I drove up to Smithers with my sister Dorothea for Thanksgiving.
We were lucky to have 2 days of decent weather. On Saturday we hiked in Call Lake Provincial Park. We hiked up to a ridge with great views of Hudson Bay Mountain to the West and the Babine Mountains in the other direction.
Hudson Bay Mountain in background.
The next day we did our traditional hike up the Seymour Ridge Nature Trail to pick wild cranberries for Thanksgiving dinner.
Considering how frosty it's been there were still some mushrooms to be seen. We collected some fresh looking but frozen hedgehog mushrooms which later made a tasty appetizer and also saw these club fungi:
(About 2" high)
We also spotted this,
the featured poop of the day! (Martin or some other member of the weasel family, perhaps?)
We also heard an owl call, which we think was a boreal owl, followed by the sounds of mobbing chickadees and nuthatches.
The cranberry harvest has been better, but we did collect about a cup of berries.
Picking cranberries in the bog
which we ate with our excellent turkey dinner.
Dorothea and Cousin Ken tuck in
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