Pictures from outdoor exercise.
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@sdereski -- where is that?
I Went stomping around the forest today in search of chanterelles and boletes. I found a few chanterelles — fewer than I expected considering how I beat the brush. It’s a popular spot and was probably picked over pretty good over the weekend. I did eventually find a few patches once I started wandering into the shiggy that other folks didn't want to bushwhack through.
I also found a couple boletes, but not kings or queens. They were Boletus fibrillosus. Arora says, “edible and fairly good, but certainly not the equal of B. Edulis or B. aeries.” Mine are full of maggots. I might not cook them.
I also found winter chanterelles— too early for them really. I also found a white Hedgehog mushroom. Also too early. I saw lots of cats tongue. They are cute and edible, but not much to them.
I found LOTS of lobster mushrooms. I will cook some and give some away. What a pain to clean, but tasty! There were so many lobstr mushrooms... I found some right away, and they are HEAVY. I decided when I was at a trail junction to just go ahead and hike back to the truck and drop off the lobsters so I didn't have to bounce them around in my bucket, and so I didn't have to tote them. They really are dense. About half will be waste; they are notoriously dirty, rotten, and full of maggots.
It was good to be in the forest. It was quiet aside from the wind and the creaking of the trees. I saw two guys on bikes and that was it. There was one vehicle at the place I park; the cyclists had parked about a mile down from there. On my way out, a truck with three more mountain bikers was on the way up. Otherwise... had the forest to myself. Very nice. Would have been nice to see more boletes.
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Not sure what happened to the third picture, and why it would not upload correctly. I was not able to write anything either. Probably just me, as I have a new phone I am still trying to figure out.
This is "Sandy Beach". A local beach on the north shore of Lake Superior. It is stunning! It is literally around the bay from my house.1 -
I thought, for some reason, it looked more like a great lake than a seashore. Very lovely. I would like to see the Great Lakes some time. I'd like to paddle some of the beautiful areas and dive some of the wrecks.2
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It was such a nice day. I knew it would be, so I put in for this afternoon off yesterday. I stopped by and picked up some groceries on the way home, then wandered over to the disc golf course for a quick round. I can't say I was happy with my score, but I was trying out some discs I don't usually throw. I am glad I went, and I'd do it again. I might do it again tomorrow, but it will be much more crowded.
I can hardly believe I got the disc flying in the one and only picture I tried to take. It's that white thing in the air about a third of the way from the right and a third of the way from the bottom of the image. It was a decent hole -- one of the few pars I shot for the day.
Came back home and mowed the lawn -- needed it for sure. There's still tomatoes on the vines; the tarps I used the last two nights kept them from certain death. I might actually get more ripe ones as we have some warmer weather on the way.
My raft club is doing a float tomorrow, and I am SO tempted to go, but I will probably sleep in and do chores and play outdoors. Maybe I'll take a canoe out right near my house and try to catch a couple fish. If I'm lucky, I'll get a few more ripe figs to put in the dehydrator. Sunday is a Shift Captain meeting at the aquarium, so I will probably divert by my mushroom patch on the way home. It will surely get picked over pretty heavy tomorrow, so I'll have to stomp around in the thick brush where sane people generally avoid. I need to be VERY careful for yellowjacket nests. They are really bad this year.
I hope you enjoyed your day today and had great weather. It was 41 years ago today that the first manned Apollo mission was launched (Apollo 7). Then 35 years ago today, October 11 was the day the first American woman made a space walk from the shuttle Challenger. Then just 19 years ago, the 100th Shuttle mission was launched. No wonder I've been feeling spacey.2 -
Holy ocelot. I had maybe the best day of chanterelle hunting in YEARS today. I could be very selective which ones I harvested and left WAY more than I picked. Oh wow. My limit was easy to collect, and then I stomped around to scout some possible new places to go back next year.
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Went hiking in grove of old growth Redwood Trees yesterday.5 -
I'm going on a hiking/ camping weekend early next month. Hoping to get some good pictures!2
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Went hiking with my son and granddaughter today. Jump Creek Canyon in Owyhee County.6 -
Jump Creek Falls.
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Too many people have taken the wrong turn here.
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Rode my bicycle up a mountain yesterday. The leaves are just starting to show some color and the White River is always beautiful!
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Ceci - did you also ride back down the mountain? Seventeen miles of crooked road would be a blast!
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alteredsteve175 wrote: »Ceci - did you also ride back down the mountain? Seventeen miles of crooked road would be a blast!
It's basically 5 miles uphill, 12 downhill, going south from there. I rode about 7 of that to the lookout point and back. In my total 24 miles, there was 1600 feet of climbing and the same in decent. This is one of my favorite routes this time of year.
If you do the entire route from Brentwood to Mountainburg and back it's 42ish miles with about 3,000 feet of climbs.1 -
Yesterday was the 42nd annual Mt. Pisgah Mushroom Fest! I always volunteer. The mushroom display is the largest on the west coast! The weather was great, so it was crowded.
First place was awarded to a Sparassis (cauliflower mushroom):
There's always a scarecrow contest; guests get to vote for their favorites in several categories. A couple I really liked this year were the "Ironic Scarecrow" and a story about mushrooms that "grow" in people....
Holy Cow is a local company that makes healthy ready-to-eat foods. They used to have a cafe, but it closed. They make mushroom soup one day per year. I always get it. I think they donate the proceeds to the arboretum. It's got commercial and wild mushrooms. The line is ALWAYS long, but soup and bread are all that's on the menu, so it's a fast line. It is my favorite line to stand in every year; I am already looking forward to next year:
I got a few pictures of some fungus of interest. If you collect chanterelles, be sure NOT to collect the scaly chanterelle. It's the closest look-alike. Fortunately, it probably won't kill you if you eat it, but it might give you an upset belly.
The good thing is there are SO MANY delicious mushrooms out there including King Bolete, Sparassis, hedgehog, lion's mane, goat's beard, littlefoot chanterelle, chicken of the woods, and.....
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Great one-eyed pumpkin!! I love it!!0
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A few of my favorite shots from my weekend of hiking:
Fall color near our campsite-
Buffalo National River from the bluff-
Frost Flowers, first time I had seen any in person-
Sam's Throne-
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Goat Trail along the bluff line above the Buffalo River-
One of the many interesting trees we saw-
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I've never seen anything like those frost flowers before. Amazing!2
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Had a weedy back lot once. Really ugly. And then one frosty morning woke up to a field of frost flowers. Neat.
Thanks for bring that memory back.2 -
Drone photo of the river where I row, stolen from the IG of the guy who took it (he wouldn't mind). (I might be in one of the dots on the river: I was there that day, but the boats were spread out, and the ones in the photo are too tiny even to tell which boat type it is. If one is a double, I am in it, because the others were quads and a coach launch).
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Drone photo of the river where I row, stolen from the IG of the guy who took it (he wouldn't mind). (I might be in one of the dots on the river: I was there that day, but the boats were spread out, and the ones in the photo are too tiny even to tell which boat type it is. If one is a double, I am in it, because the others were quads and a coach launch).
Beautiful!
This is the only picture I got from my bike ride yesterday:
Last warm day for a while.
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I've been sick with a cold most of this week. Might even be sub-clinical flu that my immunization kept from going berzerk. I've had enough energy the last couple days to take some nice walks as we've been having nice weather. There's a park less than a half mile from my house that's about 300 acres of forest, sports fields, picnic areas, and a boat ramp. There's lots of trails. I often forget to even go down there to enjoy it. We play Ultimate on the sports fields.
Today I decided to throw on an 8-pound weight belt from my SCUBA kit to make my walk a little more of a calorie burn, and also to remember what it's like to walk around eight pounds heavier. I could feel it in my knees and hips for sure, and I think I was a little slower. Before I started my weight loss journey, I had the equivalent of three or four of these stashed all around my body.
I walked counter clockwise today. I went clockwise yesterday. So I started farther from the river and walked about 2/3 of the way down the park, then cut across to a bark path and eventually to the river path.
I had a couple views of the river before heading back uphill to my house.
If you look up-thread to Page 12 this spring, you will notice some other pictures of the same path. Except on THAT day, I was in a canoe because the river was UP.
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Daisy on the rock.
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What a good girl!0
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golf course bass fishing with my son.3 -
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A few shots from two weekend hikes in the Buffalo National River area:
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I had to go south to pick up a dive regulator from service, so I got in a two mile hike near the arboretum.
It was a cool, foggy afternoon, but it wasn't raining. Just had time for a quick one before dark.
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