here they come!!!

morel season is almost here in Norcal! My wife & i have been hunting every kind of mushroom for 3 years now. we're still kinda newbies but we're super careful & we've had a blast! We just started doing some regular work for a logging co. & they gave us exclusive permission to hunt 50 acres of a burn site in Manton! We're super excited! We've never hunted morels in the woods before. We've found morels every year for the last 3 years around march 20th but only in landscaping bark in Red Bluff where we live. (in the Norcal valley so the elevation is low. like 300-400 ft). Manton is around 2000 feet elevation so i'm not sure when to start hunting. II'll do some research. does anyone have any advice? We wish you all productive hunting!

 

hi judt! welllllll... sorry, we've already got a group going & i'm trying to control my greed as it is. we went up to the property & buddied up to the guy who owns the next property over. he said we could hunt his property too! he's rebuilding after the burn. he's a grumpy ex-cop & he said he'd chase off any trespassers. PERFECT! we walked the up & down the logged property & didn't see any shrooms whatsoever. it was pretty chilly still. we'll be checking often. Thanks for the guidance
I noticed on another sight that someone recently found morels at 6000 feet up near mt. shasta. whats up with that?! what area do you live in? dont tell me if you dont want. i live in red bluff at the top of the norcal valley floor. i haven't seen any morels down here yet. then again we've had very little rain. my chanterelle spots didn't fruit either. Usually we get a lot of springtime amanitas here in april so i'm really hoping we get some some more rain so they show up

 

here's where i saw that morel near mt shasta. http://morelhunters.com/ someone claims to have seen 1 right by you too! is that you? i'll bet you've got great hunting up there! isnt there a lot of high desertt too though? we've driven thru on i5 quite a bit.My wife & i love boletes! we've never hunted them specifically tho... Wait, yes we did! we went up near lassen last july 4th looking for butter boletes but it was a bust. we found a cpl kings out near arcata on the coast last sept too. but we were there for chanterelles. we really did well that trip. anyway, no morels yet but its raining today so heres hopin

 

oh, hey i just remembered the first time we found a butter bolete. it was our first mushroom hunt ever. the day before we were excited that we found & identified a slippery jack bolete. so we ate it that night and our excitement dropped sharply the next day we went to the same spot & we were finding white chanterelles like crazy! we found a HUGE butter bolete & we thought "yuck" but it was so beautiful & crazy how it stained that we kept it just for fun. later that night we identified it & tried it. WOW! it was delish but i think that was the only 1 we've ever found.

 

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My friend in shasta lake city found (15 min above redding) just found a bunch in his neighbors driveway! he found em ystrdy. . those r the only morels ive heard of so far around here. Hey candy cap, the candy cap mushroom is 1 of the few mushrooms ive never found! i bought some powdered candy cap at Far West Fungi in SF but havent used it yet. Ive found a million rust colored milk caps & i always get excited thennnnnn... disappointed do u find them much? any tips?

 

well, i guess those links only work if u opy & paste them. sorry. i stink at technology type stuff