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2025 will be the 17th Annual Hiles Foray!
July 17th to July 20th
Thursday to Sunday
* day-passes are available for 7/18 & 7/19*

Registration is open! Scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up.

Hiles: the “Mushroom Capital of Wisconsin!”
This region features a diverse mix of trees, including beech, hemlock, spruce, tamarack, paperbark and gray birch, sugar maple, hop hornbeam and red oak, primarily, leading to a diverse mix of mycoflora. You can see just a fraction of what we found in 2022, in this iNaturalist project.

Schedule Summary:
Thursday: Check-in, sign up for your trails, go on a mini-foray right around the check-in area, meet up at Mainstreet Ed's for dinner (everyone on their own checks, unless someone buys a round), and get to know each other.

Friday: First day of forays into the woods! There will be multiple trails, each with their own foray leader, to sign up for at check-in. Some will be all-day, others in the morning or afternoon only. At least one of these trails should have edible fungi in profusion, and at least one will focus on the intense myco-diversity in this part of our state. There will also be workshop options available for sign up (sent to attendees by email closer to the event). We will meet back for a potluck and social followed by a talk with a mycological presentation.

Saturday: Second day of forays, with all-day, morning-only and afternoon-only options once again along with more workshops to sign up for. Our final table talk will end with our total species count, announced by the lead mycologist, and a comparison to previous Hiles foray counts and unique species found. Prizes may be given for various categories of "best find", and we will enjoy a second presentation, this one graciously provided by Tavis Lynch who is volunteering to give us a sneak preview of his upcoming presentation at the NAMA 2025 annual foray.

Sunday: Take one last look at our mushrooms, take what is yours or what is left over, and (optionally) help us throw the rest back into the woods, clean up the hall, check out, and say our goodbyes to each other and the fungi.
These tickets are to the event itself; each attendee arranges their own lodging and food unless otherwise specified above, as in the potluck on Friday evening.

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