Before You Eat, You Must Hunt

The White Knight

    

    Our annual mushroom hunting party was about two or so weeks late on the scavenger expedition. Not technically late, but the weather was warmer than normal. This induced the fancy little mushrooms that we like to hunt and they were about done for the season. No worries though, we snatched hundreds of shrooms that morning.

On to our destination

A beautiful morning

      Finally arriving, with a party of mushroom hungry carnivores, we set out to ravage the wooded area. We probably had four hours of straight cardio that morning. Up and down steep, moist hills until our feet were screaming for us to sit down and take a break. 

     When someone finds the first mushroom it's much like catching that big bass that you're dying to hook. Everyone normally tends to swarm to the location of the catch. In this case we had great teamwork and we all stayed in the same general area to scan the forest floors for the translucent mushrooms.

Four little pretties

     Unfortunately there were some casualties, we found many mushrooms down due to the extreme weather (early warm spring). 

Poor little guy

    Some were very hard to spot. Many were found hiding under inches of leaves. This probably caused multiple unknown casualties. 

Can you see him?

    Over all, it was a huge success. We exited the woods with the anticipation of the upcoming mushroom fry.

  

    We left happy that morning and got to celebrate two days later. The mushrooms soaked in water in the meantime so they'd be nice and clean to fry. 

    This is something my family and I look forward to every year. Whether I actually get to participate in the hunt or not, there's always plenty to go around at the fry. So now you know part 1 of 2 on the family "Mushroom Hunting" tradition. What's something you look forward to every year?