Rattlers in the High Country

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simillimum

climber

maine

Jul 20, 2011 - 06:57pm PT

Email me for info on treating snakebites with
Homeopathy and getting small Climbers 1st Aid Remedy
Kit. Fall & winter courses in the bay area upcoming as well.
drwendypollock@gmail.com

TGT

Social climber

So Cal

Jul 20, 2011 - 07:30pm PT

treating snakebites with
Homeopathy

Sounds like a good way to die!

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jul 20, 2011 - 08:07pm PT

Yeah;
"The doctor says yer gonna die."

Small climber's first aid remedy kit?
Fine by me. Screw the tall bastards.

Patrick Sawyer

climber

Originally California now Ireland

Jul 20, 2011 - 08:24pm PT

One of my brothers, Mac, head winemaker at Conn Valley Vineyards (Napa), had a rattler that just would not leave the caves, hiding among the barrels (maybe drinking some wine, heh heh, who knows). He/they finally got it to leave. A couple of weeks later one of the vineyard workers showed up with about a dead four-foot rattler. My brother was not really happy, telling the, okay I will say it though it is not PC, migrant worker that rattlesnakes are good for vineyards.

As we are learning from encounters with sharks, venomous snakes and such (tigers, lions, cougars, grizzlies, hippoes, etc etc),… we are learning, they don’t have it in for us. I’d be more afraid of walking late at night down some city street – there are a lot of two-legged snakes and sharks out there.

Actually, as I understand it, hippopotamuses are more responsible for human deaths in Africa than any other animal (crocs, snakes, lions etc) species.

Several years ago, I saw this interesting video of a hippo charging out of the bushes chasing some guy on a dirt road but running out of steam so the guy could escape. If I was that guy, I would have been shitting in my shorts as I ran. The darn thing was as big as frigging VW Beetle.

Jim Keating and I literally ran face to face with a rattler on the approach to Snake Dike (sort of fitting, isn’t it).

I don’t know. You run into a cougar in SoCal, a rattler in Yosemite, a grizzly in Montana, or some crazed gang member anywhere. I will take the former three.

cheers

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"Actually, as I understand it, hippopotamuses are more responsible for human deaths in Africa than any other animal (crocs, snakes, lions etc) species."

Excluding humans of course - Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Tibet, certain parts of Latin America, Burma, etc etc ad nauseam. Oh yeah, and downtown LA as I understand it. But those hippos... not to be messed with. A hood can take a kick to the... well unless he is carrying a gun. With a hippo, no kick to the ** will do, try an anti-tank bazooka

Nuclear bombs and WMD were not created by sharks, snakes, chimpanzees (Uhh on, Escape from the Planet of the Apes). My friend Willard of the Rats created the WMD (actually I never saw the Willard film). Point being, um, humans cannot necessarily be the most humane of species on this little globe.

Just watch out for mad elephants in Asia and Africa, they need their space too. Or orcas (killer whales) are being increasingly sighted in Irish waters, just as I am learning to scuba dive.

surfstar

climber

Santa Barbara, CA

Jul 20, 2011 - 10:10pm PT

Yeah;
"The doctor says yer gonna die."

Small climber's first aid remedy kit?
Fine by me. Screw the tall bastards.

drwendypollock@gmail.com

drunkenmaster

Social climber

santa rosa

Jul 20, 2011 - 10:29pm PT

i guess its possible but it is rare to see them over 6-8000 ft from what ive seen i saw one a few years ago at lovers leap and that surprised me. i see them A LOT down here in sonoma/napa/lake/mendo counties.

Sonic

Trad climber

Hilly, but no rocks Folsom, California

Jul 20, 2011 - 10:41pm PT

I saw one this last weekend from the descent at Lovers Leap. Looked about 3 to 4 years old.

bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, CA

Jul 20, 2011 - 11:16pm PT

Yeah, I spotted a monster rattler under a rock at the base of Sharks's Tooth at Phantom Spires. It was pretty docile and mellow, but it was BIG!

Tobia

Social climber

Jul 20, 2011 - 11:59pm PT

Captain, they swallow rabbits and bigger critters around here. They are referred to as "bell tails" in the south.

I have stepped around them, on them, over them and have never been bitten while cruising timber. They seem to go out of their way to be left alone and warn you when you are too close. Snake boots and chaps are essential protection for the time they do strike.

eagle

Trad climber

new paltz, ny

Jul 21, 2011 - 07:36pm PT

that guy from florida holding the mondo rattler probably marinated it in his natural ice beer and called a few buds over for a bbq

Patrick Sawyer

climber

Originally California now Ireland

Jul 21, 2011 - 07:47pm PT

Eagle

I have eaten rattler meat, much more unctuous than other reptiles I have tasted, such as frog legs, alligator and crocodile. Snake definitely has a different taste.

doughnutnational

Gym climber

its nice here in the spring

Jul 22, 2011 - 09:54am PT

I've never eaten any other reptiles, but I've felt obligated to eat every rattler I've killed during my years living in the foothills. While it does taste a little like chicken it chews like a steel belted radial.

Tobia

Social climber

Jul 22, 2011 - 10:10am PT

I have eaten rattlesnake... must be in the marinade it was tender and like stated above similar to chicken and frog legs.

Rattlers do get monstrous in the south but a little foolery in most pictures of the big ones; the snake is usually placed closer to the lens and seems much larger than anything behind it.

sauce

climber

Jul 22, 2011 - 07:29pm PT

@ craig mo - The snake you shared in that photo is not a Mohave a Speckled Rattlesnake or Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus.

@ The Chief - I am curious to know where Pine Creek is located. The snake in that picture is not a Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus). It appears to me like a Panamint Rattlesnake (Crotalus stephensi) but if you can tell me where this was I could make a better determination.

martygarrison

Trad climber

Washington DC

Jul 22, 2011 - 08:22pm PT

I have run into a bunch at the leap. The highest I have seen them is at the vista on Sonora Pass (9600'),twice actually. First time was some 35 years ago so I am not so sold on climate change driving em up.