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Anyone else out there like to hunt mushrooms on your trips? Just found this guy growing here at home today. I'm in northwest Washington State.
Mushroom hunting
- Thread starter Matt Hixson
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My daughter's got a guide for mushrooms for me for my birthday to help identify what I was seeing on trips. Informational interest, not gastronomical.
We used to find morels all over when I was a kid here in Ohio, but nobody lets you wander their land any more, and a lot of the farm woodlots are now subdivision...
We used to find morels all over when I was a kid here in Ohio, but nobody lets you wander their land any more, and a lot of the farm woodlots are now subdivision...
Lots of Chanterelles for the picking in the mountains above Taos. Many more for photographing.
Enthusiast III
Im jealous, living in Reno makes mushrooms a bit hard to find :(
Grew up and hunted in the coos bay, Oregon area and had a spot that could pick a few grociery bags full of Chanterelles. Man i miss having fresh mushrooms :(
Grew up and hunted in the coos bay, Oregon area and had a spot that could pick a few grociery bags full of Chanterelles. Man i miss having fresh mushrooms :(
hunted morels around Petosky, MI. they were huge!
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Those were a staple growing up. Venison and chanterelles every fall, which was a nice break after summer of Salmon day after day.
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Lots of beautiful chantrelles here in the Santa Cruz Mountains if you know where to look. We packed out a 50 lb rice bag full of morels four years back at a killer spot off a four wheel drive track in the Tahoe area the year after a big series of fires. We dried a ton and had killer soups and casseroles for months. We are always in the hunt for ones we can identify properly.
NCGRIZ
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I have a couple of places I know to get morels in northern Nevada. I also like the puffball mushrooms as well. When I lived in Oregon, ruffed grouse and morels were our delicacy. Roll the birds in flour and fry them and the morels in the same pan of butter.
