mushroom obsession
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2023 Fall Mushroom Forays Announced
Great news! A research foray this week has revealed that many desirable mushrooms are now going in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. So we are now planning specific foray dates and hope you will be a part. Continue reading
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2022 Fall Mushroom Update
Fall 2022 was a mushroom season to forget in the Pacific Northwest. This post chronicles my misadventures. Continue reading
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Morel Recap — Spring 2022
There were lots of Blonde and Fire Morels to be found this Spring in the wilderness (Schneider Springs burn area) east of Mt. Rainier. Continue reading
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Getting Ready for Fall Forays at the Foothills Southwest of Mt. Rainier
Mushrooms were sparse in a research foray for the Fall 2022 season in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. However, I made a new friend … Continue reading
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Fall Forays Are Happening Now in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest!
If you haven’t yet joined a MushroomObsession free foray, you will enjoy the experience. Contact me for instructions. Continue reading
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Coast to Coast Fall Mushroom Tour 2019
Accompanied by my son-in-law Mike for a good portion of it, I was privileged last month to launch Mushroom Obsession’s Fall 2019 Coast-to-Coast Mushroom Tour! Here’s a quick report of the outbound leg (Washington to Pennsylvania) Continue reading
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Don’t Look Now, But There’s a Humongous Fungus Among Us!
First stop on our seven-day National Mushroom Tour was the Malheur National Forest in northeast Oregon, home of the world’s largest single living organism, an Armillaria ostoyae (Honey Mushroom) infestation in the pine forest Continue reading
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Fall Season Still Going Strong: A Cornucopia of Shrooms!
Every week I’m out there (on the slopes of Mt. Rainier) hunting this fall, there seems to be a different variety of exotic mushrooms predominating. At first (about a month or so ago) it was Lobsters, loads of Lobsters. Then shortly after that the Chanterelles started, but didn’t come in as strong as usual; but… Continue reading
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Fall Mushroom Heaven!
Fall is our favorite time of the year here in the Pacific Northwest … because the weather is nice, the colors great, but mostly because of the mushrooms! They are springing up everywhere. Recent forays have yielded lots of Boletes (Slippery Jacks and Admirables), Golden Chanterelles, Lobsters, Puffballs, and others. Continue reading
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First Fall Foray of 2018: Smoked Lobsters
It’s August 21. It’s warm and dry and the skies are filled with smoke from British Colombia (and some Washington) wildfires, but we had a decent rain at the beginning of last week, and I’ve been reading reports of lobster mushrooms appearing in Oregon. So I decided to take a few hours off today and… Continue reading