Pictures from outdoor exercise.
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Advantage is a really nice hull design for the right weight person. Efficient. That one looks good on you, @mtaratoot.1
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It has so much glide, it's completely ridiculous.
Funny, it also seems good to fish from... if you pay attention. I almost went for a swim (would have lost one rod and possibly a couple other things) but twitched my hips. I put foot straps on the foot bar so I am in better contact with the boat/water.
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It has so much glide, it's completely ridiculous.
Funny, it also seems good to fish from... if you pay attention. I almost went for a swim (would have lost one rod and possibly a couple other things) but twitched my hips. I put foot straps on the foot bar so I am in better contact with the boat/water.
So. Much. Gide.
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It's kind of odd.
It is a large river that has areas that are very underutilized. In fact, many people dismiss it as not very nice. It was extremely polluted as recently as the early 1970s when the Clean Water Act was passed. It has recovered quite well. Without DDT, the osprey and eagles have returned. There are lots of fish, although some are invasive. Lots of birds of all kinds. And on that Sunday, over 14 miles, once we left the beach we saw almost no other people. There was one person in waders under the bridge in the first quarter mile. Then about a mile from take-out there were two people on shore, and when we saw them the sheriff's marine patrol came zooming down from another river; we had a little chat, and they zoomed away.
That plant in the background is Wapato. It was a major food source for the first people of this part of the world.2 -
I'm drywalling every day, trying to finish up the renovation and get the house ready for the market. The rec room is just over 23 feet long by just over 15 feet wide... big enough for my pool table which was the original plan before we started talking about selling and moving east.
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I had a nice paddle. Of 22 river miles, I managed an extra mile just going back and forth across the river navigating through the low water.
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That looks amazing. I'm jealous!!
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I'm planning a long paddle for this weekend. Every year I paddle all the way around Presque Isle on Lake Erie. I don't know the mileage. I'm guessing it's about the same distance as the one you posted. Maybe a bit less.2
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Wow! Thanks for that. I used to do this paddle once a year but haven't for a while. This year I am reviving it. If I get some good pics, I'll post them.2
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You could stretch it to more than 20 miles if you explored all the inlets and hugged the shore rather than made straight lines.
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Went for a paddle today. About 12 miles. With two friends; them in kayaks and me in a canoe. I was supposed to take someone else in my tandem, but they cancelled at the last minute so I took my fast solo boat.
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Sorry if this is getting routine and/or boring. Yep. Did it again this weekend. This time about 17 miles that included the 14 miles we did August 22. We started about three miles further upstream; it actually makes the shuttle easier.
We paddled a tiny bit up the Luckiamute River; I caught fish in two different rivers.
This group likes to just drift sometimes so we were out over five hours. Near the beginning of the trip we saw the remains of a fire someone set in the middle of the river. Odd.
Otherwise we were simply treated to the beginning of fall colors, mild temperature, only a little wind, beautiful clouds, good company, and a refreshing beverage.
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What an odd place for a fire!! Safer than most campfires, I suppose...0
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Well.....
Had to go pick up dive gear so took a canoe. Met up with an old friend and did a short six mile paddle starting on the Middle Fork and ending on the mainstem.
Things are WAY more exciting in a fast long canoe than a whitewater kayak on water like that. Fortunately I did not have an "out of boat experience." Almost....
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I like your canoe/river photos, @mtaratoot! I'd share some of my own, but it's a little fussy to work with a camera in a rowing shell (control both oars, or swim - camera can be done, but . . . .).
Here are a couple of random photos from the trail, from today's bike ride (before my (bleep) shifter failed on the way home!).
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This lovely creature, and 3 friends, were lunching on either side of the path (and gradually meandering across it) on my walk today.
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Monday night, when I was supervising open rowing, I went down to the dock to replace the duck fence, and took this photo looking East, downriver, right around sunset. The funny looking boats moored at left are "wakeless launches" that the women's varsity rowing coaches use. (They're not actually wakeless, just kind of minimally wake-y. They can slosh our smaller shells around pretty nicely.)
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Paddling day today.
Some friends called last night and said, "We're going to Waldo tomorrow. You should join us. We're packed, and Matt wants to leave at 07:00, but I know we won't leave until 08:00." I sent a text to my ex; we both love Waldo. She said she'd be interested in going; I called my other friends back. They're up there now camping; we just went for the day.
Only about 6.5 miles. On the way out, the wind was pretty stiff, and it was blowing from the south end of the lake. The first two miles or so also was open to the most fetch on this very large natural ultra-oligotrophic lake. We had lots of chop. I put my ex in my big canoe. I forgot how awful it is in wind, but at least it's very seaworthy and can handle the chop well. Was fun.
We stuck to the very north end of the lake. Once on the western half, the wind subsided. We were sheltered by hills on the shore.
We paddled back to where North Fork Middle Fork starts. That's my church.
We walked around a bit and ate lunch, then paddled back.
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I went to the forest. On the way I saw one of the most beautiful fall plants...
Look familiar? Here's a closer view:
Toxicodendron diversilobum
I saw foliage in the forest. Since it is mostly an evergreen coniferous forest, not much fall color.
I was hoping the rain this week would get the Pacific Golden Chanterelles fruiting. Nope. I found two. One was a little button, and it was nice and firm. But it was covered with green mold. I found another that was slimy, rotting, and filled with beetles. I did find a Lobster mushroom.
Then on the way back, I decided to bushwhack to explore an area I've been meaning to explore for a while. I'll go back when the chanterelles finally do start popping up. I found several more lobsters. Here's what you see on the ground, what you see as you clear away the duff, and what it looks like after it is picked.
I got home and took a short walk around the neighborhood to enjoy some of the beautiful autumn colors.
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Lobster mushrooms.
Hypomyces lactifluorum
They are actually a parasitic fungus that grows on another mushroom. Around here they grow on a species of s Russula (Russula brevipes). They are easy to identify, but they are almost always really filthy and often full of beetles or maggots. After you clean them, you can dry them to use later, or you can saute them and freeze for later if you have more than you want to eat right now.
They are huge. Sorry I didn't put something in this picture for scale, but that piece of paper they're on is bigger than a large cookie sheet.
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My renovation is coming along well. In the rec room, I've finished drywalling, painting etc... This pic is as I was installing flooring... I'm done flooring now and moved back to the laundry room to finish drywall, paint etc..
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One of the best exercises to do for paddling is... paddling.
Did that today for three hours.
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Went for a "walk" (slog?) in the woods looking for more mushrooms. I found a few chanterelles that I picked, and a whole BUNCH of honey mushrooms that I left....
And I got to visit a waterfall I haven't seen in YEARS.
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I love the mushroom pics! I'm just learning about them myself and so far have only dared to eat chanterelles.0
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I love the mushroom pics! I'm just learning about them myself and so far have only dared to eat chanterelles.
I was out there to get chanterelles. I got about a half gallon. I'll go back this week, maybe someplace else, maybe back there. I saw that log and thought they looked like Armillaria. A friend told me probably not; probably Galerina. I don't think I agree with her; they are too large to be Galerina.
I also found a couple very small hedgehog mushrooms. They were too small to harvest, but it tells me t hey are about to come out. That will be fun. I'm still hoping to find some Sparassis (cauliflower mushroom). I thought I found a chicken of the woods, but it didn't seem quite right.0 -
Found these choice Hen-of-the-Woods (also known as Maitake) earlier this Fall. I'm still very green at wild mushroom collection so I didn't harvest them at the time. With further research I found there are no lookalikes and allergic reactions are rare.
Those are walnuts on the ground around them (about the size of a tennis ball) for size although the mushrooms are at the base of oak trees. Each mass is probably 5-10 lbs (2.5-4.5 kg) so 30-ish lbs (15-ish kg)total. I'll probably harvest them next year as they do tend to reoccur at the same spot one year to the next. Been boning up on cleaning, cooking, and preserving methods.
Also found a what I think is a Turkey Tail buried in the bremuda grass. Not considered edible but is thought to have cancer fighting chemicals.
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@d_thomas02
That bottom picture looks like a Ganoderma. They grow on wood. Like turkey tails, they are polypore mushrooms. One species of Ganoderma is known as Reshi, and it is used as medicine. Another one is called Artist's Conk, and it has really interesting characteristics.
Nice maitake! Note that hen of the woods is, oddly a LOT different from chicken of the woods. Chicken of the woods is tough, and you can just harvest the outer portion. A friend of mine works for a mushroom spawn company that sells spawn to the people who either grow mushrooms or sell mushroom growing kits. I think they sell a lot of maitake spawn, but her favorite is still shiitake. I'm looking forward to the two logs she gave me fruiting again in spring. I just have to keep them the right moisture level for now. Maitake do grow in the woods around here, but shiitake don't. For some reason they can't. That's ok. They can grow on logs or sawdust.1 -
@d_thomas02
That bottom picture looks like a Ganoderma. They grow on wood. Like turkey tails, they are polypore mushrooms. One species of Ganoderma is known as Reshi, and it is used as medicine. Another one is called Artist's Conk, and it has really interesting characteristics.
After more research, I think you are right. Size alone would rule out Turkey Tail. Turkey Tails are two, maybe three inches across and thin. This specimen was larger than my hand.1 -
d_thomas02 wrote: »@d_thomas02
That bottom picture looks like a Ganoderma. They grow on wood. Like turkey tails, they are polypore mushrooms. One species of Ganoderma is known as Reshi, and it is used as medicine. Another one is called Artist's Conk, and it has really interesting characteristics.
After more research, I think you are right. Size alone would rule out Turkey Tail. Turkey Tails are two, maybe three inches across and thin. This specimen was larger than my hand.
Turkey tails grow on wood, too. They are considered "edible," as in they aren't poisonous, but not particularly tasty and tough, tough, tough. I found a couple nice Ganoderma on a foray a couple years ago before COVID when we could go spend time together.... I gave the Reishi to someone who was going to make medicine out of it. We had fun drawing on the artist conk.
After I get the cauliflower kimchi started tomorrow, I might head to the woods to see what I can find. There should be one more flush of chanterelles, and maybe, just maybe, there will be hedgehog. Or I will be lazy and do nothing at all. Or maybe I'll come up with some completely other idea. Vacation time is nice that way. I kind of hate to "waste" it, but I actually enjoy having some completely idle time. Maybe some day you will too... after you stop mowing lawns! Funny because I'm thinking about doing some side-work as a landscaper when I retire. I earned money in college doing that. Nah. I just want to cook now. And eat.1
