Go by a strict code of morels

Spring is a great time for fungi to flourish in the PNW with the late winter storms and increasing heat. One of them being the famous morel. Morels are the most sought after mushroom of them all. They are considered choice edible. Early spring you can find half-free morels and yellow morels near cottonwoods and dried streams. My favorite however, are burn morels or morchella elata. They thrive where wildfires have devastated forests, mostly in higher elevations. My dad and I went in search of these famous fungi and ended up getting a good haul. Some we found in holes where tree trunks were pulled during firefighting efforts. 

Below: Massive flushes all over the area and some just exploding

Welcome

Hello, I'm an avid mushroom hunter and I'm going to be posting all my pictures on here and talking about the adventures that I embark to find mushrooms of all kind. I usually just go looking in all types of terrain whether mountains, trails, rivers, lakes, streams, meadows or forests. Some species, however, are more set in habitat or growing mycorrhizal with trees. For example, these chanterelles love to grow underneath pine trees before the hard freeze of winter. This last year was amazing for chanterelles. Upon finding one, you could find multiple flushes nearby.

These are called Cantharellus formosus or commonly known as the pacific golden chanterelle.

Mycorrhizal - A symbiotic (generally mutualistic, but occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant.