2014 Berry Thread

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2014 Berry Thread

Post by mcds » July 5th, 2014, 12:29 pm

Not prime season yet, but it's nearing ...

Bell Creek Trail: Savored a few early-season but ripe salmonberries, thimbleberries, and huckleberries.

Tanner Road: A few early-season but ripe native blackberries, raspberries, and thimbleberries, and rewarding lungfuls (repeatedly) of a solitary Lewis's mock-orange, Philadelphus lewisii

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by -Q- » July 5th, 2014, 7:54 pm

Ate some tasty Salmonberries at the start of the Starway trail a couple of weeks back. Both orange and red berries. Yum :P

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by mcds » July 6th, 2014, 12:55 pm

Mmmm, long live the Salmonberry.

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by mattisnotfrench » July 6th, 2014, 9:11 pm

Huckleberries and blueberries were just getting started in the Bull of the Woods this past weekend. There should be a bumper crop in a few weeks...mmmm. There were enough for a tasty and much-needed snack.
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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by Double Tree » July 7th, 2014, 4:06 pm

Yes, lots of small green berries at Bull of the Woods. I believe they are purple when ripe, there. I started at BOW trailhead and went into Big Slide Lake over Saturday night. There will be plenty to pick along that route.

Matt where abouts were you?

Noticed on Friday that there are red berries ripe in the gorge (Mult-Wah) -- if there is legal picking there.

Kelly

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by adamschneider » July 10th, 2014, 8:03 am

I was on Juniper Ridge in the Dark Divide the other day, and while I didn't find any fruit, I did notice that almost every square foot of the landscape is covered in wild strawberry flowers. In a few weeks, the strawberries might be epic — assuming the birds and bears and goats don't beat you to them.

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by kepPNW » July 10th, 2014, 3:16 pm

adamschneider wrote:I was on Juniper Ridge in the Dark Divide the other day, and while I didn't find any fruit, I did notice that almost every square foot of the landscape is covered in wild strawberry flowers.
That's what we saw on the upper reaches of Coldwater Ridge, last Saturday, too.
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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by retired jerry » July 10th, 2014, 3:18 pm

I ate a couple blackberries today. In Portland.

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by Grannyhiker » July 11th, 2014, 12:03 pm

If you can't wait for the wild kind, or you didn't find any, the Fuji Farms fruit stand at the corner of 242nd (Hogan) and Cherry Park Road has blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and marionberries--all domestic, of course. No business interest here, just the source of my pigging out at this time of year.

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Re: 2014 Berry Thread

Post by retired jerry » July 11th, 2014, 12:36 pm

There's a farm stand on S.W. Multnomah in Multnomah.

Blueberries will be gone soon.

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