161: The Great Mushroom Hunt
The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast
Heather Legler
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today on the First 40 Miles, we went on our first mushroom hunt and lived to tell the tale! Today we’ll share the treasures we found in the forest and we’ll share what we learned. Then, our trip guide from the Oregon Mycological Society, Leah, tells her story of how she entered the world of mushrooms. And we have some fun audio from the mushroom identification session at the end of our hunt.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 161 of the first 40 miles. |
| 0:05.6 | If you're new to backpacking, |
| 0:07.3 | or if you're hopelessly in love with someone |
| 0:09.5 | who wants you to love backpacking, |
| 0:11.6 | then this podcast is for you. We'll talk about the |
| 0:14.8 | essential how to lighten your load and how to make the most of your time on the |
| 0:19.9 | trail I'm your host Heather Legler and I'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles. |
| 0:28.0 | Today on the first 40 miles we went on our first mushroom hunt and lived to tell the tale. |
| 0:36.0 | Today we'll share the treasures we found in the forest and what we learned. |
| 0:40.0 | Then our trip guide, Leah, will share her story of how she entered the world of mushrooms. |
| 0:47.0 | And we have some great audio from the mushroom identification session at the end of our hunt. All this and that's about it. Today on the first 40 miles. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey guess what Heather before we jump into the mushroom hunting episode, |
| 1:06.0 | December 16, 2014, that was the first episode of the first 40 miles podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | Oh my goodness, these things take me by surprise sometimes. |
| 1:15.0 | We're coming up on our three-year anniversary. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:19.0 | So anyway, congratulations. |
| 1:21.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:22.0 | Mushroom hunting has been on our family's bucket list for a long time. |
| 1:27.1 | We first kind of discovered the world of mushrooms when we moved to Oregon about four years ago. |
| 1:32.8 | And one of our goals when we first moved here |
| 1:34.9 | was to take a hike every single month. |
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