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September 20, 2004
Ronan Barn
We drove up to the NinePipe Wilderness Preserve. Through the buffalo range, onto the Blackfeet Reservation, where Boris had bought a huge old barn and some land, and converted it into an excellent shop and home.
The area was stunning, a valley butted up against the looming Mission Mountains. His barn was amazing, huge huge huge. Inside was an excellent fully-appointed woodshop, composting toilet, an office, and upstairs had an apartment with kitchen, living room, and bedrooms.
We spent a lot of the day creating a loft for the van. A more detailed entry will need to cover this fantastic piece of furniture. Boris created a red curry, and we spent the evening catching up and generally enjoying good times.
Out there, too, the mushrooms were fruiting like mad. Campestrus were all over, also found some small death angel amanitas. Shaggy manes, meadow agaricus (sadly rotton), and thousands of LBMs. Not to mention boletes, puffballs, and hygrocoybes. These were all within about 100' of the barn.
Posted by dokodemo at September 20, 2004 12:37 PM