Anyone finding Morels in Montana yet?

[daltrix99]

I think it's a tad early yet, but I am going to take a poke this weekend. We have had a good amount of moisture and almost the right temps here in western MT. Anyone have any luck yet?

 

[Nameless Range]

Don't believe nighttime temps have gotten warm enough anywhere in MT yet for morels to wake up.

15° when I woke up this morning. Around Helena anyway, I usually don't see them until May.

 

[KB_]

oh how I long for fresh morels. Use to get them around this time of year in Michigan and have a big fried chicken and mushroom get together with the cousins. Good times

 

[Straight Arrow]

Usually don't find them in the Gallatin Valley until May ... unless unusually warm April temps.

 

[MThuntr]

Too cold...one of my "spots" is still under snow

 

[MO Betta]

It's just getting good in Missouri, it'll be a bit before you start seeing 'em. Need 4" soil depth averaging 50-55ish degrees, we've got a cold front coming in the next couple days that is going to mess with our season.

 

[Nameless Range]

Finally started finding them in SW Montana yesterday.

 

[jquigley]

I've only found a few. Several singles, even my normal spots only had a half dozen last weekend.

 

[maginnis]

WE have had a very slow year around here. Started finding a few at the end of April and a few more every week or so after. Just not a bumper crop of them this year. I have heard the same from friends, just handfuls here or there. I guess the mystery of the Morels remains. It takes much more then rain and nice night time temps to POP.

 

[MT Bound]

yah same here, we've found only about a dozen, in groups of 2's or 3's, a few singles....nothing great

 

[westbranch]

Heard from someone that was in the Sanders County MT area that found a ton around 4k ft this past weekend.

Not MT, but a nearby data point. Morels have been great in the CDA area. Maybe due to a good conditions, but I wonder how much was due more people spending time in the woods and looking. Wife and I ahve picked 15+ lbs and gave a bunch away and dehydrated quite a bit. This past Saturday we picked almost 2 lbs while walking 1/4 mile on a ridge to check a trail cam around 4k ft elevation. So probably be 4k+ ft this weekend, closer to town anyways.

 

[dcoryn]

I found some here in sheridan on the 14th last week, they were around 3800' along a creek I was surveying.

 

[Nameless Range]

Went out again today to a different patch of timber with similar characteristics. Quite good at about 4,500 ft.

 

[PaulRevere]

Does anyone know what these are? I can't identify them in my Audobon.

 

[MO Betta]

Looks like a vermilion or honey waxcap, but I'm not a mycologist so take that for what it's worth.

 

[daltrix99]

Finding decent groups in cottonwood river bottoms in W MT. Hoping maybe this weekend will see some start to pop a little higher in older burned areas. With all of the moisture, I am thinking June for more of my traditional mountain spots.