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Admirable Boletes, angel wings, boletes, cauliflower mushroom, chanterelles, Chicken of the Woods, Club Mushroom, Coral Mushroom, Elfin Saddle, fall mushrooms, Fat Jacks, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, golden chanterelles, hedgehogs, Lobster Mushroom, lobsters, mushroom hunt, Oyster Mushrooms, Puffball Mushrooms, Radagast, Ramaria, shaggy ink cap, shaggy mane, Shaggy Parasols, Slippery Jacks -

Our Fall 2023 mushroom forays in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest have been spectacular, yielding Golden Chanterelles, Lobsters, King Boletes, Admirable Boletes, Fat Jacks, Slipper Jacks, Cauliflower Mushrooms, Hedgehogs, Shaggy Mane, Shaggy Parasols, Angel Wings, Oysters, Chicken of the Woods, Pig's Ears, and Fluted Black Elfin Saddle, among many others.

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In May and June 2023 we completed our fourth annual coast-to-coast mushroom tour, focusing on the northeast states of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. We found some nice blond morels in south-central Pennsylvania, and also foraged a lot of ramps, but in general were too late in the season to harvest mushrooms elsewhere. First blonde morel find in the woods of south-central Pennsylvania. The prior spring (2022) we had great luck with fire morels in the Schneider Springs burn area about 15 miles due east of Mt. Rainier in the wilderness, collecting more than 250 morels. But a 2023...

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chanterelles, fall mushrooms, lobsters -

Summarizing the results of our first exploratory foray into the foothills southwest of Mt. Rainier for the Fall 2022 mushroom hunting season.

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angel wings, boletes, chanterelles, children, golden chanterelles, hedgehogs, lobsters, Zeller's Boletes -

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 after the rains what did come in strong were the Boletes: Fat Jacks, Zeller's Boletes (pictured at right), even Admirables.We've had a few weeks with almost no rain, now, and the Boletes are drying out and thinning out a bit. But what is coming on...

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boletes, chanterelles, Lobster Mushroom, lobsters, Puffball Mushrooms, Shaggy Parasols -

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. This blog shares more about upcoming forays in the Puget Sound, and also a status report on cultured Shaggy Parasols now springing up.

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