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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Heyowana] * 1
    #23970657 - 12/31/16 12:36 PM (7 years, 30 days ago)

I like your nooks and crannies threads Adden. Seems like how and why you are finding them means they have very strong genes making them more beefy/potent. The remainder of the remains holding on to the season....

BTW, serious though, what kind of skat is that, not the Jazz kind :wink:. Those "poo caps" blow away "ant sticks" any day of the week man. Everyone knows that. Mmmmm.... sipping a quad espresso!


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Origyn]
    #23972096 - 12/31/16 11:57 PM (7 years, 29 days ago)

Went out briefly yesterday and found a few cyans clinging to life. Not expecting much more this season, now I'm just looking to spread some patches with some woodlover spawn.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: nonamenoke]
    #23973302 - 01/01/17 03:18 PM (7 years, 29 days ago)

Saw addens posts so well i was at cape disappointment yesterday with some pals i looked for some azzies. No luck though on anything fresh. Just rotten remnants and what looked like mycelium in the grass.  Wanted to get deep but that area is so observed there's no mushroom picking signs everywhere. Funny though the parking lot was full of pellies.



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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
    #23975025 - 01/02/17 05:01 AM (7 years, 28 days ago)

Nice to see pellies kicking it!

I found some off the roll that never made it here.. three different places 50 miles (80km) from each other.. made sure to move hundreds of stembutts of all phenotypes to the areas.











I wish so much that the last two were in better focus. I got so fed up trying to take shots of this that I took a personal  video diary I'm not gonna post, buuuttt...

It was just this wide open area with nothing but cinquefoil and scotchbroom here and there. There's not a pine needle to be found for 50 yards, not a person for miles. A lot fewer sticks and the "lawn" grass only grows right out the base of the occasional sedge but no clusters of dune grass. It is just a huge open area.. almost like "expanse" is a better word.. and nobody out there.

Some sticks and a few things here and there but a whole lot of nothing. Very "tundra" esque. No berries no birds no fur off to the sides, and only an occasional small game trail on your way in. I think only one other person has found it cuz I'd seen shoulder width breakage in and out. They are careful and smart, which I really appreciate from fellow pickers. I'd pulled out some old cans and plastic netting, and later this season I'd seen he/she had removed some bottles.

But then game didn't use his/her/our trail which confused me but there's like a wall of pines you can't fit your arm through if you come the wrong way.. so I guess that would be a death trap for deer or elk. But the low-lying berries aren't eaten so I wonder if the small mammals don't come here cuz all the eagles will. The squirrels tend to hang in the pines where the berries crawl up.

I think it must be a migratory bird area. Not like, on a map, just a spot some species of bird comes to en masse. They must eat the berries and bugs. I can't recall any shells, maybe here and there and once a big crab but it looked like a coyote got incredibly lucky and ate it as s/he dragged it in.

I've seen eagles pull small mammals out of there but I don't know what. Their scat is small, and away, deep almost like those weird spider holes you get out here.

All the mushrooms here are more potent than anywhere else along that edge of the sea. Especially the ones on the perimeter. I know that picture is blurry but notice the habitat if you're having problems findin them. The picture of their gills came out pretty well.
I remember being chased away from the southern side a couple times, you can hear them hootin and hollering bout the ladybirds and who's taking who to a romantic meal. I like how mushrooms in this general area always fruit in triplicate on the rockier, open soil, but will only fruit solo or duplicate in more lush areas, and often fruit triplicate near old trees now covered in tons of biomass. (First picture, the solo one bottom right, see how the cap turns up? Two more were growing underneath making it bend upwards.

I'd venture a guess they do nest here and the high calcium content off eggshells and high nitrogen content from poo are the reason. I can't think of any other factor except it's sort of rocky, but that doesn't make sense because they grow out of tiny rocks (sand) all the live long day.

The azures were like, I dunno, this blanket of mushrooms formed of circles of mushrooms growing inside other circles of mushrooms. They did depend mostly on at least one plant in the groubd. It was I guess a tad "rocky"? But rocky as to where you find a pebble here and there but thousands must be under the moss/weed/sand, but enough that you will kind of leave a footprint if you walk heavy or try. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen. There's a huge variation in the ecosystems on different soil aggregates (groups of soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than to adjacent particles. The space between the aggregates provide pore space for retention and exchange of air and water).

That place was one of my fill the backpack and trash bag and bounce days. So cool to see at the end of the season. I went back and it's just this barren old place of nothing. Some azures here and there but so weird looking. The most mutated and bound-by-environment fruits I've seen. The ground feels harder and there's less give and it's more sandy. This places catches wind off the sea and gets sandstorms now and again.

But come November there will be blackberries and bright yellow flowers and mushrooms everywhere it's wondrous to trip in. Around Thanksgiving, they sporulate under the felled grass while trying to stay warmer. It's why I say to get on your knees and gently move needles or grass. You have to do it gentle, as if you were handing a dry leaf to someone and don't wanna break it.. you'll feel a wet springy thing just let your fingers dance over like it piano keys. The first frost that scared you all had just come, but just like last year and how I keep telling you guys, a hard frost or two isn't gonna stop them. When they came back, they came back a lot more visibly than this, but still had tons over those windblown layers (and right outside the edge of other pickers footprints).


..and on your way out when you're good and tired, eventually you catch a huge game trail and the grass is laid down just like mother nature made a bed for you, and you can smoke weed and chill for a bit while the birds go and the waves splash and the wind trickles through the pines and out of the dunes and there's this.



Chased out of there by a pack of decent coyotes, found out where the big cats chill, luckily didn't find the bear but found a ton of his poo everywhere. No signs of poachers and they cleaned up the old circa 1993 drug lab out there. Can just run with the wind along the dunes, waiting for the grass to catch up and you can run for miles.

Heck it's 4am, I hope the links work it's taken me forever to do this on mobile. Love you guys hope we keep seeing the pellies. (And that all my pictures work I'm not fixing it lol). G'night.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Origyn]
    #23975032 - 01/02/17 05:07 AM (7 years, 28 days ago)

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I like your nooks and crannies threads Adden. Seems like how and why you are finding them means they have very strong genes making them more beefy/potent. The remainder of the remains holding on to the season....




Thanks for your kind words.. have been crummy lately so I much appreciate it.

A buddy and I call em firecrackers.
They are worth every knick and scrape and cut you get when you stick your hands 4-8 inches in the brambles. Sharp sticks when sifting pine needles, and hidden thorns shuffling through ferns. Be really incredible careful near thick sharp brush when you can't see your hands.

I've found it helps closing my eyes and letting my hands do the "seeing" for me, while visualizing what my hands have been through. Once you feel the telltale wobble, get it down to the last bit and pluck it. Wind your hand slowly back through the brambles with the cap in your cupped hand and stem coming from between your fingers.

..This time of year taking butts isn't gonna hurt nothing.. throw butts in a planter or move to cardboard). Take the whole thing, you earned it. That is awesome genetics if you pull it up on accident.

Being so deep is just guesswork from there but flashlights help with finding the ones deep in the brush. Particularly at sunrise, during the golden hour, especially when dew or the last night's light frost begins to fall on the mushrooms and make them glisten. This time of year at daybreak with a nice LED light and you'll see through layers of grass and cover, enough to see mushroom shine in very-camouflaged areas. It's not so easy at night with a light, even if it rained earlier in the day. Maybe it is my eyesight I dunno but it helps.. probably having more spectrums of light at daybreak than night idk or its the dewdrops.. and also eating one or two while picking. You catch a lot more light with dilated pupils to begin with, but small visual distortions have found me a buttload of mushrooms in the past.

The last mushroom I found in Oregon was January 16th last year. It gave a beast of a print too, considering its size, condition, and being beat up by a sandstorm. 4 inches below the pine litter, seemingly growing off nothing.

The stem went from my middle finger wrist, and grew off a small pocket of dirt next to a pine cone 4 or 5 inches away. Was nickel to dime sized.



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Went out briefly yesterday and found a few cyans clinging to life. Not expecting much more this season, now I'm just looking to spread some patches with some woodlover spawn.





Very nice. Those little cyans are ridiculously potent. A few dozen of those would be a haul on the coast. Usually around now is when I walk out with a quarter or half ounce, but my god. Especially the dune cyans. They are utterly fantastic. They outlast the azures by stem length/thickness and the cap's staying power. Often the stem is so thick, it outlasts the cap. I've wiped off large rotten caps to have a nice blue bruising beast of a boomer stem. Those are worth keeping with the aborts and firecrackers.

Have you handled fresh cubensis? What's the best way for you to describe the difference in stem between cyans and cubes?


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
    #23985382 - 01/05/17 10:27 PM (7 years, 25 days ago)

That's great seeing these late season finds. Thanks for the pixs. I need to continue developing my hunting skills as everything seems dead when I was out at the coast recently.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: sunroom73] * 1
    #24039991 - 01/25/17 10:31 PM (7 years, 5 days ago)


Aborts.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: NothingsChanged]
    #24040380 - 01/26/17 04:12 AM (7 years, 4 days ago)

Nice

Another one:


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
    #24040427 - 01/26/17 05:27 AM (7 years, 4 days ago)

:headbang3:makes me want to hunt


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: NothingsChanged]
    #24041975 - 01/26/17 05:43 PM (7 years, 4 days ago)

Nice late finds. Latest i ever found any in Seattle area was mid february. Never wanted to give up my favorite part of the year. I'd be out in first snow salvaging whatever was left in the field. Perserverance is rewarded.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Hamra]
    #24042301 - 01/26/17 07:56 PM (7 years, 4 days ago)

I'm taking a friend out this weekend. One of my best spots. It always stays warmer there because of the terrain and where it is. A lot of stuff didn't die and decay like last year before the frosts hit. It'd be fun to find something but we are going out mainly to trip balls and do some exploring.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
    #24045178 - 01/27/17 09:08 PM (7 years, 3 days ago)

I'm pretty certain I found some active gym survivors today. They look like they've weathered a couple freezes. I was thinking tubaria at first, but they dont look like any of the remaining tubaria I have been seeing. I think it's safe to say these are active gyms.







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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
    #24045466 - 01/27/17 11:58 PM (7 years, 2 days ago)

:cool:


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: NothingsChanged] * 1
    #24059185 - 02/02/17 01:36 AM (6 years, 11 months ago)

Yup, once someone finds something special we should open up the 2017 thread. I Kind of want to just have a year to year for the PNW since there are no real finds past january 1st. I hate calling things the 2016-2017 thread... makes sense for the California season though.
Maybe im missing something...


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
    #24059536 - 02/02/17 08:14 AM (6 years, 11 months ago)

I've thought that too. Then again those gyms and aborts were found in 2017. But they probably clung on since 2016 anyway.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
    #24060679 - 02/02/17 04:43 PM (6 years, 11 months ago)

I found azures until Jan 24th last year. Nice printable specimens. No huge flushes or nothing, but definitely still came home with collections late January.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
    #24540169 - 08/08/17 09:16 PM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Hey guys!! This year's almost here. Who's excited?


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
    #24540336 - 08/08/17 10:15 PM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I AM!!! My azure project patch may fruit this season.


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    #24540409 - 08/08/17 10:53 PM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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I AM!!! My azure project patch may fruit this season.



I hope it does! Can't wait to see the pictures.


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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
    #24540529 - 08/09/17 12:08 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

:headbang3:


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