Yeah Matt. I got invited on a South Canadian River mushroom hunt with some high school aged kids that I buy fur from. It was the best picking I've ever seen in my life. There were 2 grocery bags to go with the feed sack. The other pictures were of one's I've been finding around my place. Not having nearly as good a year as last year on my place.

We'll I had some Italian chicken, fried taters and fried up about 50 morels tonight. I'm going to go out tomorrow evening and see what I can find. We had some good rain last night so got my hopes up. Supposed to be 31° in the morning so we'll see

Early here for me.

I think the snow and cold here today will delay them this year

Well I went out for about an hour today and hit a honey hole. Found 247

That's a great find RM! Bet that was a blast.

The 3 ft. of snow in interior Alaska is delaying our morel pick!
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Yea Matt, it's supposed to get down to 31° tonight so not sure if it'll effect it or not. Going to take the kids put tomorrow and see if we can find a few more. Martentrapper is say it's hard to find them in 3 ft of snow for sure. Lol

In 2018 it got cold and we got a dusting of snow. The ones that I picked were frozen. I left some to see what would happen. When I came back I picked 75 that were new. The cold didnt hurt them as far as I could tell.

Finally made it out today and had near instant success had a great day out walking around, it's still early hopefully I can find a bunch this season.

Nice finds maybe it will be a awesome year for you

Good find gutthooked. Yea Matt we had a good frost but after turkey hunting today I went and found some nice fresh ones under Sycamore trees next to the creek

I found all of mine today under sycamore too. Rm you got some good ones too.
Think I'm going to try and dehydrate them . Anyone he ever try that and how long does it take?

4/6/20- these may be all I get this year; been out a couple times since and nada, saw several that were past using when gathering these,and it's gone dry now.
I should have been out in march I reckon

So, in all these years I've only found a couple morels on flattish ground and all the rest have been on steep side hills, why is that I wonder?

I cut mine in half then dehydrate them till they are hard as a rock. If I remember right I think about 2 to 3 hours depending on size and type, the grey morels dry faster and keep better I think. They also taste better to me. Dehydrating works well if you dont plan to fry them. If you plan to fry then I would batter them lay on a cookie sheet and freeze then put in bags to fry later. When I dry them I use them in stews,chilli, hamburger helper, and other things I can just throw a hand full in.

I find the early one on south facing slopes then find some larger in the year on north facing slopes. I always thought it was because water couldn't stand on the side of the hill to drown them. Dont know for sure tho.

What kind of areas do you find them in? When you find some, will they come back in that same spot next year? I've looked but never found any in my woods.

I have the same spots that I pick every years some spors give up a few hundred a year and some 10 to 40 a year. In Oklahoma ash, elm, sycamore, cottonwood, cedar and fruit trees do the best. Around small creeks that dobt have major flooding do well for me. There is a web site morels.com that have most every state and people post there finds and talk about what trees and areas are doing good.

I'll check it out. Thanks.