Mushroom hunting

There are plans to strip the forest floor, rake it up and burn it in incinerators all over Western Washington. This will not be good for mushrooms! http://sheltonprogressive.blogspot.com to learn more about this serious threat.

We went to the Staircase area and found a few mushrooms.  I was really hoping to find a particular type of mushroom but did not find it.  I had to make due with these instead:

Giant wormy Russula Brevipes

Duff pumpers (Russula Brevipes)

Elfin Saddle 

I think this is a Shrimp Russula (russula xerampelina)

Shrimp topside (we did not pick it)

Lobster Mushroom

Hypholoma fasciculare

White Chanterelle with possible Lactarius Deliciousus

White Chanterelle

There are plans to strip the forest floor, rake it up and burn it in incinerators all over Western Washington.  This will not be good for mushrooms!  http://sheltonprogressive.blogspot.com to learn more about this serious threat.

2 miles round trip with 1,000 feet elevation gain

Some of my favorite landscapes

Most of these (all but 5) were taken with a point and shoot camera and they were taken before I took my first photography course.  Many of these are too small to print.

  I've had my big camera for less than a year.  I bought my D90 ( big camera) when I wanted to document the destruction of St. Edwards Catholic Church.  The college media loan was not flexible enough to let me have a good camera for the quarter and I could not predict exactly when the church was going to come down; I needed  access to a good camera at all times for that project.

These pictures and more will be on electronic display on October 22,  at the Shelton Pavilion as part of a fund raiser for the Statewide anti-incinerator movement.   I will have to move away from all this beauty if the incinerators are built.

White Chanterelle Mushroom Olympic National Forest (ONF)

Fly Agaric Mushroom Westport

My little one's first peak Mount Ellinor

Bears head Mushroom Olympic National Park

Fog, Capitol Forest, DNR land

Coral Mushroom ONF

Cougar Tracks Dosewallips

Baby goats mount Ellinor ONF

Mount Ellinor

Enchanted Valley ONP

Mama and baby grouse, Staircase

Fly Agaric, Westport

Old Growth Douglas-fir ONF

Grouse Wagonwheel Ridge ONP

Mount Adams

Honey Mushrooms ONF

Trillium ONF

King (?) Bolete ONF

Lake Cushman ONF

Lake West, Simpson Land

Lena Lake ONF

Lions Mane mushroom ONP (it was too pretty to pick)

Skok Valley from Simpson Land

Camprobbers Mount Rose Summit ONF

Wooly Chanterelles ONF (not edible)

Pigs Ear Mushroom ONF

Sun breaking through the fog South Fork Skok ONF

Biomass at Staircase

Sunset over Grays Harbor from South Mountain on Simpson Land

Sunrise over Hood Canal from Mount Ellinor

Mushroom gills ONF

White Chanterelles and hydnum imbricatus

Chanterelles growing in the moss



Giant Bitter Hedgehog



It looks like Marilyn Manson Likes these White Chanterelles

Each year this chanterelle spot gets a little smaller. Now there is a cat track and a line of survey stakes going through the middle of it. Still we had a good time hunting here.

The Olympic Penninsula is heaven for mushrooms and mushroom lovers. If the ADAGE biomass gets permitted and installed Paul Staments will move his labs and 34 jobs out of Mason County. His expensive air filters (needed to keep mushroom cultures pure) would get clogged up with PM and have to be replaced too often. Visit http://sheltonprogressive.blogspot.com to learn more.

Matsutake and Hedgehogs

Matsutake Button from the Olympic National Forest



Hedgehog in the ground



What are these?


Admirable Bolete (I think)


The haul

I think I broke my record for the most ever hedgehogs in one day. I also found one Matsutake button.

My ankle is still a bit floppy, but there is no real pain. I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm not sure how many mushrooms will be left if the biomass plants get approved and begin to operate, as they will remove everything from the forests.

See the biomass tab at the top of the page or visit http://sheltonprogressive.blogspot.com to learn more about the proposed wood incinerators that are threatening our forests.

All the gates are open

Green diamond aka Simpson aka Soloman renewable energy aka Olympic Panel Products akd the clear-cutting-titan of Shelton has opened its gates for the fall slaughter and the wild life gates are open for another 8 days.  So for the next week you can drive on pretty much any road in the SE Olympics.