Inside the Biggest (Magical) Mushroom Festival in North America | Telluride Mushroom Festival

[@cr2370]

now I have a new pilgrimage to attend. thanks for the work you guys do.

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching! I hope you can make it to the fest some time!

[@kes9612]

Same!👍 it's how on my bucket list for the air stream ( when I'm retired) to travel the continental US first all the important (to me) places I've learned of AND BEYOND!! I want to travel up they Canada and even down to South America, that's my dream bucket list retirement plan!😜

[@scottleggejr]

@@kes9612 Camping in an RV is a nightmare adjacent to the village. The community there is a politically charged and they hate campers/rv and actively work to keep roamers out of the community seemingly to create more demand for vrbo because the rentals there are insanely expensive for what they are as far as quality and value. There could be so many other more accessible places in CO they could host this which would comply to those who either don't have the means, logistics, or desire for that hustle and bustle of the village. I would consider attending if it were anywhere other than there.

[@woodmasta]

Foreal yes. Ive gotta join you guys too. What an experience

[@masterofreality230]

same

[@natedizzah5877]

"Being out in nature brings out the good side of humanity" I don't know who you are but you are right man

[@NorthSpore]

totally. thanks for watching the video!

[@jenniferbloh-michael8662]

It's , like , vital ❣️🙌

[@GrandmaTurtle]

This will be my 7th year! It's the best mushroom festival ever, with the most spectacular scenery! The combination of academics and hippies is delightful. Can't recommend it enough.

[@NorthSpore]

Exactly!

[@forrestcason3584]

I graduated high school from Telluride and did the majority of my growing up in the area. I’ve been hunting morels since I was six or seven years old. It started out as a bunch of hippies in vans camping out and Trippin and turned into more of a culinary experience. It’s Amazing to see what it has become!

[@aaaaa-nl7uh]

The love in these comments is truly inspiring. Keep it up, everyone!

[@aierune8201]

Man one of these days one of these years I gotta go.

[@scottleggejr]

Agree!

[@pennys5412]

Save up, its only getting more expensive for the normal folks.

[@mindofmatter071]

Next year!!!🍄

[@Dirt-Fermer]

@@pennys5412 it’s already too expensive for normal folks to get mushrooms in most states

[@eugenedebeer5255]

Dont wait. Do it.

[@cjcirca88]

Dude eating random mushrooms in the woods like that for the flavor is willllldddd

[@NorthSpore]

he's experienced enough to know what is and isn't (likely) to be toxic. Pretty wild watching him!

[@antman7673]

Before seeing the scene, I would have said so too. But he does not do random taste tests. He knows, which kind of mushroom not to taste test.

[@ZebbMassiv]

Some people like me, learned mycology from our grandparents in Europe.

[@FSR-v9c]

I grew up in my young adult years there in Telluride, some of my fondest memories of life in my 20s are when I lived there. Winters are beautiful and the people are real.

[@NorthSpore]

That's amazing. Have you been back for the mushroom festival?

[@beastlyecho3872]

Im way to broke to travel but ive learnt a lot of stuff recently and so im now facinated by mushrooms and the magic kind have helped my mental health and helped me come to terms with trauma and stuff

[@NorthSpore]

you can learn a lot about mushrooms by engaging in your local habitat and learning about them online!

[@masterofreality230]

Yea, they can be great for that if you are careful. I just found out about psilocybe natalensis . Supposed to be stronger and cleaner feeling than cubes, plus easy to grow. Seems to be a good direction for me to go.

[@leasnow709]

I drink mushroom coffee and love mushrooms my whole life. How do we find the magic mushrooms though. I'm a couple hours from telluride

[@orangeyewglad]

Damn this really covered it all: psychedelics revelry, cuisine, ecology, medicine, history. Awesome documentary!

[@NorthSpore]

We wanted to hit on all the different elements present at the event! Thanks for watching!

[@Rtandlich]

I lived in Tellurid back in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, and went to the Mushroom Feltival. Dr. Weil was incredible!. I hike alot and always take pictures of fungi. I never eat them unless I am with an expert.

[@dissolver5388]

hello to all mushroom lovers!.

[@neokortexproductions3311]

This is my tribe!!!! MUSH LOVE!!!!!

[@dcfromthev]

Alan is the man! It always brightens my day when he does an ID on one of my observations on iNat. We live and forage in the same area so I hope to run into him in the forest someday. Happy trails!

[@paulocic7092]

it was powerful and inspiring. wise words. thanks for showing this festival ❤🍄✨

[@NorthSpore]

Our pleasure! thanks for watching the video!

[@AgatBro]

wow, ive never heard of this festival. great video, thank you for sharing and spreading awareness looks like another festival to knocked off my bucket list

[@NorthSpore]

So glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@prolificcircle8084]

Thank you North Spore! I get all of my stuff from you guys! Let’s do a mushroom event where I live! It’s time 🍄

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for your support! where do you live?!

[@Eye2Sky4U]

​@@NorthSpore please do this in Tennessee

[@NorthSpore]

@@Eye2Sky4U do you have any mushroom events in Tennessee?

[@moirahill6397]

Thank you for the inspiring video. I have so many strange and mysterious mushrooms and fungi appearing in my Eryrie (Snowdonia UK) mountain garden and i'm now about to start documenting them because something about you guys' enthusiasm has spurred me on! Subbed

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@joshmedina5471]

I’ve lived in Colorado all my life and never heard of this! I’ll have to check this out next year! Microdosing quite literally saved my life! 😎🤘

[@NorthSpore]

you should definitely travel to it! how far are you from Telluride?

[@rawspace1212]

Same

[@texasbluegrass567]

I have some major medical problems and severe depressive disorder comes with it. I love going to this area of Colorado and had no idea they have a mushroom festival. I need to go educate myself. I have been hunting mushrooms since I was a child in Kentucky. Morels. I think I need these more. 😀

[@NorthSpore]

You should try to make it there some August!

[@GnosticElohim]

I'm from eastern Kentucky and let me tell something few people know from Kentucky, it's covered in magic Mushrooms most of the year. Different seasons have different Mushrooms, my favorite are the spring Ovoids that can be found along almost any wooded flooding stream.

[@user-ev7vh2is6b]

dont think about it... do it!

[@Blackswampoutoorstv]

For you Kentuckians you guys should check out the Kentucky mushroom festival in October

[@jeremyquan9201]

Very cool documentary! I love Telluride, more reason to visit again!

[@TheAldawg77]

Mushroom Jesus is so cool! Thanks for the video!

[@NorthSpore]

Which character is Mushroom Jesus in your estimation?

[@TheAldawg77]

@@NorthSpore Alan

[@williammelear2906]

1985 when I started mycology trip! Lol What a trip it's been

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

I was a freshman in 1981 and had done shrooms since my Senior year in high school. Mellow buzz!

[@Hindrellations]

My fave episode by far 😊

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching!

[@ginosalihbegovic7137]

Makes me wanna join them

[@souljorn1]

My man Graham! Great video!

[@NorthSpore]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@WestviewForestApts]

Thank you Lou!!!

[@NorthSpore]

You're welcome!

[@John-fq4hk]

Thank you ❤🍄!

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching!

[@jonnyneoross369]

Beautiful

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mdog86]

Hell yeah, I love Alan. He's a genius when it comes to mushrooms. He's done a couple collabs with Joey from Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't, highly recommend those videos cause it's really cool to see them work together. The craziest thing about Alan is he's entirely self taught, same goes for Joey too.

[@NorthSpore]

He definitely is. Have you watched our full length interview with him? We released it earlier in the year.

[@mdog86]

@@NorthSpore I haven't but I'll check it out! Look into that other channel too if you're interested, Joey is great and super knowledgeable about botany. Kind of a rogue botanist lol

[@billsadler3]

I lived there in the 1979-80 winter. Special magic place... especially Ophir, a thousand feet higher and where I actually lived, no electricity, no running water, propane stove and leaky wood burner. Tough stuff for an 18 year old from Montclair NJ. First time astral lift via a special molecule related to this festival. Never really came down, just plateaued.

[@Syzygy77]

I’m sure you’ve been to Stoner as well.

[@oghash4912]

Haha flute dude at the end was sick 🤘🪈 loved this💚🙏🌎🕊️☮️

[@NorthSpore]

So glad you liked it!

[@dorathyfoster1459]

Enhanced spiritual connection many users report feeling a deeper connection to nature, the universe, and themselves.

[@shayla19]

This is so amazing! Dream job

[@mukhumor]

Mush Love Spore Buddies. 😍🍄

[@bobrobertsNotUrBob]

thats beautiful

[@masterofreality230]

Alan is the rock star of mycology. Such a cool guy with a ton of knowledge. Man, I wish we could order colonized medium for shrooms, would make things so easy.

[@jenniferg6818]

I love this. Rock on completely NS.

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you! ✌

[@walkingwater893]

My parents were taught from elders in S. Co. decades ago. I continue with my daughter and g kids in the Wet Mts. annually! But what I wouldn't do with some Morel, yum, but only found them back in Ia...🎉❤

[@NorthSpore]

🙌🙌

[@michellebruton6287]

Mush Love from South Africa 🥰

[@Mikeymonkey1971]

AMEN TO THAT 😅😂❤ 4 SURE ! Rollin with nature creates , aware , good harted people😊

[@WeFrost62]

Yee haw that looks like a wonderful festival!

[@jebstewart666]

interesting. so now the algorithm lives in my head unawares for i had just come in from a multi hour walk on my property to see what mushrooms were up as we have had that perfect set of conditions. and this vid was the first suggestion. major "bloom" here. so fascinating. perhaps one day i will learn the names, but for me they are just a beautiful thing that goes along with all the other beautiful things that are showing around here this time of year under these conditions. good vid, thanks for the info!

[@NorthSpore]

You should pick up a guide book and start learning what's growing near you! It's easier than it sounds and very enriching

[@jebstewart666]

@@NorthSpore sound advice, but i just make up names that i usually forget while i amazed at all the different ones that show up when the conditions are just right. i do know the morrells, but the rest of just mushrooms to me. in one place on my property i even have the little tiny ones that glow in the dark. very rare i am told.

[@Ghostly0451]

I need to try those cuisines from Graham Steinruck asap.

[@mikeljbarham9555]

Would love to go

[@MutorbuW]

keeping it spore🍄T🫖

[@mindofmatter071]

You just got personally invited by Allen Rockefeller to hunt Mushrooms in Mexico!! You HAVE TO GO BRO!!!🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

[@NorthSpore]

so true. Unfortunately we didn't make it last year, but it's on our bucket list!

[@Diesel257]

Allen is really cool. He answed all my newbie questions about 'Cubes which is like a rocket scientist answering questions about paper plane folding.

[@daowiz001]

Oh cool, so if I find a nice mushroom to post on inaturalist I should just eat it to describe the flavor! Great stuff 😂

[@NorthSpore]

not unless you're an expert in fungal taxonomy like Alan

[@daowiz001]

@@NorthSpore might be good to add a caption right there so young folks know that there is significant risk with eating some mushrooms.

[@Cactuscupcake1972]

Also, since you eat mushrooms before knowing if it will kill you... I just wanna share, please don't lick Colorado River toads, the Sonoran desert toad ...let alone even touch an Amazonian tree frog! Pretty to touch...but from afar !

[@Kulageart]

Mush Love!

[@NorthSpore]

mush love to you too!

[@edijssubatins8320]

ROYAL AMANITA❤

[@abreada]

Cool! I hope I can go one day 😁

[@NorthSpore]

I hope so too!

[@oghash4912]

Hopefully there's one in every major city soon😅🎉

[@FrozenLemonn]

Never leave the hammock don't forget never leave the hammock 🎉 if you're doing it right 😅

[@user-ev7vh2is6b]

now you tell me

[@williammelear2906]

I remember running into other people I knew in the same cow pasture that I visited as a wee lad.

[@GregAvery-uf4oq]

Cheers

[@NorthSpore]

Cheers!

[@teddygrammatonbmx2226]

This is very popular and I live about an hour from Telluride.

[@stealthshopper2092]

Im so going next year!

[@mcstrakka]

Mush love

[@GregAvery-uf4oq]

That would be game changer

[@pendizzy6352]

OMG!!! I wanna go!

[@Geoplanetjane]

The New England Mycological Society has a great annual meeting. There are numerous forays.

[@GinaVega-l4r]

Da fuq did I barely learn about this? New road trip destinatiion 🍄🍄🍄

[@dustinmoritz6634]

Always wanted to go to Telluride but NOW I HAVE A EXCUSE!! When is is this beautiful experience???

[@NorthSpore]

August 14-18!

[@BoonieDocks]

I’m not sure how this came across my feed, but I just started a YT and now I’m looking for tickets back to Colorado

[@NorthSpore]

You should definitely try to make it for the event!

[@TrueHelpTV]

Happy to learn about this.. I'm thinking of going this year now.. August 14th -18th *Never mind, $465 is absolutely absurd.

[@NorthSpore]

yes, it's pricey. But that's the general admission price and you get access to a range of intimate educational sessions with real leaders in the field of mycology. If you think about the price of an average college course it may be worth it for people really invested in mushrooms and those who want to grow their network. They have cheaper ways of engaging with the event than just the general admission too, but yea, the price of admission limits who will/can attend.

[@boofert.washington2499]

you have to be well-off to be a hippie these days. it's sad.

[@DropTheMyc]

MUSH LUV from Australia 🇦🇺

[@pj-vq3by]

If only the US would let me in...these are my sort of people....we need this in New Zealand lol

[@scrappydoo5336]

How did I not know about this???????

[@lindajennings5953]

How did I not know about this?! A new voyage to make😊

[@NorthSpore]

you should definitely try to make it!

[@lindajennings5953]

@@NorthSpore I am looking for camping near by. I have 2 small dogs that will have to come with me. Have you been to it?

[@AdmidAlex]

Dude, you have to go to Mejico !

[@NorthSpore]

planning on it!

[@cielthefangirl2876]

When I think of Hawaii I think of snails! 🐌 but wow just imagine the mushrooms 🍄

[@junkettarp8942]

Jai Guru Deva.🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

[@G-maw-h4n]

Oh that my body was young enough to go!

[@TravisStanley-v2t]

Hey man. Loved the video, love the knowledge and the message. I personally believe I would greatly benefit from a psilocybin treatment. You will have to check out our mushroom capital of the world Kennett Square Pennsylvania's Mushroom Festival.

[@SoldAnemone-bv5kb]

lmao i had court and heard you guys chanting we love mushrooms outside the courthouse

[@coobay4786]

4:38 It's probably eatable.🙉

[@MDBski]

22:57 "i mixed some sugars and white death" great start to any recipie

[@NorthSpore]

I believe the sugar IS the white death in that statement

[@stuntone]

Nice you have Alan Rockefeller , great dude. 🍄🤘🏽👽🌎

[@JEEDUHCHRI]

All the metropolitan urban sophisticate tech yuppies can pretty much thank hippies for their: Yoga Organic food Psychedelics Good medicinal weed The list goes on.

[@NorthSpore]

totally. great point!

[@kes9612]

Don't you worry the certain specified "elites" have their plugs all in on it, preventing any scientific breakthroughs from hitting the mainstream from plant medicine, even though all their prescription medications CONTAIN nature\plants or the synthesis of them. There is no money in a CURE when you can charge\make billions and TREAT the condition afflicting the populus to no end. I wouldnt even make this comment but having a certain implied name within this docu, makes my spidey senses alert. I mean God forbid someone so knowledgeable "share" his knowledge with an elite family that controls the world. It could literally MAKE or BREAK science..hmm I mean the pharmaceutical industry. Jmo don't come for me please🙏

[@TomWalters-h4n]

Google the Time magazine article "We owe it all to the hippies" WORD.

[@haydeng9538]

Thank you. Great video. I’m in Denver and have an affinity for fungi can you refer me to a place where I fit in around here.

[@NorthSpore]

Glad you enjoyed the video! I'd recommend checking out the Colorado Mycological Society 🙂

[@Syzygy77]

I’m a fan of Fungus. culinary, medicinal, and psychedelic. I live on the western slope, I don’t know why I haven’t gone to one of these yet.

[@NorthSpore]

It's a great one, you should check it out!

[@kirkrikster]

If you come to telluride go to Bruno for the best coffee

[@OrrBiologicals]

YES mushroomslove it

[@scottpitner4298]

Attend this and hit up a String Cheese show!.. that would be the best

[@NorthSpore]

Love me some Cheeeese.

[@GingeRenee]

I need to find a travel friend. I would love to go to the mushroom festival with someone. I would have to fly out there and would definitely rather go with some friends then by myself. damn it why can’t i find some friends who want to travel.

[@NorthSpore]

You should definitely figure out how to make it out there!

[@judyhowell7075]

Where are you?

[@user-ev7vh2is6b]

me too.... can I email you?

[@Ramone-vw8qj]

Where you from ?

[@Andre_Desiderio]

I wanna go there too! I’m from Italy but living in Barcelona, Spain 🍄👽

[@KevinMasters-lw5de]

Sick

[@konfuzius-sz6dt]

I love you❤!

[@xTnTWoLF]

im going there i gotta

[@shable1436]

Now i have a craving for white dapperling mushroom 😂

[@NorthSpore]

do you eat them regularly? seems like they are one of the species that walks that boarder of edibility and falls on either edible or 'slightly poisonous' depending on who you're talking to

[@ifell3]

Great video, so interesting! Even though I object to one of your sponsors you guys are completely sound!!

[@NorthSpore]

Thanks for watching! we don't have any sponsors... who are you referring to?

[@ifell3]

​@@NorthSpore The rookie clown

[@carlosernestogutierrezvazq9584]

We want the Mexico mushroom hunting video, please 🍄‍🟫

[@NorthSpore]

we'll get to it, I promise!

[@judyhowell7075]

Or App to Identify the right ones

[@jonjames1998]

what song was used in the intro from @ 0:34 - 1:44? May I have the song name pls bc I love it!!!! Excellent video, much love!!

[@NorthSpore]

Sure! It's called "Ruby's Saga" by Ryan James Carr! Mush love to you too!

[@jonjames1998]

@@NorthSpore thank you so much for replying, Im very grateful. This song is a masterpiece and now in my archive. Much love, excellent content!!! ❤🔥

[@jamestayler2926]

Jay is the greatest singer of this generation - FACT

[@GregAvery-uf4oq]

Also hunting with Al Let's get it.

[@NorthSpore]

Nice! you mushroom hunt with Alan?

[@shawnaguheen4270]

what about the conservation that involves a bunch of people not going off trail?

[@mysticmanization]

They need a mushroom god my name is Terrance i nominate myself!😊

[@kes9612]

Love this expose` but I do have just ONE question, this festival has been happening since 1981 and sounds like my kinda gig. I mean it has science, learning and a great trip but I would really like to know what it was called BEFORE considering the tell-u-ride hasn't been around for even a decade but obviously they are sponsoring this now. Main question is, was this just the "magic mushroom festival in colorado" before it started being sponsored? This question very much so needed to be answered within the first 5mins of this video considering it could have been easily tied into the history of this festival. I'm needing out, this sounds like my kinda of place' even though I'll have to put it on my bucket list (for the airstream etirement) since I live on the east coast!!😂 👍 enjoyed the video very much so, just some constructive criticism because I don't want to call this the "tell-u-ride magic mushroom festival" if that's obviously not what it's been called since its inception (1981) but that the agenda these days, to erase the past and subtly add in things that are in the agenda

[@NorthSpore]

Thank you! Yeah, this is a really good question. We can't confirm what it was called before it became the "Telluride Mushroom Festival", but it was definitely different back then. You should reach out the Telluride Mushroom Festival directly, we're unsure. So sorry we can't help you!!

[@Cactuscupcake1972]

So the new thing now is to be a mushroom meister instead of a bud tender ??? Got it. I'm hitting the books now ! Lol

[@NorthSpore]

seems like the way of the future!

[@MikeNaples]

Q. What kind of mushroom is that? A. That's actually a dog.

[@levyb8979]

"The first thing I do is eat it" LOL