On The Hunt: Lithuanians Race To Pick Wild Mushrooms

VARENA, Lithuania (AP) — Hundreds of Lithuanians ran around with baskets and buckets Saturday in a southeastern pine forest. Why you ask? It's the national championship of wild mushroom picking — a competition always held on the last Saturday in September. That's when conditions are "not too dry, not too wet, the humidity is perfect," explained mushroom hunter Janina Juodine. A rainy, relatively warm summer created ideal conditions for the foraging festival in Lithuania, where forests cover more than 33 percent of the Baltic country and mushroom-hunting is considered the second-most popular sport after basketball.

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