Tumblehome: A Boundary Waters Podcast

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.  L'Etoile du Nord! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

Rebellions are built on hope, and Tumblehomies that stick together. Everything is stardust.  Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor.  L'Etoile du Nord! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor.  L'Etoile du Nord! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

Dark times, but remember comrades, you're the thing itself. Source material: The Manitous, Cat's Cradle, Andor.  L'Etoile du Nord! Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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.  Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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!  Playlist  Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud  

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Every flake is a miracle? Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud

Another ship wreck season is wrapped up and packed away deep in the musty basement piles of charts, foam models and moist davenports.  Source Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud

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. Source Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud

Batten down yer hatches its shipwreck season! Source Subscribe: Patreon Spotify iTunes YouTube Stitcher Google Play Soundcloud