During the holiday season, when many people go mushroom hunting in the forest, I often come across entries on the Internet about what mushrooms are growing, what kind of rash it is at the moment.

Everything is corrected by an independent trip to the woods and verification of the mythical fantasies of the authors of these articles. Unfortunately, I am a bit disappointed with the amount of mushrooms in the forest, but I am fully aware that it is simply too dry.

Here and there in humid regions, where a dense umbrella of beech crowns creates a microclimate, you can hunt something. But the amounts are small, it is often seen in the mushrooms that are gnawed by rodents from all sides. This only proves that mushrooms are like medicine. In the season when there is a so-called rash, bitten mushrooms are rarely found.

Nevertheless, a trip to the forest, regardless of the results and results in the harvest, is always an amazing experience. Because the forest is alive, changing, and each visit to it is a new sensation and feeling.

Although I have been going to my favorite places for over a dozen years, I sometimes lose my orientation in the forest. Everything is changing so fast that despite my excellent knowledge of the forest and topography of the terrain, I sometimes have doubts whether I am really on the right track. Fortunately, modern technology, GPS, maps in the phone give a sense of security.

If there are not too many mushrooms, the perception starts to change direction. A man looks around for porcini mushrooms less than he notices the surrounding nature and space. He will crouch down from time to time over an interesting plant, ponder, take a few photos and march on.

This is the case, among others, in Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska, where I go whenever I have free time. I'm planning my next longer trip next week, and it will be 4 nights in a tent - I can't wait.