Home | Community | Message Board

Cannabis Seeds - Original Sensible Seeds
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineficklePirate
Stranger
Registered: 05/02/21
Posts: 3
Last seen: 2 years, 5 months
Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager
    #27289831 - 05/02/21 01:36 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Hello, I am completely new to this and am hoping to get some experience foraging mushrooms when I go camping over the next few weeks. 

I live in the Pacific Northwest and can drive to much of Washington or Oregon.

What is going to be in season in May up here and where should I plan on camping to begin looking?  I am looking for places to learn


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineraffib128
Stranger
 User Gallery

Registered: 08/05/20
Posts: 299
Loc: Vermont
Last seen: 1 day, 11 hours
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: ficklePirate]
    #27289888 - 05/02/21 03:37 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Mushrooms like moisture; I like to forage along small streams that are easy to cross back and forth. Once you start looking, you'll find them everywhere though. Maybe not so much east of the Cascades because it's desert, although it is beautiful out there.

I'd bet there are some good guide books specifically for edible mushrooms in the PNW; they should tell you what's around in the spring. Also check mushroomobserver.org to see what kinds of things people in the area are posting; there are often edibles posted there.

There are a lot of edibles that are relatively easy to identify, but you'll probably want to learn the language of mushrooms. Familiarize yourself with the parts of a mushroom. It's well worth finding random mushrooms and trying to get an identification on this website; I've learned an awful lot that way. You'll quickly learn what kinds of things you should be looking for for identifying.

Have fun camping - sounds like fun!


--------------------
Same username on Inaturalist.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineAnglerfishM
hearing things
Male User Gallery


Registered: 09/08/10
Posts: 18,641
Loc: Norvegr Flag
Last seen: 9 hours, 18 minutes
Trusted Identifier
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: ficklePirate]
    #27289972 - 05/02/21 06:32 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

You can use http://mushroomobserver.org to check occurring species in your area.

Make sure to bring a camera and take good pictures of all your finds, post them here so we can help with identification.

And never consume anything you're not 100% sure of.

Safe journey, happy hunting and welcome to the Shroomery. :toast:


--------------------




Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineRenegadeMycologist
On the case
Male User Gallery


Registered: 12/05/20
Posts: 3,817
Loc: Serbia Flag
Last seen: 7 days, 16 hours
Trusted Identifier
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: Anglerfish]
    #27290046 - 05/02/21 07:43 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Anglerfish said:
And never consume anything you're not 100% sure of.



Except if mysterious black guy wearing trench coat and weird shades shows up, handling you a red pill, then you consume without questions asked.


--------------------
:mushroom2:  l e a r n i n g  t h i n g s :mushroom2:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineHSapiensAmericanus
Stranger
Registered: 01/15/20
Posts: 337
Last seen: 4 months, 13 days
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: RenegadeMycologist]
    #27293958 - 05/04/21 12:52 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

It all depends what you might be looking for. Far SE WA & NE OR, like Blue Mtns. Area, would be good for morels, central WA’s not good for much unless you’re just foraying what’s there. It’s been a particularly lean season so far in the PNW compared to previous years. I’d say if you’re looking for interesting stuff in general, Olympic peninsula, Whatcom, and the Cascade foothills would be decent areas but I wouldn’t expect to find many choice edibles or any psychedelics.

I’d say camp wherever looks interesting and just post what you find. Learning about what’s around you is a good starting point.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleMr Piggy
Big Dick Retard
 User Gallery


Registered: 09/29/11
Posts: 8,379
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: HSapiensAmericanus]
    #27294371 - 05/04/21 05:18 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Morels come up in burns this time of year.  Make sure you're not wandering off NF or BLM land into logging land.  Weyerhaeuser almost always presses charges.

If you camp anywhere in the cascades west be ready for rain.  It rains until mid June most years, we don't call it juneuary for nothing.


--------------------
🅃🄴🄰🄼 🄵🄾🄸🄻


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineficklePirate
Stranger
Registered: 05/02/21
Posts: 3
Last seen: 2 years, 5 months
Re: Where should I plan on camping in the PNW in May as a new forager [Re: HSapiensAmericanus]
    #27297324 - 05/06/21 04:57 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Thanks.  I will bring a camera and post pics.  I decided not to worry so much about finding anything in particular this time around.  I am interested in edibles and actives mostly but finding and identifying anything would be fun.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* North Cascade hike and mushroom finds!
( 1 2 all )
@cro 5,104 23 09/24/04 11:16 PM
by freedomseeker
* PNW Liberty Cap Q's -(about spring hunting) trevorda8 8,496 7 04/19/05 01:40 PM
by emeraldmist
* Cascade Mountain hunt report 08-28-04... Amanita pin PICS Stymee 1,493 4 08/29/04 03:15 PM
by angryshroom
* Shroom hunting in the Cascade Mountains (PICS). Stymee 3,174 15 10/05/03 09:16 PM
by MagmaManiac
* Luck sofar in the PNW shroomsbury 2,743 12 06/21/02 10:45 AM
by NewHunter
* Fall 2005 PNW edible finds RogerRabbitM 2,118 11 09/29/05 03:12 AM
by Mycophilic
* PNW Chanterelles RogerRabbitM 4,519 10 10/07/05 05:09 AM
by YESSUP
* help in washington, blue's or cascades bowhunter 1,594 8 06/03/04 02:45 PM
by bowhunter

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: ToxicMan, inski, Alan Rockefeller, Duggstar, TimmiT, Anglerfish, Tmethyl, Lucis, Doc9151, Land Trout
424 topic views. 0 members, 8 guests and 13 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 14 queries.