We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove down the Pocahontas Bay road and then part way up the road that leads to the radio towers on Mt Pocahontas. The rains in late summer have given the mushroom hunters a lot more fungi than usual this year, and the hike route was chosen to put us in an area quite suitable for many of the edible varieties. As soon as we started to walk we found an abundance of different species and quickly discovered some nice fresh chanterelles. We made good time as there were not so many mushrooms as we gained altitude and soon reached the end of the logging road at Bladderwort Lake. One of the Trekker's old hiking trails runs steeply up the slope on the east side of the lake to a viewpoint where we ate lunch in the warm sunshine. Afterwards we pushed on beyond the end of the trail and soon reached the northern edge of the secluded Loon Lake. This we usually approach from the south so it was interesting to see the lake from a completely new angle.
JD.
A nice large specimen of the edible Golden Chanterelle, Cantharellus formosus, collected on the hike.
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