Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Oregon Black Morel Mania 5 25 08

Headed for White Salmon Wa. Friday night with my buddy Steve, We stopped by a Native American Cooler, that had Columbia River wild caught fishes in it. the cost 40 dollar for the bright one with no fin clippage - sold. off we went!
We hit the local store up for grub and grog and headed for the pad, once here we broke out the tradditional hunting and life mind altering devices and planned our attack on key locations of the woods we entended to forage.
Forage we did
12 stops 12 miles of nothing at each place,,,, but the last stop was a mile long doosey.


Found this skull in the woods near the mushroom patch

antler false morel


A obsidian stone tool with oregon black morels

arrow morel


Found lots of treats to eat in fact we came back to this place a second time and on Monday it produced better than it did on Saturday.

oregon blk morel

2 merks

twins


Here is the Syrian Puff Ball - reported to be delishious, the fresher the better, but even young they have a rubbery flesh and reminded me of a sea scallop, even cooked it looked and sorta tasted like a sea scallop.... ill pass on, this food of the gods.

syrian pb
Weird lookin huh!
syrian puff b

more Oregon black naturals
blk merk

Nice plump black morel
fat girl

More of what to expect, these lil darlins look just like a damn fir cone or pine cone on the ground, dont get toooooo bug eyed, crossed eyed or lizarded lipped, droolin over the morels.

one here

The Sno Bank Morel - reported to be edible, not goin any where with this one, ill pass on it, just show me the real ones.......
sno bank morel


The False Morel - not sure how anyone could confuse it with a real morel but they do look close at times to the sno bank morels, they come in all the same colors, brown, tan, red, black and blonde.
false morel

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