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What’s Your Favorite Mushroom?

Mushrooms love this wet, west coast weather and with our Nature Mentor Ludovic Le Renard, we’ll learn where to find dozens of BC’s mushroom species nestled in the forest of the UBC campus, and how to safely identify these fabulous fungi. We’ll collect our own specimens for further study when we return to our starting point. We may even discover our favourite mushroom!

Ludo is passionate about fungi, from the largest conks on trees to the microscopic moulds in our fridges. Ludo is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UBC where he is researching what fungi have been up to in the last 150 millions of years.

Registration will be limited to 8 families. If you are registered for the North Shore Mushroom Walk and Origami Explorer Day on Nov. 7, we ask that you don’t register for this event to give more of our families a chance to learn about mushrooms this fall. If there is room in this Explorer Day by Friday Oct. 22, we’ll open it up to everyone.  Register here.

Meeting Location: The UBC Flag Pole on Crescent Road next to the Chan Centre on the UBC Campus.
Parking: The closest parking lot to the Flag Pole is the Rose Garden Parkade; payment required.

Public Transit: Many buses go to the UBC Exchange and the Flag Pole is about a 10 minute walk from there.
See maps below for more information.

Dress: Dress for the weather, and wear shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty or wet. Depending on the temperature, gloves might be useful as well.

Bring: A container for mushroom specimens, a size equivalent to a medium or large Tupperware. A butter knife or something similar to dig out the base of the mushrooms.

Weather: We will go rain or shine, but will cancel in the case of torrential rain.

Bathroom facilities can be found at the nearby Museum of Anthropology.

Covid 19: Masks outdoors are currently optional but preferred. Please stay home if you’re not feeling well.