Going for mushrooms with Raig

The most important thing to go to the mountains is not to get lost, it may seem obvious but in these busier times, unfortunately, there are many cases of people lost or who have suffered a mountain accident.

To avoid major ills, the basic mountain kit should always include a compass and a topographic map of the area where we are going to travel. Currently, GPS devices meet this requirement in the same instrument, and more and more incorporate very useful functions such as the altimeter, waypoints or tracks. In short, we can mark the routes and also those more favorable places or places where to find the mushrooms.

To transit within the forest, those GPS that receive both GPS and GLONASS signals are recommended, since they will be more precise in location.

Another fundamental step is to know what mushrooms we want to collect, especially to avoid major problems with the toxicity of many specimens. Tip: collect only those we know with 100% security.

We will always carry a mushroom field guide and a magnifying glass. These two elements will help us identify the species and ensure that we are dealing with an edible mushroom or not. Also very important, mushroom that we do not collect, mushroom that we must leave in the bush, in its habitat. They fulfill an indispensable function for the ecosystem.

We can choose between a comfortable pocket magnifier at between 3 and 4 magnifications or if we want to be more thorough, a coddington magnifier between 10 and 20X. This material is also widely used by mycologists in species identification and inventory exits.

Carry a light binocular in your backpack. The binocular will help us to take visual references to the distance, to recognize forest types and also in certain locations such as extensive meadows, to get to see mushrooms in the distance.

Incorporate into our team a pocket weather station, which can also incorporate an altimeter, compass, anemometer, barometer, thermometer and other sensors to be able to know the environmental conditions of the terrain and even to be able to conclude an immediate forecast.

If we are students of mushrooms by hobby or profession, we may also need a clamp, bottle or material for the collection and transfer to the laboratory of those most interesting samples.