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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Getback on April 15, 2011, 04:50:44 AM
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Went mushroom hunting today in southwestern Indiana. It was a great day for it; low 70s, blue sky, just beautiful.
I take off down the horse trail half heartedly looking for some of those tasty morrells. Then I thought everyone looks for those things just off the trail. After carefully studying the terrain. I decide based on the trees on a ridge I should go up the ridge where no one else would be.
Now let me give you a history of the park. It use to be owned by mining companies. So those hills at one time were loose dirt and rock. Then too it had rained hard Monday.
Undaunted by history I head up the ridge, the bastage of a ridge. I struggled to get up there with all the loose soil and rocks. I keep thinking I will be the only one who does this. No other fools like me! Well I clear the ridge and there's a young man looking for mushrooms in the gully below. I tell him how deeply disappointed I was. We chat for a bit and I continue my search.
Soon I am totally engulfed looking for the things. I found a few and was thinking just a few more and I have some for dinner tomorrow. I was excited. Then after about 45 minutes I look up and wonder, "Where the hell am I?" I look around for some natural marker. None, I'm in a gully with briars, trees, stumps, and logs. It all looks the same in every direction.
Relying on my pioneer instinct (?) I say this is the direction. I continue down a gully but the gully becomes blocked by fallen trees and even more briers. Then I came to this huge hill. A huge hill with loose rock. No way I've been up this thing before!
Panic sets in. I'm tired! I've been up and down these hills looking for those mushrooms and plus the 2 hours of fishing. Oh yeah I make it a day trip. I start playing out a 911 scenario in my head. 911, hello. Yes I'm lost. I was looking for mushrooms in the forest. Okay settle down. I take it you're on your cell? Yes, does it have GPS. I think so. Well smarten the hell up! oh! blush! hehe.
So I pull out my cell and hit the GPS App. Lucky me I'm getting a signal. I see a lake I passed when I came into the woods on the screen. So which way is it exactly?! Off I go walking, through briers, leaves, and loose dirt. I re-check the GPS. I'm further away. I'm not making it home. I look at the hills I just climbed down from. Lordy, back up. I put the gps away and start walking. Half way up one hill I step on an apparently very very rotten log. Back down the hill I go on my butt. I take an inventory and hey, I'm okay. Tough bird! So back up I go. Through an amazing amount of briers again. Wow they are everywhere. Nice young tender tough ones too.
I finally see a small lake. Hey that looks like the lake I passed. Not the big lake on the GPS but a smaller one. Well it turns out those smaller ones can stretch out. I like to never found a crossing. Then when I get near. I see the trail I came in on. Once on the trail I look down and there is my beloved Jeep. I'm home!
I jump in the Jeep and call my daughter, "Daddy almost died." No sympathy just laughter. She may have heard that before. LOL.
Briers cut through my thick jeans!
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo150/aesopsoze/Picture254.jpg)
More cuts..........
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And more!
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo150/aesopsoze/Picture253.jpg)
I need a pin for this shirt that says, "You are here!"
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo150/aesopsoze/IndianaTeeShirt.jpg)
To add insult to injury, I snagged the mushroom bag on the briers and lost all but one.
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City boy.
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I wrastled with a bear last week
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City boy.
yep :D but you made it look for mushrooms another day, sure as heck wouldn't see me tromping around lookin for those.
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Haha good story....
City Boy :)
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damn you did it the hard way.....I just find where the cows go poop :D
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I also went hunting for mushrooms and nearly died, thank god I also had a gps cellphone app. It helped navigate me off aisle 3 and into the produce section. They are filming my "I shouldnt be alive" next week.
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I also went hunting for mushrooms and nearly died, thank god I also had a gps cellphone app. It helped navigate me off aisle 3 and into the produce section. They are filming my "I shouldnt be alive" next week.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Hey, I'm a farm boy!
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
Hey, I'm a farm boy!
Then I pray your new to the area...anyone born in the country knows the general landscape.
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Then I pray your new to the area...anyone born in the country knows the general landscape.
But there lies the problem. It's not a natural landscape, it was man made about 60 or 70 years ago. Also yes I'm knew to the area. Though I have been in about every major forest in Indiana. This was the closest thing to a jungle as you're going to get in Indiana.
It was actually a very fun day. I got a great story out of it. Uh..Little else. :rofl
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But there lies the problem. It's not a natural landscape, it was man made about 60 or 70 years ago. Also yes I'm knew to the area. Though I have been in about every major forest in Indiana. This was the closest thing to a jungle as you're going to get in Indiana.
It was actually a very fun day. I got a great story out of it. Uh..Little else. :rofl
:rock
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Were you wearing a watch? Where was the sun?
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Running backwards through the picker bushes again?
That sounds like a bad idea...
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Were you wearing a watch? Where was the sun?
Well that's what I did, I put the Sun to my back plus the gps.
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You call THOSE cuts? :D
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You call THOSE cuts? :D
I call them proof! :rofl
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Went mushroom hunting today in southwestern Indiana. It was a great day for it; low 70s, blue sky, just beautiful.
I take off down the horse trail half heartedly looking for some of those tasty morrells. (http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo150/aesopsoze/Picture254.jpg)
Question for you Getback, I found what i think are some morrells in the woods behind my house. The problem is the word "think" and "mushroom" can be a dangerous combination. From everything ive seen, and all the websites I have been to, they say that these are the easiest to ID. I wanted to post a picture here and see what you think. And if they are, what the heck do i do with them. Theres appx 20+ in an area thats 30x30.
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/IMG_3748.jpg)
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/IMG_3749.jpg)
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Silly post i know, but I love cooking and have always wanted to try these.
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Looks like one to me but I don't know that much.
Have a customer that sells bison manure online just for growing mushrooms.
He says it is the best for growing certain kinds of shrooms. :O
Anyway he makes a good living doing it. He says just grow your own for what it is worth. :bolt:
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The biggest danger here wasn't the fact he got lost but rather the fact he fell of going up that hill. A long time could have elapsed 'till someone find him if he had been hurt. Lucky you!
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Someone tell this poor fool they sell those things in grocery stores! No danger, no getting lost, no briars. Hate to think how he goes about getting a steak to put his mushrooms on. :rofl
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Someone tell this poor fool they sell those things in grocery stores! No danger, no getting lost, no briars. Hate to think how he goes about getting a steak to put his mushrooms on. :rofl
LOL yea but morells go for $50.00 or so a pound.....worth getting scratched up a bit :aok
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mmm jeans,long sleeve shirt,good gloves for the briars, hat, good sharp knife , bag, and a long stick . I showed my wife how to hunt morels and now she does more then me.
map update, not in Wisconsin yet. Wife looked a little bit today. To cold here yet I think.
http://morelhunters.com/