Dog Mountain hike 4/9/2025
Apr. 10th, 2025 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Tyler and I climbed Dog Mountain on Wednesday together. It took us 4.5 hrs, due to my foot injury - this used to take me 3 hours. sigh. I really had no business being up there. I did 13 miles with 800' of elevation gain with Cynthia on bikes in the morning, and then Tyler and I did this hike in the afternoon. My legs are killing me. BUT. My foot is kind of okay-ish. In that, it doesn't hurt much worse than it usually does.
It's too early for the big balsamroot show but here are a few early flowers and shrooms - the purple kittentails near the summit are a highly sought-after wildflower, it is rare and only grows in a few conditions and it is a vivid purple that the camera never quite captures.

bird's nest fungus


checker or chocolate lily, depending on who you ask

lil cups of some sort of fungus

calypso orchid aka fairy slipper

helvella mushroom aka elfin saddle

kittentails!




some sort of mushroom hanging out with trillium

pink prairie stars and maybe oregon sunshine?

white prairie star

hello from the summit

trillium

white polypore mushroom of some sort
...
(I'm still not depressed and it still feels weird.)
(one month and one week until my 50th.)
It's too early for the big balsamroot show but here are a few early flowers and shrooms - the purple kittentails near the summit are a highly sought-after wildflower, it is rare and only grows in a few conditions and it is a vivid purple that the camera never quite captures.

bird's nest fungus


checker or chocolate lily, depending on who you ask

lil cups of some sort of fungus

calypso orchid aka fairy slipper

helvella mushroom aka elfin saddle

kittentails!




some sort of mushroom hanging out with trillium

pink prairie stars and maybe oregon sunshine?

white prairie star

hello from the summit

trillium
white polypore mushroom of some sort
...
(I'm still not depressed and it still feels weird.)
(one month and one week until my 50th.)
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Date: 2025-04-12 02:10 pm (UTC)I have a blogger set up for three of my gmail addresses, which allows me a ton of free html photo hosting, so one of those pages I literally just use as a photo hosting page: https://serafaery.blogspot.com
google offers this with any gmail account, pretty nifty work-around. They upload videos too but if it's any longer than few seconds I just use youtube for that (I also have a personal account there separate from my business account)
Hope that's helpful! I used to use flickr back in the day but since I can do a handful of super basic OG HTML scripts I find this more straight-forward.
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Date: 2025-04-12 03:11 pm (UTC)And I have an old blogspot somewhere. I bet I could dump stuff there. Thanks again. I'm off to google some more fungi!
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