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We didn't have much rain, but we found many smaller mushrooms.

Before going, Noah Seigel was saying it was going to be a banner year for mushrooms in Alaska... I was getting excited and checking the weather of Soldotna months before the trip. My palms were sweating.

It was 25 years ago in May that I joined a foray to Yosemite, led by David Arora.

With the warmer weather and rain, it looked like a good time to check out the Sierras. Here are our findings.

I grew up picking matsutake in the pacific northwest with my dad. We joined the first chapter of the Puget Sound Mycological Society and would go on field trips. It is one of my most precious memories and in the Northwest. The whole Japanese community buzzes with matsutake talk in the fall.