- 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.
- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
- A solar collector to heat water.
- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- 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.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
- Drolma king bolete searching.
- Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Boletus edulis group seen above Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Neottia acuminata orchis,
- Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods