Thanks to recent rains here in the Pacific Northwest, Fall mushrooms have started their appearance at altitude around Mt. Rainier in late August. The photo shows Golden Chanterelles and Lobsters collected during a two-hour foray on August 19 in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
In addition to mushrooms, Mountain Huckleberries have been profuse and we’ve collected a good amount. These are delicious in pancakes and jam!
Based on the early appearance of mushrooms, we are scheduling two-hour group forays on Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings and afternoons throughout September. Please drop us a line and let us know if you are interested in participating. Two-hour forays occur at the 3,000-foot elevation in the hills just southeast of the town of Ashford.
Larry Short is an author and novelist with three decades of experience in Christian communications, digital innovation, and nonprofit management. A graduate of Biola University, he created WorldVision.org, won the Evangelical Press Association’s Best Personality Feature of the Year award in 1981, and published his historical fantasy novel, Fountains of the Deep, on Amazon Kindle. He is currently writing Apocalypse, his first science fiction novel.
Now that he’s formally retired he spends his time leading ministry directors at his church, feeding his mushroom obsession, working for the local school district part-time, and traveling. He has served as a young adults pastor, elder, prayer ministry coordinator, community groups coordinator, and deacon of welcome and assimilation at an Evangelical Free church in the Northwest, as well as a grandfather, exotic mushroom hunter and hobby cyclist.
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