Wild Mushroom Foraging in the Colorado Rockies

In this video Aaron Hilliard, VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society, Citizen Mycologist and creator of Mushroom Wonderland takes a hike deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains near Telluride Colorado with his wife to discover what kind of mushrooms grow in the wild in August.
Being a native of the Pacific Northwest it was surprising to see the vast array of mushrooms growing in the middle of August, and the pouring rain. We come across and ID over 20 types of wild mushrooms, their uses, and a test of edibility on certain mushrooms as seen on the thumbnail.
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[@brianjanku4549]

I like the mushroom name text that comes up while you describe the mushrooms. Good touch

[@alexduvall2007]

Oh yes I have been waiting for this video! Gotta love those Ricola Valleys!!

[@user-rx8bo5nw8p]

I live in Durango.. like hours away from Telly. and I go mushroom hunting but last year sucked :( I barely found any. Hopefully this year is better !!😊

[@styx1209]

I love watching your videos while I’m at work. I’ve recently started foraging and studying whenever I have the free time. Living in Ohio and hoping to find some ovoids soon before the winter hits.

[@taylorreid1392]

More likely in the spring I wouldn’t try to find them in the fall they grow seasonally just before the morels in about the same area as morels if you want now is the time to find amanita muscaria gussewii just found a bunch this week good luck 👍

[@jdalkebmxgameplay9605]

Like the guy above said ovoids are a spring fruiter. They usually fruit right after the ground thaws. inaturalist is a great resource to see what people are finding in your area. And shroomery has a lot of great info on the ones you are looking for. You can also look up what species have been found in your area on it.

[@beckyt.3150]

Here in Colorado on the chanterelles we got the Blue, Black , Whit and then everyone's favorite the yellow/orange ones

[@jennifermartin7468]

Thanks for the video as always :)

[@imanartsy1]

A little bit 'Bear-anoid' haha love it!

[@thejuicyfruitman]

Ayy cheers from fort Collins, super happy you made a video in CO!

[@GnosticChef]

Wow you channel is fantastic and I can’t wait to discover all the information you are providing in your presentation! ❤

[@rainagamingmagex2195]

I'd have to say this is really cool that you went different places to find mushrooms a suggestion if you can ever do it maybe go to all different places around the United States and show up the different mushrooms and stuff you can find I live in Indiana and it's hard to find any videos about what mushrooms really grow around this area so it would be really nice to know if someone like you who has a lot of knowledge about mushrooms would go to different areas of the United States. be useful for your KZbin channel as well

[@mushroomwonderland1]

For sure! Just need the funding and the time!

[@katkatkat88888]

This is awesome! I live in So. Colorado and been trying to find someone to forage with. I am a newbie so will be watching this one a number of times!

[@tedpreston4155]

Thanks for taking us along on your hunt! Did you really come here from the PNW and complain about the rain in Colorado? 😉 Mushroom hunters in Colorado usually rejoice when it rains, because our weather is normally so dry. Rain makes mushrooms! I've never foraged mushrooms near Telluride, since I live far away on the Front Range in central Colorado, but the collection of mushrooms you found there is fairly typical for mountainous areas in the rest of Colorado and Wyoming. Russulas abound. Thankfully, Boletus Edulis is found nearly everywhere too, though not in the same generous numbers as Russulas. We also find a lot of "Aspen Boletes" (Leccinum Insigne) which often save the day, when there are no King Boletes around. Aspen Boletes are a tasty consolation prize.

[@isabellarua9826]

Great video!

[@kdavis4910]

It was a fantastic year hunting in Maine, but we usually have a lot of diversity anyhow. It's said that Acadia national park is similar to the PNW. Except for winter obviously.

[@connormurphy3085]

Been loving the videos recently. Would be really cool to see you try to survive off of food you forage for a week or so and see how you do. Something like what Fowler’s Makery and Mischief does but with more of a focus on the edible mushrooms and plants that you can live off of.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Good idea! 💡🍄🙏

[@putterinpaulie6565]

Been living near red feather for seven years, used to hunt models in April to May in Iowa 60 years agio,living on 35 acres of wetlands and natural forest, would love finding models here at 7500 ft

[@motiask]

Love it !!!👊👍

[@sativaburns6705]

Lol I got like 420. I hope you enjoyed Colorado. This year should be amazing for mushrooms, we've had double the rain we normally have this far into the year. Like 14 inches.

[@npm911]

I just moved to the Colorado Rockies last December. I will absolutely be using this video as a reference for my finds. If you ever feel adventurous I'd love to see this page cover the Western Carolinas. Tremendous pickin.

[@Mani-kj2kr]

This is mushtastic

[@gardengatesopen]

So Nice! My son lives near the Rockies in Colorado, say hi to him for me! 😉

[@DeepSleepGood]

Hawks wing mushrooms, those are so great mushroom for recovery your body. Very good for your health. If you make chicken soup with this? It is wonderful meal you make it. Just try to boil with lots of water, whole chicken and this mushroom. And then eat chopped green onion and sal and pepper. Perfect. Yummy

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Sounds good!

[@dalecress9774]

Cool video.

[@nondigitalworld4210]

I discovered hawks wing in CO this past August and ate those + king boletes nonstop for a month straight

[@AnxiousStacker]

I wanna find a Colorado River toad. if you know you know. great vid. we still haven't got rain in over two months here in NW Washington and it's a little irritating, cutting into our foraging window.

[@Atomiclightbulbs]

please dont. Using CRTs in that way harms them and the ecosystem. Its not worth it for the harm it does.

[@gideonmatson7178]

The boletes like the one at the end of the video can be delicious and if you find fly agaric(animita muscaria) golden chantrells are right around the corner

[@titsbeerbong4203]

Chopping up some of a big reishi clump, b4 it gets to hard to cut, to put into a crock pot for the hot water infusion. ✌ 🍄💖

[@natureisallpowerful]

Seems like a bumper year here in north Yorkshire,. England

[@trav9902]

Going against the positive comment rule for a moment. This October in Western Washington is a disaster. Whole month shot in the head. Needed to vent. Now to be positive, had minor luck near river sides (Puyallup). Not much but there is nothing in the woods. We haven't had any "real" rain since May. Still going to go stomp around the woods this weekend, never know until you try.

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

When is the rain coming back to the PNW??!! I will check out your recent WA video

[@wondergirl60s]

Love your videos. They just keep getting more awesome! 🙏 Thank you

[@fattymcbastard6536]

This drought is killing me. Never seen anything like it. It will be interesting to see if the chanterelles will have an explosive flush when we finally get some rain. I hope the long summer/fall drought hasn't taken its toll. Those bleeding milk caps are decent eating, Aaron. Fry em hot. Sear em. Put some colour on em, and they're quite tasty actually.

[@GeorgeBurkhard]

60fps! You can really tell the difference with this (new camera?)

[@jedediah7772]

👍😎🍄

[@motiask]

Lactaria muscara???(sp?)

[@TheAwillz]

So good!

[@michaelkozak7295]

Nice walk.. weres gunner?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

He stayed with Grandma while we were on our road trip. He's 120 lb and doesn't travel well in a car 😊

[@your_eulogy2688]

The lobsters arent far behind if the russula are popping up

[@noooooho]

Typically don't subscribe and/or like but you get both

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you, that's so awesome!

[@algorythemQ]

Been a dry summer here in the mid coast of Oregon but we got rain!!! Found 20+lbs of chicken where I have been getting chanys for three years!!! Be careful and do your research or go with someone that knows where to go and what to get... jus say'n