Morel Youtube Fodder
Posted in Morels on March 29th, 2007 by wapsi |
Kudos to the creator of these awesome youtube morel videos. His youtube profile page can be found here . He has plenty more videos about various kinds of fungus.
If you are anxious to get into the woods right now, you will be 5 times more so after watching these videos. All of them are great. Gotta love Michigan Morels.
Morchella Esculenta The White Morel
Morchella Angusticeps ( The Black Morel )
Verpa Bohemica (The False Morel)
One State Park Grade Fire Ring - Installed.
Posted in Around the House on March 29th, 2007 by wapsi |
Pretty simple here. Decide on location, dig hole, insert fire ring , line bottom with flagstone, light fire, open beer.
And there you have it. One fire ring, in the ground and ready for employment. Flagstone on the bottom is good for drainage and a level and sturdy base for a Dutch Oven. Lots of related cooking entries are sure to come.
Stay tuned…
Google Earth + Morels = Love
Posted in Morels on March 27th, 2007 by wapsi |
Continuing with the theme of how Google can help you score morels. In the first post I outlined some basic uses for Google Calendar that help me this time of year when I am preparing for the upcoming morel season. Am I a complete nerd for using Google Calendar to log date-specific morel data to be referred to for years to come? Yes, absolutely. Does it help me find more morels? No way. But it is fun, and interesting. I want to share another way in which I think a morel hunter can benefit from using yet another free service/app from google inc. Google Earth certainly needs no introduction.
I’m not going to bore you with the ins-and-outs of the google earth. Its an easy to use, intuitive 3d globe plastered with streamed high-res satilite images. Plain and simple - Google Earth is the greatest.
It’s a great tool, especially if you like maps. It gives you an opportunity to really get well aquainted with your hunting grounds in a way that doesn’t really happen on foot. I’ll admit - my sense of direction isn’t my strongest - Google Earth gives me the eagle’s eye view and really brings out the boundarys, fence lines, creek beds, bike trails and so on. It’s not that I get lost - but sometimes I’m just not sure where in the hell I am or where I might end up.
Perhaps the most helpful feature is the application’s ability to interface with a GPS device and automagically import waypoints stored in your GPS device as Google Earth Placemarks on the map. To go out to the woods with your GPS device, make a huge score, and mark the exact location where the morels were picked seems like a no brainer to me. There have been countless occasions I have wandered around aimlessly searching for the very place where I scored a huge mess of tender, dew soaked, early grays just 12 months prior. Frustrating. The use of a GPS device completely takes care of this problem. No more forgetting that one huge patch you happened upon last season in the pouring down rain. You just bring up your saved waypoints and walk to the specific location stored on your GPS device. The real workhorse here is the GPS - but when used with google earth - it can be so visually rewarding to actually witness from space the very timber, ravines and creekbeds you piliage every spring.
The bad news is that the GPS capabilities come with a price. You need the Google Earth Plus edition which has a 20$ subscription fee. But 20$ isn’t bad for the ability to interface your awesome GPS device with a 3d model of the Earth.
Another way in which Google Earth can be really helpful is that it outlines in green, every single park boundary in it’s database. City parks, state parks, and most county land can be easily located with the tick of a checkbox on the left hand toolbar of Google Earth. That may be the most used functionality by me. Especially when trying to find new public county lands.
Fresh Morels
Posted in Morels on March 27th, 2007 by wapsi |
Here is a great newspaper proof morel photo coming out of Lebanon, Missouri. I found this image on the Iowa Board this morning on morels.com.
This guy found these in missouri.
He goes by the name ToTall on the missouri board. Check it out,
he has the morels on the local newspaper dated March 25,2007.
Cut and paste the below link into your browser.
Great picture - I love these early season beauties.
