Morel Festival

I know that I have been slacking on my blog posts...please forgive me for the onslaught of blog posts coming very soon. I really wanted to share with everyone how incredible it is to travel up to the beautiful Morel Festival in Boyne City. This was my second time attending and I am looking forward for many more years to come! We participated in the Guided Hunt as well as the National Championship Competition.

This is the "official" tent that housed many activities and served as the meeting place for trips.

Here we are all rearing to go. There were enough people registered to fill five buses!




This mushroom is none other than an imposter!

So even though no real morels were picked on the Guided Hunt, the scenery was nice to look at.



After the Guided Hunt and a Wine & Dine Morel Dinner, Todd and I bought our normal yard mushroom. We were very excited to be carrying this all around town!





Now for the big day! The competition. It was raining early in the morning and this guy was prepared for anything!

After the horns, we had 90 minutes to gather as many mushrooms as we could. Todd has spent many years in the woods mushrooming and even he faced some pretty stiff competition.




So even though neither of us won...we at least came home with something good to eat.

Sweet heavenly deliciousness!!!!



After the competition, we headed over to the Mushroom Pole and took a gander of some of the biggest, smallest, and best dressed mushrooms.

I decided to have some fun with my tripod and thought I might as well put it to work.









So this concludes my much anticipated mushroom vacation. Next year Boyne City is celebrating 50 years of the festival. I can't wait to see what events will take place.