This hike is for people who want to know more about identification and foraging mushrooms. We’ll organize the guided tour to the west of Ottawa in the place, where mushroom foraging is allowed. The exact place will be defined in few days, depending on the evaluation of mushroom availability there.
Eagle's Nest Lookout is one of the most famous places around the Ottawa area with a beautiful view of lakes and forest. First, we plan to visit the Eagles Nest lookout that to admire saturated fall colors and the beauty of this place. After that, we'll explore the Calabogie areas suitable for mushroom collection.
Recent rains have awakened the dormant mycelium in many species of fungi. The diversity of mushrooms is so high, that it is easy to make mistakes in their identification. Our next guided hike is organized in the Ottawa area for those who just start to pick up mushrooms and for those who already have some experience of mushroom hunting.
The guided tour is organized for those who like to explore the area of Gatineau Park and for those who want to admire the autumn trees in fall colors.
This is one of the last fall guided tours to explore fungi and mushrooms in Ottawa Valley. We'll start our excursion with a visit to Eagle’s Nest Lookout. After that, we’ll explore several places in Calabogie areas to find the late fall mushrooms.
We invite families with kids for a spring hike in Gatineau Park. We'll meet near the Visitor Center of the Gatineau Park and then move to P6 (Parking 6) near Mackenzie King Estate. Kids will have a chance to explore the ruins and to know about the history of this place. And then, we'll visit a waterfall at a distance of around 500-700 m from parking, stopping that to listen to birds and watch animal tracks. This guided hike will be in English and Russian.
We organize our next guided tour to Purdon Conservation Area with a famous colony of magnificent Showy Lady's Slippers, which usually bloom at the end of June.
High Lonesome Nature Reserve is located not far from Pakenham. The reserve has rich biodiversity and is interesting for visits in the different seasons of the year.
This is a guided nature tour to explore Forêt-la-Blanche Ecological Reserve, located in southern Quebec not far from Gatineau. This area is known for its rich diversity of undisturbed trees, amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, many interesting plants, and mushrooms.
This is travel for people who like hiking and nature exploration. First, we'll visit the Eagle Nest area to see the environment from a peak. Later, we'll visit several areas around that to see plants, flowers, fungi, and mushrooms in the forests around.
This is a guided tour for those who want to know more about mushrooms in Ottawa Valley. The middle of July is a time when the first summer edible mushrooms appear in forests. We hope to see several species of chanterelles and we'll try to learn how to identify edible and poisonous species of mushrooms.
Early August is a time when the first bird migrants start to move to the south: ruby-throated hummingbirds are among those migrants. This is also a time when you can observe some tiny amphibians (spring peepers and grey tree-frog) hunting insects from tall perennial plants... If you are interested to see the changes in nature after bird breeding season, join our guided tour to High Lonesome Nature Reserve, located near Pakenham in Ottawa Valley.
