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300–700 ft · TX🚗 Directions
The Lost Pines — a loblolly pine island stranded ~100 miles west of the main East Texas Pineywoods, centered on Bastrop and Buescher State Parks near Austin. Pine-oak sandhills over the Carrizo aquifer hold chanterelles and boletes through summer, with oysters and chicken-of-the-woods on hardwood drainages, and the forest is recovering well from the 2011 wildfire. Dung-loving Psilocybe cubensis and Panaeolus species fruit in the adjacent cattle country.
Updated Jun 17, 4:24 AM MT
**Lost Pines S-Tier Breakdown (June 17, 2026)** Lost Pines is firing across the board—S-tier is earned here. You've got sustained soil warmth (81°F, pegged above threshold for a full week), solid volumetric water content (0.30 VWC 7-day average), and 4+ inches of rain in the last 7 days with zero drought stress. That's the holy trinity. Chanterelles, Chicken of the Woods, Wine Caps, and the woody decomposer suite (Turkey Tail, Artist's Conk, False Turkey Tail) are all in prime fruiting window. Even the niche players—Dryad's Saddle, Crown-Tipped Coral, the various polypores—have green lights across the board. The only governor is moderate desiccation risk: you're in early summer heat, so fruiting windows compress. Ephemeral ink caps and soft jelly fungi will abort fast if they don't pin now. Bracket fungi and woody species have more runway. **Watch the next 48–72 hours.** Expect pin sets to translate to harvestable flushes by mid-week if today's moisture holds. Any rain spike lifts this even higher. After that, monitor soil temps—if you hit 85°F+ sustained without fresh precip, the desiccation brake tightens hard. **Hot tip:** Hit the dead wood (oaks, aspens, pines) *today or tomorrow* for Chicken and Oysters before the heat window closes—they'll fruit fast and collapse faster in the coming heat.
Generated by Claude (Anthropic) from the structured weather, soil, and phenology data on this page. The LLM can misread edge cases — treat this as a starting hypothesis, not a guarantee. Always verify conditions on the ground before committing to a long drive.
Precip 7d
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4.09"
PRISM 4km · thru 06-15
Precip 14d
Observed precipitation from PRISM 4km gridded analysis, sampled at the region centroid through 2026-06-15. Used when no SNOTEL/SCAN station is mapped to this region.4.70"
PRISM 4km · thru 06-15
Soil Temp
81°F
SWE
Snow Water Equivalent — how much water is in the snowpack vs. normal. Declining SWE means snowmelt is adding moisture to the soil.0%
Drought
None
Snowmelt
complete
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)
Primordia readiness: Cold = mycelium dormant. Activating = soil warming, primordia building. Primed = 5+ sustained warm days at species threshold; fruiting imminent if moisture cooperates. Based on Schmidt 1983 / Mihail 2007.