RHH's photos with the keyword: wallace falls

Stropharia ambigua means the "Questionable Stropharia" but why it would be called that I do not know. This example, like the other mushrooms I've been posting recently was photographed on a hike in Wallace Falls State Park last autumn. It is claimed that eaten it tastes like old leaves, but its fitness for consumption is questionable (and perhaps the reason for its name). Some list it as poisonous.

These are about as much as can be seen of the Upper Falls at Wallace Falls State Park. The falls drop 240 feet (71 meters) in five tiers, but most of the drop is not visible from the trail. This photo was taken from the viewpoint near the end of the trail.

At the beginning of the Wallace Falls trail there is a short side trail which follows a creek to a cascade (it really doesn't qualify as a waterfall) known as Small Falls. This is a part of the cascade photographed in the autumn with an old piece of Western Red Cedar, lots of moss and some leaves from the Bigleaf Maple.

These are more mushrooms from Wallace Falls State Park and an autumn hike there. This, I believe, is Pholiota squarrosoides, the Scaly Pholiota. Once thought to be edible, it is now considered poisonous, especially if consumed with alcohol.

These were growing on a bank at Wallace Falls State Park and were one of the many fungi and mushrooms we found when we hiked in the park last autumn. This is Alloclavaria purpurea, or Clavaria purpurea, also known as Purple Fairy Club.

These red-banded Polypores are very common in our forests and are found on dead and dying trees, in this case on a stump. Often when we find them they are "sweating" and I have never been able to find an explanation of this phenomenon. The weather does not seem to have anything to do with it, or the humidity and I have no idea what the cause might be, nor do I know if the liquid is water or something else, not having dared to taste it. These were photographed in Wallace Falls State Park last autumn.

These are the Middle Falls of the Wallace River, often referred to simply as Wallace Falls. They drop 367 feet (81 m) in three tiers and can be seen from the Skykomish Valley. These are two of the tiers and the photo was taken last autumn on hike in the park where they are found.

This is actually only one part of the Lower Falls which drop 212 feet (65 meters) in a series of five cascades. The photo was taken in Wallace Falls State Park on a 2013 autumn hike there with friends.

The photo was taken on a hike last autumn at Wallace Falls State Park. The area is noteworthy for its beautiful series of falls and cascades all on the Wallace River. These are the Middle Falls which drop a total of 367 feet (112 meters) in a series of cascades, this the tallest at 265 feet (81 meters). As you may have gathered we were away for several days in Spokane. It was an interesting trip. We found the last of the native orchids of Washington, one we had not seen before, and drove through the devastated area left by Washington's largest ever wildfire, the Carlton Complex fire.