Mushrooms in the Moscow Region – It’s not hard to find a mushroom spot, but it’s harder to get out of there

Probably every mushroom picker is familiar with the situation when, while picking mushrooms, you realize that there are a lot of mushrooms here, wherever you go - there are gorgeous Leccinum and Boletus Edulis mushrooms, they are simply everywhere, and there is nowhere to put them, the basket is overflowing with mushrooms. The realization comes that it is time to finish the MUSHROOM HUNT and leave the forest to return home, because enough mushrooms have already been collected, but the forest, as if on purpose, does not let you go, keeps slipping mushrooms to you, thereby knocking you off the return path, as if mocking, testing the mushroom picker for greed.

Have you ever been in such a situation? We have, and more than once.

And this time such a case happened to us again. Having arrived in the Moscow region and leaving the car on the highway, we went into the woods to walk and look for mushrooms.
Having gone a little deeper into the forest and having looked around a little, it immediately became clear that we would not leave here without mushrooms. The joy of seeing what was happening in the forest is hard to describe in words. Mushrooms are everywhere: in the forest stand, in the clearings, on the paths, and even in the fire trenches. If you don’t want to wander around in the trees, bumping into branches and getting cobwebs on your face, then you don’t even have to go into the forest stand, but instead, just walk along the trench and collect mushrooms in it. Perhaps this is the easiest way to collect mushrooms, you just walk straight all the time, strolling, and you don’t even have to look for mushrooms, they constantly appear at your feet, one after another.

Oh, how beautiful they are, these trench mushrooms! Just look at them. How wonderful they are, especially those that grow horizontally, crawling out of the vertical slope of the trench (see photo below). 
A fire trench is like a path, but without the protruding branches aimed at your eyes. You walk along, strolling, and it’s like picking mushrooms from a garden bed. It’s not even a mushroom hunt, but a real mushroom fairy tale, you can’t say otherwise.
Look at the photo below, truly, you want to take a mushroom, and at the same time it’s a pity to touch it, because it’s so beautiful. But you understand that if not you, then probably someone else will take it that same day, because how can you not take such a beauty?

And here is another mushroom - Boletus Edulis, also growing in a trench, right from its lower corner. Near the mushroom you can even see a bare root of some tree, which appeared as a result of opening the soil when creating a fire trench. And the mycelium is not bothered by anything, it feels good and produces wonderful fruits (mushrooms). This once again confirms that the mycelium is a very tenacious system, capable of surviving and continuing to bear fruit abundantly in almost any conditions, even where the top layer of fertile soil was deeply removed by special equipment.
But okay, let's not get distracted by the topic of mycelium, let's continue to collect mushrooms.

Let's move on. And what do we see? - two Boletus Edulis friends (or maybe a friend and a girlfriend) also chose to grow up in a fire trench. We didn't want to separate their strong friendship, we are not barbarians, and so in the same inseparable form (pressed against each other) they went into our basket.

And such a landscape along the entire fire trench, walked a little bit - a mushroom, walked a few more steps - another mushroom.
And what is happening along the edges of the trench, so to speak on its side? - yes, the same thing, this is some kind of "mockery" of us, mushrooms everywhere! Here, for example, are some of them captured in the photo. Here are four Leccinum mushrooms in one place.
The same four mushrooms, but separately, in closer detail.
We follow the trench further and, here again, on its right side we notice two Boletus Edulis mushrooms, one of which chose to be born in a blueberry patch, and the second one is a little to the left under the branches of some bush.
Closer up they look like this (see two photos below).
And after them, more and more mushrooms. We could stop there, because we have already collected enough mushrooms. But how can we force ourselves to do this if there are so many mushrooms around? And when we leave the "fire trench" to the side, so to speak, into the depths of the forest stand, it becomes even more difficult to stop mushroom hunting, because there are even more mushrooms there.

Finally, the realization comes that enough is enough, it's time to leave the forest, because there is nowhere to put the mushrooms. We give ourselves the command: Don't look for mushrooms anymore! And we start moving towards the exit from the forest.

But then, almost immediately, and as if by someone's command, the forest begins to obsessively and cunningly "plant" mushrooms on our path, slowly and imperceptibly leading us to the side, thereby knocking us off course.
At such moments, you begin to think, is this not the tricks of the forest Wood Goblin (the mystical ruler of the forest)? The sly one knows how to make a mushroom picker wander - only with mushrooms. This is what Wood Goblin uses. Relying on the excitement or greed of any mushroom picker, he tries to manipulate us, planting very noticeable mushrooms, forcing the mushroom picker to go in the wrong direction or even walk in circles. Moreover, the mushrooms, strangely enough, are again starting to appear even where they were previously visited and collected. How can one not think that this is the work of Wood Goblin?We are, of course, passionate mushroom pickers, but not greedy (we don't need extra mushrooms), and therefore, no matter how hard Wood Goblin tried to confuse us in the forest, he failed, we broke away from his tricks. But, frankly speaking, forcing yourself to stop picking mushrooms when there are so many of them around is not so easy.

And only a video (see below) can give a full picture of this mushroom forest. Only in it can you see all the mushrooms that came across our path, where and how they grew, how we collected them, and even hear the wonderful crunch of mushrooms that is emitted when they are pulled out of the ground.
We wish everyone a pleasant viewing!