wow, that sounds liek a cool palce to go hunting.....

i totally agree whistle. if i was at al religious i would opnely and proudly call it gods country. but im not and i have no words to better describe it, except for heaven on earth its a shame at how fast its coming down....but i wont go tehre.


and about the hedghogs i foudn lots when i was going chanterelle picking. i found them right in and around teh yellow chants. psynaut, if you keep driving past koksilah head for lake cowichan on teh back roads. go till teh real forest ends and your struck by the classic cowichan clearcut look. right before there take soem roads to your right (if your heading away from koksilah). theres a mountain side there that i could have easily filled the back of your truck with chant's. probably a few 56 gal pales of hedghogs in there. most of the ones i found were in teh 5cm wide range. biggest one i found was sorta lopsided, and about as wide and 2/3 the legnth of a dollar bill.

It's not fair, you guys are still foraging & over here there's a couple feet of snow on the ground

I can relate to that! So sad and gloomy when its cold around here.
This is my back yard, pic taken 2 days ago

dont feel bad....we jsut had 2.5 feet then a whack of rain....i havnt been picking since november. not sure whats out...but i may take a boo this weekend. im still seeing some mushrooms but none of the eating kind.

Great yard c. It looks like there's some good hunting right out your back door.
Believe it or not, some of the guys in the mycological society want to go on a foray in February. There won't be anything to eat, but you can still find Myxomycetes (slime moulds) & do observations with a microscope. We'll probably find some old polypores too. I missed this weeks microscopy session, but I'll try & get some good pics next time.
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Are there any mushrooms that fruit when it is -20F?
Cuz I am ready to go out and look for some.

I think I would giggle and pee my pants if I saw a fruiting ANYTHING outside right now.