Although you can't eat most mushrooms raw, i like to go hunting for them in the wild. This weekend we went on a short hike on the Olympic Peninsula in search of Chantrelles. my boyfriends went with his mother and her man. they'd gone on a different trail the day before and had good luck. We were on the Maple Valley Trail in Dosewallups National Park near Brinnon, WA.
the harvest
so tiny!
Lobster mushroom, which is really a russula (i think) that is colonized by the fungus on the outside that turns it red.
Most likely Bearshead, and the brown ones look like tiny cinnamon caps
these toadstools were everywhere in the hundreds
Shrimp mushroom
dont know what this is, but it looks deadly!
i call it Princess Peach's Parasol
I saw a story on Oregon mushrooms today, Grant's Getaways. They even featured lobster mushrooms. You had quite the variety there, some scary looking ones too!
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