Near Dufur you can go out and Morel hunt. Today Ted stopped by my house and said, “I’m heading up there in a bit. Do you want to go?” I’ve been wanting to go for a while so I decided that it would be a good idea.
Before we left we stopped by the Barlow Ranger Station so that I could be a “legal” picker. It’s legal to go out and have 1 gallon of morels per car without a permit but he explained to me that he’d enjoy having 2 gallons of morels instead of one. Once I was legal he drove up toward the mountain on the road that connects Dufur to the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Once he found a good picking spot we got out of the car and made our way up a clearing. He gave me pointers on how to spot the morels. To me everything looks like pine-cones but he has a great eye for catching them popping up out of the ground.
We hunted for about 3 hours and ended up with about a half-gallon of the things. I’ve had them before and with that batch I deep fried them. They are pretty yummy. Right now my portion of the hunt is sitting in my fridge waiting to be fried up. Here’s a little taste (photographically) of what you go out and do.
