Telluride Colorado, Engineer Pass, and Imogene Pass
Telluride Colorado
Cinnamon Pass, Engineer Pass, Imogene Pass
Squirrel hunting truffles
Here is a very cool video, and perhaps one of a kind. David Springbett, B.C. film maker, filmed me in the Olympic National Park, and suddenly I spied a squirrel digging behind him.
I told him to STOP and film that squirrel - don't ask questions, just do so NOW.
He did, and may have the only wild footage in the past two decades -- or ever -- of a squirrel digging up truffle !
A truly unique Snowy Mountains Ski Lodge For Sale
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* Situated approximately half way between Jindabyne and the Ski tube terminal at Bullocks Flat (access to Perisher Ski Resort) and approximately 25km to Thredbo village
*Approximately 103ha (255 acres) of natural bushland with abundant Australian native wildlife such as Wombats, Kangaroos, Emu’s, Kookaburra and Wedge-Tailed Eagles
*Classic lodge ambiance with luxurious, modern accommodation wing (1,230sm) comprising:
Large common lounge/dining area
Stone open fireplace
Fully licensed Bar
Commercial Kitchen
Entertaining deck with spectacular views
Games Room & kids play room
12 Bedrooms with ensuite (lodging for 48 guests) Heated outdoor swimming pool
2 x Dining/Breakfast rooms (seating capacity approx. 40) Drying Room
Altitude 1260 is perfect for a corporate retreat, extended family group, commercial lodge operator, school or licensed club. To register your interest and secure an appointment to view this property, please email Sally@kfn.com.au
Western Giant Puff 'Balls' Choice Edible Species ;) 7-14-2012 CO USA
These are super yummy ..all you need to know. No real look-a-likes ..super obvious identification. Ty for watching
ssmc bp foray 2011
pics from a trip to Echo Lake from Corral Pass. lots of mushrooms despite no rain for the last 3 - 4 weeks.
Paul Stamets finds Cordyceps capitata on truffle in old growth forest
Paul Stamets finds Cordyceps capitata fruiting/parasitizing a truffle, Elaphomyces granulatus in old growth forest of Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. Most Cordyceps mushroom species parasitize insects, but a few parasitize truffles. Fungi Perfecti is studying this Cordyceps for its potential health benefiting properties. Paul found this mushroom with Tim Girvin (videographer) and Dawn Clark, field assistant on Oct 30, 2010 deep into a mixed aged old growth forest, with tree succession of 50, 200-400, 400-600, and 800+ old trees. Gorgeous mushrooms and environment. Life at its best !
Paul Stamets and Dusty Yao hunt for matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare) in old growth forest
Paul Stamets and Dusty Yao take electric bikes up abandoned roads, closed by multiple landslides, deep into the old growth forests of the Olympic Mountains of Washington State to a place of solitude and myco-mysteries. Come with us on one of our mushroom hunts and see what happens. Intention, vision quest, reward.
Mellow Mushrooms in Lone Tree Colorado
After some very hard rains in Denver Colorado, we had some very cool looking mushrooms popup in our back yard. I don't know enough about them to try and eat them but they look awesome! I you are confident in the name of these wild mushroom please post! Thanks for watching and check out my other videos about wild creatures in Colorado. Would like to thank our video sponsor, great dentist in Littleton Colorado.
OPRAH PRIVATE MAUI RANCH ROAD IS VISIBLE FROM OUTER SPACE via google maps
According to Forbes, Oprah Winfrey is worth $2.7 billion. She owns a production company (Harpo Productions), a cable network (OWN), a magazine (O), Oprah.com and the Oprah Radio satellite station. She also owns estates in Montecito, California and Fisher Island, Florida; houses in Lavallette, New Jersey, Douglasville, Georgia and Telluride, Colorado; and assorted properties on the islands of Antigua and Maui. The latter includes 100 acres in Hana, 1,000 acres Upcountry (which boasts a small, terribly exclusive 12-room bed and breakfast) and a four-mile road.
And not just any road, either: Oprah's road is concrete and asphalt 12 feet across. Goodfellow Brothers paved it in December 2010. The road stretches from the water tank at Kealakapu Road near Piilani Highway in Kihei to Keokoa, near Haleakala Highway. It's a road locals have been waiting for 40 years — a potentially golden road that could radically ease traffic congestion in Central Maui.
That is, if the public could use it, which it most certainly cannot. The paved road, drainage swales and detention ponds will be privately maintained, stated a June 2009 Drainage Report on the effects of paving the road prepared by Wayne I. Arakaki Engineer LLC for OW Ranch, LLC, (the initials reportedly stand for Oprah Winfrey) and kept on file with the Maui County Planning Department. This is a private roadway and will not be open to the public.
OW Ranch paid for the road. It wasn't cheap, said OW Ranch agent Hugh Starr when asked how much it cost. He ultimately declined to provide a figure, and officials with both the county Planning Department and Haleakala Ranch said they either didn't know or couldn't provide the number (grading the road did require a $34,520 bond, which county civil engineer Lance Nakamura said represented just a fraction of the grading costs).
According to Starr, the road lies entirely on Haleakala Ranch land, which he said was the road's main user. But he added that OW Ranch and Kamaole Ranch (which is owned by Winfrey's former personal trainer Bob Greene, who is also listed as a manager for OW Ranch) retain access rights to the road that dated back to OW Ranch's original purchase of the 1,000 Upcountry acres from Haleakala Ranch. Starr called the original dirt and gravel road very rocky and dusty as well as dangerous, which the grading permit and accompanying drainage report makes clear.
We will paved [sic] approximately four miles of road 12 feet wide, states the county drainage report. Grades which is [sic] greater than 12 percent will be constructed out of concrete. We will construct drainage swales along the paved road, with plastic liner. All slopes will be graded at a 3:1 [ratio].
Hugh Starr referred to the road as a driveway that makes going in a lot easier, though he added that the road doesn't actually reach any dwellings owned by OW Ranch or Kamaole Ranch. It was an existing ranch utility road, he said. The Department of Water Supply, Maui Electric and Haleakala Ranch all use it.
Rumors about the road have flown about the island for months. During a Jan. 11 Maui Planning Commission hearing on OW Ranch's request to extend a permit for its Silver Cloud bed and breakfast in Kula, Chairman Jonathan Starr (no relation to Hugh) asked OW Ranch agents whether the road existed and if it tied into Winfrey's Silver Cloud bed and breakfast.
Tom Welch, an attorney representing OW Ranch, Kamaole Ranch and Silver Cloud, said the road did not connect to the Upcountry bed and breakfast.
The road is not visible from either Piilani Highway in Kihei or Haleakala Highway in Kula, Hugh Starr said members of the public still find their way to it.
It's hard to monitor the road, Starr said. There's some concern about the general public. It's kind of a double-edged sword because the road is very attractive to skateboards and joggers. We have definite security issues.
By Anthony Pignataro from Maui Time Magazine
Hunting Gypsy Mushrooms (Cortinarius caperatus = Rozites caperata) in the Cascades
Hunting Gypsy Mushrooms (Cortinarius caperatus = Rozites caperata) in the Cascades
My Chantrelle Mushroom Adventure
Mushroom hunting in Oregon
My First Time Finding Magic Mushrooms
the story of my first time finding magic mushrooms growing in nature.
Paul Stamets finds Lactarius fragilis w/ Dusty Yao and Richard Gaines
Check out the delicious mushrooms
Alaska Fall Colors From the Air 2012
Highlights of flying my radio control planes around Fairbanks, home, and various points along the George Parks Highway in Alaska during peak fall colors in September 2012.
Foodie David Venable Stops By Ajax Tavern in Aspen
Get a taste for Ajax Tavern in Aspen, Colorado with QVC Host and Your Resident Foodie David Venable.
Fall Colors of Lake City, Colorado
Enjoy a relaxing exhibition of fall colors taken from the recent archives of From The High Country Photography. Watch the glorious display of golden autumn leaves of the Colorado aspen trees before they fall to the ground and winter approaches.