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Coast to coast Fall Mushroom Tour 2019 (part 1 of 3)
Our Fall Mushroom Tour 2019 saw us cover more than 7,500 miles of the USA in search of mushrooms. The first of three, this blog covers the outbound leg of our tour from Washington to Pennsylvania.
Don't look now, but there's a humongous fungus among us
On October 9 we headed out for a 3,444-mile foray across the northern U.S., from west to east, to visit national forests and see the mushroom sites. (Along the way my son-in-law Mike and I also stopped at 8 coffee roasters and a half dozen brew pubs. Mike is a true coffee connoisseur, and the daily caffeine overdose was a small price to pay for his extremely helpful participation in my schemes.) First stop on our seven-day itinerary was the Malheur National Forest in northeast Oregon, home of the world's largest single living organism, an Armillaria ostoyae (Honey Mushroom) infestation in...
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- angel wings
- Armillaria ostoyae
- blonde morels
- Blue Chanterelle
- boletes
- Calvatia gigantea
- chanterelles
- Chicken of the Woods
- children
- Clackamas River
- Club Mushroom
- Coltricia Perennis
- Coral Mushroom
- Crimini Mushrooms
- cultivation
- Enoki
- Exercise
- fall mushrooms
- forest safety
- geocaching
- Gifford Pinchot National Forest
- golden chanterelles
- Gyromitra esculenta
- H-Mart
- hedgehogs
- Honey Mushroom
- Humongous Fungus
- hunting
- King Boletes
- King Trumpet
- lion's mane
- Lobster Mushroom
- lobsters
- Malheur National Forest
- maple logs
- matsutake
- morels
- mushroom hunt
- mushroom worker's lung
- national forests
- national parks
- Oregon
- Oyster
- Oyster Mushrooms
- permits
- polypores
- Porcinis
- private property
- Puffball Mushrooms
- Radagast
- Ramaria
- Shaggy Parasols
- Snowbank Morels
- spring mushrooms
- state parks
- straw logs
- Tiger Mountain
- White Button Mushrooms
- White Chanterelles
- White Shimeji
- yellow morels
- Zeller's Boletes
