Giant mushroom find makes Thanksgiving tastier for Vancouver couple
VANCOUVER — Olya Kutsiuruba and David Swab of Vancouver had just spent a day doing what they love — mushroom picking — and their baskets were full of the day’s bounty, when Kutsiuruba says her husband started lagging behind.
It was late Thursday afternoon as they were walking down a hilly slope in the Sea to Sky corridor between North Vancouver and Squamish, when Swab “let out a shriek” and started backing away from a bush.
“I thought he was bitten by something or he saw a bear,” Kutsiuruba said in an interview.
“I ran over and he told me to peek under the underbrush, and I looked through the leaves gently and there sat the most massive mushroom.”