Fun guy and gal @ the fungus fair

This weekend Ashley and I hit up Fungus Fair in Girdwood. We went to the formal on Friday night and had a five course meal with each course containing a variety of wild and domestic mushrooms. We met up with some ol' friends and met some new ones. The guest speakers were as entertaining and charismatic as the lectures were informitive with local specialists Kate Mohatt (USFS), Dominique Collet (author)and visting from the east cost Lawrence Millman and author of Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Steve Trudell. We attended a workshop where we each made an Oyster mushroom log to grow over the winter lead by Ken Gill.
By Sunday we had our fill of mushrooms and Girdwood so we packed up the truck for a trip down the Kenai Peninsula to Seward. We camped along the banks of Exit Glacier River outside of Kenai Fiords National Park. The river had resently flooded and most of the surounding forest was still wet and downed woody debris piled against the shore lines made finding a spot in the dark a chalenge. By the time we woke up the next day a storm had moved in on us and the visibility was low with the clouds hanging at ~1500 feet. We bagged the climb up to the Harding Ice Field and did a short walk up to the face of Exit Glacier. It has been so much fun traveling with Ashley as she graciously drives me around. I will miss her during her travels back east to see her family and then down to Costa Rica for two months banding birds.