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This was my first find and one I was pretty stoked about that set the pace for the week. Ghost pipe is nearly impossible to cultivate.

 

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oyster mushroom we spotted along a creek. This thing was massive. Close to 2 ft across and almost 2feet tall.

 

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I found this bad boy while doing a bike ride down the Virginia Creeper Train line. I forget what this is called. Begins with an A. Is edible and gets up to 20 inches wide. I think this one was maybe 9 or 10.

 

So the Virginia Creeper bike ride was pretty awesome. It’s a 17 mile long decommissioned rail line that crosses lots of trusses and is all down hill. Took about 4 hours to do with all of the photo ops.

 

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I think we all have one of these stories lol

 

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Found some Chantrell along the ride. Other honorable mentions I didn’t get photos of; Pitch Pine, Giant “My Girl” Bee Hive, and tree down blocking the path.

 

 

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camo

 

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trees growing out of the ground at silly angles stretching for that sunlight.

 

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damn boy

 

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Beetles fuckin

 

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Gotta find you a 70+ year old goat from WV to help you hunt for ginseng.

 

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Never found any ginseng but I did find this weirdo.

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@SchnitzelNo way. I’m not comfortable enough with mushrooms to forage for them. I did come across several patches of wild black raspberries that were a treat to get into. 
 

 I have some more pictures I need my wife to send me including the ones where my Father in law almost slid us over the edge of a mountain on a muddy road trying to go around a downed tree.

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That thing looks cool @Dark_Knight. It looks like an inverted morel. Probably hella toxic. This is not advise.

 

@MercerI know the feeling I was looking at my little mushroom cheat pamphlet and it gave warning that the baby angel of death mushroom looks just like a full grown perfectly good to eat mushroom. It was at that moment that I decided not to try any risky behavior over an hour from the nearest hospital.

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They grow wild all over, some like the cow patty. When I was a kid we used to get them off known patches of lawn amongst other places a big city park and cemetery. More experienced guys would go for a another type in the woods. I think that the cultivation has gotten so popular and refined that now a days most heads just get farmed stuff but I could be wrong, my knowledge of that type of thing is dated and my connections to it worn thin with time. 

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12 hours ago, morton said:

They grow wild all over, some like the cow patty. When I was a kid we used to get them off known patches of lawn amongst other places a big city park and cemetery. More experienced guys would go for a another type in the woods. I think that the cultivation has gotten so popular and refined that now a days most heads just get farmed stuff but I could be wrong, my knowledge of that type of thing is dated and my connections to it worn thin with time. 

 

People used to harvest them growing wild out of cow shit back in the day, and some probably still do. Never even considered trying myself because I hate shit, and it's a risky art form. You really have to get schooled by the right person, there are some poisonous types that look almost identical to the psilocybin types. Guessing the ones they grown in a tents these days taste better than to ones picked off from turds.

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8 minutes ago, nicklesndimes said:

can you imagine having a patch of shrooms brewing in the back yard lmao that would be the day!

I’m pretty sure you can get spore kits fairly easily from the interwebz and start propagating in your own closet. For science or what ever. Check your local and state laws. This isn’t advice. 

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Pretty sure psilocybin mushrooms are legal here now in CO. Weird now that I can eat them legally, I feel like I never have an entire day to set aside for it. I've only had the illegal poopspawned variety so far myself. Might have to take some on the next all day hike or something.

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Here’s my story of why I don’t really fuck with shrooms anymore.
 

Back in my hay day we hit drought season on weed. The plug stopped by my house and I thought I was getting a new shipment of weed. Wrong. This dude went into his jacket and pulled out a pound bag of shrooms and tossed it to me. I asked what the fuck is this? He replied “Drugs nigga! Go sell it!” We laughed and joked for a while about the shit because he didn’t know what to charge me and I didn’t know what to charge anyone else. On his way out he said “Let me know how it goes. I can get tons of this shit.”

 

So I was off to the races. People were excited at this new opportunity and copping multiple 8ths. I was sold out the next day. So I hit up the plug and was like Bring 2 more. 
 

This is where shit fucks up. Apparently people get burned out on shrooms. I moved through the next unit in about a week. Then shit virtually stopped. I was like yo what are we gonna do with the rest of these fucking things and my ace says “fuck it. We’re rich. Let’s just eat them.” I had never done shrooms before and was interested. This began a 30 day long adventure of tripping every day. It got to the point where I was inviting people over just to help me eat these shrooms and people were like no thanks bro. I told my ace “I don’t wanna do this anymore.” He laughed and said “No problem,” as he popped a few more caps. He started making Spaghetti for dinner and I had finally sobered up for the first time in weeks. He watched me eat the spaghetti with this wild look in his eyes. And then I started tripping again because he made the pasta sauce with more shrooms. “Gotcha bitch!” 
 

Finally the shrooms ran out. It was about two years before I tried any again and it’s been another 11 or 12 years since then.

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