Pictures from outdoor exercise.
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Yup.0
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Same ol' river, but Fall. (Me in yellow, 72-year-old rowing buddy Jeanie in pink, photo courtesy Jeanie's husband Ed.
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Gotta love the autumn colours!!1
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Very nice!
On my way home from the aquarium, I went looking for chanterelles, and I found some.
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Love all these pics 1
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From my hike on Sunday:
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@Just_Ceci -- is that North Carolina?0
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@Just_Ceci -- is that North Carolina?
Buffalo River area in Arkansas.1 -
It's lovely! Fall colors and amazing rocks. Looks like maybe there's fire there, or maybe that's fog and not smoke.
We'll get to go wander around the forest this weekend with North American Truffling Society looking for all sorts of fungi.
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It was hazy that day.2
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We had a nice time tromping around the forest looking for mushrooms. Most of the foray was in the lower elevations where there was an inversion and frost most of the day. We still found a variety of genera and species. Later in the day I headed up to higher elevation to get out of the frost zone to see if I could find some chanterelles; I did. I brought them back to cook up for the Saturday potluck.
Here's some images from the ID table:
The two specimens on the left are truffles (white and black). In the center is the ONLY lobster mushroom anyone in the group found.
The two mushrooms on the right look a little like chanterelles. They are not. They are scaly chanterelles or woolly chanterelles. They used go by Gomphus floccosis, but they've changed the name once or twice in the last years, and I forget what they're called now. They used to be considered close relatives of pig's ears, but now they are considered a little more distant. The gray caps with reddish stipes are boletes. We didn't ID to species.
Above the paper is a coral mushroom. On the top left of the paper are some spirals. They are not mushrooms. They look like plastic that came out of a signpost when it was drilled.
We found a lot of Suillus (slippery jacks). Also several honey mushrooms (Armelaria)
We found shrimp Russula, Gomphidius, Coprinus (shaggy mane), puffballs and oysters mushroom (Pleurotus).
There were some that we left unidentified. The large conch on the left is a Ganoderma oregonense, also known as west coast Reishi. I found this on a rotten stump about 2000 feet (750 meters) elevation. I ended up giving it to a woman who was going to process it into medicine.
And of course, our group did find just a few chanterelles. After lunch, I went up past where the foray was scheduled to go, and a few folks followed me to the first stop. I went on a few miles farther, and I found a couple nice patches that we could enjoy with all that other food...
...and no, I didn't get any pictures of the potluck spread. I was too busy putting calories into my face. Some of the dishes we had included matzatake with mozzarella and tortalini, bolete with cream sauce over rice, baked oyster mushroom, dry saute chanterelle, chanterelle biscuits, shells with chanterelles, angel hair with dried morels, saute honey mushrooms, mushroom pastys, candy cap liquor, two kinds of candy cap cookies, and... and..... We didn't have the corn smut fungus this year. And there were several things that didn't even HAVE any mushrooms.
The sad news is we didn't find any man on horseback mushrooms. They are delicious, although they have been reclassified as poisonous in recent years. The poisonings were people who ate LARGE quantities over several consecutive days. We didn't find the sparassas (cauliflower mushroom), and we didn't find the large fields of fried chicken mushroom. We only found the ONE lobster.
The good news is it's a really fun group, and we had a great time in the woods and later socializing with each other and eating so much food. But there was SO much, we had more for breakfast and there were still leftovers. Wow.
My scale weight didn't change when I got home. With as much as I ate, I can only suggest that mushroom hunting over logs and up & down hills does burn calories. That's how I can rationalize putting this post into this topic
One last picture: The whole ID table (well, most of it; there were a few other things that got put down there after I took the picture)....
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Very cool!!
If you took my knowledge of mushrooms and put it into a thimble, you'd still have enough enough room for your thumb. I like eating the safe ones but other than that... lol2 -
There's a few mushrooms that are really easy to identify. It's good to just start with those. Know what to look for and what the similar species look like. Morels in the spring is a good example. Hard to find, but if you know the habitat, it is easier. There's just a couple that look like it, and they don't really look like it. Chanterelles are easy to find around here... if you know their habitat. There's a few that look KIND OF like it, but if you pay attention, you can tell easily. At some point, you can tell from 20 yards away without even a close inspection. It's still good to take a good look. And take another good luck when you get home and sort them! Hedgehogs are also easy. It's hard to mistake a Lobster for anything else, but you should at least try to be sure what it's growing on. Boletes are probably the next step; if you avoid any that have red on them or stain blue when bruised, you are highly unlikely to hurt yourself. There are some edible boletes with red on them, but there's some you really want to avoid. The King Bolete is also known as the Porcini and is very delicious. Another name for chanterelle is pfifferling.
I carry some waxed bags to isolate any that I want to bring home to try and positive ID that might not be edible or worse, might be poisonous. Otherwise, nothing I don't know 100% goes in the basket! This is part of the fun in going out with NATS. There's a bunch of mycologists who know WAY more than I do. We all share a love of fungus, and I take advantage of their experience to learn more.
Edit: The first time I fond chanterelles, I was still pretty new at mushroom hunting. I showed my friend what I had collected. They weren't chanterelles. They were scaly chanterelles. I've never made that mistake again; it's SO obvious!1 -
Wow...been a while since I've been on the forums...love all the pictures on the water, especially. I've been basically housebound with my elderly Mom, but I really need to get my butt back outside (for my own sanity)...and these photos may be just the motivation I need to at least get back to walking more. A bit too chilly up here in VA for me to paddle right now (I'm such a FL wimp), but apparently there has been too much Red Tide in FL for most of my buddies to paddle too (our favorite race of the year was cancelled last week due to the water quality...at least I didn't miss it).3
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Photos from river camp last week. Salmon River in west central Idaho.
Some river sculpture.
The pack bridge at Mackay Bar.
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The driftwood looks like a critter crawling out of the water... lol0
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The only “exercise” was walking in the Botanical Garden, but it was really pretty!
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Whoa!! Beautiful!!1
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I’m working at my other part-time retirement job as a role player on military leadership training scenarios.
Injuries, fake and real. So far today I’ve crawled through the woods in a Ghilly suit on a checkpoint, twice, captured first time about 40 yards out, second time got to within 25 yards, and never found. At the end of the exercise I walked up behind a patrol member and said “boo”. They said J.C. How long have you been there? First time they refused to buy my birdwatching story, as I was armed, carrying a map, bad guy ID and attack intel.
Later, that same day, made up like a refugee, my group was under the control of a patrol, which came under artillery and sustained automatic weapons fire (blanks) for a good ten minutes. We had to suck dirt for a while, and I either took a boot or tree root to the face.
Having fun! I know what I want to do if I grow up!6
