SNAKES
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Greg D......that's a Gopher Snake, Bull Snake, or Pine Snake. Unfortunately, some uneducated Creton killed it, but once their home/neighborhood is overrun with rats, mice, and other rodents the reality of their ignorance may set in. |
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Out of curiosity, would the typical health insurance plan cover any share of the crazy expensive anti-venom? Lots of Copperheads in the Gunks... |
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Matt Collins wrote:That looks like a rubber boa. They are also pretty prevalent at Lovers Leap along with rattlers. That place is sanke heaven, but not nearly as bad as AZ or cottonwood from what it sounds like. They are crazy snakes though, I have ran in to ones off the deck on belay ledges.Rubber boas are awesome. I just came across the biggest one I've seen yet, at Ten Sleep last month. rubber boa Sucks about the gopher snake in the original post. I used to always have a couple of those as pets when i was growing up. Cool animals, and fairly mellow. As for other snake stories, I've had too rattlesnakes fall on my head while climbing, had to climb past on wedged in a crack two pitches up in Red Rocks, taken a near groundfall that left me dangling two feet above a copperhead at the RRG, and been confronted by an inbred kid in Crawford, TX, who had nothing but a stick, a pair of boxers, and a half-head-bashed-in, twitching, striking, water moccasin. |
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This guy was climbing a vertical crack in Penitente. They can climb! |
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Snake I saw up in Eldo Canyon last year.. I think it's a garter snake. |
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I like snakes. I think they are really neat. Although I must admit i do jump of I encounter one unexpectantly. Nonetheless, whenever I do see one I am pretty stoked. |
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Greg D wrote: Now that he is dead are there any good uses for it after I scare the pants off my gf? Etc.Be sure to get a picture of that too. |
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Snake in a hold - Muay Thai Wall Railay east.
What otherwise would have been a fantastic hold. Muay Thai Wall Railay east. |
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Definitely looks like a Gopher snake, but they are not found in NY. The closest that any member of Pituophis comes to NY is the Northern Pine Snake which is found in the southern NJ Pine Barrens. There are numerous examples of isolated populations of animals found far from there main distribution, perhaps this is the case here. |
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Hey TimT, who is that crazy guy in the picture with the black mamba |
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I'll post pics later of different snakes, but I have a pretty cool story with a shameless name-drop. |
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Awesome replies. Keep them coming. |
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Bryan G wrote:Not a good photo, but a week ago we found this dude chillin at the start of a climb in Courtright. I don't know anything about snakes so I have no idea what type it is, but I think it's harmless. I've seen a couple king snakes (I think that's what they are) in the talus this year here in the Valley, but no rattlers so far.Rubber Boa |
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I've had tons of encounters with snakes while biking...half the time they're already dead but when you're moving quick and/or not paying attention they still startle the crap out of you as you generally don't know they're dead until you're past them. |
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Funny story on the anti-venom, after my Diamondback bite as soon as I got into the emergency room they tested me for an allergic reaction to the anti-venom; pricked my arm with a small does and waited for something to happen, which it didn't so I was good to go. |
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Zach Pickard wrote:It made its way into a hole by my be layer as I hit the ground with enough time to snatch it up by its tail.Uh, some guy back in Texas grabbed a rattler by the tail as it was disappearing into a hole and the snake leveraged off his tail and bit the guy. I wouldn't do that again if I were you. I see timt also mentioned this. Once when I was visiting 0-9 Well cave in Texas, we noticed three snakes had fallen down the entrance pit and were hanging around in the water at the base of the rope climb. There was little chance they could slither out, since the walls are pretty sheer. So, we identified each as some sort of non-poisonos variety and put them in our backpacks and climbed out. Hopefully they weren't too tired to find food later. One was orange and white. |
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many many snake stories. i've probably seen thirty rattlers and twice that number of copperheads over the years. the south is full of pit vipers and some of them are snakes. any way, i was bouldering in cashiers a few years ago, in a thicket of wild blue berries. boulder a few moves, eat a few berries. good life when you can get it. sitting on the pad i look up into a blue berry bush and realize there is some kind of mass hanging in the bush. i lean forward and peer upward,puzzled, my mind trying to make sense of this object. talk about an ah-ha moment, it's the belly scales of a 3 foot timber rattler. i guess he was laying in wait for a bird to come in after the berries. fortunately for me his head was opposite mine and after the initial shock of seeing that aspect of a rattlesnake, i declared a truce and moved on. never have felt quite the same about bungling through the cashiers jungle though. |
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A few more I found. These were all on a trip to Smith rock apparently during snake breeding season. We saw 23 in 1 day. |