Erik: Okay.
[0:14:03 – 0:14:08] Sarah: Um, you know, I was definitely thinking about a beaver action.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:10] Erik: Oh, there’s going to be beaver action.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:13] Sarah: I’m also kind of hoping to spook a moose.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:15] Erik: Yeah.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:17] Sarah: Around a hog bend.
[0:14:17 – 0:14:18] Erik: A hog bend.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:22] Sarah: And, uh, I don’t know, maybe, let’s see.
[0:14:23 – 0:14:28] Sarah: It’s like a square and a half on the map.
[0:14:33 – 0:14:35] Sarah: Definitely looks pretty beavery in there.
[0:14:35 – 0:14:39] Sarah: I’m going to say four.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:42] Sarah: We have to pull over.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:44] Sarah: Pull up and over.
[0:14:44 – 0:14:47] Sarah: I’m going to put my Chaco in…
[0:14:50 – 0:15:14] Sarah: bleep I hate I hate it but that’s what you get when you sit in the front of the canoe you have to put your foot on the beaver dam and you sink a little and it’s squishy and sticks and mud and all kinds of stuff and
[0:15:15 – 0:15:16] Erik: And it’s gross.
[0:15:16 – 0:15:18] Erik: So you say four, I’m going to say ten.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:23] Erik: And I’ve got my chubbies on, so I’m ready to go in up to the neck.
[0:15:24 – 0:15:25] Erik: I’m not worried about it.
[0:15:26 – 0:15:33] Erik: So we’re going to go and check out new waters, fresh waters, and see how long it takes us to get out to parent.
[0:15:34 – 0:15:36] Erik: Going to hopefully find a nice site.
[0:15:36 – 0:15:40] Erik: There’s like a grouping of islands up on the northeast side of Parent.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:43] Erik: And there’s a car pulling in right now.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:46] Erik: And before they see us being weirdos recording, we’re going to have to say goodbye.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:48] Erik: We’ll check in with you on the river.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:49] Erik: Or on the lake.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:24] Erik: Welcome back after we got spooked.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:30] Erik: We got spooked off of that Hog Creek parking lot area.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:34] Erik: We put in arduous day.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:40] Erik: Arduous day out here to get into parent.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:43] Erik: First time out here, I think I mentioned that.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:46] Erik: And man, it’s a beautiful lake.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:50] Erik: The opportunities out here for…
[0:16:53 – 0:16:57] Erik: All kinds of Boundary Waters activities, I think, abound.
[0:16:57 – 0:17:00] Erik: We might get into some fishing numbers a little bit later.
[0:17:01 – 0:17:05] Erik: But access-wise, I don’t know what I was thinking.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:05] Erik: I was looking at the map.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:06] Erik: I was like, there’s no portages.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:08] Erik: We’re just going to sail on through.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:13] Erik: And, like, immediately there was, like, a pinch rapids.
[0:17:14 – 0:17:16] Erik: And I noticed, oh, there’s a portage on the map.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:18] Erik: It’s just right at a spot where I didn’t notice it.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:20] Erik: So there is a five-rod portage between the Puddin.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:21] Sarah: Actually, 15.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:23] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:25] Erik: It does say 15 rods.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:28] Sarah: One is right on the road line.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:29] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:30] Sarah: And it’s hard to see.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:34] Sarah: It looks like P5R, but it’s P15R.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:35] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:38] Sarah: Entry point 36.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:41] Erik: It’s blazing hot out here, so we just walked down that little creek.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:46] Erik: But we’re going to have to portage on the way out tomorrow, but that’s fine.
[0:17:47 – 0:17:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:48 – 0:17:57] Erik: Our guesses as to beaver dam carryovers, like yours was four, which seems extreme now.
[0:17:57 – 0:17:58] Erik: I can’t believe I said ten.
[0:17:59 – 0:18:00] Erik: There was one.
[0:18:00 – 0:18:07] Sarah: I think that’s when I dropped the loon bomb, really, when I said we were guessing beaver dam numbers.
[0:18:08 – 0:18:09] Erik: You dropped it at a really weird time.
[0:18:09 – 0:18:11] Erik: I was not expecting that.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:12] Erik: You just randomly swore.
[0:18:12 – 0:18:14] Erik: You get real comfortable out here, Tori.
[0:18:16 – 0:18:23] Erik: Yeah, so it’s easily accessible to get out to this massive lake, which has numerous campsites.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:30] Erik: I mean, just right looking at the map here, there’s four, seven, ten, eleven.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:31] Sarah: Teeming.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:33] Erik: Like close to 20 sites out here.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:34] Erik: Easy access.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:40] Erik: We’ve already seen some kayaks, and say what you will about kayaks, and I will say what I will about kayaks.
[0:18:40 – 0:18:45] Erik: I don’t think that they necessarily work out here all that often, but this is a lake for them, honestly.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:52] Erik: If you’re listening and you’ve got a kayak and you want an easy access to like a big lake with nice fishing, it’s a beautiful lake.
[0:18:53 – 0:18:56] Erik: And the few campsites we’ve gone by, including the one that we are camped at,
[0:18:57 – 0:18:58] Erik: are very nice.
[0:18:59 – 0:19:11] Erik: We’ll do a full in-depth campsite review on this spot, but this is one of the few lakes that I could say, you know, BWKA worthy, Bon Jovi’s kayaking area, would work.
[0:19:13 – 0:19:38] Erik: even the canoe we had the min 2 was a little just a little too long on some of those tight turns we had to make so if you are coming out down the hog creek putting in and looking to get out on parent lake if that’s all you’re working with you’ll make it work but if you have the option maybe go with something a little shorter something that’s got a little bit more rocker that can turn a little bit better for you because there are some pretty consistent switchbacks in there
[0:19:38 – 0:19:48] Sarah: You just have to make sure that your paddle partner knows how to hold a static draw and is a good paddling mate.
[0:19:49 – 0:20:17] Erik: geologist wife aka static draw up in the front and yeah there’s a lot more uh cross draw i yelled that multiple times and uh yeah that’s uh one of the more fun aspects of paddling down a creek like that is the um the bow paddler gets a little bit more action up front and it’s not just the mindless you know locomotion going forward they actually get some technical strokes that will help you make it around some of those those corners and curves um
[0:20:18 – 0:20:30] Erik: So, I don’t know, it felt like it took us maybe two hours to get down Hog Creek, maybe another half hour to get up to where we are now, which is on an island site on the east side of Parent Lake.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:35] Erik: And we are currently getting roasted out here on this nice rock slab.
[0:20:37 – 0:20:39] Erik: Yeah, it’s a hot one out here.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:40] Erik: Steamy.
[0:20:40 – 0:20:40] Erik: Steamy.
[0:20:41 – 0:20:44] Erik: A few more things just on the river creek itself.
[0:20:45 – 0:20:49] Erik: Very accessible, very high water.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:50] Erik: Well, high-ish water.
[0:20:50 – 0:20:57] Erik: We could see where like the spring water used to be, where there’s like dried grasses, like a foot up in some of the branches and stuff.
[0:20:58 – 0:20:58] Erik: Oh, that’s cool.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:23] Sarah: yeah i like that you can see science science good science on this river it was teeming with all different sorts of bugs and birds and grasses and plants and the the grass that was underneath the water was flowing with the current and it was just beautiful
[0:21:23 – 0:21:24] Erik: Yeah, that was one thing.
[0:21:24 – 0:21:28] Erik: There are a couple of points where it’s like, well, which way do we go here?
[0:21:28 – 0:21:30] Erik: Is that a dead end or is that the way?
[0:21:31 – 0:21:35] Erik: But we kind of went the wrong way one time, but like we learned pretty quickly and it makes sense.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:39] Erik: Like if ever in doubt, look at which way the grass is flowing.
[0:21:39 – 0:21:43] Erik: And we got into like, we took a left when we should have taken a right.
[0:21:43 – 0:21:46] Erik: And you can just clearly tell like the grass hairs were just standing straight up.
[0:21:46 – 0:21:52] Erik: versus the flowing, beautiful, like, fluorescent green hairs flowing in the direction.
[0:21:53 – 0:22:00] Erik: And it’s downstream from the Put-In to Parent, so there’ll be a little bit more work getting out of here tomorrow, but beautiful paddle in.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:05] Erik: Yeah, like Tori said, some birds and insects that you just don’t get to see.
[0:22:05 – 0:22:09] Erik: They’re only in those marshy creek areas.
[0:22:09 – 0:22:13] Erik: Some damselflies, a crazy bird that we’d never heard before.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:22:14 – 0:22:24] Erik: And if we’ve got anybody out there who can answer this question, this is something that we regularly smell when we paddle these small creeks.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:28] Sarah: No, I don’t think we should talk about the pepper plant.
[0:22:28 – 0:22:29] Erik: What?
[0:22:29 – 0:22:29] Erik: Why not?
[0:22:29 – 0:22:37] Sarah: I think that we should talk about how delicious the spruce smell that we’ve been…
[0:22:38 – 0:22:47] Sarah: crazily like inhaling like deep deep breaths out in the fresh air like this most amazing smell
[0:22:47 – 0:22:49] Erik: I know we already talked about that at the beginning though.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:53] Erik: This is a question to throw out to somebody who can maybe help us.
[0:22:53 – 0:22:54] Erik: I think we know what that smell is.
[0:22:55 – 0:23:01] Erik: The green smell of like the spruce, everything just like at its maxed green.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:04] Erik: It is like hard to like, all you want to do is just inhale.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:05] Erik: I want to eat it.
[0:23:06 – 0:23:10] Erik: And yeah, maybe just get sliced a little bit out of the air and have it for dinner.
[0:23:11 – 0:23:20] Erik: But no, there’s this smell on the creek that we’ve, for the life of our paddling adventures out here, have never been able to figure out what plant it is.
[0:23:21 – 0:23:23] Erik: But it smells distinctly of black pepper.
[0:23:24 – 0:23:25] Sarah: Fresh.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:25] Sarah: Fresh.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:33] Sarah: Cracked, like, the best pepper from, like, Zanzibar or wherever, Madagascar.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:35] Erik: Is Zanzibar a place?
[0:23:36 – 0:23:37] Sarah: No, I don’t think so.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:41] Erik: Madagascar is a place and I think they’re known for their pepper, right?
[0:23:41 – 0:23:49] Sarah: They’re known for their vanilla and other spices like peppercorns and stuff that you need to be like tropics.
[0:23:49 – 0:23:56] Erik: But I think isn’t vanilla more expensive than an ounce of vanilla is more expensive than an ounce of silver at this point.
[0:23:56 – 0:23:56] Erik: Is that correct?
[0:23:56 – 0:23:57] Sarah: Probably.
[0:23:57 – 0:23:59] Sarah: It’s crazy expensive.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:07] Erik: So if anybody knows, in especially the little creaky bog areas, it’s super distinct.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:09] Erik: It’s one of those things where I wish I could just like…
[0:24:10 – 0:24:14] Erik: snap my fingers and slam some smells through the microphone at you right now.
[0:24:14 – 0:24:17] Erik: But I’d love to figure out what it is.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:20] Erik: It’s something that grows in a bog, and it smells just like black pepper.
[0:24:20 – 0:24:24] Erik: So tumblehomecast.gmail.com if you can help me out there.
[0:24:25 – 0:24:33] Erik: So, yeah, we’re out on Parent, really living the dream here in our Helinox camp chairs.
[0:24:34 – 0:24:38] Erik: We are right about to jump in because I think we’re at our max.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:38] Erik: The sun is up.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:44] Sarah: that full exposure to the huge blue sky.
[0:24:44 – 0:25:05] Erik: We have just the slightest veil of cloud cover right now and within seconds here the ozone hole is going to be right above us and we’re going to need a cool off and I think that the spot we’re at here is going to be an excellent jumping off point along with a great slip bobber action here maybe later this evening when the sun gets a little lower in the sky.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:09] Erik: So yeah, thanks for being out here with us again.
[0:25:10 – 0:25:13] Erik: Back to back to back in the field episodes.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:21] Erik: And we’re going to jump in, get a little cool off, and just continue watching the day go by.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:25] Erik: This is a leisure boy and girl, leisure couple trip.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:27] Sarah: Living the dream!
[0:25:27 – 0:25:32] Erik: Why don’t you jump in and I’ll get… Are you going full skinny dip?
[0:25:33 – 0:25:33] UNKNOWN: No.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:34] Erik: Okay.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:34] Erik: Okay.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:36] Erik: Just half.
[0:25:38 – 0:25:41] Sarah: I don’t know if I can jump in.
[0:25:41 – 0:25:41] Sarah: What?
[0:25:41 – 0:25:51] Erik: Alright, well I’m gonna jump in and after I jump in… You’re just gonna walk in?
[0:26:37 – 0:26:39] Erik: Oh, welcome back.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:45] Erik: Your dreams were your ticket out.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:52] Erik: We’re out here on Zapper’s Island, getting burnt up in all the wrong places.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:56] Erik: Morning.
[0:26:56 – 0:27:00] Erik: Good morning.
[0:27:01 – 0:27:01] Erik: We have been…
[0:27:03 – 0:27:20] Erik: regularly flown over all morning here by jumbo jets that are making uh or maybe we’re being nuked i can’t tell but very loud jet noises and uh a distant float plane which reminds me
[0:27:22 – 0:27:24] Erik: We were flown over yet again.
[0:27:24 – 0:27:33] Erik: I guess it’s not a trip into the Bonjou waters unless you get flown over by a seaplane of some sort directly overhead.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:37] Erik: I’m going to, I’m definitely, I’m calling this one in.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:39] Erik: It’s time.
[0:27:39 – 0:27:42] Erik: If it happens every time, somebody needs to be aware.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:46] Erik: It was like straight west to east.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:46] Erik: No.
[0:27:46 – 0:27:46] Erik: No.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:51] Erik: Yeah, and they came from here and they flew over the island like that.
[0:27:51 – 0:27:51] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:56] Erik: So, we’re going to get into a little campsite review here in a little bit.
[0:27:58 – 0:28:01] Erik: I don’t think we specifically said exactly where we’re at.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:06] Erik: So, if you’re looking at your fisher at home, we’re on Parent Lake.
[0:28:06 – 0:28:09] SPEAKER_02: What fisher number is it?
[0:28:09 – 0:28:10] Erik: F5.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:10] Erik: Parent.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:11] Erik: Kawishawi.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:11] Erik: Sawbill.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:14] Erik: It’s got part of the timber freer loop.
[0:28:15 – 0:28:16] Erik: So, if you’re…
[0:28:17 – 0:28:21] Erik: down on Elbow or Freer, you’re looking for F5.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:24] Erik: But we are on.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:31] Erik: There’s five, six big islands on the east side of Parent.
[0:28:32 – 0:28:36] Erik: We are on the middle one.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:43] Erik: in between the two islands that also have campsites, just south of the one that has two campsites on it.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:47] Erik: And it’s a banger, I would say.
[0:28:47 – 0:28:50] Sarah: You know what we should do?
[0:28:51 – 0:29:03] Sarah: We have this fourth of Brulai trip planned, but next year we should get two permits and max out that double campsite island.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:07] Sarah: Just have a huge party with 18 people on an island.
[0:29:07 – 0:29:14] Erik: That’s always been a thought of mine out on Caribou because those three campsites that are on the west end have the trail connecting them.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:20] Erik: So you get three clear water permits and take those three campsites.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:22] Erik: And I don’t think I have 27 friends.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:24] Erik: Maybe we could make it like a…
[0:29:25 – 0:29:25] Sarah: Drum them up.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:27] Sarah: We could drum up some friends.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:52] Erik: tumble home in the field party yes that’s not what the bonjour is about tori it’s not about partying the red the red family would come the reds i know you’re listening the reds uh reds the hopalicious we have a good story from hopalicious we’ll share that down the line somewhere uh so yeah we’re out on the island the middle island on parent it’s a beautiful lake it’s a beautiful day um
[0:29:55 – 0:30:00] Erik: I think there’s a few things we were going to talk about before we got to the nitty-gritty on the campsite review.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:05] Erik: One of which was an encounter that we had yesterday.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:12] Erik: And so it’s like mid-80s out here.
[0:30:13 – 0:30:13] Erik: Pretty calm.
[0:30:14 – 0:30:17] Erik: We got this amazing rock slab that we’re sitting on.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:19] Erik: Blue sky.
[0:30:19 – 0:30:20] Erik: Blue sky.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:21] Erik: And…
[0:30:24 – 0:30:25] Erik: We’re married, so we’re naked.
[0:30:26 – 0:30:28] Erik: And we’re sitting out on these chairs.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:28] Sarah: I had my top on.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:29] Sarah: I had my top.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:30] Sarah: Got to protect the nips.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:35] Erik: Okay, so the top was on, but both of our bottoms were off.
[0:30:36 – 0:30:43] Erik: And we’re just sitting here, just kind of looking out at the lake, just living the dream, talking about who knows what.
[0:30:44 – 0:31:01] Erik: drinking wine and yeah yeah off and on swimming and all of a sudden just around like just to the right of us like 20 yards away this canoe is like basically like as close to shore as you can get zooms around the corner just flying
[0:31:03 – 0:31:24] Erik: just zooming in and it’s the forest service oh my god and they’ve got like saws and axes and everything and like i quick like kind of like i just put my hand on the you know the thing that they’re not supposed to see i crossed my legs yeah and i was like uh i had access to my swim trunks and i just kind of grabbed them and laid them across and they were like
[0:31:27 – 0:31:29] Erik: We’ll come back and check your permit later.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:33] Erik: And then they just veered off in the opposite direction and paddled away.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:37] Erik: And it kind of got me thinking about those rangers.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:42] Erik: I mean, they must see some things out here.
[0:31:42 – 0:31:43] Erik: I can’t even imagine.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:46] Erik: I mean, all we’re doing is just sitting out on a rock naked.
[0:31:46 – 0:31:50] Erik: There’s some people out here, I’m sure, that are just like, you hear stories all the time.
[0:31:51 – 0:31:56] Sarah: They were really actually lucky to come across us because we are beautiful specimens.
[0:31:57 – 0:32:02] Sarah: And out in our element here, this is, you know, whatever.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:13] Sarah: But the fact that they were so close to shore and they came around the corner out of nowhere, they must have heard us because we had…
[0:32:14 – 0:32:24] Sarah: some music playing, and we were talking and just kind of hanging out, and they just all of a sudden, boom, there they are, like right around the corner, sharp corner.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:26] Sarah: We were like, what, what?
[0:32:28 – 0:32:52] Erik: the f what the loon bleep yeah it was six minutes into the intro track you were just dropping the f-bomb and now you’re being careful we got uh the first of all uh the first uh geologist wife loon bleep on the show but uh i think with that we need uh to maybe clear the air on where the geologist wife stands on aliens are there aliens
[0:32:53 – 0:32:54] Sarah: Um, yes.
[0:32:55 – 0:33:03] Sarah: You can’t grow up with a dad like Peter Doan and not think there’s aliens.
[0:33:03 – 0:33:11] Erik: I mean… Well, I mean, that’s your upbringing, but you’ve got a developed, mature mind.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:17] Erik: There are some things that I grew up with that I may or may not believe in anymore because of my age.
[0:33:17 – 0:33:22] Erik: Like, I get the X-Files factor probably plays into it.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:36] Sarah: I used to fall asleep, every single night I used to fall asleep to the X-Files theme song coming on as I went to bed.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:44] Sarah: It must have come on, I don’t know when it was broadcast on the weeknights, but probably like 9 o’clock or something.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:46] Erik: All I know is it was on Fox.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:47] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:33:47 – 0:33:52] Sarah: But no, I definitely believe that we are not alone.
[0:33:52 – 0:34:03] Sarah: This universe and this galaxy, I mean, we can see the Milky Way from our house and it’s anywhere.
[0:34:03 – 0:34:04] Sarah: It’s giant.
[0:34:04 – 0:34:05] Sarah: It’s giant.
[0:34:06 – 0:34:07] Erik: It’s just one universe.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:09] Erik: One galaxy.
[0:34:09 – 0:34:10] Erik: One galaxy.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:12] Erik: Yes.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:13] Erik: We’re experts here.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:13] Erik: Come on.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:14] Sarah: Yeah, really.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:20] Sarah: No, we can’t be the only intelligent life, and we’re really not that intelligent.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:21] Sarah: I mean, come on, guys.
[0:34:21 – 0:34:26] Erik: We really aren’t, but okay, so that’s the easy answer.
[0:34:26 – 0:34:26] Erik: Yes.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Erik: Just odds.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:31] Erik: There’s got to be something else out there.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:35] Erik: The real question is, have we been visited by any of these?
[0:34:36 – 0:34:56] Sarah: um yeah i mean i’m like i said my dad is who he is and he’s a huge conspiracy theory uh fan big fan big fan and um i don’t know i mean area 51 they they gotta be hiding something right
[0:34:57 – 0:35:02] Erik: Or maybe Area 51 is just a false flag operation to throw us off the scent.
[0:35:02 – 0:35:05] Erik: Just push them towards an area where there really aren’t aliens.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:08] Erik: And meanwhile, they’re all being hid someplace else.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:08] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:11] Sarah: I mean, I think Trump is a reptilian, right?
[0:35:12 – 0:35:13] Erik: Oh, I don’t know.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:15] Erik: He’s just a normal dumb human, I think.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:20] Erik: I don’t think the… Nah, he’s just an idiot.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:20] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:25] Erik: How dare you disparage the reptilians like that?
[0:35:27 – 0:35:33] Sarah: Okay, now that you’ve completely sidetracked us with the alien comment, what were we talking about?
[0:35:33 – 0:35:38] Erik: We were talking about how the U.S. Forest Service just popped around the corner and almost saw our bits…
[0:35:39 – 0:35:51] Sarah: They did see our bits I think and as they veered off paddling away we we were like you know maybe you don’t need don’t come back please don’t come back.
[0:35:52 – 0:36:01] Sarah: I said we have our permit we’re responsible we’re responsible citizens we have a permit you don’t need to come back just don’t come back go away.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:04] Erik: And they didn’t come back.
[0:36:04 – 0:36:10] Erik: I think they went over and visited the folks on the other campsite that we went by on the way in here.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:11] Erik: A couple of kayak boys.
[0:36:13 – 0:36:17] Erik: And like I said previously, this is…
[0:36:17 – 0:36:18] Erik: I’ll throw it out there.
[0:36:18 – 0:36:19] Erik: This is a kayak lake.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:21] Erik: Easy access.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:45] Erik: big it’s not one of those lakes where it’s like okay well we’re out here and good fishing yeah we didn’t really focus on it too much but we had a slip bobber in off and on yesterday and i think if we would have really moved around changed the location of the slip bobber or actually gone out and tried fishing some areas i guarantee we would have done much better but even just the light
[0:36:46 – 0:37:00] Erik: little bit of work that we put in we uh we just picked up like a little like 10 12 inch walleye and just a little too small to keep threw them back but uh you can tell it’s uh it’s walleye waters for sure
[0:37:01 – 0:37:13] Erik: I have the numbers, and maybe we’ll just do an after-the-field track, kind of going over the numbers out on Parent here and what the folks at the DNR have to say about the lake.
[0:37:13 – 0:37:18] Erik: But it does look like it’s got good walleye numbers, and you can just tell by looking at it, it’s a walleye lake.
[0:37:20 – 0:37:24] Erik: So the Forest Service rolled through yesterday.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:26] Erik: Don’t see them very often unless they’re flying overhead.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:27] Erik: Unless that’s the Border Patrol.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:29] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:37:29 – 0:37:37] Erik: But at this point, I think I might need to do some actual research into why a float plane flies over every day.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:39] Sarah: Why so many planes?
[0:37:39 – 0:37:40] Sarah: Why?
[0:37:40 – 0:37:45] Sarah: I do want to throw in there that the Forest Service, there were three people in the canoe.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:48] Sarah: They were clearly out on a day trip.
[0:37:48 – 0:37:49] Sarah: They did not have any gear.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:53] Sarah: The third person was just sitting in the bottom of the tandem canoe.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:58] Erik: They must have been clearing trails or something because they had like saws and axes and stuff.
[0:37:58 – 0:38:02] Sarah: Yeah, vests, gear vests on and whatever else.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:05] Sarah: But the lady was in stern.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:07] Sarah: She was rocking it.
[0:38:11 – 0:38:18] Erik: When they kind of veered off in a scared angle off towards that other island over there, yeah, they were doing well.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:23] Erik: I don’t know, there must have been maybe some volunteers that were out there with her.
[0:38:25 – 0:38:35] Erik: So one of the other things that I wanted to mention, just because it’s been kind of the topic of conversation, because we’ve been out here for, I mean, maybe 24 hours at this point, and…
[0:38:37 – 0:38:41] Erik: It’s kind of one of those things that we’ve talked about on and off just personally.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:47] Erik: But you get out here and it’s like… Days are long.
[0:38:49 – 0:38:53] Erik: Long, hot, sunny, zapping days.
[0:38:55 – 0:39:07] Erik: And the idea of doing an entire season in the park out here is kind of incomprehensible.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:16] Erik: Like, we were just like, because, you know, the Freemans, a couple years ago, did the… Wasn’t that just last year?
[0:39:16 – 0:39:18] Erik: I think it was like two years ago now.
[0:39:18 – 0:39:26] Erik: They spent a year in the Bajau waters to draw attention to the fact that it needs to be protected, which is great.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:31] Sarah: But that’s… Good for them figuring out a way to do that, because…
[0:39:32 – 0:40:01] Erik: well yeah and that’s we’re not i’m not trying to like bring up the logistics of it i’m just like trying to talk about just the length of time i get it in the winter you spend probably half the day just like keeping yourself warm and prepping camp and getting the food yeah getting a fire going but like this time of year like we’ve just been on here for a day and it’s just like like you gotta like i mean i guess you just gotta paddle just keep paddling
[0:40:01 – 0:40:05] Sarah: Yeah, we would get, I would get bored so fast.
[0:40:05 – 0:40:07] Sarah: I am a very active person.
[0:40:07 – 0:40:12] Sarah: I need to be doing something most of the time.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:17] Sarah: I mean, I can, I can chill, but I would get bored.
[0:40:17 – 0:40:25] Erik: Well, yesterday was basically like, you know, we obviously have pretty busy schedules and, uh,
[0:40:26 – 0:40:56] Erik: long days of work and you need kind of just a chill day and that was basically what yesterday was old leisure day but then it’s like today if we weren’t heading back in it’s like well how many days can you just sit and look at a lake obviously there’s some travel involved with a year-long trip but a year too long too long i mean i don’t even i don’t think i would be able to do a whole summer even
[0:40:56 – 0:41:04] Erik: No, and that was, like, at one point it was, like, my dream to do, like, a full open water season.
[0:41:04 – 0:41:08] Erik: And there’s still a part of me that I think thinks that would be fun.
[0:41:09 – 0:41:13] Erik: But I think the month in the fall is, like, the perfect way to do it.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:14] Erik: Because the days…
[0:41:15 – 0:41:30] Erik: manageable you can actually go to bed at a reasonable hour like we were up last night until dark and that was probably like 11 o’clock and the Sun was up at like 430 today and yeah it’s just it’s the June and July
[0:41:32 – 0:41:34] Erik: A couple of days, it’s about it that I can handle.
[0:41:35 – 0:41:44] Erik: So I don’t know if there’s really a point to what I’m saying, but it’s just one of those things that you think about that trip that those two took over the course of a year.
[0:41:45 – 0:41:50] Erik: And I almost think, like, that the summer would be more mentally challenging than the winter.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:52] Erik: At least the winter would keep you busy.
[0:41:52 – 0:41:52] Sarah: Yeah.
[0:41:53 – 0:42:00] Erik: It gets dark, kind of hole up, and, yeah, bring some books, play some cribbage, do, like, some…
[0:42:01 – 0:42:28] Erik: recording like logs temperature wind maybe even some like research get out into the woods and track and locate some glacial erratics oh man which we do have one in on the zapper’s island here teaser for the campsite review stay tuned for erratic talk i was right actually right about to get to the campsite review unless you had anything else that you wanted to talk about
[0:42:31 – 0:42:31] SPEAKER_02: Can you guys hear those bugs?
[0:42:33 – 0:42:36] Erik: Getting buzzed by some big boys out here.
[0:42:36 – 0:42:38] Sarah: They’re not bothering us, though.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:39] Erik: No, they’re just around.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:42] Erik: There’s a couple of mayflies around.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:43] Sarah: Oh, man, last night?
[0:42:44 – 0:42:48] Erik: Oh, man, there was this crazy, like, it was, I don’t even know what you want to call it.
[0:42:48 – 0:42:50] Erik: It was, like, clearly a hatch of some sort.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:56] Erik: But they would, like, they would fly from the water’s surface to, like,
[0:42:57 – 0:43:25] Erik: 15 feet in the air like really fast and then just like slowly drop back down and then and there’s like a thousand of them going all at once all at once up and down drop back up drop it was just like this crazy like almost like a like a flow of bugs in the air and it like from where we were standing we weren’t being affected by it it was like kind of borderline gross where there’s like a bunch of bugs doing that
[0:43:26 – 0:43:32] Sarah: I think it would have been more gross if there wasn’t a beautiful sunset in the background.
[0:43:32 – 0:43:43] Sarah: Because we went over to the other shoreline facing west where the sunset was.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:43] Sarah: It was so pretty.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:49] Sarah: And I discovered all these bugs doing their little dance.
[0:43:50 – 0:43:53] Sarah: But it would have definitely been more gross if…
[0:43:56 – 0:44:00] Sarah: Excuse Eric and his reapplication of sunscreen.
[0:44:00 – 0:44:02] Erik: It’s basically like a non-stop procedure out here.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:09] Erik: If you’re going to sit around naked in June slash July, you got to be real… Is it July today?
[0:44:09 – 0:44:10] Erik: It’s July.
[0:44:10 – 0:44:11] Erik: Happy July, everybody.
[0:44:11 – 0:44:13] Erik: Hey.
[0:44:13 – 0:44:13] Erik: Hey.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:14] Erik: July 2?
[0:44:15 – 0:44:15] Sarah: No.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:17] Erik: Yesterday was July, wasn’t it?
[0:44:17 – 0:44:17] Sarah: No.
[0:44:18 – 0:44:19] Erik: Oh, it’s July today.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:19] Erik: Okay.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:21] Erik: I thought yesterday was the first.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:23] Erik: This is a riveting conversation.
[0:44:24 – 0:44:24] Erik: This is all.
[0:44:24 – 0:44:25] Erik: There’s 30 days in June.
[0:44:26 – 0:44:26] Sarah: Oh, well, then, yeah.
[0:44:26 – 0:44:29] Sarah: People tune in… Today was July… Oh, yeah.
[0:44:29 – 0:44:33] Erik: People tune in to this podcast to learn about how many… You know what day it is.
[0:44:33 – 0:44:34] Erik: How many days are in June.
[0:44:34 – 0:44:35] Sarah: What day is it?
[0:44:35 – 0:44:36] Sarah: It’s a Tuesday.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:38] Erik: It is a Tuesday.
[0:44:38 – 0:44:39] Erik: So, yeah.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:41] Erik: Crazy wall of, like, just…
[0:44:43 – 0:45:12] Erik: undulating bugs up and down yesterday uh the bothersome bugs have been basically non-existent last night as it kind of got dark there was a a mob of mosquitoes that came out pretty good oh and this morning for sure in the woods like i i don’t even know if i wiped my butt properly at the latrine because the bugs were so bad i just like i just barely even i hovered over the seat and then i ran and jumped in the lake and no i ladies and gentlemen i did wipe properly
[0:45:13 – 0:45:15] Erik: But I did close the Ziploc frantically.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:18] Sarah: Oh, we got teepee gnomed.
[0:45:19 – 0:45:23] Erik: I don’t know if it’s the first time, but it’s one of a few times that we got teepee gnomed.
[0:45:24 – 0:45:32] Erik: Just a huge roll of luxurious four-ply suburb-style teepee just sitting right next to the latrine.
[0:45:33 – 0:45:35] Erik: And there was also some napkins in there.
[0:45:36 – 0:45:37] Erik: It’s like picnic napkins.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:44] Erik: But anyway, the bugs down on the shore, on the lake, pretty much non-existent.
[0:45:45 – 0:45:49] Erik: Got a big, the dragonflies are finally out giving us a hand.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:55] Erik: The mosquitoes are bad in the woods, but that’s to be expected.
[0:45:58 – 0:46:01] Erik: I like, I mean, to a certain extent, I kind of like the fact that there’s bugs around.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:10] Erik: It leads me to believe that we are in a healthy… What the hell?
[0:46:12 – 0:46:14] Erik: Are you guys hearing these crazy jets?
[0:46:15 – 0:46:17] Erik: It’s like almost constant.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:20] Erik: It’s not constant.
[0:46:20 – 0:46:22] Erik: It’s close to pretty much constant.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:23] Erik: Like as soon as one…
[0:46:23 – 0:46:24] Erik: It’s big and loud.
[0:46:25 – 0:46:25] UNKNOWN: Where is it?
[0:46:25 – 0:46:27] Erik: As soon as one ends, another one starts.
[0:46:27 – 0:46:32] Erik: Anyway, the bugs have been basically this whole season pretty manageable out here.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:40] Erik: If you’ve got to just put yourself in the right place at the right time, down in the water, bugless.
[0:46:41 – 0:46:44] Erik: Up in camp, maybe a little bit of bug action.
[0:46:45 – 0:46:53] Erik: But the campsite, I think we’re going to get into at this point if you’re ready to.
[0:46:58 – 0:46:59] Sarah: More sunscreen.
[0:46:59 – 0:47:00] Erik: More sunscreen.
[0:47:01 – 0:47:01] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:01 – 0:47:04] Erik: More wine.
[0:47:04 – 0:47:05] Erik: More wine.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:06] Erik: More sunscreen.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:09] Erik: So, you know where we’re at.
[0:47:10 – 0:47:11] Erik: This campsite.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:17] Erik: I don’t know if I could go full.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:20] Erik: Jeez, that is loud.
[0:47:21 – 0:47:21] Sarah: It’s so loud.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:35] Erik: I don’t know if you heard that, but I just held the, you probably just heard the buzzer fly buzzing around.
[0:47:36 – 0:47:39] Erik: So, you know, you’ve got the island aspect.
[0:47:39 – 0:47:42] Erik: That’s always like kind of just bumps you up right away.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:50] Erik: Even a crap site on an island is just like an auto D. Like you’re on an island.
[0:47:50 – 0:47:50] Erik: It’s cool.
[0:47:50 – 0:47:52] Erik: You know, there’s a lot of things about being on an island.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:53] Erik: It’s romantic.
[0:47:55 – 0:48:01] Erik: Technically, you can say maybe there’s no bears, but bears can swim, so it’s not a guarantee.
[0:48:01 – 0:48:03] Erik: But there’s a little bit of that.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:06] Erik: You’ve got a moat, at least, to keep them away.
[0:48:09 – 0:48:15] Erik: And if you’re the only sight on an island, you know, there’s also just that feeling of this is ours.
[0:48:15 – 0:48:17] Erik: This is our land.
[0:48:17 – 0:48:20] Erik: You’re supposed to say, yes, it is.
[0:48:21 – 0:48:22] Sarah: Yes, it is.
[0:48:23 – 0:48:26] Erik: Yeah, so this site in particular, we passed a few on the way in.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:30] Erik: A couple of them occupied, a couple of them not.
[0:48:30 – 0:48:32] Erik: The first one we saw basically just west of the river mouth.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:37] Erik: Looked like a fine spot, but we didn’t really have our eyes on it.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:37] Erik: It looked okay.
[0:48:38 – 0:48:39] Sarah: It was okay.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:42] Sarah: It had a little, it was perfect for the people that were there, it looked like.
[0:48:42 – 0:48:45] Sarah: Little small family, two little kids.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:45] Sarah: Uh-huh.
[0:48:46 – 0:48:52] Sarah: They were out on the little rocky point swimming and jumping around and whatever.
[0:48:53 – 0:48:55] Sarah: But it didn’t look very impressive at all.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:56] Erik: Nah.
[0:48:57 – 0:48:59] Erik: We didn’t really have our eyes on that one either.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:09] Erik: And then the next one we went by, from that one to the west, that was empty, but kind of looked a little shaggy, kind of just like a grassy knoll.
[0:49:09 – 0:49:09] Erik: Small trees.
[0:49:09 – 0:49:17] Erik: Small trees, kind of around a corner, not really, you wouldn’t get any wind, or it looked like kind of shallow, poor swimming.
[0:49:17 – 0:49:23] Erik: And then the next one, which is the island that is just south to us, for the longest time we were coming across the lake.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:28] Erik: which is always a fun thing to try to like tell, is there somebody there?
[0:49:28 – 0:49:32] Erik: It looks like there might be, is that a canoe?
[0:49:32 – 0:49:33] Erik: Is that a rock?
[0:49:33 – 0:49:34] Erik: What is that?
[0:49:34 – 0:49:36] Erik: And for the longest time, it looked empty.
[0:49:36 – 0:49:38] Erik: And we were like, yeah, it looks kind of like a nice site.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:39] Erik: You could clearly tell that it was a site.
[0:49:40 – 0:49:40] Erik: Like, oh.
[0:49:41 – 0:49:42] SPEAKER_02: Huh?
[0:49:42 – 0:49:43] SPEAKER_02: Oh, is that some orange?
[0:49:44 – 0:49:45] Erik: Is that like… Oh, no, that’s a hammock.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:47] Erik: And then, like, we got closer to it, and it was like…
[0:49:47 – 0:49:50] Erik: There was, like, two people just sitting in it, and, like, clearly, like…
[0:49:51 – 0:49:55] Erik: I don’t know, the angle we were at, like, was hiding all of the tents and rainflies and everything.
[0:49:56 – 0:49:58] Erik: And then we came around the corner and found this beautiful spot.
[0:49:59 – 0:50:03] Erik: And after walking around, we didn’t even get back in the canoe to go back out and explore.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:05] Erik: We were thinking, you know, if it wasn’t…
[0:50:06 – 0:50:10] Erik: If it wasn’t something that we wanted, we could have gone back out and…
[0:50:11 – 0:50:33] Sarah: really you know taking our uh a pick of the litter out here but you were more hesitant than i was right away we well so the thing that i think the only thing that this campsite has going that’s against it is there’s not a very like clear and easy
[0:50:37 – 0:50:40] Adam: spot to dock your canoe.
[0:50:40 – 0:50:41] Erik: Landing.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:43] Sarah: That’s the word I’m looking for.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:43] Sarah: Landing.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:48] Sarah: There’s not a very good clear, obvious landing.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:49] Sarah: We kind of had to…
[0:50:50 – 0:50:55] Sarah: Like, go around the corner, and then we were still like, eh, is this it?
[0:50:55 – 0:50:57] Sarah: Like, yeah, I guess this is the landing.
[0:50:57 – 0:51:01] Sarah: Like, it was fine, but it wasn’t like, oh, there it is.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:11] Erik: Yeah, you could, like, we came up to it, and it was right where it says it is on the map, and I kind of saw a little opening and maybe, like, a cut tree, but the shoreline is, like, pretty…
[0:51:12 – 0:51:36] Erik: rocky and dense with brush with just a couple of little lanes coming down from the main campsite so right away we’re like huh but when we kind of went around the back side like on the west side of the island there is like a little notch kind of borderline marina and we kind of pulled up and we’re like yeah let’s look at it and then we might go around and check out that next island that’s got a couple of sites on it and we came up and looked at it and
[0:51:38 – 0:51:40] Erik: We didn’t really even consider getting back in the canoe.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:54] Sarah: I was sold immediately because, you know, it’s a good campsite when you walk up the hill from the landing, whatever it is, and you walk up and you’re like, oh.
[0:51:56 – 0:52:19] Sarah: oh wow i mean that was my reaction there’s so many cedars it’s just like a big open beautiful cedar forest and there’s an erratic that i saw right away and that was really pretty i mean i was instantly sold that we should stay you were you had to think about it a little bit more than i did
[0:52:19 – 0:52:23] Erik: Well, I knew that there was just another one around the corner that we could have gone and checked out.
[0:52:24 – 0:52:26] Erik: But then it was like, eh, it’s kind of blowing.
[0:52:26 – 0:52:28] Erik: There was a little bit of wind coming in here yesterday.
[0:52:28 – 0:52:35] Erik: I would say maybe 10 mile an hour consistent with maybe 15 mile an hour gusts, kind of straight out of the west, northwest.
[0:52:36 – 0:52:39] Erik: And so where we were at, it was like, eh, I don’t really want to get back on the water.
[0:52:41 – 0:52:43] Erik: After exploring for just a little bit more, I was like, yeah.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:46] Erik: This is pretty great.
[0:52:46 – 0:52:59] Erik: And yeah, it’s actually very reminiscent to the island site on Adams that we stayed at, where you’ve got access to this shore, rocky shore, maybe a little bit…
[0:53:00 – 0:53:20] Erik: more uh gradual with some grassy knolls on Adams but then both of them have like the cedar campsite where if you want to get out of the sun you kind of just take a little reprieve back up in the campsite and we did and we did multiple times it’s like it’s getting a little too sunny down here
[0:53:21 – 0:53:22] Erik: And I can’t jump in again.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:25] Erik: It’s just only so many times you can jump in the lake.
[0:53:25 – 0:53:29] Erik: So you go up in the trees and you kind of just sit in the nice shady grove of cedars.
[0:53:30 – 0:53:42] Sarah: And… We had your tent set up and the tent, that big Agnes tent with the whole screen top set in the cedars.
[0:53:42 – 0:53:45] Sarah: I mean, it was just, it was really, really nice.
[0:53:46 – 0:53:47] Sarah: I…
[0:53:48 – 0:53:49] Sarah: I’d really like this site.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:53] Erik: Yeah, no, it’s got hammock options.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:58] Erik: I think it would be fun to see how many people.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:00] Erik: Obviously, it’s the bunch of waters you can’t.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:03] Erik: But how many hammocks could you get set up in the woods back there?
[0:54:04 – 0:54:05] Erik: And I would say maybe like 25.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:07] Erik: It’s just insane.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:09] Sarah: There’s a ton.
[0:54:09 – 0:54:10] Erik: We just walked around.
[0:54:10 – 0:54:12] Erik: We just found the most absolute perfect spot.
[0:54:12 – 0:54:17] Erik: And there’s probably another 10 perfect spots with probably four hammocks.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:33] Erik: perfect tent pads oh yeah if not more the fire grate area is nice and flat it’s kind of weird it’s like set up so that it like when you’re sitting at it your back is to the lake and
[0:54:34 – 0:54:36] Sarah: Well, yeah, I mean, that was right away.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:53] Sarah: I was like, eh, like right when we got here and I hadn’t been sitting in the sun for multiple hours, I was like, well, why wouldn’t you want the benches facing the lake so that you can like sit at the fire and also see the lake?
[0:54:53 – 0:54:56] Sarah: But then we got out here and we were
[0:54:56 – 0:55:25] Sarah: here for many hours on this beautiful sunny rock and swimming and all that and then we got up to the um fire grate area to cook dinner and um start a little fire and it was like yeah i don’t want anything to do with that lake anymore like i was just staring at it for like six hours i’m okay with not seeing the lake right now like it was okay but right away i was like yeah
[0:55:26 – 0:55:32] Erik: Not the best fire grate area, but… Well, it’s nice and flat, but, yeah, just the questionable, like, placement of it.
[0:55:32 – 0:55:37] Erik: But, yeah, after a full day of sitting out in the sun, it’s like, yeah, we’ll just kind of face the woods at this point.
[0:55:37 – 0:55:39] Erik: But it’s right up against a nice big boulder.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:40 – 0:55:42] Erik: It’s flat, like, all around, like, good footing.
[0:55:42 – 0:55:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:43 – 0:55:43] Erik: Very nice.
[0:55:44 – 0:55:45] Erik: Corralled in with some logs.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:47] Erik: Scouts were out here at some point.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:49] Erik: There’s, like, a RIP Mark 2020.
[0:55:49 – 0:55:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:55:50 – 0:55:52] Erik: Which is, like, sort of questionable.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:54] Erik: Must be an inside joke.
[0:55:54 – 0:55:56] Erik: Or, you know, maybe he’s just got plans.
[0:55:56 – 0:55:56] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:55:57 – 0:56:06] Erik: But, so yeah, I would say a solid A for the, oop, there’s the prop plane.
[0:56:07 – 0:56:09] Erik: Back to back prop plane days.
[0:56:09 – 0:56:11] Sarah: Because it flew that way earlier.
[0:56:11 – 0:56:13] Sarah: Now it’s flying back that way.
[0:56:13 – 0:56:14] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:17] Erik: So dumb.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:18] Sarah: What do you want?
[0:56:19 – 0:56:20] Sarah: What are you out here for?
[0:56:22 – 0:56:25] Erik: Anyway, I would say the fire grade area, A.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:33] Erik: Solid A. Tent pad, hammock, I don’t know if that’s necessarily a grade I give, but A.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:33] Erik: Solid A.
[0:56:34 – 0:56:34] Erik: Unlimited.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:39] Erik: I think the only thing that takes away from it is maybe a little bit of a challenging landing.
[0:56:40 – 0:56:42] Erik: But that’s such a small part of the trip.
[0:56:42 – 0:56:43] Erik: You’re like, okay, we’re in here.
[0:56:44 – 0:56:45] Erik: Now we don’t have to think about it until we leave.
[0:56:46 – 0:56:51] Erik: So I would say that the landing is probably like a C plus, maybe a B minus.
[0:56:52 – 0:56:53] Sarah: I’d say B minus.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:57] Erik: But then like once you’re here, like the area down by the water.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:02] Erik: Like, this is a nice, like, perfectly flat, like, rock shelf that we’re sitting on here.
[0:57:03 – 0:57:06] Erik: Like we’ve hinted at, like, we’ve been jumping in off of this rock.
[0:57:06 – 0:57:07] Erik: Nice and deep.
[0:57:07 – 0:57:08] Erik: Perfect swimming.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:10] Erik: We had a slip bobber up.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:40] Sarah: the ledge of the sunken rocks that if if you get out you jump in it’s real deep and nice and you don’t have to worry about slamming your shin on a rock or stubbing your toe whatever and then you get in and you’re like oh look at this this nice sunken ledge of like a second ledge underwater that you can stand on and be like chest deep neck deep like it’s perfect swimming
[0:57:42 – 0:57:42] Erik: It is.
[0:57:42 – 0:57:52] Erik: I think the only thing that would make it like more perfect would be just, you know, the sand beach is always nice, but I kind of like the just all or nothing jump in swim.
[0:57:52 – 0:57:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:57:52 – 0:57:58] Erik: And not much of like a slowly wading in with like your arms like equal to like your shoulders.
[0:57:58 – 0:58:01] Erik: We’re like walking in slowly.
[0:58:01 – 0:58:03] Erik: It’s just like, no, just jump in.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:05] Erik: And this is a perfect site for jumping in.
[0:58:05 – 0:58:07] Erik: And then in the evening and right away in the morning.
[0:58:08 – 0:58:10] Erik: We did pick up the one walleye.
[0:58:10 – 0:58:19] Erik: I think we were pretty lazy on the fishing out here, but if we would have been a little bit more aggressive and moving around a little bit, it’s pretty good fishing right off this island as well.
[0:58:22 – 0:58:24] Erik: I would say, I don’t know.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:28] Erik: It’s like people listening to this are just like, you need to give every campsite an A at this point.
[0:58:28 – 0:58:29] Erik: It’s not even really whatever.
[0:58:29 – 0:58:31] Erik: But like, it’s hard not to give it an A.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:33] Erik: It’s a great island site.
[0:58:33 – 0:58:34] Erik: This is an A.
[0:58:34 – 0:58:35] Erik: It’s an A.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:44] Erik: Absolutely an A. I think it’s an A. I mean, if you really want to be nitpicky about a little bit of a scrappy or challenging landing, maybe an A- at the worst.
[0:58:44 – 0:58:46] Erik: But I’m going to go ahead and give it an A.
[0:58:48 – 0:58:50] Erik: A, stamping the A of approval.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:51] Erik: That’s how we do it.
[0:58:52 – 0:58:52] Sarah: Yep.
[0:58:53 – 0:58:56] Erik: And bonus glacial erratic.
[0:58:57 – 0:59:03] Sarah: It’s like… Oh, this is one of the first things I noticed yesterday when we pulled up was the rocks.
[0:59:03 – 0:59:05] Sarah: The rocks are so cool.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:06] Sarah: It’s like…
[0:59:08 – 0:59:18] Sarah: It’s gray, kind of a matte gray, you know, pretty typical kind of granite looking rock.
[0:59:18 – 0:59:24] Sarah: From when you’re on the lake, you can see the rocks and you’re like, eh, granite-ish rock.
[0:59:24 – 0:59:33] Sarah: And it’s got some of that light green lichen and like the little dark kind of moss growing on it.
[0:59:33 – 0:59:34] Sarah: But…
[0:59:34 – 0:59:46] Sarah: once i got up into the campsite i saw some more like exposed um rocks and there was visible crystals
[0:59:48 – 0:59:57] Sarah: In the rocks, and then I looked closer at it, and it’s a really cool, I’m going to call it a gabbro right now.
[0:59:57 – 1:00:07] Sarah: I have not seen a fresh surface of the rock, which you really need to do as a geologist to see what is exactly in it.
[1:00:08 – 1:00:10] Sarah: But it’s a really cool rock.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:18] Sarah: It’s kind of glimmery and shiny, and you can see some different weathering patterns in it.
[1:00:18 – 1:00:24] Sarah: And the fact that there’s glacial erratics here, like the size…
[1:00:26 – 1:00:27] Sarah: The it’s huge.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:32] Sarah: I mean, the one we’ll, we’ll have to take a picture with me for scale by it.
[1:00:32 – 1:00:33] Sarah: It’s huge.
[1:00:33 – 1:00:43] Sarah: I was walking around this morning looking for the pooper and I, in the middle of the woods, all by myself was like, holy bleep.
[1:00:45 – 1:00:49] Sarah: And I shouted and I was like that it was shocking, shockingly large erratic.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:51] Erik: You were looking for this.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:52] Sarah: Yes.
[1:00:54 – 1:00:57] Erik: It’s not a field recording without having to bleep that word.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:01] Sarah: Well, you know, I was just trying to be kind.
[1:01:02 – 1:01:04] Sarah: Also, there’s two swans over there.
[1:01:05 – 1:01:06] Erik: It’s weird.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:07] Erik: Recent development.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:09] Erik: Are you sure they’re not snoggies?
[1:01:11 – 1:01:12] Sarah: I don’t know what they are.
[1:01:12 – 1:01:14] Sarah: They’re white and there’s two of them.
[1:01:15 – 1:01:16] Erik: They’re definitely swans.
[1:01:16 – 1:01:24] Erik: I think it would be like a pretty momentous occasion to run into snow geese on a bonjour.
[1:01:24 – 1:01:26] Erik: It’s like, they’re definitely snow geese.
[1:01:26 – 1:01:27] Erik: Oh man, look at that.
[1:01:28 – 1:01:32] Erik: Massive horsefly almost took a chunk out of my ankle.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:36] Erik: Yeah, a couple of big swans out there.
[1:01:37 – 1:01:38] Erik: Summer of swans.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:44] Erik: But yeah, the, uh, there are, I’ve, I’ve not visited the, is it bigger than the magnetic rock?
[1:01:46 – 1:01:52] Sarah: Um, it rivals, it’s not as tall, but it’s definitely like it’s sizable.
[1:01:53 – 1:01:54] Erik: If it was a house, could you live in it?
[1:01:55 – 1:01:55] Sarah: Absolutely.
[1:01:56 – 1:01:56] Erik: All right.
[1:01:56 – 1:01:58] Erik: So it’s like a tiny house, tall, tiny house.
[1:01:58 – 1:01:59] Sarah: Yeah.
[1:01:59 – 1:02:00] Sarah: It’s a two story, tiny home.
[1:02:02 – 1:02:23] Sarah: erratic and you can tell like the cool thing about these erratics um the one in camp pretty much in camp uh kind of out where we we set up our tent kind of near it um it has clearly been split in half
[1:02:24 – 1:02:48] Sarah: by two cedar trees which are probably growing from the same root system and the root system broke the rock you can tell just how the trees are in line with the split in the rock and the rock is just kind of like separated from itself and like clearly two very flat surfaces that used to be
[1:02:49 – 1:03:03] Sarah: touching together the rock is now separated the trees are there it’s just it’s so cool like the things that you notice when you look hard enough at something in nature i just i love it
[1:03:03 – 1:03:06] Erik: Yeah, life finds a way.
[1:03:07 – 1:03:23] Erik: I love the juxtaposition of rock that you can clearly tell is being affected by something as, in its time scale, fleeting as a tree.
[1:03:23 – 1:03:24] Sarah: Yeah.
[1:03:24 – 1:03:27] Erik: Like a tree, like these rocks, these are going to be here forever.
[1:03:28 – 1:03:29] Erik: Well, you know, forever.
[1:03:29 – 1:03:32] Sarah: They’re already like millions of years old.
[1:03:32 – 1:03:40] Erik: Yeah, and they’re going to be here for another few millions of years, but over the course of like 50 years, a tree… Maybe 100.
[1:03:40 – 1:03:40] Erik: Maybe 100.
[1:03:41 – 1:03:42] Erik: A tree can… Maybe 200.
[1:03:43 – 1:03:44] Erik: Crack it open.
[1:03:44 – 1:03:45] Erik: Yeah.
[1:03:45 – 1:03:47] Erik: Or just the daily weatherings.
[1:03:47 – 1:03:53] Erik: I mean, yeah, it’s just like one of those things that kind of boils down everything into a nice little neat package out here.
[1:03:55 – 1:03:58] Erik: So we’ve given the site a solid A from both of us.
[1:04:00 – 1:04:08] Erik: If there was ever a question that it wasn’t going to be a solid A, the appearance of two majestic swans.
[1:04:09 – 1:04:10] Sarah: Snow geese?
[1:04:10 – 1:04:10] Erik: Swans.
[1:04:11 – 1:04:14] Erik: Off in the distance gives it a solid stamp A of approval.
[1:04:15 – 1:04:18] Erik: We’ve got a radix that we’re going to go size up for scale.
[1:04:20 – 1:04:23] Erik: This has been a nice long track.
[1:04:23 – 1:04:26] Erik: We’ve been enjoying ourselves out here in the park.
[1:04:27 – 1:04:28] Erik: This is what it’s all about.
[1:04:29 – 1:04:32] Erik: Do you have anything else to add before we close this out?
[1:04:33 – 1:04:35] Sarah: I’m going to jump in right now.
[1:04:35 – 1:04:36] Erik: You’re going to jump back in?
[1:04:36 – 1:04:37] Erik: I’m going to jump in.
[1:04:37 – 1:04:38] Erik: All right, here we go.
[1:04:38 – 1:04:45] Erik: If you don’t hear from us again, we have been Eric and the geologist’s wife in the field.
[1:04:46 – 1:05:12] Erik: out on parent lake if you’re listening to this join us next year parent lake 2020 we’re doing it tumble home in the field thank you very much good night what is this tape this is my favorite tape
[1:05:35 – 1:06:02] SPEAKER_02: Bet you wanna rip my heart out Bet you wanna skip my calls now Guess what, I like that Cause I’m gonna mess your life up Gonna wanna take my mouth shut Look out, we’re L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S Generation L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S Generation Our lovers’ heads Generation
[1:06:15 – 1:06:18] SPEAKER_02: Two cast iron pan seared ribeyes sirloins with a
[1:06:39 – 1:07:03] Erik: boatload of also cast iron pan seared cherry tomatoes that’s a pro maneuver there we will be doing that again with a side of barley kale red onions black beans cumin
[1:07:07 – 1:07:07] Erik: What juice?
[1:07:07 – 1:07:08] Sarah: Lots of lime juice.
[1:07:09 – 1:07:11] Erik: Lots of lime juice.
[1:07:13 – 1:07:14] Sarah: Salt and pepper.
[1:07:14 – 1:07:15] Erik: Some salt and pepper.
[1:07:18 – 1:07:19] Sarah: Chili powder.
[1:07:19 – 1:07:20] Erik: And chili powder.
[1:07:23 – 1:07:24] Erik: That’s what we had for dinner last night.
[1:07:24 – 1:07:27] Erik: Oh, don’t forget the mayo packets.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:29] Erik: Oh, and obviously, like, ubiquitous mayo.
[1:07:31 – 1:07:32] Sarah: Mayo for days.
[1:07:34 – 1:07:40] Erik: Oh yes, the steaks were marinated in green tomato salsa.
[1:07:41 – 1:07:42] Erik: It’s like two years old.
[1:07:43 – 1:07:44] Erik: In a good way.
[1:07:44 – 1:07:48] Erik: It’s been sealed in a cur.
[1:07:49 – 1:07:50] Erik: It’s been canned in a cur jar.
[1:07:52 – 1:07:55] Sarah: We’re a cur family, not a ball family.
[1:07:57 – 1:07:59] Erik: We’re in anything that can seal itself family.
