Dog Mountain hike 4/9/2025

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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.)