[pct-l] Trail Names

[Tortoise]

As the truism goes -- there are old mushroom hunters and old mushroom 
hunters, but there are NO old bold mushroom hunters.

I'll hunt my mushrooms in the supermarket.

Tortoise

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On 12/29/10 11:21, bighummel at aol.com wrote:
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> Shroomer,
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> Damn, I've passed up on so many mushrooms over the years, keeping to that old saying, "never eat any mushroom unless you know how to tell the poison ones from the good ones.  If you'll teach me shrooms, I'll teach you rocks!
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> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:16:00 -0800
> From: Scott Williams<baidarker at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Names
>
> I'm on my way to Campo last spring in a van with a few other people all
> starting that morning and I told some mushroom stories about the banner year
> of chanterelle hunting in No Cal.  Three of us picked over 600 lbs of them
> in a two month period while training for my thru hike.  Hearing that, the
> driver said, "dude, you're Shroomer."
>
> I've been mushrooming for over 40 years now, and my wine making buddies all
> call me "the mushroom man" because I've taught most of them to forage
> mushrooms, and always bring them to the crush to give away.  Anyway, the
> name fit for an old hippie on several levels and I went with it.  Those who
> hiked with me in WA got to benefit directly with some outrageous side dishes
> on trail, and Motor became an avid mushroomer herself by the end.
>
> Great question, as I loved the names and stories of everybody last year on
> trail.
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> Shroomer
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> Greg Hummel
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>
> Do you know why I'm always whistling? It's simply because, as you know, whistle blowers are protected by law!
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