Goodtimes says that mushrooms emerge and disappear quickly as weather conditions change. So when we’re hunting for mushrooms we’re foraying, and all the mushroom clubs and the mushroom festival and the mycological people talk about foraying,” Goodtimes says.Ĭrossing a meadow and climbing up a slope, we approach a forest of spruce and fir. “Actually, foraging is really for plants and botany. But today, Goodtimes has brought me out less to talk about the festival, and more to learn the craft of mushroom hunting, which Goodtimes explains is called foraying. Soon enough, the Telluride Mushroom Festival began. Shortly into his tenure with the arts council, Art got connected with some mushroom enthusiasts and mycologists from Denver. ![]() I applied it was five dollars an hour! So it wasn’t much money, but it was a huge way into the community it was cool,” Goodtimes says. “And then I was only here a couple of months and they had an opening for Arts Council Director. Goodtimes has been mushroom hunting here since coming to Telluride some forty years ago. Today, he’s headed up into these woods in search of mushrooms. Goodtimes, a poet from Norwood, is renowned in and around Telluride. If for some reason you get lost, just come to that drainage and follow it down,” Goodtimes says. There’s a little creek that runs along there. “We’re just gonna head in to that spot there. With a report on the hunt, and its meaning for the mushroom community, KOTO’s Gavin McGough has more.Īt an undisclosed location, off the highway somewhere past Trout Lake and the Lizard Head Pass, Art Goodtimes is headed up into the forest. This month, the late summer rains are filling high elevation forests with a diverse array of fungi, and mushroom enthusiasts are headed out to get their fill. ![]() By Gavin McGough Arturo Buentiempo ~micólogo jefeįor many, the monsoon season in Colorado’s highest peaks means one thing: mushrooms.
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