Deb Walkup, Lori Heyman, and I thought it might be a little early and dry to go mushroom hunting, but we tried anyway since Lori and I had seen lots up here on a previous hike. We found a couple of interesting specimens.
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Conglomerate in the foreground took 2 million years to
wander here from Mount Umunhum 23 miles in the distance;
Bill, meanwhile, is still in the parking lot |
Deb takes in the fog blanketing the valley |
Ferns blanket the hillside |
A tree blanketed with moss |
Astraeus pteridis (Giant Hygroscopic Earthstar) |
Trametes versicolor |
Trametes versicolor |
The sun filters through the trees |
An unidentified Agaricales |
We were entertained by the presence of this head stashed in the rock |
Deb, for one... |
...and Bill and Lori |
Deb simulates what we saw after we had been eating too
many funny mushrooms |
My, this Mycena is cute! |
There's more! |
And more! |
Still more! |
And yet still more! |
These things are all over the place! |
Berries |
Bill and Lori along the trail |
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Laetiporus sulphureus (Sulfur Shelf;
Chicken of the Woods) |
Laetiporus sulphureus (Sulfur Shelf; Chicken of
the Woods) |
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