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Morel Recap -- Spring 2022
We had an awesome time in May, June and July hunting morels in the wilds east of Mt. Rainier. This blog gives the details.
Getting ready for fall forays at the foothills southwest of Mt. Rainier
Summarizing the results of our first exploratory foray into the foothills southwest of Mt. Rainier for the Fall 2022 mushroom hunting season.
Fall Forays are happening now in the Gifford Pinchot!
Here's how to join one of our free Fall 2021 mushroom forays in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest (about 75 minutes south of Puyallup, WA).
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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- children
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- forest safety
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- hunting
- King Boletes
- King Trumpet
- lion's mane
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- lobsters
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- Oyster Mushrooms
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- private property
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- Snowbank Morels
- Sparassis crispa
- spring mushrooms
- state parks
- straw logs
- Tiger Mountain
- White Button Mushrooms
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- White Shimeji
- yellow morels
- Zeller's Boletes
