First Hedgehogs!!

[jerkin'm]

Had my boys out today for a couple hours and hit it hard...woods are absolutely bursting with shrooms right now..found our first hedgehogs and lots of other species as well..now the work begins..

[NoWiser]

Awesome!! Hedgehogs I think are my favorite mushroom to eat. I can only ever find one or two at a time, though. I sure wish I could find a decent amount once so I could actually have a meal of them instead of just a taste. Still haven't found any yet this year. Who knows, maybe this weekend.

I hear you about the work just beginning. I think it took me longer to clean and preserve the mushrooms I found this past weekend than it took me to actually find them. It will be worth it when I have mushrooms to enjoy all winter!

Nice work! Great to see your son gets out there shrooming with you!

[Stick in Mud]

I'm super, super jealous....I've spent about 10 or 12 hours the last three days looking for various kinds of 'shrooms, and I've found nothing but chickens. Now, I LOVE chickens, but the vast majority of what I have found has been long, long past expiration date. Today I found six or seven huge clusters of them, but only one was prime. The other was super corky and the five others were long gone.

And for the life of me I can't find a chanterelle this year.

Oh, I did find an old man of the woods today, but that's been about it for the boletes, too.

[jerkin'm]

NoWiser, you can see how many we found..exactly 4... I did leave a few that were small and passed by the area they were in pretty quickly as my youngest boy was getting burned out and started talking about me carrying him... Needless to say, we picked up the pace and aborted the area...Stick, the chickens we found were mostly really nice...didn't see more than a couple that were corky..

[pushbutton]

Nice find!!! Jealous also, spent a few hours in the woods over the last few years and have never crossed paths with any.....that I have seen anyway. Are you at the cabin or scrounging in the cities? Nice haul indeed....have fun cleaning it

[jerkin'm]

PB-Both places in the last few days actually...been spending all my days off at the cabin this summer....Shrooms seem to be pretty much at the same development in both areas which is a little strange..

[Matt Breuer]

Congrats! Always nice checking off a new shroom on the list!