Ever since moving to Berkeley in 2010 and starting to work in the redwoods near Marin county and Big Sur, I had been wanting to check out the big redwoods up north. In mid December my friend Claire and I took a trip up north to see the big redwoods in Del Norte and Humboldt counties. Claire is from Oregon so we drove up the 5 from Berkeley to Oregon and what drive up to Oregon is complete without checking out Weed, California?
The Weed Store in Weed, California
Wow which one of these delightful t-shirts should I buy for mom?
So after our brief stop in Weed, where surprisingly what I ended up buying was some beautiful artwork of a photo of Mt. Shasta, we continued to Oregon where we spent a lovely evening playing Cards Against Humanity with Claire’s family. The next day we checked out the redwoods Jedediah Smith Redwood State, which were stunning.
How beautiful and amazing are redwoods?
Claire next to a really big redwood
Claire and some cute decomposer fungi
I like to get into hollowed out redwoods
Yes, I really enjoy this :)
How adorable is this Hygrocybe?
and how cute are these Hypholomas?
Don’t eat these unless you want to be vomiting all night, but how gorgeous is an Amanita muscaria?
We had an excellent day hiking around in Jedediah. The redwoods up that far north in Del Norte County in California are absolutely unparalleled. Next we continued down the coast to Humboldt county, and what trip to Humboldt is complete without a visit to the Lost Coast Brewery?
Enjoying the beer flight at the Lost Coast brewery
Thanks to some tips from my mycology buddy Jessie Uehling, we discovered an epically beautiful and legal place to mushroom hunt in Humboldt!
The light through these conifers was just too much – I didn’t want to leave!
If you didn’t like mushrooms before, I bet you can’t deny how charming these Laccarias are, right?
Bet you didn’t know that mushrooms came shaped like corals? These clavulinas are so pretty.
Mushroom selfie!!
and finally ! the mother lode! Winter chanterelles!
posing with my finds :)
Ooh what’s that there hiding in the mud/grass?
Is it a giant Hydnum repandum??
Let’s check underneath to make sure – yes, I see teeth – yes, mushrooms have teeth sometimes, how cool is that?
So super excited to be coming home with chanterelles (Cantharellus) and hedgehog mushrooms (Hydnum) we returned to Berkeley with our treasures in tow.
Here are the 2 species of chanterelles and 2 species of hedgehog mushrooms after I washed and cut them. It was a little extra work washing and removing all the leaves and duff, but totally worth it :)
wild mushrooms collected from the redwood forests: two species of chanterelles and two species of hedgehogs
My first ever risotto – wild mushrooms with onions, herbs, and parmesan – super tasty!
wild mushroom risotto with onions, parmesan, and foraged mushrooms
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