Comments on: Confessions Of A ‘Shroom Hunter

By: Valentin Lowrance

Valentin Lowrance — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:15:33 +0000

folk with high assurance in their capacities approach difficult jobs as challenges to be mastered instead of as threats to be evaded.

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:41:15 +0000

There are hundreds of different mushrooms in Island Park and most are edible (or at least not dangerous.) You need a field guide. There’s a good one at Barnes and Noble. I don’t recall if the title was “mushrooms of Idaho” or of the rocky mountains, or the mountain west or something like that. It is a great guide with extensive color photos. The safest way to get going is find someone at the university who can show you. Or put an ad in the thrifty nickel looking for a tutor. Once you make a trip or two with a mentor, you’re good to go. You don’t know everything, but you know enough to be safe. Idaho is Morel mushroom heaven, and if you’ve had them, you know they’re worth looking for. Good luck finding a mentor. It will increase your joy in your surroundings and give you a peaceful, quiet pursuit in the mountains. What could be better than that?

By: Margie Anderson

Margie Anderson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:57:06 +0000

Picking huckleberries in the mountain to the east of Henry’s lake, I came upon some mushrooms and remembering some friends several years ago who were avid mushroom pickers, I picked four different types, brought them home , worrying my family that I was going to eat them or drop dead from holding them. I bought a book at the forest service. That was not enough info. to identify them. WHere do I start to become a shroomer. I like mushrooms.