Cortinarius

1/3/2014

I was hiking with my mother in January and spotted this series of mushrooms along the trail. 

I didn't do anything about it for a very long time but now, almost 7 months later, I decided to swing back in and check on my Project Noah post and I found that someone had commented on it.

This person suggested that it's a Cortinarius species, possibly along the line of Cortinarius semisanguineus. Looking up both of those specimens, I feel as if that's an accurate assumption but I don't have enough information on it to develop the id any further. Maybe if I run into another, somewhere down the road, I'll come back and ID it. For now, however, I'm letting the case go cold.