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 doitagain
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 hunting in the mountains 
#6680713 - 03/17/07 02:53 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm leaving today for a weekend getaway in big bear mountain. since theres lots of wilderness, and horses. I would like to do a little hunting for both actives and edibles. Does anyone have experience hunting for mushrooms at higher altitudes (about 6000ft). Does the altitude affect mushroom growth at all. I imagine the type of mushrooms that would flourish there, are those that i would find in colder climes to the north, Oregon, Washington, and very northern California.
So yeah, anyone know how altitude affects mushrooms? and has anyone ever tried hunting in the mountains?
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ToxicMan
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: doitagain]
#6681505 - 03/17/07 07:02 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Altitude affects mushrooms in two main ways.
First, lots of mushrooms are mycorrhizal. Their hosts will vary in the mountains by altitude, so the mushrooms will vary with those higher plants.
Similarly, most of the rest of the mushrooms you are likely to find are saprophytic. Ecologically, fungi are the primary decomposers of plant matter on land. Many mushrooms are tied closely to the species of plants they will decompose. As with mycorrhizal species, since the distribution of plants varies by altitude, so will the distribution of mushrooms vary.
The other main way that altitude will affect mushrooms is that the higher you go the colder it is. So mushrooms with a distinct season (morels, for example) will fruit later at higher altitudes than they do at lower ones. The result is that you can follow the morel season up the mountains in altitude so that your season can last several weeks instead of only one or two. If you find some mushrooms you want to find at some altitude, but they're old and going bad, try going up a thousand feet or so and see if they aren't younger and fresher there. Similarly, if the ones you find are immature and barely starting to grow, go down in altitude and try again.
Happy mushrooming!
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 CureCat
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: ToxicMan]
#6681572 - 03/17/07 07:26 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
ToxicMan said:
If you find some mushrooms you want to find at some altitude, but they're old and going bad, try going up a thousand feet or so and see if they aren't younger and fresher there. Similarly, if the ones you find are immature and barely starting to grow, go down in altitude and try again.
Nice! I'll have to try this sometime! Have you tried this, and if so, with which species?
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doitagain
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: CureCat]
#6682162 - 03/17/07 10:54 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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cool. thanks for the tips
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ToxicMan
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: CureCat]
#6685076 - 03/18/07 07:30 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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We do that here every year for Black Morels. The season generally starts around mid-May at about 7000' then migrates up about a thousand feet each week. I've actually found them near timber line (about 10500') in mid-August.
There's a sort of reverse version of the same effect in late summer into fall. Some late season mushrooms will fruit at high altitude in July and the last ones fruiting will be down around 7000' in September or even October.
Happy mushrooming!
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GGreatOne234
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 Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: ToxicMan]
#6686649 - 03/19/07 09:50 AM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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ToxicMan,
How do you measure what elevation you are at?
Handheld GPS?
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ToxicMan
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: GGreatOne234]
#6688388 - 03/19/07 05:18 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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GPS these days. When we first started doing it we used topo maps.
Happy mushrooming!
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canid
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Re: hunting in the mountains [Re: ToxicMan]
#6688676 - 03/19/07 06:15 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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barometric altimeters can be helpful too.
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