Halloween on the Big Lava Bed

Halloween on the Big Lava Bed

            It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day when Kent and I drove north into the Big Lava Bed. The road was rugged, just ruts worn into jagged rock, winding between collapsed lava tubes and stunted trees finally arriving  at a flat...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

Walter accompanied Michael and I into the woods to look for mushrooms. Even though we have had recent rainstorms, it was too dry and we didn’t collect many specimens for the amount of ground we covered. We did find a few rubbery chanterelles,  a small chicken of...
A Day In the Woods

A Day In the Woods

We had been hearing rumors of boletes being found at higher elevations, so Amy loaded Michael,  Walter and me into the CrossTrek and we headed north of Trout Lake.                              ...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

        8/29/25 85f (29.4c) 3:00 Clear sky with a  few mosquitoes. Mike, Walter and I made an excursion into the woods to escape the heat and look for mushrooms. It felt a good ten degrees cooler in the forest.          ...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

8/11/25 3:00 105f (40.5c) Clear sky, no wind in town.             I had been  cooped up in the house with this cold for eleven days. Walter had been  cooped up here with me.  We were both going  stir crazy. I was feeling better, enough...