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| Nice lunch spot. A bridge washed out here and was never replaced |
Time for one last hike before the wildlife gates shut. Knowing
that I wanted to get in a hike behind the gates made it a bit easier for
me to pick my hike. I wanted to do Church
Creek but did not want to be too tired while photographing Friday Night Football,
so I opted for the Upper South Fork Skokomish again.
I had wanted to do Dry Mountain but for some reason I just
did not want to do it alone and I was not able to recruit anyone to do it with me.
Something about that off trail route spooks me even though I have done
it alone twice and with a friend once.
I hit the trail at about 10:30 and I left the trail right
away to explore and old road. The road
let me to the river. I then hiked back
up to the trail but not the same way I went down. I had always wanted to look at the area below
the trail on the old road section. I
really don’t like hiking the road to trail conversion part of the trail, I wish
they had just kept the road open instead of making us hike half a mile up and
old road at the start and end of this hike.
The old growth on the trial is so lovely and it ruins the
end of the hike to have to leave the old growth to hike on an old road. I had
my lunch just on the other side of the bridgeless
crossing of the Skokomish River. I like
the little campsite there that overlooks the river. After lunch I went up the trail to check on a
young hericium mushroom that I had seen there two weeks ago. At that time the mushroom was too small to pick,
so I left it.
I’m glad I waited and did not pick it. The mushroom tripled in size and two more of
them had grown from the same log. I
picked two pounds of hericium and left the rest to continue growing and
producing spores.
I had a nice hike and I took some photos of myself for a
change. I won’t be posting those photos
though, they are a bit too artistic for this blog.
I accidentally left some of my photography gear in the car,
so I did not take as many photos as I was planning on taking of mushrooms and
stuff. There were very few mushrooms to
photo though. It is looking like a bad
mushroom year unless we get some more good rain before the first frost.
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