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burtonRebel


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mushroom hunting story thread!!!
#23905122 - 12/07/16 08:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not much of a story, but I thought it was an interesting encounter. I've had a lot of time recently to spend in the woods looking for seasonal plants/fungi. I feel compelled to get out there every day if I'm not busy or obligated to do normal life stuff... Today was unusually cold and miserable and it hailed and rained early on. This helped motivate me to leave the first area I arrived at, but not before crossing paths with a cute girl who looked like she was enjoying her time in the woods. Sometimes, I just want to ask people who I run into while mushroom hunting, if they too are in fact mushroom hunting. I didn't and just exchanged pleasantries, but this ties into an encounter later. I drove to another area not expecting to find a whole lot, as the weather patterns are progressing from our fall to our winter rapidly. Fall boletes are finished, and I hit it pretty well before they wrapped for the year. There may be a few winter boletes here and there, but they are dwindling for sure and probably infested with fly larvae. Today, I was looking for whatever I crossed paths with which ended up being about 7 small solitary L. rubidus. Saw a few chanterelles too, but I leave those typically and cover them up with leaves to prevent commercial harvesters from finding them(is that wrong?). I have a pet peeve with making money in ways that don't promote the health of forests. Maybe its sustainable in Oregon to Alaska where the wilderness is vast, but I know it isn't here. Every year around this time, I see an influx of cars from those states that have already experienced their "freeze" and I always assume they're attempting to follow the season. Who needs that many mushrooms??! but I digress... While searching for more lactarius, I found a good amount of bay nuts on the ground still encased in their ripe avocado-like fruit. I love bay nuts, and this is a good year for them. I filled a plastic grocery bag in about 5 minutes because no wildlife(except pack rats maybe) eats them and people don't really use them anymore. The indigenous people ate the fruit and the nuts as a staple, and you have to roast them to cook off the volatile oils, but once done, you end up with a dark nut that tastes and smells much like roasted coffee and chocolate. They're rich and a little bitter so they are not the best snack, but you can use them in many applications. Ask me if you're curious, I really like them. Back to the story, I explored some new trails and found some really old/big Ganoderma applanatum, a couple perfect Amanita muscaria, and a less-than-healthy cluster of Amillaria mellea. It was exceptionally cold so I decided to call it a day with a lot of daylight left. As I walked back to my car on the same trail, I saw a few more L. rubidus under pine that I missed on the way in. Some years, they're much more common and easy to find. This year is not going to be a bumper year, as far as I can predict. Pretty hard mushrooms to spot in forest duff since they're small and the same color as leaves. I picked a few and noticed a man on the main trail staring off in a close direction to my trajectory. I know when I'm attracting curious-about-mushroom attention. I'm pretty wary of mushroom-hunter-hunters. I find my spots. Even if I saw somebody picking something in the woods, I would respect their find and not halk their spot. I don't go back to areas others' have shown me(like Alan R's matsutake spot where I found a 3 pounder). Im pretty secretive so I stopped picking when I noticed him and proceeded to eat my lunch on a log nearby. I shit you not, he stood there for 10 minutes and I felt like he was waiting for me to continue because he was so curious. I was a little intrigued and was kind of hoping he'd just come up and ask about what I was looking for. Towards the end of my sandwich he walked up a nearby trail. I put my garbage away and threw the shrooms in my bag. Then proceeded up the same trail the guy had gone up(I was already planning on scoping it before leaving). That guy was sitting on a stump 30 feet up the trail! He was probably watching me from there too! I made eye contact and was friendly. He asked me if I was looking for mushrooms! That's a first. I said yeah! excitedly ready to talk mushrooms!! He asked if i was on the hunt for edible or psychoactive mushrooms, so I told him about the day, showed him a Lactarius, and identified a Russula he had spotted. He told me about his apprehension and interest in looking for mushrooms. I gave him some advice on where to start. I have a feeling he was most curious about psychoactive mushrooms, surprise surprise! Write about your favorite mushroom interaction story! Heres some L. rubidus growing amongst some deadly amanita phalloids-
Edited by burtonRebel (12/07/16 09:34 PM)
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel]
#23905202 - 12/07/16 09:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was going hunting in this new pasture in the middle of the night, so i jump over a gate and immediately fall into at least 4 feet of swamp water, up to my stomach. Phone in hand and somehow managed to save it. I did find some pan cyans though.
Also, a lot of times i'll go into my regular field and encounter this bobcat that i guess lives there.
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burtonRebel


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lol that's great. If your phones ok and you found mushrooms, totally worth it. The wildlife factor is one of my favorite things about hunting, keeps it interesting.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel]
#23905248 - 12/07/16 09:42 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Couldn't agree more compadre.
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burtonRebel


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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel]
#23905262 - 12/07/16 09:46 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I made this thread because I remember seeing stories over the years and always being fascinated by other individuals' experiences. It's all about the hunt for me, the mushrooms are a bonus. Any saga that involves any kind of mushrooms or what you thought were mushrooms belong on this thread.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel] 1
#23905285 - 12/07/16 09:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was hunting Chanterelle locally a couple years ago just off the hiking trail and had an interesting encounter. Often times people will walk past me as I hunt, If I am far enough "off-trail" I will just freeze in place and let them move on by. Hardly ever am I even noticed.
This time a cute woman in tight spandex was jogging by. I froze, but she saw me anyhow. My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her...". To my shock, she stopped and asked "What are you doing?" I nervously said I was hunting mushrooms, and she asked if I had found any good ones. I held up a nice big Chanterelle and to my surprise she knew what it was! Turns out she is a local Mycologist who specializes in Armillaria. We chatted a bit, and I jokingly asked if she was going to come back to harvest my patch. She coyly said "Now where would I put them?" and gestured to her tight outfit. I laughed uncomfortably, trying not to stare... She said her goodbyes and continued on her run. All said, it was a memorable experience.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel] 1
#23905312 - 12/07/16 10:07 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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burtonRebel said: The wildlife factor is one of my favorite things about hunting, keeps it interesting.
Encountered a black bear recently while hunting with my buddy. I had turned to walk up a creek a little ways by myself when he came running behind me and told me there was a bear. Sure enough I see the bear walk towards us and stop less than 20 yards away to check us out.
I did the usual: made myself big, did some loud clapping and some, "Ah! Get out of here bear!" The bear didn't seem to care, and I didn't really either, I could tell he was only curious. But my buddy (who had pulled out a gigantic knife at this point) wasn't having any of it and he let out a savage scream at the top of his lungs. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" It was like a fucking war cry.
The bear still didn't care. He just stared at us like "what the hell are you guys yelling about? I was here first..." After a few more seconds he decided we weren't interesting and slowly moseyed away, glancing back at us occasionally. My buddy was spooked the rest of the day and wouldn't leave my side.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23905320 - 12/07/16 10:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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That is fucking hilarious
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Lhun]
#23905322 - 12/07/16 10:10 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lhun said: My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her...".
I do the freeze move as well.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23905392 - 12/07/16 10:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Black bears...the cows of the woods...
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23905412 - 12/07/16 10:47 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ran-D said:
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Lhun said: My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her...".
I do the freeze move as well.
Threesies. What can I say? It's a good move. Forever and always that creepy guy in bushes.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23905428 - 12/07/16 10:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lhun said: Often times people will walk past me as I hunt, If I am far enough "off-trail" I will just freeze in place and let them move on by. Hardly ever am I even noticed.
This time a cute woman in tight spandex was jogging by. I froze, but she saw me anyhow. My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her...".
hahaha. I do the same freeze. And I always kind of feel like a creep walking around off the trail but near the trail.
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Ran-D said: But my buddy (who had pulled out a gigantic knife at this point) wasn't having any of it and he let out a savage scream at the top of his lungs. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" It was like a fucking war cry.
good stuff!
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: burtonRebel]
#23905483 - 12/07/16 11:13 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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As for the freeze thing, i always whip out my phone or camera and act like i'm taking photos of random nature (i'm also a photographer though) just act like your doing some artsy angles and shit and your set ime.
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Ancestoralbeings said: As for the freeze thing, i always whip out my phone or camera and act like i'm taking photos of random nature (i'm also a photographer though) just act like your doing some artsy angles and shit and your set ime.
me too, but how awesome would it be to just do something completely absurd?!
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Lhun]
#23906038 - 12/08/16 08:17 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lhun said: My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her..."
This early fall I was up a steep slope above a walking path in the forest where I pick hedgehogs - there are lots of people jogging and walking past below. I usually don't care about other people while I'm hunting, but this particular time there was a couple with their two kids perhaps around 3 and 5 years old, when the oldest one shouts out to his parents "Look! Up there! There's a sneaky guy hiding in the bushes!"
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Ran-D]
#23906147 - 12/08/16 09:20 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ran-D said: But my buddy (who had pulled out a gigantic knife at this point) wasn't having any of it and he let out a savage scream at the top of his lungs. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" It was like a fucking war cry.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Byrain]
#23906169 - 12/08/16 09:34 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was hiking once in Spring and traversing the side of a mountain. There were fallen trees everywhere and near the top I had to move over about 5ft to get up to the road. As I popped up onto the road, there was a momma bear and her two cubs sunning RIGHT WHERE I WOULD HAVE COME UP if I hadn't moved a bit. Scared the #$^@$#@ out of me and I booked it out of there.
She never even got up. It took me hours to come down from that rush.
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Some great stories here. Once, while looking for ovoids pretty far off trail...I found an abandoned homeless encampment with trash littered all around. There was somewhat fresh dirt dug up in a rectangle about 3' x 6' with a makeshift cross at the top of it. Last time I went by there the cross was gone. My guess is a homeless grave...maybe someone who had no living relatives? Anyway, it was near Baltimore city so anything is possible.
Also, once I had the dog with me in Southern Pa. just half hiking and half looking for chanterelles...I saw something about the size of a large raccoon in the trail ahead (was getting dark) so it was hard to see...so, my dog ran up to it before I could stop it and the critter scurried up a tree. When I caught the dog...her muzzle was covered with porcupine quills. I had never encountered a porcupine that far south before. I pulled them out with needle nose pliers in the car....she wasn't happy about it.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Sk8nshram]
#23906535 - 12/08/16 11:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ran-D said:
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Lhun said: My first though was "Oh great, she probably thinks I'm hiding in the bushes to assault her...".
I do the freeze move as well.
Threesies. What can I say? It's a good move. Forever and always that creepy guy in bushes. 
Yup some thing happened to me so on my way back i had a small cyan, stopped. and took a 90 degree turn. walked up and I asked if she knew what it was, she said she did, hung up on the call she was on and we went back to the patch to talk shrooms. It was much fun!
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: Joust]
#23906586 - 12/08/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ha, I do the freeze as well. I generally stay quiet and out of sight.
Back in 2012 my friend and I were hunting out in the Tillamook forest off of highway 26. It was a horridly dry year and we weren't finding a thing, so we decided to track a bear. Sometimes when you track a bear, you find a bear. Guess we should have read the instructions all the way through. Anyway, he seemed a lil too curious as he started huffing and following us back through the forest. We had to wind down the back side of a hill and take a steep ravine to get to the car, which the bear was in the path of.
Once in the car, we drove further up the hill to hunt some more. We got out at and alder grove by the creek to hunt for oysters. After romping around for a bit with no success we went back to the car only to discover a fresh cougar track in my footprint. A big one.
Once again back to the car and further up the hill! We were going to find some mushrooms dammit.
We stopped at a likely spot and got out again *BANG* *WIZ* yup, someone fired a shot right over our heads.
We dove in the car and bugged out, fuck it, day over.
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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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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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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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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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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: d0urd3n]
#23907736 - 12/08/16 05:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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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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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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hahaha omg, yuk!
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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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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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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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That's awesome! Bobzimmer is the man.
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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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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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#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



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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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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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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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NothingsChanged said:
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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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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
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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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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: breeg89]
#23911174 - 12/09/16 06:41 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Looks like a dead black bear, maybe a boar.
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breeg89
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I know the pic sucks, but it wasn't dead. Why do you think I zoomed so much? LOL
Yeah, maybe a boar, but seemed too small and elongated to be a bear.
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: breeg89]
#23911262 - 12/09/16 07:17 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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This really is so much better than tv. I remember a time when you could go on the shroomery(without going in the pub) and be entertained for hours by the pictures, stories, and interactions in the hunting forum. The one place where I can talk to other mushroom hunters/enthusiasts any day of the week.
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Ran-D



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maynardjameskeenan said:
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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.
I'm sure he is less than impressed with the quality of posts these days. He's not the only one that has disappeared that used to share a ton of knowledge and great photos. And I know I got called out on my shit plenty by all those guys when I started. 
Also, life happens and stuff.
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Mr Piggy
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Re: mushroom hunting story thread!!! [Re: breeg89]
#23912420 - 12/10/16 08:14 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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breeg89 said: Great idea for a thread. I ran into this thing once.

Not sure what it was. Looked like a damn mongoose.
Is river otter.
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