Nat Turner went hiking December 8, 2012 7 miles 1,750 feet gained

Cape Horn Loop

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Started out in fleece, rain gear on about 10 minutes in.
Clouds everywhere, Archer was as far as I could see to the east, Bosterson was lost in the clouds over on Table. Totally soaked, the road walk back to the car sucked. good lap, nice alternative to the typical oregon walks. (devils,angels,MF,triple)

Trail Talk

Nat Turner · December 9, 2012

BTW - That was the biggest worm i have ever seen in the Northwest! Not a snake, but prob 18"-24". as long as my corn snake at home, but much thinner.

Rare Palouse great white worm? it just might be.

Just my luck, the rare fauna turns out to be a worm. a huge banded worm.

Nat Turner · December 11, 2012

Spent another 15 mins looking up the giant worm.

A yard long and as big around as a man's pinkie finger, the giant Palouse earthworm is albino-pale, can burrow 15 feet deep and smells like a lily.

The recent discovery of one of the scarce giants has energized entomologists and soil scientists, who fear it may be near extinction.

"It was very exciting. Just to find something we thought, perhaps, was gone is a great thing," University of Idaho soils scientist Jodi Johnson-Maynard said.

The native giant earthworms have been found by scientists only four times since the 1970s. None had been seen since the 1980s until Idaho graduate student Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon dug one up while studying other earthworm species in May 2005.

Anyone ever seen one of these things?

http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-15221-worms-and-politicians.html

http://www.capitalpress.com/idaho/AP-Giant-Palouse-earthworm-042710

Chris · March 17, 2013

WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT???