Spotted from the truck

log with witches butter

The Adventurer, Vernon Wade

Vernon was born in the Pacific Northwest and still lives in the shadow of Mt. Hood, near the small town where he grew up. Vernon has spent decades wandering the hills, hunting mushrooms, camping and riding motorcycles into the remotest nooks and crannies to be found in the region.

Mike, dogs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike and I were out poking around the forest with my dogs Sunday. We found one good chanterelle, some witches butter and a bunch of soggy mush. Snow level in the Columbia Gorge has dipped below 2000′.

We stumbled into some sort of Forest Service study area-trees were flagged and a number of them were girdled.

girdled tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also found some dumps – how people can come out to a place of such beauty and trash it defies my imagination. One huge dump just off the road was flagged with this plastic bag, tied to some brush,

trash

I spotted this huge chanterrelle from the truck as I was driving by. There was a skif of snow on the ground and it was the only one we found that hadn’t gone to mush.

spotted from the truck

 

 

 

 

There were a few other mushrooms out there, mostly waterlogged and a single fresh Russula, and some interesting conks. I did find a log with some huge witches butter; bright orange and rubbery, with clumps up to four inches across. I was tempted to collect it but opted to leave it be.

witches butter

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