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 2024 will be the 16th Annual Hiles Foray!
July 18th to July 21st
Thursday to Sunday
* day-passes are available for 7/19 & 7/20*
Registrations are now CLOSED
Please check out other forays later in the year such as the Rustic Camping Foray and the Northwoods Foray in Sept or Tri County in August!

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 for the first time be workshop options available for sign up! We will meet back for a potluck and social followed by a talk with a presentation by Dr. Dave Zaber on impacts to our local ecosystem and foraging sites.

Saturday: Second day of forays, with all-day, morning-only and afternoon-only options once again along with 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 presentation by Dr. Britt Bunyard on really getting to know your mushrooms!

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 goodbyes.

These tickets are to the event itself; each person arrange our own lodging and food unless otherwise specified above, as in the potluck on Friday evening.
Click here: for more information on lodging in and around Hiles, WI

And: New this year!! We have 2 special registration workshops available during the "afternoon" time slot on Friday and Saturday. You can read more about the workshop options and register for them after registering for the Hiles Foray event! Click here!

Registration for the Workshop options ends Sunday July 14 so we have time to order needed materials. Please do not delay to sign up if you want to go.