It is said that you don’t find mushrooms (or crystals), they find you. After two consecutive dry years and not a mushroom to be foraged, this year the mushrooms found us. In spades.
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Spring 2021 Needles / Capitol Reef
We left Telluride on the third week of April. Our first stop was Canyonlands National Park – Needles District. Friends had secured the Woodenshoe group camping site and there was room for us.
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The middle two weeks of October provided great conditions for our annual fall excursion around the Colorado Plateau. Our first stop was Fruita, Utah, the headquarters for Capitol Reef National Park. From there we continued on to Boulder, Utah and the surrounding Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
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We’ve often talked about traveling further into the Uncompahgre Wilderness Area. In the first week of September the stars aligned. With stable weather and time on our hands we set out on a 5 day excursion into the nearby North San Juans.
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After weeks of “stay at home” we made a quick visit to the “West End” for a change of environment. The area offers many options for fun and interesting desert exploration within a 2-3 hour drive from Telluride.
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