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MORELS 2018

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#1 ·
About the time I start thinking about morels. Been looking over maps and thinking spring! It's kind of interesting when you have Delorme maps of many states with hot spots marked, you kind of relive those hunts again. Missing PICKENS!!! Happy Hunting!!!
 
#5 ·
Hi all, I'm new here. I've never found a morel in my life but I'm determined to this spring. I've gotten pretty good at fall mushrooms. Hens or sheep heads as we all call them here and chickenmushroom And even some some chanterelles and shaggy manes too. I'm in luzerne county but spend a lot of time in Wyoming and Susquehanna counties too. Anyone have any tips specific to my area that aren't mainstream info they'd want to share?
 
#9 ·
Wow guys. Daffodils were pokin' thru the ground the size of my finger nail and a tree down the road was with fuzzy buds on Jan 28th. Daffodils a few inches high on Feb 18th now have buds with their yellow visible from a distance and that same tree has leaves sprouting. :eek: Crazy I tell ya!! Also, as of the last couple days, MANY trees are budding. We were all the way up to 81 a few days ago and in the early 70s the last two. We are having a ton of rain and flood warnings are posted 'til late Sun night. Crazy weather; the 10-day forecast is showing more seasonable temps . . . I'll take 'em. Saw the 1st find posted in Georgia . . . it's almost time here. ;)
 
#10 ·
Happy 2018, Trahn

I too miss the many back and fourths with Pickens, I only met him once but am happy that I had that chance.

Not sure whats happening on your side of the state but here in Pgh, we are experiencing massive amounts of soil erosion and landslides... Im thinking 2019 should be an amazing year if the weather conditions are decent. I say 2019 as I imagine this wont affect this season in time.
 
#11 ·
I am new to most mushrooms but have been hunting morels for 50 years. I enjoy reading your blogs. I have a question on a lions mane mushroom I found one last week on a standing beech tree. Its in bad shape, should I remove it or let it alone. Will it come back this year. The tree is still alive but very diseased.
 
#35 ·
I don't know how far it is from you, but here is a spot that I used to find some at. I haven't hunted it in over 25 years. My cousin and I found over 100 here one season. It is state game lands 230 at Carlisle springs. It had some old apple trees, which is where we found most of them. there were also a few elms at the time which we found some on some trips. The reason we had hunted it was my cousin lived down there and when he moved I didn't go back. He always let me know when they were up down there, because it was always a little earlier than up here. That way I wouldn't waste a trip.
 
#37 ·
My cousin lived in Carlisle springs so we went back 994 off rt 34 there were parking lots along 994. I don't know how much they changed the gamelands but the apple trees were dying back then. He knew where they were because he spent a lot of time on the gamelands training his dogs and hunting deer. I know we went on both sides of 994 and that we hunted the hollows along the streams and at the end of some of the fields that's about all I can remember, he was my guide. I think the elm trees were pretty far up in the one hollow towards Blue mountain. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
 
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