Tumblehome: A Boundary Waters Podcast

With Erik and Adam

Snow Log 26:10 03/16/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40493845

Snow Log 26:9 03/09/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40362705

Snow Log 26:8 03/01/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40267635

Snow Log 26:7 02/22/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40187715

Snow Log 26:6 02/15/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40112820

Snow Log 26:5 02/08/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/40032220

Snow Log 26:4 02/01/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39949065

Snow Log 26:3 01/25/2026

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39865500

Snow Log 26.2 01/18/2026

Snow Log 26.2 Dark times, but remember comrades, you're the thing itself. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor. L'Etoile du Nord! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39770790

Snow Log 26:1 01/12/2026

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39693380

312: Best Albums of 2025! 01/04/2026

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! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39604855

311: 2025 QOTY Spectacuganzacle! 12/21/2025

311: 2025 QOTY Spectacuganzacle! 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! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39486060

Snow Log 12.14.25 12/14/2025

Snow Log 12.14.25 Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39400430

Snow Log 12.7.25 12/07/2025

Snow Log 12.7.25 Every flake is a miracle? Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39312180

310: Cox on Cox: Designed for Pleasure 11/30/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39210140

309: Every Hog is a Miracle 11/17/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/39054595

308: Too Much Sea for Their Decks 11/09/2025

308: Too Much Sea for Their Decks Batten down yer hatches its shipwreck season! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38968240

307: La Calavera 11/02/2025

307: La Calavera Happy Halloween everyone! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38883315

306: Cold Pack Cheese Food Product 10/26/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38782950

305: Creamed Cash for the Thinker 10/19/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38633745

304: 2nd Biennial Warclub Trivia Classic 10/12/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38553580

303: Meat for Trees 10/05/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38470075

302: Tiny Crimes 09/28/2025

302: Tiny Crimes Tumblehome Live in the Field 2025! Unbelievably weird and mostly worth it! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38381875

301: Four Person Hammocks 09/21/2025

301: Four Person Hammocks Charming tales from 10 days in Quetico Provincial Park coming at you this week. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38299675

300: We Still Sound Like Us 08/31/2025

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! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/38034120

299: Album of the 5ummer! 08/17/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/37851110

298: Always Meet at Fartleks! 08/03/2025

298: Always Meet at Fartleks! The depths of the Tumblewiki have been plumbed and we're none the wiser or better for it. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/37651245

297: Softball Riddles 07/27/2025

297: Softball Riddles The worthwhile journey down the wiki hole in search of pure joy, truth and justice continues this week. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/37566620

296: Terms of Hilarity and Endearment 07/20/2025

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. Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/37470125

295: Trace Cleanse 07/06/2025

295: Trace Cleanse Yeah I'll leave a trace...in your mind! Subscribe: /episode/index/show/clearwateroutfitters/id/37293520

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