If Snaketongue truffleclub, it would be growing on Elaphomyces (a type of truffle). Had we dug more we could have verified/ruled this option out.

Mossy spruce forest, above buried Elaphomyces truffles

Not edible

• ▸ Orange-brown to yellowish, tongue-like clubs rising from the ground
• ▸ Each club is deeply rooted in the soil via a darkened holdfast
• ▸ Parasitic on the underground fruit bodies of Elaphomyces ('hart's truffle')
• ▸ Occurs in small, scattered groups in mossy coniferous forest

aka Tolypocladium ophioglossoides