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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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A couple of pic's from July this year...fishing in Red Canyon outside Lander...
I see this feller jump in the pool across from me and swim right towards me...
I tried to steer him away with the tip of my fly rod (sent in for repair afterwards...ugh...), but, wasn't haven't it. Just kept on coming. I moved...(!).
I grabbed a nearby stick (as the fly rod proved ineffective at any response) and finally got it to coil up. I snapped a couple of pics and left it to continue on its journey. I did have a heightened awareness of my bare ankles hiking back up to the car...ha ha...
Good times...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Did somebody say Prairie rattler?
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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blacktail rattlesnake
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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This is a subject I'm pretty passionate about since at work I have to always watch where I put my hands and feet. A good habit to have in the mountains!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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That is a GREAT story, Reilly. Hilarious.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Brian, I also have been fishing, and had rattlers swim toward me.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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That's kinda weird^^^ I had to step around one a couple weeks ago at Lovers Leap. Didn't even rattle at us.
I had an ex who was a rattlesnake researcher. Living in the Santa Monicas- he'd go out and collect them in the yard with some regularity. I'm pretty inured to them at this point if I run into one hiking. Most of the time they run away or curl up and try to hide. You have to be really unlucky or incredibly stupid to get bitten.
Edit to add rattlesnake bite statistic: apx 75% of all people bitten are males between the age of 20-35. Alcohol consumption is often a factor.
The remaining % are small children who don't know any better and people who step on them accidentally.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Had to relocate this one back down to the bottom of the yard where he belongs.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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DAYUM! Pretty sure I’d relocate a Mojave a bit farther afield. 😳
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Tom Bruskotter
Trad climber
Seattle
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When I surveyed in the Mojave for a couple years and walked many miles through Rattler country, I learned a way to spot snakes faster. Project an image of a snake, like a heads-up display, on the ground you are about to walk. Your brain recognizes the snake much faster this way. When my projection overlayed the real thing it lit up and flashed.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Mojave or Southern Pacific? That's quite the colorful buzz worm!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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JTM writes:
Edit to add rattlesnake bite statistic: apx 75% of all people bitten are males between the age of 20-35. Alcohol consumption is often a factor.
The remaining % are small children who don't know any better and people who step on them accidentally.
I heard from a doctor at Fort Irwin, who's treated dozens of snakebites, that every soldier he treated had been bitten on the hand.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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A Mojave hit the brim of my ball cap, but it was a dry bite, aka a courtesy strike.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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most snakebite victims are suffering from the 5 tees.
teenager
testosterone
truck driver
tattoos
tequilla
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Walking back to camp 4 along the Merced after climbing most of the day a friend and I came on a rattler lying at the base of a tree and my friend just reaches down and picks the thing up like it was no big deal and proceeds to squeeze it behind the jaw so its fangs were exposed all the while explaining how the injection of poison works and all and then just puts the snake down, again, like it was nothing and we walk on. Damn I was impressed!
Use to see some really big ones in the Ventana wilderness, thick as your leg. Yikes.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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At Tahquitz last year on the trail back to the base of a climb on the west side I almost stepped on a rattler curled at the base of a rock because I couldn't see it, I was walking downhill. You can see rattlesnakes in such typical positions easily while you're walking uphill, but if you are going downhill they are usually under the rocks or their base and therefore screened out of your vision by the angle and by the rocks.
Capiche?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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those suckers blend in a bit too well for us all, most of the time, seems to me. why no bright poison arrow frog DO NOT ToUCH coloration? (besides the fact that you whack em with a stick and they are dinner.)
I suspect that the swimming towards shoremen is a kinda seek the trees or other landly highpoint whilst escaping water death thing.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Last night on our every Wednesday ride. This is actually a fast downhill and my buddy almost went over the snake and stopped to warn me before I rode over it and had it wrap in my spokes.......Big Wow!!
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