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[neckdeep]

Sorry, I have no experience with honey mushrooms...

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Use the phrase "dangerous lookalikes" in your searches.

As a beginner, you'll be safer foraging for a specific species. Finding random shrooms and then trying to see if it's edible is risky. There's a lot of variation and bad info too. Better to have a firm species type and just...

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It's an elfin saddle and that's about all you need to know. Definitely looks like a false morel, if that's what you mean by morel. Looks like a gyromitra and some of the saddles actually do contain gyromitrin.

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In my experience, Island in the Sky is two different places depending on the lighting. Ideally, you want to hike out to the tip around sunrise or sunset with mostly clear skies, The angled light throws everything into sharp contrast so the place looks immense and it just glows in that magic hour light....

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I don't think those are true oysters. I think those are angel wings (pleurocybella porrigens). Personally, I would not eat. There's enough controversy and questions about angel wings that I want to see more research. I don't really care much for our local aspen oysters anyway. Not a big fan of that...

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Also, it should be mentioned that some of the places we've suggested are contingent on dry weather. Late fall in the high desert is unpredictable. The roads and trails in that area cross beds of hydrophilic clays that are sticky beyond belief. If its wet when you are there, stay in the national pa...

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I say no. Goblins, if that's all you're doing, is not worth the drive over from Moab. Goblins is relatively small and once the novelty of seeing so many hoodoos wears off, you spent hours driving for not very much. I always hit it as a 2 hour side trip between the Moab area and the Capital Reef area....