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EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Feb 12, 2015 - 08:02pm PT
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Feb 13, 2015 - 06:22am PT
Stumbled upon this guy this a.m. while cleaning the study. Only ever heard about creatures like this; never seen one before.

Talk about zero at the bone...almost gave me a heart attack.

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 21, 2015 - 12:02pm PT
Glad you survived, L! Scary!

Eastern Ratsnake...

"Sup?"


He really didn't want to talk...


Met this little fellow on the Mt Williamson trail last week.
He did seem to want to talk!
He turned away from me only about 18" from the camera.
pinckbrown

Trad climber
Woodfords, CA
Jun 21, 2015 - 03:46pm PT

Nice view from above and behind.
Poloman

Trad climber
Anna, Il
Jun 21, 2015 - 08:56pm PT
In southern Illinois, where I now live, is a place called snake road. In the spring and fall snakes migrate across the road. I am a videographer.
http://youtu.be/4epmf89jfmQ
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 21, 2015 - 11:02pm PT
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
May 31, 2017 - 12:51pm PT
I got something this week I always wanted - then I almost killed it.

Two days ago, a big Gopher Snake turned up in my garage, just as I'm battling back a mouse infestation. Hell yeah! It'd been a while since I'd seen one of those around here ( I thought the Kingsnakes and Racers ate them all ) and for it to be a big one, and at home in the garage, that's as good as it gets.

About an hour ago, I saw it again. It was coiled up and stuck to the floor. It had obviously been into one of the sticky traps I set out for the mice, and was covered with sticky goo from head to tail. He was completely stuck to both himself and the floor. Damn!

A quick google search said cooking oil would get rid of the goo. I had my doubts, but I felt like I had to do something. Poor thing was helping me out when he crawled into a trap I had set.

I managed to pry it up off the floor and straighten it out, then I soaked it with corn oil. After peeling off the gobs of goo, and about twenty minutes of running the snake through my oil-soaked hands and dry paper towels, the sticky sh#t seemed to have either come off or lost its stickiness.

The snake was uncharacteristically good about the whole ordeal. More often than not, a Gopher Snake will strike. This one was probably too tired from trying to free itself to want to fight.

No photos - I had goo and oil all over my hands. Maybe later.

Last I saw him, he disappeared into the gap behind the workbench, where the mice have set up housekeeping.

EDTI:

I figured I'd see him again.


Doesn't look like he's too happy to see me this time.
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
May 31, 2017 - 01:43pm PT
This monkey wasn't as adept as others at detecting a nearby snake


I am walking a trail at Smith Rock. Robert is well ahead. I am taking pictures of flowers and bees and butterflies. Robert calls to me, "There's a big snake here." I race but the snake has left.


Several years later on the same trail. Robert is well ahead. I scan every twig, pebble, rock, bush, tree, and touron's ankles for snakes.


Nothing.




I am going up the trail. Two women are coming down. One says, "What was that?"

I say, "I think it was my pack brushing against this dry bush."

One of them says, "No. There it is."

The other woman and I are asking, "What? What? Where? Where?"

Finally we see it. We had missed it because it was much closer than we were looking.



Once we saw it, the threat message via sight, sound, and gesture, was impressively obvious.





Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 31, 2017 - 06:12pm PT
Good work, Chaz!


Prairie Rattler, Hovenweep NM.

She apparently lost some rattles as she was decent sized - about 28".
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
May 31, 2017 - 08:57pm PT
Chaz! Congrats on taking the big-gulp & saving that glue-trapped Gopher snake. We had that happen to a 10" Gopher snake a few years back in our old schisty & mouse-infested garage & with great effort, Heidi saved it.

Somewhat later, we tore the 1950's piece of schist garage down & had a new garage built. So-far, no mice or snakes, although the spiders always find a way to enter.

Old garage


New garage.


And one of our several happy Gopher snakes, (who are all named Ralph)




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