All through the ride we kept seeing what I call "Storybook Mushrooms." Wish I would have stopped to get a photo of one, but this is what they look like:
They have a name: Amanita muscaria (aka "Storybook mushrooms")
and apparently "primarily famed for its hallucinogenic properties with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol."
The full article on Wikipedia
Anyway, pretty, but don't lick the mushrooms.
Also, some volunteers have really cleaned up some of the trails, so not a lot of overgrowth. Thank you unnamed volunteers!
