We’re getting close shroomer’s and with that it’s time to start some logistical planning! If you’re driving to Telluride this year and have an extra seat or looking for one for that matter consider posting on our Facebook page and shroomfest section of the Shroomery forums.  Both are a excellent place to meet new people to share the road with!

Prepping for Shroomfest

At Cloud Acre

-for Ty Allchin

Got back this late July weekend

Mowed the fallow field weeds

Have yet to mound the spuds

though watering daily, or was

Not sure I can promise

a rainbow for our parade

But home from the gathering

the boy and I appear to be

rained out of an early

morning climb of Sheep

Mountain big brother Rio

& I had planned for months

& first reports from the San Juans

say some chanterelles already

& maybe a few boletes

(Leccinum, for sure)

Capt. Barefoot Broadside                                          Union of Street Poets

Vincent St. John Local / Colorado Plateau / Aztlán

 Kuksu Brigade (Ret.) / San Francisco

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We’re getting a bunch of emails from people asking what the weather is looking like and if Telluride is getting the rain needed for an excellent shroom season.  We moved the festival up by a week this year and it’s starting to look like a picture perfect scenario!

July normally see’s about two inches of rain and we’re at one and three quarters with almost two weeks of rain still in the forecast. And the temps are just right, within the next three weeks we’ll start to see fruiting and the shrooms are gonna be just ripe and ready to pick by the middle of august!

So keep checking the weather and we’ll see you for another amazing Shroomfest!

 

 

 

Shroomers were so impressed with Valerie and all the great work MAPS is doing that we decided to invite them back! She’s worked with MAPS since 2001 working on a range of projects from clinical trials administration for pharmaceutical drug development to leading MAPS’ psychedelic harm–reduction project, where she’s prepared over 200 volunteers to provide peer–based psychedelic emergency services from Burning Man to Tel Aviv.

For those that missed last year here’s what MAPS is:

Founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization. MAPS functions as a non-profit pharmaceutical company working to make psychedelics–such as psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA–and medical marijuana available to patients, physicians, and therapists on a legal, prescription, generic basis for public health benefits and health care cost savings. MAPS helps scientists fund, design, and conduct clinical trials under the guidelines set forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), the International Council on Harmonization (ICH), and other government regulatory bodies. MAPS is also training therapists to administer psychedelic drugs in therapeutic settings. MAPS educates the public honestly about the risks and benefits of psychedelics and marijuana by organizing and co-sponsoring conferences, distributing books and other merchandise, distributing a triannual Bulletin, producing a monthly e-mail newsletter, distributing knowledge about psychedelic harm reduction, hosting educational and fundraising booths at festivals and community events, and providing access to world-renowned experts in psychedelic and medical marijuana research.

Shroomfest founder Manny Salzman, along with festival regulars Linnea Gillman, Jason Salzman (former president of the Colorado Mycological Society) and several other equally amazing people have created a great new mushroom site for the urban explorer.

Urbanmushrooms.com has a wealth of information from identifying that strange mushroom in your garden and cooking it to shopping advice & information about poisonous mushrooms you may encounter while in the urban fungal jungle.

Also, those attending the festival will be pleased to know that The Salzmans, Larry Evans, Telluride’s John Sir Jesse and many other experienced mushroom hunters will be on hand leading the daily forays up into the San Juan Mountains,

Here’s a video of Jason talking about edible urban mushrooms from last years festival titled From the Backyard to the Frying Pan: City Mushrooms

 

It’s the day fugiphiles! The last day of early bird sales is here.

You can pay by clicking on the tickets page above and using Paypal or send a check or money order post marked by the 1st with the names of your party to:

Telluride Mushroom Festival
The Telluride Institute Inc.
210 Fat Alley, PO Box 1770
Telluride, CO 81435

 

 

If you have any problems what so ever please contact us by email at bolete@shroomfest.com.

 

The Posters and Flyers are out for this years Shroomfest!

It was made by our resident graphic artist, organizer and musician Thrax with the artwork of Aaron Inkling Cruz Garcia who will also be in attendance at this years festival.

Here they are, click on the images to download the PDF’s and feel free to email them to your friends, post them on Facebook and put them on bulletin boards everywhere!

 

It’s getting close! less than two months till we’re in Telluride, high in the San Juan mountain’s, picking shrooms with friends new and old.

Get your tickets now while they’re still only $135 each or:

Groups of 2 at $130/each
Groups of 3 to 5 at $125/each
Groups of 6 or more at $110/each

You can pay by clicking on the tickets page and using Paypal or send a check or money order post marked by the 1st with the names of your party to:

Telluride Mushroom Festival
The Telluride Institute Inc.
210 Fat Alley, PO Box 1770
Telluride, CO 81435

For many years Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin has been a great friend of the festival’s and we would like to help spread the word about two very important projects regarding one of the fathers of modern Psychopharmacology.

The Shulgin Legacy Project is a new initiative of the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute, created to Facilitate and encourage ongoing study and research into psychoactive compounds and visionary plants. Acting as a resource for chemists, therapists, toxicologists, etc.

The other of the Legacy Project is to maintain the Shulgin Farm and transform it into a permanent facility that can serve as a conference center, psychedelic library (to provide unrestricted access to valuable research), and expand the collection of species in the ethnobotanical garden.

The other project that’s been brought to our attention is an album celebrating the Sasha’s life and contributions.

Press release:

L.A.B. Tracks: A Benefit Compilation for Sasha Shulgin Digital Album

Immediate download of 27-track album in your choice of 320k mp3,FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

100% OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM GO DIRECTLY TO THE SHULGINS’ ONGOING MEDICAL COSTS!

At the age of 85, Sasha recently suffered a stroke and now requires full-time medical care. This benefit compilation is the response from an
international network of musicians whose work and lives have been enriched and inspired by the work of these two pioneers and their
courageous exploration of nonordinary consciousness.

The L.A.B., or “Large Animal Bioassay,” was the pet name given to visionary chemist Sasha Shulgin’s small group of friend-volunteers who
spent years exploring the effects of his newly-discovered molecules on their consciousness. This heroic team of psychonauts were the first to experience hundreds of novel states of consciousness, and it is in their honor that we name this compilation of eclectic tracks.

We’re getting close Shroomers.

We’re just getting slammed with emails, calls and random people walking upto us on the street asking “Where’s the schedule?” It’s usually out by late June/early July but we realize many of you want something sooner and here it is! Everything here is subject to change but this gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect!

Click the link below to download the PDF.
Shroomfest Draft Schdule