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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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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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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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The Drought Is Over! Here’s Your Mid-October Report for the Puget Sound Region
Mushrooms are now to be had in the forests near Mt. Rainier. (Not in the national park, unfortunately … you can’t hunt there. But in the national forests like Gifford Pinchot, learn the licensing and hunting regulations and get out there!) Continue reading
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Boletes: The Bacon of the Mushroom World
PJ is a master chef and couldn’t wait for me to let him loose in my kitchen to see what he could do with those Boletes (mostly Admirable Boletes, and also some Slippery Jacks). Continue reading
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Bingo! Bountiful Baskets of Beautiful Boletes!
We were looking for Golden Chanterelles, but what we found were Boletes … bunches of beautiful Boletes! My chef friend was quite excited about this “bacon of the mushroom world.” Continue reading
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Lots of Interesting Shrooms for the First Big Fall Hunt of 2016
On our first big hunt of the Fall 2016 in Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest, lots of fascinating mushrooms were just waiting to be found. Continue reading
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Getting Out There, Part 4: What to Hunt for
ow to prepare for your hunt. Now it’s time to get down to brass tacks. What should you hunt for? Continue reading