Look at the terrain and climate of your prospecting area. Part 1

The first puzzle to be solved before rushing headlong in search of morels is to know the terrain and climate of the prospecting area.

If you live in an area where the climate is fairly constant and the terrain has the same nature everywhere, your task will be easy.
Unfortunately this is not my case.

And here is my current hunting ground.

Panorama.

A mountainous area at the south of the Vosges Mountains, the Vosges Saônoises, whose highlights are the Ballon de Servance (1216m) and La Planche des Belles Filles (1148m). Ronchamp Champagney lie at the foothills at an altitude of about 300 meters in the Natural Park of Ballons Comtois.


I thus enjoys a unique climate, wetter, less sunny, cooler and windier than other inhabitants of the region, even though they live only a few kilometers from here.

If one looks for mushrooms, one must also take into account the altitude and slope exposure.

Finally, to complicate matters in our quest, the geology is varied and often changes the ground.

Coal tip.

Backfill.

 Former mining region, there are coal tips. Often, these tips were used to perform logging roads or were used as backfill.
One can also find small outcrops.









Within a few miles, sometimes only a few hundreds or tens of meters, the soil can completely change.

Riverbank.

In my area, you will find a red soil, heavy and impermeable resulting from the decomposition of Vosges sandstone, and siliceous soils, marl, limestone ...
Their diversity depends on these rocks and various erosions.
Along streams and rivers are zones of alluvial silt.