Sunday, November 11, 2012

MP 2570   Continuing to hike through the Glacier Peak Wilderness.   Mountains on all sides tower above.  Crossed over the Saddle Bow Mountains which were as impressive as any I have seen on the hike.   The forests are more quiet than usual, probably because the migratory birds have started to fly south.   Vine maple colors the landscape.   Bear scat is purple from the huckleberries.   Fungi are abundant.   I frequently see mushrooms which I think, but an not sure, are edible:  Lion's Mane, Chicken of the Woods, boletes, rusula brevipes.     Saw a growth of chicken-of-the-woods that must have stair-stepped about 20 feet up and around a tree.    Don't feel quite confident enough to try them out though.   It has been many years since I collected edible mushrooms.  




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