Montana Morel Hunt

We traveled to Montana for a wedding and spent the next day hiking up what was the site of the Kootenai Fire to hunt for morels.  It started out as a very nice walk and turned into quite a hike up the mountainside.  We spent all afternoon looking for the tasty little jewels and it seemed many times that someone else was ahead of us.  We would see a boot print and the stubs of the morels.  We did find some though and had a very enjoyable day!

At about 5060 feet we decided we had gone uphill enough and started back down.  We found quite a few mushrooms on the way back down.  

It doesn't look very steep here, but we managed to find quite a few steep places.  We had to side-hill for a long time coming back down because it was so steep.

The firefighters on this job earned their money!

Looking across the Bitterroot Valley towards the Sapphires.