Found a patch of yellowfoots/winter chanterelles (Craterellus tubaeformis) yesterday (Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon.) These feel & smell ok but are they too old at this point? It’s my first mushroom season so I’m not super familiar, all of the ones I’ve gathered this fall were smaller and younger.

Does anyone know of a book about mushroom hunting in the Pacific Northwest of the United States?

I find them quite often and mine can get quite big, I keep finding questions about people asking if it will effect you the way shrooms will but I don't care about that. Good says they aren't toxic, do they taste nice and are they with grabbing and cooking for food?

Unsure if what variety

I’ve always wanted to go mushroom hunting but whenever I say I do I always get asked ‘why?’. I don’t eat mushroom and don’t ever plan to, but they all look very cool, so I wonder if I did hunt for them and take them with me, what would I do with them? Or maybe I shouldn’t take them, just take pictures and record my findings of different mushroom types? And, other questions, what’s the best time of year and best sort of area to find mushrooms?

Out hunting in willamette valley Oregon