The Hollandia truffle trip, planned like a mountain route

A Hollandia truffle trip usually starts within the first hour, rises steeply, peaks around the second hour and fades over four to six hours in total. Avalon Magic Plants, the shop behind this site, rates Hollandia among the strongest truffles in its range and advises 7.5 grams, half a pack, for anyone who has not taken it before.

That shape is the reason this site plans the day as a route. You choose the height before you leave, you cannot turn back once you are on the way up, and the descent takes longer than people expect. The profile above is an illustration built from published averages, not a measurement of your trip: the same dose can feel quite different from one person or pack to the next.

How to use these pages

• Before you go covers the week before, the morning itself, what to pack and where truffles are legal.
• The stages walks through each waypoint: the wait, the ascent, the summit, the long descent and base camp.
• The strength ladder puts Hollandia next to the milder truffles in the shop, so you can pick the height that suits you.
• Sitter and hard stretches is written for the sober person who comes along, and for the moments that turn steep.
• Coming down and the day after is about the evening, sleep and the next morning.
• Route reports are three composite accounts of different routes, clearly labelled as such.

Only for a stay in the Netherlands

Fresh truffles are sold legally in the Netherlands. Psilocybin mushrooms fall under the Dutch Opium Act, the legal status of dried truffles is not settled, and in most other countries psilocybin in any form is a controlled substance. Everything on this site assumes an adult on a stay in the Netherlands, who eats the truffles there and does not take any home. The legal section lists the sources per country.