Fall in Alaska brings many into the woods in hunt of the elusive bolete. Last weekend we came away empty-handed from an evening walk in the park nearby. So the next day we bicycled to the far side of the park to an area that gets less visitation. We managed to fill Paul's bike rack bag with orange and birch boletes.
Paul is convinced that the increased popularity of harvesting mushrooms in the last few years makes it more difficult to find boletes in the parks and that the best hunting may be in neighborhoods. He may be right. We found 4 beautiful king boletes in our neighbor's yard and the two birch trees outside our kitchen window have provided four nice birch boletes so far.
2 comments:
Corinne-
I have not picked a mushroom in over 3 weeks. I would love to say it's a great mushroom year, but the house project has me driving a lot and not riding/picking. I leave them all to you and Paul!
Jon
We've picked more than we need - looks like the students may have surpassed the master on that one this year. We still have boletes from last year. But that didn't stop Paul from collecting 8# of boletes in Talkeetna on Labor Day. We aren't seeing many mushrooms on our walks so I think the season is winding down.
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