weekend up the Pine River
Aug. 15th, 2006 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaWe took a spontaneous casual backpack trip up the Pine River valley (in the Weminuche wilderness) this weekend; lower elevation and less goal-oriented than our usual hikes, but we wanted it to be relatively warm at night because of the Perseid meteor shower, and Britt wanted to relax and do some fishing. (I tend to get summit fever and focus on peaks.)
The meteor-viewing was a literal washout, as it rained off and on and was cloudy nearly all the time, but the fishing was successful. And because it's been a relatively rainy summer, the mushrooms were fabulous! Friday night we had trout with Leccinum aurantiacum (Aspen Bolete) - we would have preferred Boletus edulis but the few that we saw were big, soggy, and half-eaten by wildlife and worms. Then on Saturday we gained a few hundred feet of elevation and found ourselves surrounded by vast amounts of chanterelles!
I ended up packing out about half of the dinner and lunch food I'd brought, because we ate trout! with mushrooms! And I also packed out two pounds of chanterelles. I think this is the first time my pack got heavier rather than lighter on a trip...
The meteor-viewing was a literal washout, as it rained off and on and was cloudy nearly all the time, but the fishing was successful. And because it's been a relatively rainy summer, the mushrooms were fabulous! Friday night we had trout with Leccinum aurantiacum (Aspen Bolete) - we would have preferred Boletus edulis but the few that we saw were big, soggy, and half-eaten by wildlife and worms. Then on Saturday we gained a few hundred feet of elevation and found ourselves surrounded by vast amounts of chanterelles!
I ended up packing out about half of the dinner and lunch food I'd brought, because we ate trout! with mushrooms! And I also packed out two pounds of chanterelles. I think this is the first time my pack got heavier rather than lighter on a trip...