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maynardjameskeenan
The white stipes



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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Mr Piggy]
#23906854 - 12/08/16 12:50 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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One of my biggest fears of hunting edibles in the forest is getting shot, mushrooms season and hunting season overlap. I wear a bight colored backpack but some people are really fucking stupid..
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d0urd3n
Just call me "D"

Registered: 09/15/10
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Yeah I like to be invisible in the woods, but I wear an orange hat in the fall. Can't think of any stories really. Except almost getting shot. People started firing off rounds right above me and a few buddies. No backstop or anything. They were target practicing down the entrance of a trail...
Drunk rednecks piss me off. i also do the freeze move ha.
I've run into too many crazy people in the woods lately I'm going to start carrying from now on.
I found some old guerilla grow. Probabaly just some kids, wasn't anything serious. Found a meth op driving to a mushroom spot. That was a bit sketch.
I was dirt biking to a mush spot and almost hit a bull moose. Probabaly going 35 down this overgrown logging road that turned into a single trail. Same thing happened in the exact spot around 3 or 4 years later
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RiverDweller1



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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: d0urd3n]
#23907249 - 12/08/16 02:45 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Found a gorilla grow myself once, carried a hand gun every time since. Way more worried about humans than animals.
Plus hand cannons are fukcing awesome
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DavidReishi
Mediocrity Extraordinaire


Registered: 10/07/15
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Two years ago, during my first season mushroom hunting, as I approached a wood-chipped hotel I'd once looked at along the San Leandro marina, I encountered near the hotel's entrance two large Pitbulls. A hotel driver was telling them 'No!' and I figured they were his. As soon as I started hunting the grounds the two Pitbulls approached me, and I very very cautiously befriended them. They were actually quite timid and followed behind me as I searched around the building. I can't say I wasn't thinking about the possibilities that could happen...in fact, I've always kinda feared big Pitbulls, but of couse when I'm mushroom hunting I'm fuckin' fearless.
When I got back to the front of the building with the two Pitbulls following me, nobody was out there any longer and I wondered about that driver. I entered the front lobby and asked who the dogs belonged to, but to my surprise the lady behind the kiosk said they belonged to nobody and that they'd already called Animal Control.
So I returned outside where the two Pitbulls were waiting and came to realize that the dogs were very hungry. For a few minutes I debated with myself how to handle the situation, whether to leave 'em, whether to wait for Animal Control, or whether to drive nearby and return with food. But finally the Pitbulls became impatient and kinda wandered off.
I didn't even know they went far until not thirty seconds later I heard a man on the Marina walkway screaming "get off my dog!...get off my dog!"
"Oh shit!" I probably said as I bolted over.
It was an old white man with a medium sized dog and a toy sized dog...the man was all tangled up in his leashes and one of the Pitbulls was attacking his medium-sized dog....and just as I arrived, the man and the medium-sized dog went overboard onto the rocks and water and the same Pitbull snatched up the little toy dog in his mouth and was proceeding to kill it.
Well I lost all sense beholding this and as I arrived practically lept on the Pittbull's back. I heard myself repeatedly yelling "Nooo!" in my deepest and loudest voice possible, and I saw my arms and fists pounding the Pitbull's back with all my might over and over again, but I wasn't consciously making the decision to do these things. In fact, what was consciously on my mind was this tiny, distant, and vague image of me dying right there that day.
In actuality, however, the Pitbull barely even noticed what I was doing. But as this was happening, a guy and his girfriend were witnessing the whole thing from their hotel room. The guy jumped out and ran over carrying one of those big white plastic lawn chairs and, with me backing off the Pitbull, proceeded to smash the lawn chair over the Pitbull's back. (Remember, the Pitbull during this whole time had the toy dog his mouth.)
Finally, on the third or fourth smash, the chair shattered into hundreds of pieces over the Pitbull's back and, being surprised by this, the Pitbull suddenly dropped the toy-dog and trotted off together with the other Pitbull who'd been standing there watching the whole time.
The man and his medium-sized dog couldn't even be removed from the rocks and water until firefighters came because of how tangled up they were and how disoriented the man was. (Crazily, the man actually possessed a pepper-gas sprayer but never removed it from his belt...it was covered with his and his dog's blood.) The toy dog was severely injured with very deep bites and gashes into its neck...but it looked like it'd live (and it did), and the firemen did the man a favor and took the dog to an emergency pet hospital.
A year later I looked it up and it'd made the news...though it wasn't a happy story. The Pitbulls (probably just the one) had attacked another person's dog earlier, and that dog had to be put to sleep. Plus, the cops finally caught up wth the two Pitbulls and shot 'em both dead.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/12/22/police-shoot-kill-rampaging-pit-bulls-loose-around-san-leandro-marina/
(Some of the facts in the above news story are wrong, however, as can be seen from my above story. Another news story said it was the firefighters who caused the Pitbulls to leave, lol.)
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Edited by DavidReishi (12/08/16 06:13 PM)
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Mr Piggy
Big Dick Retard



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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: d0urd3n]
#23907736 - 12/08/16 05:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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d0urd3n said:
Drunk rednecks piss me off.
Oh the rednecks understand firearms. The problem is all the kids from the metro area that buy a .22lr ar15 and decide to spray all over the woods. The Tillamook forest has become a careless and dangerous place. I've been inadvertently shot at more than once. I carry now when I'm out there, when I even bother to go.
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mountainplayer
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Mr Piggy] 4
#23907774 - 12/08/16 05:24 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was mushroom hunting along a section of the Pacific Coast Trail when I noticed a good sized section of the packed fir duff that was lifted up and slightly tilted. Classic mushroom hump. I told my wife that I'd found something pretty good sized and to come over and watch me uncover it.
Lifted the duff (it was stuck together so came off in one piece like a plate) and there was a huge turd and a couple squares of TP.
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RiverDweller1



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hahaha omg, yuk!
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burtonRebel


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These are some good stories, all that I was hoping for and more. I encounter weird stuff the further into the forest I go. Most common discoveries are old native american sites, and second to that are old cars that end up in the weirdest places. Ive only ran into other mushroom hunters once or twice. Once, I ran into this old guy who was trudging up a hillside looking for chanterelles in one of my favorite areas. It was also one of his favorites and apparently he had been going there for over 20 years. He was cool. Another time, I saw this tiny asian man that had several plastic grocery bags on his arms and in his hands. He was a chanterelle picking machine. I was out of sight and don't think he even noticed me, plus I was super annoyed with him taking way more than his fair share. I don't even really eat chanterelles, but other people do and most don't find it necessary to pillage the forest! I digress, I'm jaded and cynical these days with everything including mushrooms.
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burtonRebel


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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: DavidReishi]
#23908146 - 12/08/16 07:11 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thats a crazy story davidreishi, I always worry about stray dogs. One of the many reasons I always carry a super sharp knife.
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foragedfungus



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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel] 3
#23909672 - 12/09/16 10:17 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms. From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.
One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides. Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"
We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery. We went hiking together a bunch after that. I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.
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Ran-D



Registered: 12/19/10
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That's awesome! Bobzimmer is the man.
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Mr Piggy
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23909764 - 12/09/16 10:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'll be dammed.
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d0urd3n
Just call me "D"

Registered: 09/15/10
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Mr Piggy]
#23910001 - 12/09/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha what are the odds. Pretty cool
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foragedfungus



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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#23910025 - 12/09/16 12:24 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can really see it when I look through my threads/pictures. The quality of the photography, the interestingness/rarity of the fungi pictured. There's an obvious improvement a month or so after we met. Hiking with him for a season was one of the best things to happen to my understanding of mycology.
Thanks Bob!
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maynardjameskeenan
The white stipes



Registered: 11/11/10
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23910156 - 12/09/16 01:04 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ran-D said: That's awesome! Bobzimmer is the man. 
What happened to Bob? He's a cool dude, posted really nice pictures too.
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Byrain

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I don't think he likes some of us. I asked him to make a collection a while ago and it did not turn out well to say the least...
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NothingsChanged
Striving for Excellence


Registered: 05/28/11
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Loc: North/Western WA
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Quote:
mountainplayer said: I was mushroom hunting along a section of the Pacific Coast Trail when I noticed a good sized section of the packed fir duff that was lifted up and slightly tilted. Classic mushroom hump. I told my wife that I'd found something pretty good sized and to come over and watch me uncover it.
Lifted the duff (it was stuck together so came off in one piece like a plate) and there was a huge turd and a couple squares of TP.
I would have to say, that's worse than finding this.
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Ancestoralbeings
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Quote:
NothingsChanged said:
Quote:
mountainplayer said: I was mushroom hunting along a section of the Pacific Coast Trail when I noticed a good sized section of the packed fir duff that was lifted up and slightly tilted. Classic mushroom hump. I told my wife that I'd found something pretty good sized and to come over and watch me uncover it.
Lifted the duff (it was stuck together so came off in one piece like a plate) and there was a huge turd and a couple squares of TP.
I would have to say, that's worse than finding this.

 
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Mr Piggy
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For some reason I've always expected to throw a ball in the woods and have the dog return with one of those.
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breeg89
i'll tell ya hwhat

Registered: 05/04/11
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Mr Piggy]
#23911159 - 12/09/16 06:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Great idea for a thread. I ran into this thing once.

Not sure what it was. Looked like a damn mongoose.
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