King Boletes

It's been a few weeks since I have been able to go hiking. It's cold and school season. I sure get tired of being sick every fall.

I have been able to go camping every weekend though. Last weekend we went to the coast and picked 15 pounds of King Boletes. We got all but one of the boletes on the first day looking. At the end of the day we found a patch that had as many boletes as we had picked all day. Unfortunately for us an Asian woman who had been clandestinely following us around rushed up to us and picked three of the bigger kings.

We had two nice King Bolete meals at the campground and made up a big Cream of Bolete at home. The rest we dried and our season total is 14 ounces of dried King Bolete.

Our local chanterelle spot should be wet enough to pop now but we were both too sick to go check this afternoon.

We got over 3 inches of rain yesterday and have gotten 9 inches of rain in the last 4 days so it's plenty wet enough!

My camera went in for warranty repair but Cannon lost my invoice and just held on to my camera for a month. It would have sat there forever if I had not called and asked them what the hell was going on. But Cannon seems to be trying to make up for it. They sent my camera back to me by Fed Ex Second day air. I should have it back tomorrow. I wish I could have taken pictures of all our boletes.