I needed to get back out into the woods to clear my head but I was not up for a big hike. I mostly just wanted to enjoy the solitude and devote time to photography. It rained most of the time but I was prepared with an umbrella to protect my camera. I did not find any edible mushrooms. There was a lot of logging activity coming from the high steel bridge direction and lot of piles of burning slash just North of South mountain. I thought they were saving all the "slash" for biomass incinerators. Maybe this is a good sign. But they still should not be burning stuff. Stuff needs to stay in the forest to nourish the forest. The logs being hauled out were bigger than usual.
I only walked around the lake one time.
2.5 miles no elevation gain
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| Conks, moss and hemlock seedlings growing on "biomass" |
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| Hygrophorus bakerensis they smell just like maraschino cherries I like to carry them around and sniff them |
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| Trees growing on a moss covered nurse log |
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| Artist's Conk |
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| Lacteria sp. |
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| Purple corts |
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| The east side of spider lake sports some old growth |
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Your maraschino cherry mushrooms could be Hygrophorus bakerensis.
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