Utah Mushroom Hunter Channel... Our Videos will take you on our Hunting Adventures!!

Our channel shares our Mushroom Hunting Adventures. We focus on edible mushrooms, and share what we know about what we find. Our goal is to help you get great at finding and identifying edible mushrooms.
Never eat a mushroom without 100% positive identification. Here is the Mushroom's of Utah Facebook Page you can use for help with mushroom identification ...
/ 2466870620003674
When asking for help with identification, remember to ...
1. Take a close up picture of the cap
2. Take a close up picture under the cap
3. Also of the stem and the base of the mushroom.
4. Mushrooms of Utah may ask you to take a spore print, so be prepared to do that if asked

[@laurencarolus9558]

Just starting out this year! Im very happy to have come across this video this morning!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Thank you Lauren for subscribing. Mushroom hunting is so much fun!! I am so glad you are here!! Let me know if there is anything in particular you are looking for.

[@trpomeroy]

I've never subscribed to a channel so fast! Thank you for sharing your expertise!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Thank you Tess!! I have had so much fun with mushroom hunting, it is time for me to share!! Is there anything specific you are looking for in my videos?

[@jessicapatton7862]

I'm so glad you're doing this channel! I'm new to mushroom hunting in Utah and I'm trying to learn all I can.

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Glad you found my channel. I am working on a video I will post here soon that talks about the cold and the snow we are getting so late in the season and how it is affecting the morels. I am making this just for people wanting to get started, so hopefully my videos are helpful!!

[@stevehentschel4383]

So pleased to find help for beginners like me

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Glad you are here!! Our first actual Hunting video will likely post Mid to Late April. But I will be posting a couple education videos that are specific to Utah here soon.

[@davidstaley7290]

Thanks. I appreciate this. I live in Spanish fork, and looking forward to try to myself. Thanks

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

So glad you found my channel!! I will be fun sharing my finds with the public for the first time!!

[@BrianHall]

Woo hoo! Can't wait for the morel season in Utah this year!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

No Kidding!! Can't Wait!!

[@stargardenmagik8084]

Nice introduction. I’m looking forward to this year as well and can’t wait to see what you find! Thnx

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Thank you Star & Garden!! I can't wait until the Morels start popping so I can share my mushroom hunts!!

[@NCArtVT]

Here in Vermont morel season is about to start. My experience is very similar to yours in that it took years before i found my first morel! Foraging is one of my favorite activities and there is nothing better than stumbling on a good find when you weren't expecting it. I really appreciate the helpful video! I've subscribed and cant wait to see more!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Thank you. Glad they are helpful.

[@ForAllAnimals]

One of my absolute favorite and fondest memories was one time when I was younger and camping in the high uintas, a European family came through that didn’t speak English, but they had bags of mushrooms that they had gathered. They gave me one, and luckily I trusted them completely, and I sautéed it up in some butter and ate it with my dinner that night. It was the best mushroom I’ve ever had and I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to figure out what the mushroom was. It wasn’t until I saw one of your videos that I FINALLY got my answer!! It was a huge and delicious boletus edulis!! THANK YOU!! I can’t thank you enough, because now not only do I know what the mushroom was, now I can safely try to find one! Thank you!!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

@ForAllAnimals, thank you so much for your post and sharing that story with us!! I absolutely LOVE that you shared that with us!! I am glad one of my videos was helpful to you to figure that out. The Boletus Edulis mushroom is sooo yummie!! For sure!! Reach out to me if you have any difficulty finding them. I am happy to help!! This last year was a bumper year for them!!

[@ForAllAnimals]

@@UtahMushroomHunter thank you so much! I have plans to head up to the uintas this Sunday for my first ever mushroom hunt now that I know what I’m looking for! I’ll let you know if I get lucky and find anything. Fingers crossed!!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

It is late in the season and most of them are gone now unfortunately. Two weeks ago you would have still found tons of them. But you may still find a few. If they have froze in the 9,000+ ft in elevation range, come down to the 8,000 ft range and you might have better luck. They seem to disappear once you get to about 7,500 ft. You could find a Boletus Barrowsii in the lower elevations, which is the White King mushroom. Focus in heavily wooded flat areas and north facing slopes. I have had tremendous luck finding them along the river in heavily wooded areas. You might find some Honey mushrooms, Flamuella mushrooms, and oysters as well.

[@ForAllAnimals]

@@UtahMushroomHunter Dang it! I was wondering if it was too late in the season to have any luck. I didn’t even think about the fact that we had snow tips on the mountains, and very likely a good amount of snow in the high Uintas. Do you remember if any of your videos show the Boletus Barrowsii? I’ve searched everywhere to try to find your email address because I think you mentioned that as a way to communicate with you. I bought a couple books, so I’ll have to check if any of those other mushrooms you mentioned are in there. I don’t think the Boletus Edulis is in either book I bought. I felt so confident after watching a few of your videos with the fantastic load of Boletus Edulis you found, but not sure I’d feel confident eating anything else unless I was clearly able to identify what it was, and you did such a great job with the Boletus Edulis. Thank you so much for your responses and all of the information. It’s much appreciated.

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

You can email me or even text me pictures at any time and I would be happy to help determine if you found a good edible mushroom or not. In the video description I have instructions on how to get mushroom IDs from the Facebook Mushrooms of Utah page as well. You can email me at [e-mail] or text at 801-787-5866 cell. Thank you!! Here is a link for the Boletus Barrowsii... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_barrowsii or here... www.mushroomexpert.com/boletus_barrowsii.html The Boletus Barrowsii is a choice edible as well!! They tend to be at lower elevations and have a whiter cap.

[@monikalewis783]

So excited to learn!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

I am so glad you are here Monika!! Let me know if there is anything in particular that you are looking for in my videos!!

[@Jollie_Rouge]

This sounds super fun and I would love to try it sometime!

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

It is addicting for sure!!

[@MrEsEeFe]

Will this weekend be a good time to go out looking? When I was young in the 80s my grandpa use to take me morel huntingwhere the Walmart in riverdale is now and behind motorview drive in back when it was all forest. I'm gonna go look this weekend.

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Hello Mr. Efe, thank you for your comment. I looked in that exact area last year. I didn't find any morels that day, but no doubt they are in that area. Numbers are much lower now than in the past because of development. Let me know if you find anything. Because of how cold it has been, it think it may be a bit early still. I am thinking next week might be a better chance but still early. But in three weeks, they should really start kicking into gear. I am going to make a video about this cold and how it is affecting them, as we wait for them to start popping!!

[@MrEsEeFe]

@UtahMushroomHunter thank you for the reply I'm gonna go out tommorow and look around. I will let you know.

[@Thresherkcv]

I've always wanted to learn about edible and madicinal mushrooms around Utah. I have started reading and foraging quite a bit in the last couple of years, and have found some. It would be great if you were to give general information such as Ogden Canyon, Avon, Cottonwood canyon, within X elevation. No honey holes, just general information, and show what kind of mushrooms to look for and how to identify spots that might produce specific species.

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

You bet!! Happy to help as much as I can. I will be including a ton of very helpful information!!

[@johnwayne2834]

Thank you for the video! Do you know? Does Lions main grow in this great state? If so, where? Suggestion: It would be quite convenient to have a link to the mushrooms of Utah site here in the descriptions box. Thank you

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Hello John, I have never found Lion's Mane here. Nor have I heard of others finding it here in Utah (other than home grown, or brought in from wood material imported). Thank you for your comment!! Also for your suggestion!! I did have a link to mushrooms of Utah on the cover photo on my channel, but I now have added them to my descriptions. I think that was a great suggestion!!

[@johnwayne2834]

@@UtahMushroomHunter Good! I was certainly meaning it for that purpose. And you're welcome. I hope your channel reaches and, subsequently heals and blesses many.

[@FOSTMTT]

You are eating Gyromitre shrooms? But they are toxics right? Nice video, its giving me the hope to keep hunting morels in france. :)

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Gyromitra Montanas. You have to be very careful with the Gyromitra family because there are some very toxic mushrooms (such as Gyrmitra Esculenta) in this family. Positive identification for Gyromitra Montana is important, and you have to cook them well. As always, if you do cook and eat a Gyromitra Montana, cook it well and eat just a little bit to make sure it doesnt' cause an adverse reaction.

[@FOSTMTT]

@@UtahMushroomHunter Wow thanks for the reply, I didn't know about different specie edible.

[@stevehentschel4383]

Will you be sharing ways to cook these beauties?

[@UtahMushroomHunter]

Possibly. There are already some great KZbin Videos showing how to cook mushrooms. But I still may do some of that.