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Reply #20 - Aug 13th, 2015 at 2:44pm
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I'm also a plant nut; I'm bringing my wildflower id guide, fruits and berries book, mushrooming book, and wild-edibles guide. I'm hoping for many happy hours of learning new plants!
  
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Reply #21 - Aug 13th, 2015 at 3:04pm
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Honeybees wrote on Aug 13th, 2015 at 2:44pm:
I'm also a plant nut; I'm bringing my wildflower id guide, fruits and berries book, mushrooming book, and wild-edibles guide. I'm hoping for many happy hours of learning new plants!


That's a good way to spend your time, but I hope your not planning to try eating new items for the first time while solo and in a semi-remote area?

A bad "experience" on a solo trip could turn into something life threatening real quickly.
  
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Reply #22 - Aug 17th, 2015 at 12:49am
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GOOD. POINT. I'll be careful out there! I had been an avid, but probably too casual wilderness muncher until I recently id-ed a really lovely plant along my driveway I'd been wondering about for a long time... water hemlock, seriously poisonous. And I had just pressed some of it's flowers for decoration! It's a good reminder that the wilderness is rather indifferent to my survival.
  
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