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phyrphreek
Modern shaman


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Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack?
#22071257 - 08/10/15 10:58 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hello! I am new to the Pacific Northwest and I'd like to start getting ready for this fall. I lived in Louisiana before this, so "gear" meant a bag and a known cow field, cubes being the only ones I knew/needed. Here in Washington, I'm unfamiliar with all the different psilocybes, plus all the other genera. I was blown away my first excursion into some nearby woods last October. I'm going to need identification on SO MANY. I'll need to bring back samples for spore prints.
So here's the jig, what do you bring when you go on a hunt? I figure I'll need a good pack with several different mesh bags, a camera that's good in low light, hiking boots/clothing...Anything else that you guys can't live without when you go? Do you ever need any tools? Is there a secret time of day? (In Louisiana, it was in the early morning, right after a good warm rain.)
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mountainplayer
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: phyrphreek]
#22071358 - 08/10/15 11:31 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I bring a camera, tripod, collapsible reflector, plastic organizer to transport small to medium sized mushrooms without damaging them, notebook, pencil, digging tool, water, food, and if I'm lucky enough to remember, rain gear, cloth mesh bags for transporting edible mushrooms, and sometimes a field guide like Ammirati's Mushrooms of the Pac Northwest. If larger mushrooms are fruiting, I'll usually throw in a larger, sturdy plastic tupperware type container.
My wife goes with food, water, spare warm clothing, cell phone and Olloclip.
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Speckles
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: phyrphreek]
#22071370 - 08/10/15 11:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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If i'm goin hunting in the woods i like to wear rubber boots, bogs specifically, and bring a large knife. The knife is useful for shelf fungi and prying up mushrooms to inspect the base.
Hunting psilocybes is different, all the cyans ive ever found are in populated areas so usually ill scout during the day and pick around 2 am. All i bring for that are bags and scissors to snip the stipes, and a flashlight to suck on while i pick. If you make the sketchy beach quest for azures or go in fields for libs youll want the boots again and probably a camera to claim youre just taking pictures.
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phyrphreek
Modern shaman



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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: Speckles]
#22071426 - 08/10/15 11:56 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hunting psilocybes is different, all the cyans ive ever found are in populated areas so usually ill scout during the day and pick around 2 am. All i bring for that are bags and scissors to snip the stipes, and a flashlight to suck on while i pick. If you make the sketchy beach quest for azures or go in fields for libs youll want the boots again and probably a camera to claim youre just taking pictures.
Pick around 2am? Is it bad form to ask what sorts of places you normally find them? It seems the most common places I see them are in business locations, and I have no interest in attracting attention with a flashlight in those areas, haha. I've been looking for alder trees in parks and whatnot.
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Untitled
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: mountainplayer]
#22071475 - 08/10/15 12:13 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would have thought a beach would be the least sketchy place to look!
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TBJ12
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: Untitled]
#22071504 - 08/10/15 12:21 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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2-3 Bud Lights for an afternoon hunt or some Kush and coffee for the morning hunts. 
Bug spay is also a MUST have.
Edited by TBJ12 (08/10/15 12:23 PM)
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phyrphreek
Modern shaman



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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: TBJ12]
#22071856 - 08/10/15 01:49 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
TBJ12 said: 2-3 Bud Lights for an afternoon hunt or some Kush and coffee for the morning hunts. 
Bug spay is also a MUST have.
Bug spray is good thinking in the early season for sure. And of course a spliff is a given *:)
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Blazeyy
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: phyrphreek]
#22072112 - 08/10/15 02:54 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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JD bag, tin, 5 lighters, smokes, rizla, sports drinks n a Q of bud usually
-------------------- I give you the choice of 2 pills.
With each containing one of the following: Cyanide... Psilocin... Would you take the risk? Didn't think so. This is why Positive Identification prior to consumption is important.
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SuperAlex
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: Blazeyy]
#22117664 - 08/20/15 05:13 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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When can we begin looking in the Pacific northwest? Is it too early to start?
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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: SuperAlex]
#22117752 - 08/20/15 05:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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You never know unless you look. Are you looking for actives or edibles? I bet that there are some active Panaeolus about, no Psilocybe yet though. I've heard the Boletes are pinning in the Cascades.
-------------------- May you be filled with loving kindness. May you be well. May you be peaceful and at ease. May you be happy. AMU Q&A
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EnergyTurtle
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Re: Mushroom Gear - What's in your pack? [Re: phyrphreek]
#22118327 - 08/20/15 07:57 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cannabis, Pipe, Cigarettes, Lighter Water (lots) Food and Snacks Camera Tripod Windbreaker Pocket Knife A basic Mushroom Hunting Guide (the Falcon Guide by Dr. Orson Miller Jr.) Pocket Guide to Wild Edible Plants Audubon Society Guide to Wildflowers of North America Pocket Guide to Mineral Identification Sheets of paper for spore printing. "The Finger" (a broken garden trowel with only the center spoke remaining. I use this for digging for crystals and minerals) A small crowbar. (Two footer I think, for digging again) Collapsible shovel/pickaxe tool. A few 30 gallon garbage bags for packing out trash and minerals. My derby hat! Usually on my head, but if it's in my hand it's usually full of mushrooms. :P Sunglasses
Also, the wildcard: whatever recreational substances I pack out there with me (besides cannabis obviously). This isn't a given, only if the mood strikes me. I love to microdose shrooms when I go hiking every now and then.
Those are my essentials for any excursion, whether mushroom hunting or not. I usually keep this stuff packed up in a daybag so I can head out whenever I get the urge. As you can see, I'm not always hunting mushrooms, I'm also a massive rockhound.
A camera is absolutely a must have though. If you've ever hunted actives in urban areas, then you know the amount of attention that can attract. I've had many people come up and talk to me while picking shrooms. Taking a camera with me was the solution, people become a lot less curious about the weird guy staring at the grass in the park when he has a camera in his hand, lol. Whenever I go looking for cincts, I usually take some weed, smokes, water, papers for spore printing, and a camera.
Edited by EnergyTurtle (08/20/15 08:05 PM)
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