Thanks! You and me both! Each time I'm out that way I alway think... "why don't I come out here more often?" Pretty great out there, but I will say that the mosquitoes were already starting to show up in force!
Hey there Brother , another great video with lot's of info along the Mushroom Trail. Went way east of you near Grand Coulee for camping but getting out this week to have a look as well for the Spring Kings. Thanks for sharing !!🍄💚
Very cool! Those Spring Kings are really starting to do their thing out there! Happy Hunting - and best of luck out there! Hope you come back with a full basket!
Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it - and I always get excited when mushrooms, trees, mountains and other natural wonders work their way into my dreams! 🍄🌲⛰️💤
I wish you were in Appalachia, you do such a good job identifying everything, unfortunately we don't have a lot of that here. Enjoying your video anyway.
Thank you! Really appreciate you tuning in! I spent a lot of time out in East in my youth ... lots of great stuff out there too! I'll try to highlight some of the overlap in videos to come 👍
Awesome! Those Spring Kings are such a treat - glad you came back with some mushrooms in the basket! Depends who you talk to, but some prefer a young Spring King over morels. 🍄 You'll have to let me know which you prefer!
Pure magic; the water through those trees, just everything. Interesting to see mica geologically. I'm off down the marshes this morning for the first time in months, and I often find pottery with high mica content and it glistens in the sun. One piece was just a roman cooking pot sherd, but another piece is prehistoric and had bits of ground flint in it... and from my research and sketch reconstruction, it's most likely a piece of neolithic cremation urn, and I can't help feel like there is symbolism in the flint use... not just as a temper, but as a nod to the spiritual and practical importance of flint, and as for the mica... when it caught the sunlight through the low-tide, I could see the connection there too. The sun became even more consciously important at that time in human history.... Thanks for another beautiful trip!
Whoa! Roman and prehistoric pottery waiting just outside the door - that is really amazing! It is way too easy for me to geek out on both geology and archaeology ... so much wonder tied up in this planet's past! Years and years ago, I was living in the Azores and, when a buddy took me on a hike to a high point through the pastures, I couldn't stop picking up pieces of obsidian that littered the ground... and I continued to repeat "this looks like it has been worked!" - I was really into flint knapping at the time, and the concoidal fractures were screaming at me. At that time, the story was that the Azores were uninhabited until Columbus sailed the ocean blue and happened upon them. Now, in present times, the story has very much changed. There are tons of early human sites being explored (I believe dating back to Minoan) and some have even proposed links to the mythic and famed Atlantis.
@@MushroomTrail Oh wow, I don't get to see obsidian! I know that stuff cuts as sharp as glass! I always wanted to have a go at flint knapping. Funny story quick, I was out with my father a while back, and just happened to find a really cool mushroom I'd not seen before, and I wanted to do a cross section as it blushed pink, but didn't have a blade... he literally walked about the car park, found some rocks, couple of knocks later and he passed me a knife! 😂 There are thousands of flint nodules on the coastline I just got back from, and I've picked up a few pieces in the past thinking they were cores, another I thought was a tool. My cousin is an archaeologist and she said it was definitely Mesolithic, but the Finds Liaison people weren't interested and said it was naturally formed... I don't see, personally, how rocks can crash together and make what I found, it even showed signs of retouching?! [they want Saxon gold from metal detectorists!] ... the thing that got me, is that one of these large looking cores has an angle clean cut and it revealed a tiny, but perfectly formed, fossilised bi-valve shell. I can't help but think someone thought that was interesting thousands of years ago. They wouldn't have known the flint beds are 80 million years old here though! So much history out there, and comforting to know it's being explored so ardently. I don't know if you know of the channel on here called History Time? He makes some incredible long format videos covering civilisation and prior. The one called "What Happened To Britain's Last Hunter-Gatherers? Prehistoric Europe Documentary" is so atmospheric, likewise the one about Doggerland. If there is any time and any place I could live, it would be then and there, prior to the Tsunami of course!!!
Recent video was shot off of Highway 2 toward Leavenworth ... amazing how much things change on the other side! Thanks for tuning in, and Happy Hunting!
@@MushroomTrail Thanks a heap! We’re about 6 months into turning our gaze from rocks to fungi and plants. So far just poking urban parks North of Seattle. So many species! Planning on a Darrington area walk soon. Thanks to you, we’ll have some more knowledge going in!
Awesome! I agree - so many species to get to know, it's exciting! Cool that you've been spending time rockhounding prior ... I love that world of rocks and geology too. So much to learn, so little time. Good luck out there! I love the hills and peaks that surround Darrington!
Always enjoy and get excited to watch your videos! I’m curious do you always go solo when foraging? As a solo forager I’m just wondering what type of GPS, or satellite tracking navigation device or app do you use? I use a combination of OnX, Strava and compass.
Thanks! And that's a really good question. To be honest, I'm fairly "old-school" in that regard. I usually carry a compass with me and I try to have a good sense of the major terrain features if I'm wandering off the beaten path. But I think it makes a lot of sense to be using those apps too. I've heard good things about them! Curious to know - which of those has treated you best? I'm also often foraging in areas that I know really well... so in those instances, I don't typically give it a ton of thought. A buddy and I were out foraging in a new area a few weeks back and he dropped a pin on his map app, which seemed prudent 👍
There are so many tracking apps out there like Gaia, OnX, Natural Atlas, Strava and All Trails. I tend to stick with OnX and Strava just because I’m used to using them and trust their apps. My hubby volunteers for search and rescue and last year they must have been called out every other week for lost foragers. For that reason he’s got me setup pretty well for survival, but one can never be totally prepared for what’s outdoors. Love your content! ❤🌲🍄🟫🌱🪻🍄
That's great to be tuned into those apps (and to survival skills!). And very cool that your husband volunteers for S&R - I've heard that same exact thing -- that a lot of the S&R calls involve lost mushroom hunters😳 Definitely good to build awareness for everyone out in search of the next foraging treasure - thanks for adding this to the conversation! 👍
Not that I am aware of ... although you never know! I suppose it's possible that they could come up around some of the true firs (Abies genus) ... but I've never heard of anyone finding them out there. If anyone reading this has encountered Spring Kings in the Olympics, I'd be super interested to hear about it!
Wow, great video! I have never found spring kings but they're on my bucket list now. I haven't heard of A. aprica before. Is this species poisonous? I know the Amanita family can range from delicious to deadly poisonous, so I'm curious as to where this one falls on that spectrum. Thanks again for such an informative video!
Thanks - really glad you enjoyed the video! And, I should have stressed that - Amanita aprica is definitely on the list of toxic Amanitas - it contains both muscarine and ibotenic acid. I have no doubt that there are some Spring Kings with your name on them, awaiting you on the east side! Good luck out there, and Happy Trails!
Nothing wrong with a few morels jumping into the basket! Curious to know what elevation you tried? The footage from this vid was under 3k ... and I had good luck just the other day a little higher at 3260' ... I am likely going to push higher in the days to come to see how it's looking.
@@MushroomTrail I started at around 2500 and ended up working my way up to nearly 5k by the end of the weekend. At 4800 I was finding lots of snowbank mushrooms and some very young morels. 3500 felt like the sweet spot for mature but not overly mature morels, and below that I wasn't really finding much of anything mushroomwise.
Very interesting! I'll be super curious to see what these recent rains bring. Seems like the coming conditions over the course of next few days should be perfect. Can't wait to get back after those Spring Kings!
