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User_Name: DONT TELL=germany17 Date: Friday, July 25, 2008 Time: 08:34:49 PM
i love boletus. i cook them in with bacon, sausage, potatoes, onions and eggs in camp. yeah thats good.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Friday, July 25, 2008 Time: 04:52:48 PM
Just started finding lots of beautiful boletes...my faves! My spot is 2 weeks behind last year and the year before.
User_Name: forest harvest Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Time: 03:16:13 PM
Hello everyone., The news from New England is rain, rain and then some more rain. and I forgot ! The forecast of course more rain , It has not stopped in 3 or 4 days., (what a difference from last years drought,) good for mushrooms tough;. if only it would stop enough for me to start picking,, even my dog does not want to be out.,we are all wet and watching for lighting and tornadoes ,in some areas the trees look like broken toothpicks. I am coop in., no complaining, we really needed this rain. although plenty of property damage., By for now and best of luck to all.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Time: 06:38:44 PM
Ok, who has got a clue as to who is dumping the MEDICAL WASTE in the National Forest. With so many of you Mushroom hunters out there, you'd think someone has saw something odd happening and could make some easy money in a cash reward for being a Mcgruff in stopping this kind of crime in our public forests.
User_Name: shaggy Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Time: 08:21:34 PM
HEY RJ, this is matt from downtown.. why not send some chanties this way!! halfwaytome@hotmail.com
User_Name: rj Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Time: 12:38:02 PM
looks like a early season starting,found some pines in bc.lobsters are here too.little bit of every-thing.chantes galore.see ya in the patch.started dry`en
User_Name: kidmorel Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 02:29:05 PM
pro picker, me thinks your a little late on your pro picking advice for idaho and montana morels, wasnt the subject anyhow - washington was, as for out of state permits and licenses you need 1, you wouldnt know an illegal picker even if they stole your mushrooms
User_Name: Pro Picker Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 12:11:59 PM
All this talk about in state and out of state permits is a bit ridiculous. The National Forest is funded by federal tax dollars not state tax dollars. In state residents do not contribute a single penny more to the health of OUR forests. No "personal use" picker is abiding by the 50 pound a year limit either. If they find over 50 pounds in a year they continue right on picking. I see a lot of sliced in half dried morels for sale online by "personal use" pickers. How can a "personal use picker" be indignant that there are others picking the same burn as they are when they didn't pay the feds anything for the thousands of dollars worth of morels they are picking? Some people on this board have let thier greed for more mushrooms get a bit out of control. There are plenty of mushrooms to go around and anybody who puts in a little effort could pick over 30 pounds of morels in either Idaho or Montana right now. Some of you may want to watch what you wish for as we may soon find all burns closed to all types of pickers. What a great country we will have then, with every shroom picked illegally.
User_Name: Pro Picker Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 12:09:01 PM
User_Name: Rocky Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 09:13:23 AM
Hangtime,I am not sure how many people were involved but there were quite a few.As far as I know it hasn't happened since.
User_Name: need to know Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 08:39:35 AM
Chris, what about the other foray in October to MSH...you still planning on doing that one? With 20 of your best friends?
User_Name: Hangtime Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 08:29:45 AM
Rocky, do you know how many people were in that group??I heard a lot of the locals say they were getting worried that this would get out of hand!I also heard stories of the food bank bringing food to the mushroom camps that year.
User_Name: DONT TELL=germany17 Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 06:47:08 AM
WAS UP ON ADAMS THIS WEEKEND. NO MORE BOLETUS IN MY PATCHES. NOT EVEN AN OLD BLOW OUT OR SLIMER. WAS HOPEING FOR A POTATOE, SAUSAGE, BACON, ONION, BOLETUS AND EGG CAMPFIRE OMLET. MY FAVORITE FOR THE BOLETUS. THE ONLY MUSHROOMS I HAD I BROUGHT. BUT YOU CANT EAT THOSE ALL THE TIME :) BEAUTIFUL TRIP. HAD A DEER WALK RIGHT IN OUR CAMP @ 1 A.M. TO LICK MY RIB EYE STEAK PAN. 8 FEET FROM US. AND OUR NEIGHBOR HAD A DOG AS BIG AS A DEER. GOOD TRIP GOOD TIMES. WAITING TO SEE HOW THE MATSIES WILL DO. I WANT PICTURES AND MORE TO EAT. I FOUND THAT FLASH FRYING THEM AND THEN DIRECTLY FREEZING THEN ARE GOOD WHEN YOU WANT THEM. ILL MAKE A RIB EYE AND PULL OUT A BAG AND FINISH FRYING EM UP. REAL GOOD.
User_Name: Sniper Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 05:13:18 AM
As sundanz and others have said there needs to be a license for residents and non. With a limited number of non resident permits available. Residents should have first shot at their own states resources. It should be illegal for Non residents to guide others nons on forays!
User_Name: forest harvest Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 02:52:54 AM
Chris, has previously stated you seem to be completely though less, how can you say that somebody posted a critical statement behind your back ? When this is a PUBLIC FORUM. and then calling us cowards, I sincerely hope you rethink your actions.I know mushroom hunting it's a difficult profession, since I am one of them , however we must respect the wilderness which provides us with so much , sincerely Leo.
User_Name: Sniper Date: Monday, July 21, 2008 Time: 12:51:26 AM
Chris getting rich or not you are still profitting by taking groups of people on forays in somebody elses state. Why not take your forays and camera crews out in your own state? It is cowardly to send throngs of people swarming to rape the natural resources of a state you dont even live in. I have only been picking a few years but one of the first things i learned was the code that passing knowledge along is fine but dont go advertizing to the world that mushrooms are some cash crop just waiting to be pilaged. What you are doing is sad but the saddest part is you doing to other peoples areas. If i were you i would be scared to go out you have angered quite a few people. Your site is great I learned a lot from it. I'm not sure what all the talk about improper picking technique is about. Anyone can see on your site that you lecture everyone who sends pictures in of mushrooms that are pulled out by the roots. If you walked into someone else's yard and started picking things from thier garden you would expect some ruffled feathers. But charging a few van loads of strangers to come pick from your neighbors garden? You cant honestly say you didn't know you would piss off 90% of the shroomers in the state. I'll CC your email so you cant call me a coward.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 11:16:41 PM
Rocky i hear you -- I was a licensed guide for a while and licensed was all i could afford to be, after i submited my proposal to the forest service on what i wanted to guide for they created road blocks for my idea - the liability insurance alone, was to much that they said i needed for my services, so i pooo canned the idea, Well I happen to know a bit about red tape and what it really takes to be a legal service for paying customers in our national forests and its not any kinda permit or paper you can get just over night or one visit to the ranger station. I know several other licensed guides and they must deal with alot besides a permit on a piece of paper, I had heard all guides are required now to have CPR cards along with loads of other attributes for the title in washington, it is lengthy to be a guide now , im not sure of all the requirments now but you can bet there is a list.
User_Name: Rocky Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 09:22:41 PM
Just thought that I'd better clarify my post.I am in no way saying that Chris and August are not running thier foray in an ethical way.They very well could be,I don't know.
User_Name: Rocky Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 08:57:45 PM
Yep,they would have to be nuts.But there are gullible people out there. In 1992 a buyer ran an add in the paper.For a thousand dollar fee he would teach you how to pick. He assured these people that they could easy could make a thousand a day.There was a lot of people that fell for his deal.To make a long story short it was a bust year for pines and a lot of people were stranded ,broke ,and hungry. The buyer made thousands.(This happened in Canada)There will always be people that will try and use the industry to profit even if it's not ethical.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 08:35:50 PM
hey steve i was up on hood last week and dry as a bone,where i was, the hucks are lookin real good tho, worked all day today on a kitchen, decked the floor, rocked the walls and ceiling set base cabinets and hung the uppers, ready for tile now
Rocky - myco club forays dont worry me they use every bit of etiquette and always demonstrate and teach the proper ways to harvest mushrooms and they dont take more than their daily bag limit, a pay foray, for out of state people, I would bet they would take more than the daily bag limit and doubt theyd have time to get individual permits - airport taxi please take me to the ranger station before it closes, hurry up iv only got 2 days to pick before i fly back to kansas - my guess no permits for the foray - a bad way to conduct a buisiness, way i see it no 1 would pay big bucks to only take home 6 lbs of mushrooms on a free permit and gettting a commercial permit to only pick 2 days, that person would be nuts in my book
User_Name: Steve from Oregon Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 07:39:31 PM
Sundanzkid,
Sucks about the price for your wood. Everything is going up and most people are making less double whamee. I looked up on hood for chanterelles where we went last year new it would be to early no sine of any growth yet. Went to another area still some snow patches the huckleberries should be very plump this year. I'm hoping the pines benifit from all the snow melt off too.
User_Name: snapzilla Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:57:03 PM
Old "two buckets" had to shake a leg when he saw the cameramen, mule train and Auggy coming up the rattlesnake creek trail. Said they had fire in their eyes and the wind at their back...
User_Name: Rocky Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:56:05 PM
Sundanzkid,I am not saying that it's ok to charge people to go picking...but if thier stupid enough to pay ,certain people WILL try and cash in on it. Personally I would hate to go to my patch and find a foray group in it.But as I said it's a dog eat dog world so we might as well get used of it.
User_Name: Chris Matherly Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:32:40 PM
If anyone has something to say to me, please email me directly at chrismathe@aol.com. I certainly did not mean to cause a big stir, I want to get along with everyone. Some of you have obviously misunderstood what is going on here. There will be no laws broken on a foray. The money charged is to cover expenses. Do you have any idea at all how costly it is to hire an outfitter to take you back 5-10 miles and set up camp and cook for 10 people? Travel expenses, car rental, etc etc. If anyone thinks I am getting rich, then I truly hope your thought become true, because this is my first year doing mainly mushroom events and things, as I have been a contractor for 25 years, self employed, and I can assure you that I am not even able to pay my bills, and have had to go back to doing a few contracting jobs again just recently. I am thrilled to guide and teach people how to hunt mushrooms, and I am somewhat of a chef, and enjoy teaching people how to make exotic mushroom dishes. I am simply trying to survive, like all of you, and have put my heart into my website for years now, as a hobby, and my efforts have shown through, that is why my site gets so many hits. It is my love for mushrooms that drives me, not a greedy profit margin, I only want to survive, and had hopes that I could make it, but despite my best efforts, and a bad economy, it is not looking like I am able to soley rely on my mushroom club for survival. There was no exchange of Money between me and the Travel Channel, or the History Channel. I think you all need to rethink your thoughts and not condem someone or judge someone when you don't know the story at all. Jumping to conclusions and making accusations behind someone's back is shameful. To ease everyones tension, there will NOT be a trip in August to Rattlesnake. A. Steinborn has been very good to me, and is a great person. Do not speak badly of him in any manner. He understands my point of view entirely, that is why he has been willing to help as much as he has. Again I say, send me an email directly if you have something to say, don't be a coward and leave a derogatroy remark behind someones back. Thanks Matsiman for your informative and important website to buyers and pickers.
-Chris M
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:32:31 PM
CASH in - guess your saying it is perfectly ok to charge folks money and cash in on wilderness farming -- as far as i know and tell if im wrong no picking in a wilderness no hunting no stock piling rations no motorized doohickies, goin on a pack trip is one thing and usually only 10 heart beats are allowed in any wilderness - sorry August but Chris has put you in a very bad way. IM sure there is alot of show n tell, but think before you plant the word wilderness. there are rules out there and many watch and listen unfortunitly too many break them rules
User_Name: Rocky Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:12:30 PM
What's going on with August & Chris is called free enterprise.It's a dog eat dog world we live in.With the pines being as worthless as they are does it really matter?I agree that proper harvesting techniques should be taught and certainly no garbage should be left in the bush! I also think that August is taking all the flak for the ones that put him up to this.The mushroom industry is in a huge mess and I guess these guys are just trying to find a different way to cash in on it.The whole situation is pretty sad.
User_Name: Forest harvest Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 01:01:04 PM
Hello folks; It seems that August and Chris forays have started a wasps nest attack., personally I am conflicted about the idea., It does create an ethical and moral dilemma., however I am ready to give August the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he did not think things trough, and the anger that his actions have provoked., but also much of this anger and resentment seem to have long roots ., this episode only helped to bring it to the surface. That is not the case with Chris his actions are selfish and tough less., just like a mushroom buyer / Furthermore pleased do not bunch up all non locals pickers together. some of us care about the health of ALL the forests .
User_Name: DONT TELL=germany17 Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 10:23:42 AM
BOLETUS JOE, MY APOLOGIES. WASNT CLEAR ON YOUR POST. WAS UP IN THE GIFFORD PINCHOT THIS WEEKEND AND SAW A VAN FULL OF MEXICANS ALREADY?!?!?!? WTF?? I THINK THERE GOING TO CAMP TILL NEXT SPRING ON THE FIRE. ITS TIME FOLKS ITS TIME.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 09:54:35 AM
Well folks, it came to my attention about a month ago and - it is just now time to mention it - one of our National forests did a STING a while back and busted many of the BUYERS - for not checking harvesting permits, seems the decoy went from station to station and no 1 checked for permits..... ooooops ELticketO - mucho grande fine.
resident - non resident license's please.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 09:11:30 AM
book now space is limited, only 30 people can see this event
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 09:09:10 AM
C and A will save the day by sacrificing virgins in prom dresses to the volcano gnomes
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 08:13:29 AM
Well good luck out there puzzledmattie... I think I've made my last trip to the morel patch for this year. Things are finally drying out and too many commercial pickers picking in a non commercial personal permit only area for my liking! I saw count them, 4 big vans with WA plates and people running around like mad with big back packs and buckets, shouting and leaving trash throughout the woods etc. I'm fed up with the lack of consciousness or regard to nature. With over a million acres of burned forests within the pacific northwest, why do commercial pickers feel they need to pick in the little fire zones left for personal use pickers little bit of enjoyment? Of course they don't have permits and they are abusing the fact that there has been little enforcement in the area. Some telling people not to go into a certain area because there is a wolf that will "bite your hand off" and then turning around and pulling 1,000 pounds of mushrooms out of there illegally. Give me a break! My gripe is not with commercial picking, but with the people who refuse to "play by the rules" and pick in areas closed to them, they leave trash behind and try to scare people away from areas legally open to them who did the right thing and got permits to pick. With all the 100's of thousands of acres of charred forest land out here, surely you can find a place to pick that is open to you and leave some for the rest of us...huh?
User_Name: jc Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Time: 05:30:40 AM
August, what do you have to say about your trip into ratlesnake. It is truly stupid of you to post picking in a wilderness area. On top of that why would you leave two buckets sitting on the trail? What was really wierd was there was not even a cut mark where there were some morels. Do yourself a favor and drop that trip, have some pride in what you supposedly do(commercially pick).
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 07:34:12 PM
going out to our chantrelle patches and see if anything's happening yet out there. Going to spend a week out camping and looking..hopefully we will at least find a lobster or two..let you know if anything is happening yet, which I doubt..
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 07:31:28 PM
Mary, that is just too funny...we are still laughing..
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 07:14:48 PM
Boletus Joe, that's what I thought but then the way DONT TELL flew off like a prom dress, I wasn't sure.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 03:50:04 PM
Hey steve, whats up -- think the early pines are in Canada.. a friend told me....
Geeeshh, just purchased 6 sheets of plywood and 38 preasure treated lumber boards and a part sheet of pressboard for a small repair job for $490.00 - - the pile looks like bairly enuff wood to build a dog house with.... yikes
User_Name: Steve from Oregon Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 10:39:18 AM
rj,
What state?
User_Name: rj Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 08:51:02 AM
went for a look ,suprize.found some pine, chanties , lobsters. Have not seen them this early for 12/13 yr. full buckets to all,and full packs to my picking Buddies
User_Name: snap_zilla Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 06:58:16 AM
JUGHEAD TV HOSTS RUINED MUSHROOM PICKING!
User_Name: Sniper Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008 Time: 04:27:26 AM
I'm glad someone else thinks that is BS. I'm new to shrooming and have been searching the web for info. Thought Chris' site was a good find until i realized he is only trying to make $
User_Name: Boletus Joe Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 10:26:28 PM
My post was directed at what I read on the link, about taking strangers and others on forays, and trying to profit from it.... Goes against everything I believe. If you want to take a friend out in the wilds and teach him/her how to find and harvest shrooms.... Go for it..... But to take people out on mass and charge them, well that's where we part company. And the Gun issue is another thing all together.
That is all I have to say.....
Christ! .... Surely we all understand the unwritten moral issues about picking. It has certainly had a lot of coverage over the years here on Matsiman.....
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 08:03:01 PM
Who were you referring to in your post, Boletus Joe?
User_Name: TableTopper Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 07:45:39 PM
Like I said, August... Don't send post cards from paradise.
User_Name: Grant Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 04:57:02 PM
Has AUGUST spored?
User_Name: kidmorel Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 12:24:13 PM
There is no mention about permits or regulations with in any of the subject links, about wilderness harvesting, an important factoid id want to know about if I was going on a trip far from home. Would be a real bummer to spend the last days of my trip in the greybar hotel, because the guides were negligent.
User_Name: kidmorel Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 12:11:22 PM
point is the history channel is glorifying the mushrooms in Washington as a profitable ride and with the 2 Jughead hosts who did not demonstrate proper picking techniques to begin with and never will - your going to tell me that a 3 day foray entitles them to 100s of pounds of mushrooms with a day use permit, no single person is going to pay for a commercial permit to only pick 3 days, in this economic times, especially when you have a great teacher who shows pictures of how to pick a mushroom the wrong way. it shows their true colors and how low they will go, I am not afraid to call them what they are, until they show skill, professionalism and pride for our forested lands, you might stick up for them but deep down in your heart you know what is right and what is wrong about the links and don't try to wishy wash it into an innocent foray from a mycological known club. Guns for a commercial foray, they will be stung by more bee wasps than chased by large critters, in the Cascades, Washington isn't a Yukon trip, far from it, unless your a criminal doing criminal acts and sure then you'd want to have a gun to protect your loot you stole, otherwise there is no need for weapons while picking mushrooms, we need better laws to stop the out of state poachers, who think they are above the laws we have here, when they come to visit, their arrogance will soon catch them in the act and subjected to the penalties they deserve, a lousy slap on the hand. Time for change. and if you dont see it, your blind to what is right and wrong for this nation.
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 10:01:55 AM
There are just more people now than their used to be. When you create more laws to protect, you create more criminals and lose more freedoms. The secret is to adjust and see where we are going, not where we been. My larger question is, how can I go to Mexico lets say, come back accross the border illegally and get more Social Services than when I was a citizen. Why is the Govt' not stopping it and Obama ain't goint to stop it. Saying that we can just keep having millions come here illigally and have the Govt. know it and do nothing, I don't get it.
User_Name: DONT TELL Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 Time: 07:12:54 AM
HERES OUR FIRST. BAD KARMA FOR WHO?? YOU?? IM NOT HERE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS. IM HERE ABOUT THE WELFARE OF "OUR" FORREST AND WHATS LEFT OF A DYING INDUSTRY. COMMERCIAL PICKING?? I HAVENT SOLD A MUSHROOM IN YEARS. AND WHATS FUNNY OF ALL THE NATUARL DISASTERS YOU SPEAK OF IS I HAVE BEEN THRU THEM ALL. MATTER OF FACT I WAS A KIDS PICKING PINES ON THE NE SLOPES (BEST PINE PATCHES IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME) OF MT. ST. HELENS THE SEASON BEFORE IT ERUPTED. SO YES, I HAVE SEEN MUD SLIDES AND VOLCANOES. YOU CAN THANK ME AND OTHERS IN THE FUTURE FOR CLEANING UP "OUR" WOODS AND BUYING STATIONS.
User_Name: Boletus Joe Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 11:21:24 PM
Well don't this beat all... This is COMMERCIAL picking with a capital "C". But is this what it is about.... Man this is unbelievable. I wish you hail, high winds, mud slides, Volcanic eruption, hurricanes, tornados in these locals at these times. What you do is very bad Karma.
User_Name: DONT TELL Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 10:24:07 PM
THE WHOLE IDEA OF REGULATING THE "IN WOODS" PURCHASER, PICKER, WHOLESALER, EXPORTER, HAS BEEN NEEDING TO HAPPEN FOR A WHILE. I HAVE IDEAS AND AM MORE ENCOURAGED TO REVEAL TO SAY THE GIFFORD PINCHOT NATIONAL FORREST AND OTHERS. I WANT A MOVIE CAMERA GLORIFYING WHATS REALLY A PROBLEM. ONE NASTY ONE IS IN ESTACADA OREGON AT THE FIRST COMMUNITY PATCH. SOME NASTY CRAP. I AM SURE SOME IS FROM LOCAL TWEEKERS BUT I SEE ADDED GARBAGE I KNOW ARE FROM PICKERS. THESE ARE "OUR" FORRESTS. AND "OUR" FRIENDS, FAMILIES, ETC. WORKING FOR THE FORREST SERVICE THAT WE SO LOVE TO ENJOY. WE AS "LIFER" PICKERS KNOW WHAT MAY AND MAY NOT WORK AGAINST THIS EVER GROWING PROBLEM. ITS TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING. THERE IS NO MAKING A LIVING ON MUSHROOMS ANYMORE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY "SHOULD" BE. YEARS AGO I AND MY FAMILY MADE A GOOD LIVING JUST ON WEEKENDS. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY...MADE MEMORIES. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU KIDMOREL. I JUST WANTED TO POST LIGHTLY. ITS ALREADY GOING TO HAPPEN. WETHER I PUSH IT OR SOMEONE ELSE. WHY DONT WE ALL PUSH.
User_Name: kidmorel Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 05:14:39 PM
Hey August - what is it your trying to promote here in your 2 upcoming trips posted on the Chris M's morel site, what does WILDERNESS, stand for???? A Wilderness is set aside for protection and no harvesting of any nonforest products is strictly not allowed and forbidden, I guess according to Chris its way OK to charge folks money and harvest protected areas and promote it - if your picking above 4/5000 ft in Washington State your most likely in a protected habitat, but what do you care you got a TV show to make with roots still attached on them morels, Good job, both of you document some more of your great knowledge and skill. and a gun foray tooboot, you must expect trouble from your criminal acts.
User_Name: FYI Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 03:15:15 PM
I think this is what is under discussion here: http://www.morelmushroomhunting.com/Volcanic_Foray.htm
and http://www.morelmushroomhunting.com/morels_in_August.htm
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 02:11:04 PM
I agree with a lot of what you said, don't Tell, and we have seen what you have seen garbage wise in the woods and hate it. We live and pick Wa. and Oregon and yes, their are way too many illegal aliens in our country and although we get permits, somehow they manage to slip through. If we have to get a license like for fishing and hunting, maybe that would make it better for us and would keep it under control, except that when I live in Wa. and pick Or. also, I wouldn't be able to buy a license for non-resident as it would be too expensive for the small amount that we pick anymore. There has to be answer, but don't know what it would be to make it fair for US citizens..Would you mind posting the website for the forays for all to see to check it out. If they are just small forays for a few people that want to pay that price to pick a few mushrooms, I don't see the harm in that.
User_Name: kidmorel Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time: 11:30:55 AM
Wow - I agree 100 % cept id like to add 1 step further - A TAX - OK if hunting deer needs a license, hunting fish needs a license and hunting mushrooms is hunting then it needs a license as well - it should be required for resident and non residents and if your not a resident of the US you get a special, out of country stamp for your license, that denotes who and where your from. Also people should have to register - per location - sence so much garbage vandalism pouching and crap is ending up in the woods - it should be enforced like mtn climbing permits and wilderness trex or white water raft trips OR like the south Oregon coast dune lotto for matsis. All my hobbies are tuff hard regulated but the mushrooms and it is WAY over due! Really ticks me off when some DUDE promotes mushrooms online and TV then shows no RESPECT demonstrates improper harvesting techniques online in photos and people pay to learn this? We can teach you and your guide valuable lessons here.
User_Name: DONT TELL Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Time: 05:54:00 PM
I'VE JUST STARTED PUZZLED, AFTER A MOREL SEASON IN IDAHO THIS YEAR THE STATE HAS CLOSED ITS DOORS TO COMMERCIAL PICKING DUE TO GARBAGE AND HUMAN WASTE IN THE WOODS. IM STOKED. MY FAMILY HAVE BEEN PICKING MUSHROOMS HERE IN WASHINGTON AND OREGON FOR MANY MANY YEARS. REMEMBER CASCADE MUSHROOM COMPANY?? MATT AND ILENE BRIGGS?? WELL THE MOMMA UNIT GOT THEM STARTED IN IT. MY FATHER DIED BUYING MATSUTAKIES IN 95' UP IN RANDLE. DOING WHAT HE LOVED. I HAVE BOUGHT FOR EVERY MUSHROOM BUYER (BACK THEN WORTH MENTIONING) FOR YEARS PRIOR TO 98'. DONE NOW. WONT DO IT FOR NOTHING. OVER THE YEARS THE MOREL PICKING HAS GONE TO CRAP DUE TO TOO MANY PEOPLE AND WELL WE ALL KNOW THE OTHER PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE MUSHROOM FOOD CHAIN. BUT WHATEVER. NOW ITS HAPPENING TO THE PINES. YOU THINK THE JAPANEES PAY ANY LESS FOR THE PINES IN JAPAN THAN THEY DID 10 YEARS AGO?? NO THEY DONT. ITS FILLING THE POCKETS OF PEOPLE WHO DONT EVEN GO OUT AND PAY THE GAS, FIGHT THE BEARS, WALK IN THE RAIN, ETC. ETC. THEY GATHER PICKING CREWS OF ASIANS AND MEXICANS AND POINT THEM TO THE PATCHES. SO THEY CAN FILL THERE QUOTA (SP?). THEN TELL US THEY HAVE TOO MANY OR THAT THEY CANT PAY THE FAIR PRICE.NOW I WALK THRU MY PATCHES AND SEE ASIAN GARBAGE ( NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHEN THE PACKAGING IS IN CHINEESE OR WHAT HAVE YOU) OR THE JURRITOES (NOT SPELLED RIGHT) MEXICAN DRINK SCATTERED ALL OVER. ALONG WITH THERE CRAP NOT EVEN COVERED. NOT TOO LONG AGO THEY CARRIED ASSULT RIFFLES WITH THEM IN "OUR" WOODS. AND YES IF YOU LIVE IN OREGON OR WASHINGTON THEY ARE YOUR WOODS TOO. AM I RACIST? NO. I HATE ALL EQUALLY WHO TRASH "OUR" WOODS. CAUSE I SEE BUWEISER BEER CANS ALSO IN MY PATCHES. NOT SAYING THAT MAKES THE CULPRIT WHITE BUT....I KNOW SOME ARE.
BUT NOW MY COMPLAINT IS SOME (JAKE) IS SELLING FORRAYING TRIPS TO MT. ST. HELENS??? CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG BUT THIS MAN IS FROM BACK EAST SOMEWHERE AND NOT EVEN A NORTHWEST NATIVE. HMMMM WELL I KNOW THE DATES, AND (THRU THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY GREAT PEOPLE AND FRIENDS) GENERAL LOCATIONS, THESE PEOPLE PAYING FOR A TRIP ARE GOING TO BE DISSAPOINTED COME DUE TIME. ANGRY BY WHAT I SAY AND FEEL?? THEN YOU ARE NOT A TRUE MUSHROOM PICKER OR NATIVE TO THE OR YOUR AREA. OR YOU (NOONE SPECIFIC) ARE JUST TO TIRED TO GO DO IT YOURSELF ANYMORE AND FIND COMFORT IN ALL THESE (JAKES) PRETENDING TO BE A MUSHROOM PICKER JIBBER JABBERING ON THE WEB. MATSIMAN, YOU CREATED SOMETHING REAL NICE. AND I LOVE IT. BUT YOU KNOW ALL I SAY IS (SOMEWHAT) TRUE. I HAVE BEEN IN YOUR WOODS TOO LOOKING AT ALL THE TRASH. ITS SAD. REAL SAD. WHATS NEXT........
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Time: 03:44:25 PM
Don't tell...after you have settled down a little, why don't calmly sit down and tell us the whole story as you see it. Sounds like an interesting mushroom story...
User_Name: DONT TELL Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Time: 01:56:18 PM
LOVE HOW INSTEAD OF MAKING MONEY PICKING SPOTS LEARNED IN THE AREA. PEOPLE NOW CHARGE PEOPLE TO GO PICKING IN PATCHES THAT HAVE BEEN "OURS" FOR MANY YEARS. ITS A SAD WORLD MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY. GO RUIN IT MR.MOREL HEAD FROM SOME OTHER TOWN. GET RAN OUT OF YOUR OWN NECK OF THE WOODS?? LOVE TO RUN INTO YOU AND YOUR LITTLE FORAY PICKERS. I HOPE YOU PAY YOUR INCOM TAXES ON THAT. CAUSE I AM SENDING THEM YOUR WAY!!!!!
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008 Time: 07:03:28 PM
puzzledmattie; another nice thing about them is that it is difficult to see em your-own-self...
User_Name: forest harvest Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008 Time: 02:43:53 PM
Matty happy belated birthday, and do not worry about them wrinkles., Love Leo.
User_Name: zumiez Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008 Time: 12:50:00 PM
anyone have dried chants for sale? Brent - takaya49@hotmail.com
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Time: 01:15:40 PM
Can't help myself.... Being Bi-polar is somewhat like being paranoid.. They laugh at you until you are the only one seeing danger comming... Go August!
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Time: 10:06:26 PM
Here's a card I got..Birthdays are like butt wrinkles. If you have a bunch of them behind you you're probably old. hmmmmmmmmmm
User_Name: Boletus Joe Date: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Time: 05:54:14 PM
Hey wait for me. I'm not 65 till October... just think my Birthday is that of the picker I would like to be.....right in the middle of the season...
BTW...happy Birthday
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Time: 07:14:41 AM
Happy Birthday, puzzledmattie! And many more happy days picking happy mushies in the happy woods! PS...65 is not old!
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Monday, July 07, 2008 Time: 08:40:19 PM
August,got a real good idea of where you are taking Chris..Long walk..should be a good pick. Wish we could be there, but..as my 65th birthday is tomorrow, I'm feeling like I might be getting old..well, too old for that far of a hike. Hope you can get a bunch of grays..good luck
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Monday, July 07, 2008 Time: 06:13:16 PM
A dozen or so friends from my inner circle quit looking and posting at the site also, they got tired of wading through the repeated dialect of the same subject on the boards, that did not pertain to buying or selling or the hunting of mushrooms. I still hear from them, just not on this site, which is unfortunate.
User_Name: A" Date: Monday, July 07, 2008 Time: 05:42:51 PM
Thank's puzzle-Alice_mattie, If all gose's well we well going in by pick team of four leged wabbit. I should know by next week I hope. We will stay three day's and should have alot of fun picking! gray's I hope. Chris has some photo's of are last outing posted on his site.By the way you need not be a lookie I have missed reading your post and would of like to of had You and Dick over this last weekend in are group of fungi people. Good luck in the chant's and hope all gose well.
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Monday, July 07, 2008 Time: 03:48:40 PM
hate and discontent is why I don't post much anymore, so I guess you can call me a lookie in...lol..Went out this weekend to check early patches for any chantrelles or chickens, etc. Not a thing showing but the area did get a good rain so maybe by the end of the month. Great going August on helping Chris out with the mushroom hunts..can hardly wait for the tv show to air..sounds like you are going to take Chris and everyone for a long hot hike...congratulations on being recognized.
User_Name: Alice was here A" Date: Sunday, July 06, 2008 Time: 02:36:17 PM
There is no need for H&D here but at the least you know whom it is. The only bi-poler one that was here is the one called morelpig.why would you use some name to hide who you really are for at the best we all know whom I is. Sorry Carla for not haveing coffee with you but at lest I had a good weekend with Seattlefungirl and John. Good people to camp with,They took use back to woodstock without the tripping like Alice dose you know Alice!. Pick some gray's and just had fun!!!!!. Madmorel have you seen Lostmorel and is August running around with A"!.
User_Name: Carla Date: Sunday, July 06, 2008 Time: 11:52:35 AM
Good Morning! It is a beautiful day here on the coast ;-)
User_Name: Tinker Date: Saturday, July 05, 2008 Time: 03:35:25 PM
morelpig,if you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all! There's no need to be so rude!
User_Name: morelpig Date: Saturday, July 05, 2008 Time: 11:51:36 AM
YOU HAVE WAY TO MANY ALIASES YOU MUST BE BIPOLAR OR A BASKET CASE
User_Name: Alice you know Alice Date: Thursday, July 03, 2008 Time: 06:30:42 PM
Carla, where's the beef
User_Name: Carla Date: Thursday, July 03, 2008 Time: 10:41:45 AM
Good Morning... Where is everyone... Bring coffee and now i am prolly going home with it since i am the only one here today... poor poor lonesome me ;-)
User_Name: sarah P Date: Monday, June 30, 2008 Time: 08:37:47 AM
anyone hear anything about fires in central BC?? sarahmiles2000@hotmail.com
User_Name: Carla Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008 Time: 10:57:11 AM
I am not out of coffee! lol
User_Name: Carla Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008 Time: 10:55:10 AM
Hi Jim. Here i am :-)
User_Name: A' Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008 Time: 04:53:15 PM
Go for it Alice!!
User_Name: Lostmorel Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008 Time: 04:52:16 PM
Going back just to rest for the weekend hope thing's dry out for the season also well be looking for my early chante's. looking fourword to seeing you soon. We have alot to talk about.
User_Name: Madmorel Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008 Time: 04:49:02 PM
It just burn's me up when people say they know what there doing but doing it wrong. say what you well but you have alot to learn.
User_Name: Madmorel Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008 Time: 08:01:38 AM
Jim, Carla is alive an well but she is out of coffee
User_Name: A" Date: Friday, June 27, 2008 Time: 07:44:16 PM
I have alot to say about your way of farming But i well keep it to myself, six lb's yesterday and six lb's today not much for anyone would you not say? And like I said the filming crew would be there you can't say I did not tell you but thank's fore letting us film what was left.
User_Name: Tripping in the Woods Date: Friday, June 27, 2008 Time: 07:33:11 PM
Thanks August for the picking Crew! No such thing as farming!
User_Name: jim Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Time: 03:51:15 PM
Has anyone heard from carla in coos bay
User_Name: John D. Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 Time: 10:07:06 AM
Hey ther pickers....anyone know whats going on in Trail BC...prices?...is it wort the drive? Thanks and full buckets to all. John D.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008 Time: 07:14:45 AM
sundanzkidd, I believe even David Arora himself notes a difference between the mountain boletes and fall coastal boletes in terms of color differentiation. Even though both are referred to as Boletus edulis, he thinks they are slightly different variations of the same species. I myself can detect a difference in flavor intensity between the two. I find the fall boletes to be much stronger when dehydrated and when you compare the two, they definitely smell stronger than the springs. I have them separated for this fact and when you open a jar of both and compare them side by side, it's overwhelming the difference between them.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 10:39:21 PM
thanx mary - i was very off on the spelling on the puffballs, thanx for the correction, i had a short view of the big book on that sierran, as it was someone elses book.... nice bolete pile and noted the color variances, salt air or soil must color them
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 08:42:07 PM
ok, last time if this doesn't work too bad!
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563873491QGkmxi?vhost=good-times
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 08:23:28 PM
ok, dang it, I can't figure out how to link to photos from here where you don't need a password to access them! Any suggestions?
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 08:19:46 PM
ok, that won't work...so let's try something else. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=241968838&albumId=1027415
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 08:06:55 PM
Ok, here's a link to some photos of spring boletes from Montana mountains which are the first four photos and ending with the boletes in and around the kitchen sink which are all fall coastal boletes from California.
http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g175/ladyflyfsh/boletes/
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 07:51:58 PM
Dude, it's not Syrian, it's Sierran and it's Calvatia sculpta (sculptured) If it was Syrian, it would be from Syria!!!!!....... The spring boletes from the mountains tend to have redish caps compared to the fall coastal boletes which are more brownish tan. My boletes I pick here always have a pinkish red tint to them on the caps and stems. I'll try to post some pictures that show the redish tinges.
User_Name: Alice Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 11:24:02 AM
No not soil, just because it like to be red$&$%*%&(:
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 12:35:17 AM
http://morelmushroomhunting.com/calvatia_sculpta.htm -- woofers pics above, I belive the syrian puffball is the lower one below - http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Calbovista_subsculpta.html
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008 Time: 12:28:34 AM
thank you lasalmo --- think im after this one Calbovista subsculpta but is real close to the other Calvatia sculpta which has too long of warts for what im looking at nor has the cross refference to syrian.... hmmm -- I also noted the boletes i picked turned more red soon after picking them - think its due to the soil composition - thanx again
User_Name: lasalmo Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 11:41:11 PM
Sundanz
Calvatia sculpta
Cool website by the way. Your kings are much redder then the ones I have been finding.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 09:28:39 PM
thanx sport -- yep thats the book i dont have and need the latin refferance from.
User_Name: Sport Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 08:37:54 PM
Its "MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED" I dont have it but Im sure some one will....Sport
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 08:01:15 PM
hey who has david arroras mushy book handy -- I need the latin name of ---- the Syrian puffball ---- is in his mushrooms densified book saw it there, but cant find a single word on this species of puffball anyplace on the web...... ugh... thanx to whom ever......
User_Name: A" Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 12:25:39 PM
Here I'am to save my name. Getting ready to go on a fileming trip with the discovery channel next week. I have alot of thing's to do and I have sick all week but getting better with age lol. I'll keep you all inform with the new's on how it gose and if you see Alice tell her I need my sleeping bag back and to clean out the Wabbit hair in it.
User_Name: southslope Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 Time: 12:00:17 PM
Maybe Auggy is up north taking a ferry to mushroom island!
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Time: 09:51:11 AM
Thanks Alice. Where are you keeping A' these days? In the wabbit hole?? I'm heading out to my wabbit hole on Thursday. Was going to go today but too many things going on here and tomorrow have to be here for a Fed Ex delivery so Thurs. will be the day to get away back for more tasty morsels...or is that morels??
User_Name: Mush-Buyer Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Time: 05:32:49 AM
Hi everyone Buyers and pickers - we are desperately looking for morels. Ideally from Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon areas. Large quantities required. Will pay a good price.
Please e-mail me at mush(dot)buyer(at)gmail(dot)com.
User_Name: Alice Date: Monday, June 16, 2008 Time: 07:32:36 PM
Mattie & Mary nice to see you two up and around the board
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Monday, June 16, 2008 Time: 04:16:03 PM
yep thats a nice donation to have, would support his gas travels this fall and this page
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008 Time: 03:30:58 PM
Wow..way to go on the donations..that should really help out and keep the board alive...
User_Name: Matsiman Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008 Time: 07:33:23 AM
Greetings all, Had some time to work on pages. Found many broken links, fixed most. Some visitors have ask if someone actually donated $1000.00 to the site. Yep they did. David Moore is a dry Morel buyer who buys from the pacific northwest. He is located back east. He just wanted to help support the site. later, Matsiman
User_Name: ravens_wood Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 Time: 05:16:49 PM
How bout a reeport from the woodz u2 crowbabies... pick up dat trash 2!
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 Time: 09:12:34 AM
wow - here all this time we have been talking about the month august and not the person, on day 2 of august with no rain here -- save the whiskey bottles i put in the crop circle, they help guide me out of the vortex, oh dont ask why, just show me the way to the next whiskey bar
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 Time: 07:26:57 AM
Well I finally got to go check out the closest Montana burn site to where I live and with good success. It was just on the edge of the burn but I still managed to pick 15 pounds of nice fresh morels. This is going to be a good producer since it has great habitat and good canopy. I think with all the moisture we've had this one is going to go well into August. (the month that is ;^) )
User_Name: crows_nest Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 Time: 01:02:41 PM
Pick up dem coffee cups too, boy!
User_Name: slipperyslopes Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 11:18:58 PM
A' a 1 acre burn
User_Name: southslopeslack Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 04:18:37 PM
leave some 4 us ravens u two old crows!
User_Name: A" Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 03:41:53 PM
Marion, I hope your coming back to pick up your beer can's that you left in the burn. This is my back yard and I would like to keep in clean so that other people out here don't look at us as pig's and I really don't like the mess. So help us all and pick it up.
User_Name: Marin Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 10:56:57 AM
Mad Marin's BullSplit, A, I'm on my way!
User_Name: Marin Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 10:56:34 AM
User_Name: Marin Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Time: 10:47:58 AM
A, I'm on my way, I'll see ya soon!
User_Name: kingmorel Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 08:02:08 PM
August....... call me plz. 416 431 6363
important
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 07:19:56 PM
ZiQuinn to me is a person dove down hill like a champion a couple of weeks ago. My dryers sold as fresh,as they where not dry!
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 03:12:54 PM
ZiQuinn,Did you meet Marior?and what have you been doing?Don call me if you have time @966-0790 or can you use the tree phone.? Marion, how did your dryer's turn out. brown?.?
User_Name: zoomzoom Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 02:12:04 PM
hey, faro couple. thanx for the reply from the yukon. i'm wondering about the eagle plains fire....the dempster goes right through the middle of it. any info would be greatly appreciated.
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 01:55:14 PM
I beleave I bumped into ZiQuinn a couple of weeks ago, and he seems to have a grip on the truth!
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 01:36:33 PM
Oil well, maybe the worms well pak there bags and cum bac.
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 12:38:18 PM
Only the die hard well stay up high in the mountain's are they can't get out.That's ok there's a warm up coming soon and the morel's under the snow well big anuff to pick and the worm's would have pack there bag's to lieve town. That 4x4 Elk was just trying to get a free ride out of the wood's before the snow got deep. Marion, When I got up this morning and look west it look like the frist fall snow down to 2500ft. I would say you left in time because I took a drive up there and there's snow on the ground about 3" and cold. why is that ground hog sleepen ?.
User_Name: Lobo Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 12:18:48 PM
sundanzkidd; a young girl got killed by a boulder that hit the passenger side of the family car last night in Idaho, this weather is crazy. .... On the noon snooze they said that it is the worst in about 35 years for the Washington Cascades.
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 12:14:45 PM
I am happy to have gotten off the mountain yesterday before the snow started to stick to the ground. My favorite natural patches may not recover from this new storm.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 12:11:09 PM
one word ---- Junuary
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 11:52:02 AM
so tired of the rain and clouds on the west side, 1.5 hr drive to hood river just for a few hours of sunshine, last wknd in trout lake, was nice for a day........ t shirt weather for a day....almost got a elk for dinner, as a 4x4 in velvet flew off the bank and almost landed on top of my truck as i was road hunting mushrooms, would not of been a fun walk back to town from that location, the beast was loony
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 10:47:40 AM
Your right, lots of bugs and worms, the bugs bite, and the worms have ruint the mushrooms, and we are dreaming!
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 10:00:56 AM
your dreaming about 80 degree temps right........ hahahahahaaa good luck - maybe in las vegas, the snow is sliding up hill but slow, still mega cold at 3000 ft and tons o bugs and worms, only thing doing well are the elk
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 08:58:06 AM
Trippin in the Woods got the feeling in her bones, so we left Monday about noon, traded Shirley a lb. of morels for a lb. of Kings, what a deal! We are gonna lay low for a few days and warm these ole bones.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 08:56:07 AM
A' I resent my message to you at aol...let me know if you get it. The snow is heading this way and is expected here tonight on the valley floor. I'm getting disgusted with this weather. I can't seem to get anywhere with morels this year as I refuse to drive 200 miles at 4 bucks a gallon to maybe find a few. There are burns closer to home that will (I hope) produce eventually when the temps finally decide to warm up. We are expecting mid 70's by this weekend so if they come and stay around, that will be what we need to kick these burns into gear. I think the big producers Jocko Lakes and Chippy Creek may be in a holding pattern until the warmer temps come. Meanwhile the riparian morels are only just getting underway over in Livingston on the Yellowstone River. (about a week ago) I've not seen a morel over my way yet and had found esculentas under my cottonwoods last year May 8th. I'm tired of being cold!!! Let's go warm weather...we need to thaw out and dry out. I can't even mow my lawn as it's too darn wet and now it's too tall to mow...anyone got a horse or two??
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 08:46:30 AM
Well I see you decided to come out of the wood's. Like I said It was going to get cold and some snow well fall.
User_Name: Marin Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Time: 08:37:58 AM
Where to go? We pulled our blue tent and came off the mountain to thaw out, a little warmer in Vancouver. Things sure slow down in the snow!
User_Name: A" Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:47:55 PM
this just in 6 to 12 in's of snow is due tonight at 3500feet where is spring did the wisel pig go back to sleep?
User_Name: A" Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:45:17 PM
Mary, I'm so so so sorry maybe it because I have gone back to aol.com if that dose not work just go to augustmoonone@yahoo.com. It is nice to here from you even if your not going to tell me how the shroom's are doing lol
User_Name: madmorel Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:40:31 PM
to your question, Yes and no If your a grower yes but as for wild no there to wormy
User_Name: Lobo Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:38:23 PM
mikel2; I heard that that burn is producing but getting difficult to find morels due to the large volume of pickers. .... .... ZiQuinn; My natural research patches are finally starting to flush a few merkles but there is still plenty of snow under the trees.
User_Name: looking for info Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:36:57 PM
Question for the experts. Is there a market for oyster mushrooms? and is there a market for DRIED oyster mushrooms in particular
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 08:14:22 PM
A'... I tried to reply to your private message you sent me but it came back twice undeliverable. Is there something going on with your email? Why don't you email me at mayfly at jeffersonvalley dot net with your correct email so I can send my message to you. I tried through the matsiman and also just regular email and both failed.
User_Name: A'' Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 06:22:53 PM
Yes I do there Don 80's over the weekend,thank's Alice your on top of it all
User_Name: Alice Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 06:21:10 PM
Well two day's of dry weather but let's see what tomorrow bring's,ok drying out this weekend and in the 80's? let's see!.
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 04:07:03 PM
Well "A", I think I am going to look in July..It's only just a little over two weeks..
User_Name: A' Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 11:56:12 AM
If I had not seen it for myself I would say you were just feeding us bull Don, but your right. I have look around and I have to say thing's are slow and there are place's that have not show any sign and the ground is still cold at 3000ft and above, Like I said early this year Zi you well be picking you 4000ft patch in July. What do you think?!!
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 11:18:06 AM
Lobo, I have come to believe that the mushrooms we get this year are confused by the WX. They are straggling more than flushing, at least here. Maybe Auggie has another take on it. Don
User_Name: mikel2 Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 07:39:02 AM
so anthing left in sisters or how is burns doing?????
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 07:23:28 AM
z ; I got 18" of partly-cloudy this time of year in Northern Idaho about five years back. The local radio weather report said rain showers below 5,000' and a few snow flurries above that elevation, sooooo I camped at the patch I had been working which was down a long narrow ridge road at the 4,500' level. All of the morels became saturated and melted away when the sun and rain finally melted the snow about five days later.
User_Name: ziquinn Date: Monday, June 09, 2008 Time: 06:03:16 AM
Snow on Snoqualmie Pass, at 3,000ft, on June the 9th???
User_Name: Alice Date: Sunday, June 08, 2008 Time: 08:21:02 PM
sg,there in my basket and on there way to you.
User_Name: Steve from Oregon Date: Sunday, June 08, 2008 Time: 07:19:38 PM
Matsiman I donate 50 the other day hope you got it.
User_Name: sg Date: Saturday, June 07, 2008 Time: 10:46:53 PM
whereare the morels in 2008?
User_Name: A" Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 09:36:40 PM
Well, if it snow's three in's then they well not be picking baby's for long
User_Name: Alice Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 09:34:06 PM
Lobo, Well this be the full report are is there more coming about the snow this weekend and how morel's grow in the snow. I know, But there are those back east that never picked fire burn's are even pick them growing in the great snow field's of the NorthWest. We call them snow morel's and ice pop morel's.lol
User_Name: Lobo Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 09:26:48 PM
oopsie, I neglected to mention that the current thousand or so pickers are selling babies by the basket full, iffin you desire to see good farming then you need to visit Grays Creek where it is mostly locals rotating the crop... lol
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 09:07:04 PM
I am just back from the Idaho and Oregon Outback. The burn on the west rim of Hells Canyon is pumping enough to satisfy a picker or two. .... The McCall half of the big complex is open but not doing much, five conica were found at the Secesh Meadows yesterday 6,000'. .... Snow was falling as I was driving through the plowed ice on the almost 7,000' summit to Granny's and I decided I did not need to visit granny yet. .... The Grays creek burn is open in the non National Forest part but many are taking advantage of the walk-in and Arlie's buyer is benefiting a little bit, lots of good sized conica in this one as it is a lower elevation burn site with mixed conifer. .... Yesterday at 4:25 pm I was at the McCall S.O. and they said that they expect another 2,000 pickers to arrive this weekend. ........ not enough pickers to pick them merkles for sure...lol ....... Jay brought in two big flat-bed trailers with the type of commercial dryers attached like Cascade Mushroom used to operate on individual trailers. ... one buyer set up just about ten miles from Cascade towards the burn and paid more, he ran out of baskets very quickly on Monday. ... from what I hear Hanna's buyer at Yellowpine is trying to keep the price about $3.00 but I have not been there yet.
User_Name: Alice Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 07:59:30 PM
Ice pop's morel's anyone.
User_Name: A" Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 07:58:26 PM
ZiQuinn, hope it's not to cold for them morel's out there trying to grow. Can anyone tell me how the cold is on the fire morel's, has is slowed them down? I well not go out tell it get's back up into the 90's lol. I would like some up date's on the burn's and the snow. Here in yakima the snow well be coming down to 4'000 ft by sunday.
User_Name: angelbc276 Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 04:31:05 PM
wonderin where the pickins at i heard about kelowna area???????????????
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Friday, June 06, 2008 Time: 11:18:47 AM
August, picking up a few on Li'l Rattlesnake and Clover Springs. Got to look for them tho. Took a Giant Puffball back and fried it up with Morels.
User_Name: faro couple Date: Thursday, June 05, 2008 Time: 07:54:47 PM
zoomzoom- not much going on here in the yukon. Been too cold and no rain for 2 weeks. All picking here is fly-in, none close to roads. They should be starting but have not found any yet in the wood cuts or fire smart fires.
User_Name: chuck8888 Date: Thursday, June 05, 2008 Time: 07:53:00 PM
i just got back from mt and id the picking great in both areas made good money in mt, then went to id to the cascade fire great picking 4500 snowing and picking morals at the same time crazy!!! the price droped to 3.50 a lb on the 5 of june 7 buyers in cascade more volme then the buyers could handle 4ooo lbs bought on the 4 of june about 300 pickers and still snow on the upper have of fire. the mccall id have of the fire not open because of trees down will open bye end week. oh yea we picked 250 ls in 21/2 days. two of us. the fire will be going at least until augest. peace and full buckets to all
User_Name: zoomzoom Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Time: 09:26:44 PM
hey everybody...newbie to the board. \Just wondering if anyone out there might have some information on what's happening in the Yukon with the morels.
User_Name: A" Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Time: 06:46:26 PM
By the way I pick 65 lb's today
User_Name: A" Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Time: 06:45:32 PM
ZiQuinn, I hope to see you out in the field are around crow creek at the fire site. Marion is there camping out even in the rain.He look like a wet rat this morning when I stop be lol.
User_Name: Carla Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Time: 10:56:03 AM
Good Morning. I am hoping my computer is working better now, i have had problems with it again due to all the beta stuff i have installed...LOL When will I learn??? I brought coffee but it is way too weak this morning... ;-)
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Time: 09:52:41 PM
There All mine ever last morel so help yourself if you can find them lol To wet outside today so I stayed indoor's and dream of my hunt in the morning. I have two sale's of ten lb's at $15 a lb's so I must go out and have fun doing so.
User_Name: TableTopper Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Time: 05:15:33 PM
Leave some for us, A! lol
User_Name: ZiQuinn Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Time: 03:14:07 PM
Had to work a bit, but collected about 10 lbs at 4500' level and do not think it is over for Morels.
User_Name: Forest harvest Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 Time: 08:19:10 AM
Hi everyone., Lobo, Mushroom Mary's, description of you Dr. Doom ,it did make me tickle a bit, what do you expect when you state that you can put your season on terms " I have a pint of morels",anyway morel season it's over for us, I went out yesterday, ( I sort of did play Hooky, having some much work to do), I knew plain well it was going to be nothing out there, however the day was perfect except for the ticks shut, I had about six on me when I got back, we have plenty of those things here, things are in track but as always projects take longer than predicted , hope to meet you guys for a camp fire dinner some time soon, August makes it sound do idyllic, Best wishes and thank you all. Leo
User_Name: August Date: Monday, June 02, 2008 Time: 04:05:11 PM
Well got back early and did well and also seen marion in the burn as well never saw what he had but he said he did two maybe three basket's with his tag-a-long new-be lady. I did 64lb's and it look's like it's on it's way out. Well be going back after it rain's tonight and in the morning to clean up what's left.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, June 01, 2008 Time: 10:57:34 PM
got to spread the word - gossip is cheap and so are mushys ----boletes last week 20 this week 6 - morels @ 6 also - go get um, i left lots in the woods 4 u on both tree filled hills that have snow - GAS is a factor and very very few mushroom hunters braving it, cost me 80 bucks in gas to get my mushroom jollies this week, hardly worth the return on my finds, but very much worth being the only 1 in the woods looking --- priceless
User_Name: high n I Date: Sunday, June 01, 2008 Time: 12:34:52 PM
sundanc kidd what are you doing saying theres trees up in the hills you talk to much!!
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Sunday, June 01, 2008 Time: 09:59:44 AM
Yepper, we-uns R havin a banner year for fire morels, why jus yesturdy i got a whole pint of them thar fire merkles.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 Time: 02:30:19 PM
Forest harvest, I was just ribbing doctor doom about sending everyone to Montana so he can have Idaho all to himself! :^) There were lots of fires last summer both here and ID so lots for all of us. I know there are commercial pickers up on the Jocko Lakes burn as well as Chippy Creek. Nothing happening just yet over this way though. Boletes won't come up until early July in my spots.
User_Name: Forest harvest Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 Time: 08:58:07 AM
God damn, August stop torturing us little folk , so far my season has been , tops 4 bushels, good quality but not enough quantity, I am going to send you a picture of me holding 50 # of mushroom and I did pick it in 1 minute, well keep safe and good luck, hope to meet you some day.
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 Time: 06:51:47 PM
Leaving Sisters tomorrow. The boletes are coming on pretty good with just mostly Asian pickers getting at least 90 percent of the pick. The burn doesn't seem to be producing as much as hoped and the blondes are beautiful but far in between and that is the honest truth.
User_Name: A" Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 Time: 05:31:19 PM
Found seven more bolet's today and pick 40lb's of morel's also found half a lb of gray's.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 Time: 10:00:41 AM
off to play with the boys on the hood
User_Name: A" Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 Time: 07:46:36 PM
Today went to a new place about 4500 feet but walk away with just 4 blond morel's that where soaking up the sun.
User_Name: germany17 Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 Time: 08:14:25 AM
HERES A STORY FOR LARCH MT. YEARS AGO MY MOTHER WENT AND WAS PICKING CHANTRELLES. SHE RAN ACROSS A SATANIC RITUAL CAMP OR SOMETHING. THERE WAS 55 GALLON BARRELLS WITH ENTAILS AND CRAP IN IT. ALONG WITH SKULLS OF PIGS, SHEEP, COWS HANGING IN TREES WITH CHAINS RAN THRU THEM FROM ONE TO ANOTHER. UP IN ONE TREE WAS A MAKE SHIFT PODEUM FOR I GUESS THE GRAN POOBAA. WEIRD AS HELL. NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. LOTS OF PEOPLE KILLED OR DUMPED UP THERE THATS FOR SURE.
User_Name: forest harvest Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 Time: 07:02:45 AM
Mushroom Mary, I was getting a kick when I reread your post in which you told John, that they were as many or more morels in Idaho vs. Montana, well if you just tell me where not to look in Montana, I will abstain from looking there,Hahaha, after all Montana it's a huge place,however if you are baking a mushroom pizza; I will make a detour just to have an slice,also I did check your website ,I may even take my fishing pole now that I am thinking of it, Best wishes. Leo.
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Time: 11:29:54 PM
pot growers are silent - camo and silence and refried beans......... they dont attract attention.. id check the larch mtn body count.... id bet they got so stoned they forgot the paint ball guns and brought real pop caps and played war games, the last time we were up there we were getting shot over
User_Name: Lone Loco Lobo Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Time: 10:31:19 AM
When I was at the Enterprise Ranger Station doing research earlier this month the lady at the desk said that her son went up a logging road somewhere to the west side of Tollgate and two Asian men brandished guns and told him to leave the area. .... she thought they were morel hunters, but I don't think sooooooo.........
User_Name: Mad Morel Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 09:20:30 PM
I would say that there are not many morel's that grow around larch Mt so it's safe to say meth cooker's or P.O.T grower's would be your best bet.
User_Name: madmorel Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 09:04:37 PM
there P.O.T grower's
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 09:03:50 PM
Steve; I can think of a few possibilities, meth cookers or pot farmers wishing to keep folks away. .... Family picking groups of possible Asian extraction signaling each other as they sweep the mountain for mushrooms, one can usually find their favorite patches by marking where the shots come from and which way they travel. .... or the Hatfield's & McCoy's are feuding again... lol
User_Name: Steve from Oregon Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 02:59:58 PM
Went up to Larch Mt area yesterday. Hit a clear cut found some false Morels but was cut short. People up there were firing off there guns from 3 different spots. They followed after eachother seemed to be in a tiangler formation. Didn't see any cars on my way in so I figured it might be best to leave. Anyone have any thoughts on what they might have been up to?
User_Name: Lone lobo Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 08:34:23 AM
Some days I am only half-way anywhere... Half Way Oregon is some where along the 442 mile route that I drove to meet you and obtain the 18 five kilo lychee baskets... now those are very special baskets because of all the petrol that I expended just getting there. Too bad I never found enough morels to pay for the trip but it was fun anyway. ... Did that orchard we checked ever produce this year?
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Time: 08:11:45 AM
I'm so bad Idon't know were half way is even if you point it out to me from city hall
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 Time: 10:02:45 PM
ah my puzzled friend, you are so right... he gave me free baskets and I gave him free gold, life iz gooder...
User_Name: shoegy Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 Time: 08:53:43 PM
I`m so laughin my butt off,but still have no basket!
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 Time: 07:31:07 PM
don't take it out on August after he was so nice to give you those baskets you needed. It's just a bad year so far..
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Time: 10:39:47 PM
A; you know where Half Way iz, that is the town I called you frum back on the 4th of this month az i were driving towards yure yakema home land, rumember the photos i showed you in my kodak of all the sno to the nurth of thar on the egle cap wuldurness muntins...???
User_Name: A" Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Time: 04:03:17 PM
peter Where is half way
User_Name: peter Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Time: 02:43:04 PM
top $$$ here is my email... halfwaytome@hotmail.com
User_Name: A" Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008 Time: 09:00:29 PM
dose anyone know what the price's are for bolet's are at this time
User_Name: Canada Buyer Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008 Time: 11:57:44 AM
Top $$$ for fresh morels in Canada.....leave a number or email adress so I can contact you....100 LBS minimum. Thanks. Canada buyer
User_Name: Matsiman Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008 Time: 05:35:26 AM
Having problems with server, but should work now!!!
User_Name: Steve from Oregon Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Time: 01:30:37 PM
Hi all,
Sundanz any luck lately? Was up on the Clack last weekend about 9500 cfps HUGE water. Anyone know if Sisters has melted off enouph for Morels to produce?
User_Name: forest harvest Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Time: 11:25:27 AM
Well them things just don't want to come up, I guess they don't know winter it's over. Maybe the will be out until it's really hot hell I am itching to see them.
User_Name: Twister Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Time: 08:37:49 AM
BCpicker,mountain goat could be right...if you scout your area's the pend fire could be good.Because I had a green partner I was unable to check the fire out as well as I would have liked...she was unable to handle it.If you go I would suggest that you cross the dam...it seems to be better than the other side.Also it was just starting to show when I was there so it was pretty hard to gauge how good it might be.That being said it would still be good to be at least part goat!LOL good luck and full buckets
User_Name: chuck8888 Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Time: 06:09:07 AM
I went to sisters yesterday the pick is starting but alittle slow. there is a buyer morals 12 lb kings 20 lb we got 5lbs of morels and 2 kings and they where tasty. peace and full bucket to all
User_Name: A" Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 Time: 09:55:24 PM
New Zealand A", Well frank It's me August . Did you ever get a hold of kingmorel?.I left a message for him to call me but he must be up in camp for the summer. You do get around A', I well try to find so info for you and I well post it here on Mad Borel Bull Board.I also have a new # 509-966-0790
User_Name: Carla Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 Time: 12:21:43 PM
Good Morning, coffee is on :-)
User_Name: Frank Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 Time: 10:14:18 AM
Hi everybody, it was me who called from New Zealand, now I'm writing from Dubai, then another two weeks in Africa and I'll be on my way to Canada. I've been reading the messages every second day in the hope to find some indications where it should be worthwhile to go for fire morel. I picked morel in 2005 in the Yukon and I want to do it again this summer. I just don't know where to go, I can go anywhere in B.C or the Yukon, provided that some buyer has set up there. I need to buy a plane ticket soon before it get's more expensive. Western Canada is huge and thus it's a matter of time and money to fly straight to the right place. So maybe somebody could help me with some information about fires that are expected to produce, I'll fly in in early to mid June, I'd be very thankful for any information, you could post here or write to my e-mail address ponguino@hotmail.com (Ponguin is the ancient name before they converted into penguins). Though I'm a passionate apple picker I found that mushroom is even better, in fact it's the best thing I've ever done and now I just can't wait to get into the bush again. Please help if you can, thanks a lot Frank
User_Name: ITK Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 Time: 09:20:47 AM
Morning all. Pulled 30 pounds of conica out of a burn in Oregon yesterday. Ill not divulge more then that though! They're coming!
User_Name: mountain goat Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 Time: 07:26:32 AM
hey bc picker hang in there it will happen give it another week get ready know your areas it will happen see you on the hill
full buckets
User_Name: sundanzkidd Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 Time: 09:10:10 PM
the old board is alive
User_Name: BC PICKER Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 Time: 07:49:06 PM
Thanks twister, its about time anyways....at least the price is high,,,,I hope they make a fortune out there....Yep, steep and rocky but when you are addicted to the damn things, you gotta go look eh??? full bukets to all you fools!!! BC picker
User_Name: Twister Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 Time: 06:56:36 PM
BC picker,just got back from Trail...really steep! A couple of buyers set up there. Most people are only getting a basket a day.The price was $12.00 a pound on Thursday but who knows how much it's dropped since then.Personally I don't think it will be a very good fire...a lot of Fir and very rocky.Most of the Kootney fire's are showing now... but you better be a goat!Good luck
User_Name: BC picker Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 Time: 11:02:05 AM
Hey folks!!! any burn morels in BC yet??? Its been a cold spring eh? Where are the buyers setting up? there must be some somewhere.....yeah yeah hush hush........hints anyone? BC picker
User_Name: TableTopper Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 Time: 09:41:43 AM
Looks like the manila creek fire is the big one at almost 27k acres. The wautoma fire burned 67k acres last year but looks to be mostly sage brush to me...
User_Name: Grant Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Time: 03:33:44 AM
Lone Lobo, which office did u gets those maps from?
User_Name: A' Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 09:30:50 PM
Last post tell I don't know when but well as soon as I find a treephone to plug into and some pine cone power.lol
User_Name: Madmorel Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 09:26:31 PM
T-rev, try inciweb.gov if you know the name's of the fire it well even help you more. Try this fire if your in Washington state there small and don't have many people there. Go to inci manila creek wildland fire.You well find one fire is 300+hundred one at 107 and one at 20 acre's and there in good ground's slow burn's with cover ( did I spill that hmmm) oh well what the hell..................... ZiQuinn I hope you are ready to move if you need to fast? I well be moving out in west valley to help take care of sadie's mom whom need's help taking care of the place. Twenty acre's to play on. As soon as i can I well be going to the hill's to campout for the season!.
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 11:29:22 AM
T-Rev; You are getting too close to one of my favorite areas, so no help from here about where you were. ... As for burn sites when you purchase your permit they usually give you a packet of all the controlled and natural burned areas from the previous year. ... The packet I got when I purchased my annual permit for 2008 in the Blue Mountains has maps of the Monument Complex, Trout Creek Complex, Battle Creek Complex, Egley Complex, Bartlet Mountain Complex etc etc.
User_Name: Carla Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 11:29:09 AM
Good Morning all! It was a scorcher here yesterday 100+ and we expect more of the same... Carla
User_Name: ziquinn Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 08:59:54 AM
"A", just been keeping to myself. Not to mention keeping a eye on the Naches. Where are you moving to???
User_Name: T-Rev Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 08:58:21 AM
Well I only managed to find five small blacks yesterday off of 216 near McCubbins. I thought I had my eyes dialed in pretty well for spotting them, but now i'm doubting it. Not sure if I'm not looking in the right spots or if I'm just not seeing them. They were in beautiful firm condition though... maybe just starting where I was looking? It's getting harder to justify these road trips with the price of gas! Can anyone tell me how they get the locations of big burn sites?
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 Time: 08:51:56 AM
Mushroom Mary; I have the report straight from a buyer there are pickers in the burn south of Black Butte and buyers at Jack Creek and that he picked several pounds of naturals in that area I told you about south of the Badger Creek Wilderness burn where it there are gentle slopes and easier picking. ...... I am just back home from the largest burn site in the west this year and it is starting to flush small amounts of conica but is not worth the trip yet. .... Even the naturals here and in the Blue Mountains are not worth the fuel costs this year. .... Time to get ready for dredging season except the rivers are rising fast and boiling white ... or I should say brown. ...... ...... Grant; I hope others believe that also because or perhaps I am going to be wasting a lot of fuel driving to check it out ... lol .... hummm perhaps I ought to make a cheap phone call first, ya think?
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 10:26:41 PM
Lobo, Went to the Ball Point today and only got a few pounds. It's over 2500 feet but seems to be just getting under way. It's a steep slope and not much road access so I wouldn't spend much if any time doing it. Unless you are part billy goat!!! I doubt I will come by on my way back so just do your thing and don't count on me in Le Grande. I will do tomorrow and then head back after the farmers market on Sat morning. cheers...MM
User_Name: A" Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 08:02:22 PM
Ok, this maybe the last day for sometime that I well post so for you all I would just like to say Happy hunting and let's hope I can post later on.I well be moving on friday.But some how I well keep the would on what is going on around here. ;( Madmorel
User_Name: A" Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 02:24:34 PM
ZiQuinn, where have you been?. when did you going out last. nice to see life in you is still going. Was hoping you were ok!
User_Name: Grant Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 02:14:40 PM
Lone Lobo, not sure if any fire on Malheur is producing.2006 shaketable is too dry.I dont think Malheur had a Monument fire in 07.
User_Name: ziquinn Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 10:48:09 AM
Found 5 Morels at White Pass at about 3000' Elevation. High temps and lots of run off. Flood watch a-comming.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 07:33:29 AM
Lobo, COW was in Sisters on Sunday and reported nothing going on there. The Cascade myco and NATS are having their foray to Camp Sherman this weekend and it didn't sound like there was going to be much if anything happening over there this weekend other than a bunch of people camping! I've tried to call COW but he seems to be in an area with no coverage hence no emails either. Today will be the first big warmup and tomorrow is to be even hotter so time will tell. MM
User_Name: T-Rev Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time: 07:25:03 AM
Thanks A', I'm heading east this very morning! Wonder how much of that snow has melted if any? Patience I guess.
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 05:41:15 PM
Mushroom Mary; I still have not gotten away today but may have something to report when I get back from an area that does not have cel phone coverage. .... If you get to where puzzledmattie is in LaGrande call on Cecilia or Sandy's cel phone and leave a message in my box, I may have good news by then and will call as soon as I get a message. .... .... T-Rev; that is normal for morels to grow sideways or even up-side-down in root holes, keep going back for more until they do not flush any longer. .... The Easterly aspect of Hood has been putting out minor volume of morels since the first of this month but just this week the volume has finally picked up a bit, so good luck if you go there. Be sure to check in with the Dufur Ranger Station on local rules and the cutting of morels in half length wise that may still be required if you do not purchase a permit. .... Snow was blocking most of my patch access roads when I was there on the 5th but you still should be able to fine morels. .... Highway 216 is open but expect the 48 road which is paved to be blocked for several weeks unless someone plows it or digs it out because they got stuck trying to bust through with a 4x4.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 04:18:20 PM
Lobo, that's a great big negative on the trailer. The guy sold it before I got here!!! Still looking..... only found 3 morels today..bummer. Heading to Ball Point tomorrow. cheers, MM
User_Name: A' or madmorel Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 02:58:35 PM
T-Rev If you keep going back to the east side where you found the snowbank's you should find some, They well grow with them are soon after. at this time there only some hot pocket's around but this weekend shound tell everone what the turkey's have been eating..............Madmorel Bucket's to you
User_Name: T-Rev Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 12:18:24 PM
Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here. I have a few questions and would love to get some insight from more experienced pickers. I live on the western foothills of Mt Hood in Oregon, and have heard that the morels are found more on the eastern slope. I had some luck finding snowbank morels going east, but no true morels. When they do pop, is it likely that I will find them in or near the exact same area? Has anyone here had any luck in the cascades yet? General location? I did find about ten nice yellow morels within a mile from my house (@1200 ft)! I think it might be a fluke though... found them all growing perfectly sideways out of the root system of a fallen cottonwood. This was in a fairly wet, boggy area thick with cottonwood saplings. My other question is if I go back to this area after this warm front, should there be more morels growing on the ground around there? Thanks for any input!
User_Name: A" Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 10:13:10 AM
lono lobo,let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, Good luck there loony lobo
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Time: 08:00:50 AM
Mushroom Mary, did you get the travel trailer? .... well "A" I think that this turkey is going to go try that pass again today being as the snow storm is now in Montana.
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Time: 04:06:47 PM
Mattie,Tell Dick he is right there are turkey's out there looking for morel's lol
User_Name: puzzledmattie Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Time: 02:29:31 PM
Hi, everyone, well here we are in La Grande, Or. nothing much happening here yet. hopefully it will pop after this weekend. Good to see Carla back to visiting again. Spent some time with lobo and shooting the bull with him and our mutual friends here. Will go out tomorrow and look for the elusive morel again, at least we are getting in shape for when it really happens. Dick said that he thinks all the turkeys are eating them before we get near them..hmmmmmm Don't have a connection for my laptop so am not checking in much with the board..so do miss it...yes, Carla, I too am computer addicted...
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Time: 02:28:55 PM
Lono lobo, Are you at home? It look's to get real hot around here by the end of the week and that should put some fire under them there morel's. Just say good by to all that snow and hello to hight water's. Time to get out the boat's and go fishing for Morel's.lol
User_Name: A" Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Time: 12:33:29 PM
Carla do I need to go over to Alice's to have coffee lol
User_Name: zumiez Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Time: 10:35:15 AM
anyone hear of anything happnin in the kootenays yet or prices? happy hunting all!
Brent
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Monday, May 12, 2008 Time: 10:18:07 PM
Mushroom Mary; I took photos today of all the ice and snow that is still on Payette Lake in McCall Idaho, never found even one lowly morel in Enterprise Oregon area etc, etc... what a trip.... lots of snow yet. .... .... I did find that the Payette National Forest closed the burn near Council Idaho to hunters last fall following the Greys Creek fire and it will remain closed to all mushroom picking, walking or personal vehicles through this year as they log off the trees. .... The Boise National Forest also has closed some of it's burns, the best bet for now it seems is the 2007 Monument Complex in the Malheur National Forest that is starting to produce and the two large fires in the Ochoco National Forest where it borders on the Malheur National Forest a bit West of between Burns and John Day Oregon.
User_Name: mushroom mary Date: Monday, May 12, 2008 Time: 09:29:04 PM
Yay...the bull board is back! Right on...I took a little road trip to Oregon and so far having a great time. Went out truffling today and tomorrow will check on some new truffle spots and look for morels. Then may head to the Ball Point burn to see what's up. John, did you make it back to Boise? There's going to be a major warm up in a few days so things ought to pop for real by the end of the week. Hoping to meet up with COW but not sure if I'll make it to the area where he's hanging. Nothing happening in Sisters yet so not sure what he'll be up to in a few days. Cheers ya'll...mm
User_Name: Marin Date: Monday, May 12, 2008 Time: 05:38:26 PM
good to see the board open again!
User_Name: A' Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 01:32:46 PM
Well there's no bull going on must be out picking it up lol
User_Name: ddonald@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 07:30:27 PM
anyone want cauliflower mushrooms
User_Name: A" Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 04:32:42 PM
Thank's there john for the blog. You are right a buyer should know what he is getting and the picker should know how to ship so that all can come out happy.( mother alway said life is like a box of clean morel's:)
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 01:38:07 PM
chickenof the woods; I do not know how to reply yet from the blog and am in a hurry to go on a scouting foray to the north. .... August was not the buyer that got took, it was an Oregon friend that lost his shirt on the deal however August was the one who got the initial call. .... as for Jack there was no one there on Monday, the lower end of the burn is dried out deep and even new buck brush leaves are shriveled up like in a drought. .... the center of the burn is out of the snow and ought to be flushing in micro-climes. ... I found 7 naturals on the east slope of Hood but snow is blocking access to my main patches there.
User_Name: Lone Lobo Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 11:10:07 AM
It is good to see this board open again..... August here is a link to what happened with those sno-bank false morels..... http://mushroompicking.blogspot.com/
User_Name: Carla Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 10:37:17 AM
Darn me, i just put it in the other room... I am making more don't worry! ;-)
User_Name: A" Date: Thursday, May 08, 2008 Time: 08:34:56 AM
Let me be the frist to say that all that come here are welcome to bull are talk about the way thing are going in the world of shrooms or the price of gas and not bean gas. Welcome. CARLA where is the Coffee!
User_Name: Matsiman Date: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Time: 04:50:51 AM
Board Now Open!!!
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