Bonanza! The Morel Mother-Lode!
There is simply no other way to describe our May 30th mushrooming foray on Mt. Hood!
Late Thursday morning we decided to drive to one of our favorite morel locations on Mt. Hood. Although we always try to think positive, we weren't really anticipating a very notable collection of mushrooms. After all, it had been raining for days, and this was the first break in the weather for some time.
When we spied morels growing along the road, we were delighted. When we quickly gathered over a hundred morels, we stopped counting!
We'd never seen so many morels in this location or any other location on Mt. Hood before. There were both black and blond versions, both tall and short. And, all of them absolutely perfect! What a great gift from the forest floor!
Steven has a saying, "Even a blind hog gets an acorn every once in a while." On this day, we got acorns!
We encountered all sizes and shapes of morels.
And, we're not the only mushroomers who are reporting astonishing finds over the past week or so. We have heard from others that the king boletes are abundant on Mt. Hood as well as in Jackson County near the Willow Lake area and in Klamath County in the Lake of the Woods region.
The bottom line is that this is the best spring mushrooming that many of us have seen in years. Go out and get your acorns! Enjoy the experience and the adventure!
PS We couldn't resist going back to these locations a week later. Sadly, the morels were missing, but the boletes were bursting through the soil in great abundance. How delightful to have such marvellous spring mushrooming!