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autumn harbinger
After a surf along the northern Oregon coast Tuesday I found my first Chanterelles of the 2008 mushroom season:
They were exactly where I found my first patch in 2007 only 2 weeks or so earlier.
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This is welcome news.
Santa Claus 2007
Santa was good to me this year. Look what I got:
You can get one too or download mp3s here.
Chanterelle Hunting
Autumn in Oregon means many things. One of my favorites is chanterelle hunting. From the Oxford American Dictionary:
“chan•te•relle | noun. an edible woodland mushroom with a yellow funnel-shaped cap and a faint smell of apricots, found in both Eurasia and North America.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, from modern Latin cantharellus, diminutive of cantharus, from Greek kantharos, denoting a kind of drinking container.”
There’s nothing quite like picking your own chanterelles then frying them up the same day with unsalted butter, shallots plus a touch of soy sauce, sugar and creme before tossing the fresh-from-the-woods golden sauce with some pasta. Yum. I love eating chanterelles although the stumbling through the deep and dark woods might be the best part.
Buddy Miles - Them Changes
Imma huge fan of this record:

Autumn in Portland
homemade pepper sauce
Michelle and I are growing collards this year and decided to make some pepper sauce with serrano peppers and white vinegar to go with the greens. This bottle will brew for 6 weeks.
Resource Revival
Resource Revival updated their site. Check it out!
Frontside Productions
dwindling ski season
Two weeks ago Michelle and I went for one of our favorite tours on Hood. The snow’s going fast. We decided to bail on a Mt. Shasta tour due to lack of snow there. A friend who spoke to a climbing ranger said that glacial ice was already appearing on many Shasta climbs and that our favorite route, the Hotlum-Wintun, was already suncupped near 10,000 ft. Last year we skied Shasta on the 4th of July and it was fantastic. Here’s to a better winter next season in the Sierra Nevada.















