SNAKES
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Snake
So I had some climbing gear in my truck when I saw this guy which makes this appropriate for a Climbing forum. Can any one identify it? Bull snake? Looks like someone smashed his head. Poor guy. I heard bull snakes eat rattle snakes. Is that true? Perhaps someone thought they were doing a good thing. Now that he is dead are there any good uses for it after I scare the pants off my gf? Edit: and while we're at it let's just make this the climbing and snakes thread. Share your stories and photos of your snake encounters while climbing. What kind? Where were you? What did you do? Etc. |
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If it is not cold yet I would skin it. Once it is cold it gets a little harder to skin. Other than that just scaring people. |
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J Hazard wrote:you have to reference climbing or you will get flamed. |
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Greg D wrote: you have to reference climbing or you will get flamed.Oops.... should my rope look like that ^^^^ |
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Found at top of P1 on Easy O at the Gunks. Not sure what kind of snake it's from. #1 C4 for scale (no pun intended). |
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I've run into a few rattlers while climbing in BCC. Once my buddy and I were standing at the base of a climb, scoping things out. When we stepped back a ways from the wall so we could see the upper portion, I looked down and saw a baby rattler slithering along right where we had been standing 10 seconds previously. That was a little sketchy. |
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looks like a bull snake to me, but I'm no expert. In the context of climbing, carry him with and next time you arrive at an anchorstation with less than great slings, just tie him into the mix, now thats some tat! |
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The internet does not have room for all my snake stories. However, here is a photo or two... |
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Sam that's a bull snake. California King snakes do indeed eat rattlesnakes. |
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FINALLY a topic worth posting on! |
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Niether of mine is a bull snake. |
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I was hiking the approach to Leaning Tower, and my glasses had fogged up pretty badly from the effort of carrying all our water and gear. I couldn't really see the trail that well, when all of a sudden my partner grabbed me from behind. |
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Castlewood stories could be an entire subtext to this thread: |
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El Tigre wrote:Castlewood stories could be an entire subtext to this thread: .On the trail to go bouldering in Castlewood with my then gf, I stepped up a kinda terraced slope and realized my gf was no longer walking with me. I turned around and she was about 30 feet behind me, eyes wide as saucers and stock still. "What?" I asked, and she just pointed at the biggest goddamn rattlesnake I had ever seen, about 15 feet behind me, at least a tennis ball around in the middle and stretched across the entire 4' trail. I had managed not only not to notice it, but to luckily step over it. It didn't even rattle until I chunked a couple of rocks in his (or her?) direction. That was the end of that sesh. It was good to meet you today Greg, did you by chance find that snake on that job? |
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Ran into lots of rattle snakes in Arizona while climbing/hiking. Once i thought for sure one of our group of three was going to be bite by one of the 20 or so snakes we encountered out in the middle of some canyon. Another time at J tree a rattler went under our tent while we were climbing. Our neighbors saw it and removed it for us before we got back. |
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My partners in Yosemite had some fun encounters with king snakes. Nothing like reaching up to a hold and grabbing a snake. They love to chill under packs as well. |
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Sam Lightner, Jr. wrote:The internet does not have room for all my snake stories.Sam, Please tell us a snake story. Please ! |
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matt davies wrote: It was good to meet you today Greg, did you by chance find that snake on that job?Good to meet you too! No sign of the snake but it looks like he wears a 9 1/2 shoe. Can anybody identify this shoe? This mother effer stole a boat load of copper from me recently. Sole of the thief |
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Western Pacific Rattlesnake at Suicide Rock |
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Sean, Mark, and I went to climb Return Of Jeff Beane at RRG. We flaked the rope out and racked up, shot paper, rock, scissor for the lead and I won. Got about half way up to the last good rest and placed a solid cam. Mark was sitting on his bum leaning against his pack by a boulder and Sean was belaying. I looked down to shoot my shit eating grin at them for winning the lead and saw way more than I wanted. Out from underneath Mark's leg came the biggest copperhead I have seen. This snake just kept coming. It was all of 5' long and fat, 4" at least in girth. Mark's heart stopped, he said later, and as soon as that snake was clear from him he jumped from sitting to warrior instantly. I have never seen this 6'5 guy move that fast. He coiled up under the rope at the base and just sat there, until Sean started probing him with a stick. I was 30' up the wall telling him to stop out of fear the snake would take it out on me. What a puss right, haha. Good Stories. |