Tumblehome: A Boundary Waters Podcast
Erik and Adam discuss anything that has to do with the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on this fun and informative podcast. Their years of experience living on the Gunflint Trail and exploring the adjacent wilderness has led them to an intimate understanding of it's lakes, trails and campsites and look forward to sharing it with fellow outdoor enthusiast. They will chat about their favorite lakes, lend fishing advice and review individual BWCA campsites to let you know which ones to aim for and which ones to avoid. Whether you're planning your first Boundary Waters trip or dreaming up your 50...
318: 2o26 Birdament Championship!
The moment is here and we are in Rio de Janeiro! What will you tell your children about where you were when a grand birdament champion was crowned? Stay tuned for an in the field update from deep within the BWCA!
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317: Final Four Birdament Coverage
Continuing live coverage from this years hallowed birdament will see the field hacked down from 16 to 4. Tune in to follow the majesty.
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316: 2nd Round Birdament Coverage
A couple of charismatic husbands are covering the continuing majesty that is the 2026 Birdament. The feathery feuding continues as the field is winnowed down to 16 of the sweetest fliers.
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315: 1st Round Birdament Coverage
Live from the top floor of the TSN tower its first round coverage of the 2026 Birdament! This years sacred tournament of feathery flighted feuders has it all; terrifying lows, dizzying highs and all the creamy middles.
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314: 2026 Tumblehome Birdament
Due to high demand the majesty is back! The high council of ornithological integrity, the hallowed committee and the ABA have all spoken. A stunning field of 64 BWCA birds has been selected and will scrap it up for a month to determine which feather will rule them all and most likely make us a nice quill.
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313: Previously on Tumblehome
Erik is back after having survived a winter in the sepia-toned land of bad hombres. Adam is here to help assure him that everything in this country has been going super great the last few months.
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Snow Log 26:13
April takes us above 100 inches for the season finale of this winter's snow log. Our primary wampeter is the boundary waters, but what is the other? There are otter tracks in the wood, believe what you see.
Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor.
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Snow Log 26:12
Rebellions are built on hope, and Tumblehomies that stick together. Everything is stardust.
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Snow Log 26:11
Know your way out before you go in. Jesse Terry wins rookie of the year in Nome with Jitterbug and Moonwatcher in lead, and the home trails are triple mint tastiamo. Freedom is a pure idea. The frontier of the rebellion is everywhere.
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Snow Log 26:10
Yellowlegs and Polar and Magic complete the Kaltag Portage, another blizzard brings a snow day for the North Shore. Thank you for the clarity, I thought it was gone for good.
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Snow Log 26:9
The trees were coated in frost, then snow, and then rain. The trails are squishy and there are many hard miles between here and the finish line. Calibrate your enthusiasm. Trust your skis.
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Snow Log 26:8
Believe what you see. The empire will murder and gouge mine entire worlds and they cannot win. They will not win. There is a memegwesi living inside the tree.
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Snow Log 26:7
In this substance, no one, nothing was distinct. All forms were blurred, distorted. We became half humans, half fish, half angel, half pirate. The blizzard was delightful and the new carburetor ran smoothly as the world was buried in snow.
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Snow Log 26:6
The corn is aggrieved, the empire is diseased, there is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. Breath deep, Tumblehomies, this may be the last fresh air we ever taste. Keep a steady speed going up or down the hill, and the gold medal in skijour will be jours.
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Snow Log 26:5
Exciting day at the Gunflint Mailrun; these stone had within them a property that was Manitoulike. An egg cracked from outside is food, from within, a revolution.
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Snow Log 26:4
Join us at Pronto with the Amush'nuneey and embrace the Eye of Aldhani, as we hand out hot corn dogs and fire-warmed beer and share Nana'b'oozoo's hallowed pipe in the sacred valley. Surprise from above is never as shocking as one from below.
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Snow Log 26:3
Nonviolence is working, where do butterflies come from? Pull up the tracker and detach from the horrors of this world. Beargrease week is here and the best lead dog will drag us to victory.
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Snow Log 26.2
Dark times, but remember comrades, you're the thing itself.
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Snow Log 26:1
The storytelling season is here, this winter we combine The Manitous by Basil Johnston, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, and Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes, as we measure snow and appreciate the quiet darkness.
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312: Best Albums of 2025!
Its album time! We're wrapping up 2025 with a discussion about our time spent in the woods before compiling an authoritative, fearless and ultimately correct list of our favorite music from the past year. Cheers to 2026!
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311: 2025 QOTY Spectalucaganzacle!
Thanks to everyone for allowing us to Come Original and get Down with all of your comments about the best and worst of times spent on the water in the BWCA and Quetico this past year. Like we always say happy paddling and Amber is the color of your energy!
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Snow Log 12.14.25
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Snow Log 12.7.25
Every flake is a miracle?
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310: Cox on Cox: Designed for Pleasure
Another ship wreck season is wrapped up and packed away deep in the musty basement piles of charts, foam models and moist davenports.
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309: Every Hog is a Miracle
Like a pile of greased hogs we're heading back overboard into the icy brine-less depths of turn of the century Lake Superior shipwrecks.
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308: Too Much Sea for Their Decks
Batten down yer hatches its shipwreck season!
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307: La Calavera
Happy Halloween everyone!
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306: Cold Pack Cheese Food Product
In this shed we believe there should be kings; kings of trivia! Come for the tradition of respectful and humble competition, stay for the hangover free suckling of Malört. Thanks to Jeppson's for overseeing this years event.
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305: Creamed Cash for the Thinker
The trivial battle of wits interminably marches on and has our moral compasses spinning like a blender filled with cold hard cash.
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304: 2nd Biennial Warclub Trivia Classic
The Tumbleshed is alive and pulsing with competition again as this rivalry for the ages adds a new chapter to an epic tale as old as time where execution, timing and backs against walls clash with gutsy performances, taking it one day at a time and at the end of the day who wants it more and overcoming adversity will take everyone involved to the next level.
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303: Meat for Trees
Visiting old special places, making our own dolmens alongside large pans of lasagna. Dante Bichette, the Plexico Burress server and F1. We are in our auto "E" era.
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302: Tiny Crimes
Tumblehome Live in the Field 2025! Unbelievably weird and mostly worth it!
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301: Four Person Hammocks
Charming tales from 10 days in Quetico Provincial Park coming at you this week.
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300: We Still Sound Like Us
It's here and its happening. It's a 300th episode roastening miracle! Thanks for listening and pick your sticks my friend!
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299: Album of the 5ummer!
The docket is packed on this weeks show, trip recaps, mural rankers and our hot picks for albums of the summer.
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298: Always Meet at Fartleks!
The depths of the Tumblewiki have been plumbed and we're none the wiser or better for it.
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297: Softball Riddles
The worthwhile journey down the wiki hole in search of pure joy, truth and justice continues this week.
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296: Terms of Hilarity and Endearment
We are fleshing and flushing out the Tumblehome Wikipedia page to make sure the legacy lives on with truth and justice.
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295: Trace Cleanse
Yeah I'll leave a trace...in your mind!
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294: Garbanzos and Claws
Everybody is on their best behavior this week as we're discussing a world that most BWCA paddlers dare not dream of.
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