A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
A solar collector to heat water.
Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.
Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
Drolma king bolete searching.
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
Spathularia flava, a common fungus in East Tibet
An accident. No insurance cards out there. It has to be settled right there. An hour later a deal was struck and the road opened.
Searching for porcini