These shares involve mushroom picking—foraging outings where the search for fungi puts people off-trail in the same country used for other harvests.
Browse these shares for foraging-context encounters alongside berry and other gathering stories.
Mushroom Picking
Hoping to harvest some fresh morels, Cheryl and two of her retired friends drove just north of Willow to explore an old, steep wildfire burnout area near the Alaska Speedway. Navigating the tangled, charred "pickup sticks" of fallen trees was exhausting work, so the ladies sat down on a sun-bleached log around midday to enjoy some tea. Their peaceful afternoon shattered when the entire interconnected pile of logs beneath them began to shift and jiggle.
Help Fill The Gas Tank!
