Mushrooms

A Good Season Western Colorado has been kind to local morel hunters thus far in 2019. It started this Winter with an above-average snow pack. In spring, lower elevations received regular rains [...]

On the Mushroom Trail If you follow our adventures, most of you know that we head to the Pacific Northwest each year to chase burn morels. Although we usually trek West one week before and one [...]

Burn Morel Mapping This is How We Do It While we are getting pounded with snow and rain throughout the state (happy, happy, joy, joy!), what better thing to do on a dreary Friday night than hunt [...]

The Facts Is that really a burn morel you found? Maybe not! Get comfortable, we are about to geek out a bit on species identification. Morel hunters in the East and Midwest often have a totally [...]

Burn Morel Madness Begins… Now Mania is brewing and the interwebs are heating up with morel photos + discussions about the upcoming spring hunt. While the snow continues to fall in [...]

JOIN US  We are excited to present two workshops at the Explore the Outdoors Expo in Grand Junction on February 9th and 10th, 2019.  This will be especially fun because the nearby Grand [...]

The first thing you have to know about this festival is how to say it: Yah-Hots with an emphasis on the first syllable.  The second thing you have to know is that Cape Perpetua and the Yachats [...]

Mycophiles Converge We attended the 2018 NAMA Annual Foray in Salem, Oregon this year and are compelled to offer rave reviews. This was our first time attending the event and we give it high [...]

If You Can’t Find Them – Grow Them! The modern forager has to adapt when conditions aren’t conducive. This year was epically hot and dry in Colorado. There were no mushrooms. By [...]

Recently Trent and I ventured to Asheville, NC to complete a wild mushroom food safety certification course taught by Mushroom Mountain’s Tradd Cotter. While we are not planning to step up and [...]