2010 was the Year of the Mushroom for me. I became intensely curious about them and their life cycle. I never picked them or ate them, but enjoyed sketching or photographing them. The sketches on these pages of the different aspects of mushrooms were based on a mushroom guidebook, a heavy tome I didn't want to carry while hiking. For more info on this, please visit www.thehikeguy.com/2011/01/04/500-moleskine-miles/