I hope most of you seeing this notice will be at Sequanota this weekend — but, if not, here's a consolation prize! (Daniel Berman will also lead a walk this weekend, in Rock Creek Park.)

This walk will explore some of the fungi in the Bacon Ridge Natural Area, a fabulous tract of 1000+ acres of mature forests located in Anne Arundel County. We'll likely see amanitas, boletes, russulas, lactarius and more. This is an identification-only walk. At our walk along another Bacon Ridge trail last weekend, we identified more than 40 species, so let's see if we top that number!

September 5 happens to be the birthday of noted mycologist John Cage (even better known as a composer and artist), so we'll call this the John Cage Mushroom Walk.

We'll meet at the Hawkins Road entrance, where there is ample parking along the road. (There are several Bacon Ridge entrances — make sure you're headed to the right one!) 

We'll walk for 2.4 miles along Box Turtle Trail, which is moderately hilly in places. There is a portable restroom at the trailhead. In a few stretches of the trail, we may not have a cell phone signal.

See the destination here: Apple Maps or Google Maps.

Register here: https://mawdc.org/event-6827612