Thursday, October 14, 2010

Stottlemeyer Trails Pretty Dry for October

Just went mountainbiking yesterday and it was beautiful!  The weather was warm, perfect, so it wasn't too hot or cold.

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!



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