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I guess I should start looking for chanterelles elsewhere, instead of waiting. The few that I found were super buggy. After all this rain I expected more.

Milkies, however, are popping. Sometimes volemus and corrugis grow side by side, literally a few inches apart.

Boletes are completely gone, I haven't seen a single one in 4hrs of hiking.

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Thanks John, I enjoyed this forage, it's just that I see everyone finding chants by basket-fulls, but here it's just as surreal as morels :)

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Last year was a banner year for chants here, so far this year they have been nearly non existent . As were the morels .. Conditions vary from place to place,

and I guess this area was just not to be .. Still hoping for a rebound of the chants ..

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In Northern Sub-Arctic Manitoba in the boreal forest, we have had zero morels this year despite heavy rains and so far zero Chanterelles. The Leccinums and Suillus just started last week in big numbers, so the chants may just be a little late this year. Usually see them and hedgehogs in big numbers each year so I'm hoping it's not an off year for them but I think everything is late for us this year. Hope they pop. Insane amount of Russulas this year....they are literally everywhere but I don't pick them so that doesn't help feed me.

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I too have had no luck on chants. We have had plenty of rain, but they haven't come up. I've seen what seems to be yellow schlerotium peaking out of the soil ready to pop, but then disappearing again in the coming days. Been frustrating.

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Went to camp upstate, more variety there but still no chanterelles. Found some L. corrugis and a few types of Leccinum, along with an unknown to me yellow-all-over bolete with a very reticulated stalk, and it had a slightly bitter taste.

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I lost my spot for chants when I lost my job last year. In a good year it would produce ten lbs or so. Yesterday I finally found two new places, although the chants were few and somewhat dry. We at expecting rain the ne t few days, but it may be too late for a good flush now. Lots of boletes and oysters, though, and a few milkies.

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Last time I checked my area was @ 10% dryer than normal and that's basically due to a dry summer so far. It was already hot and dry when my Morel patch should have bloomed and there was only 1 instead of dozens. In order typically I should have picked Milkys, Oysters and Chantys, but there were very few to be found. Oysters did bloom enough to be briefly abundant, but nothing like the last few years. My major Chanty patch didn't bloom at all this year :( I did find a new patch, but it was pretty sparse. After recent rains there were some little orange faces poking through the leaves, so I should get another haul from there this weekend.

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