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1/26/2012 9:18pm
Ok maybe not near death but.. close enough for me.
Sunday morning my wife and I took our morning walk in the hills 5minutes from our home here in southern cali. The trails we walk on range from 2' to 6' wide winding through the hills amongst the scrub brush and rocks.
As we walked along on the trail with our ipods on, turned down low to be able to hear things ( each other included ) I decided for some stupid reason when Run DMC Kings of rock came on my ipod to crank it up.
Now we come to this wide section of trail I always visualize going thru on a bike. It drops down into a gully and then back up the other side. Coming out the other side is a bit off camber to the left. There's little rain ruts coming down the left side.
I did my usual cut across the high side too braaaap my way up to the top when I finally hear my wife yelling at me. I stopped and turned back thinking maybe she hurt herself. I did a u-turn coming down the rain ruts. Now shes screaming at me too stop. so I stopped and she's yelling something else at me. Snake, there's a snake. I froze and coiled up 10' in front of me, about a foot out on the trail is one of these
I'm on a sandy/gravely off camber down hill with a 4 to 5 ft red diamond rattlesnake right where gravity wants to take me. After I cleaned my shorts. I realized that my wife and I were seperated by the serpent.
So I started picking up rocks and sticks and chucking them at Mr Snake, talk about hissing and rattleing. I actually hit it in the head and it just kept staring at me. I figured him to be pretty pissed off at this point. All I wanted was for Mr Snake to retreat back to the brush. Which it finally did and I ran back down.
Now all we can think about going back down is that there is a snake under every bush aside the trail. At one point on the way back down a good size lizard ran up the side of a rock a couple feet next to me making noise out of the brush, I can only imagine what my dance looked like to my wife.
On the way back to the house it hit me that I had just walked with in 3 feet of a full grown rattler oblivious too its presence. Thank god the wife had good ears and common sense to leave her ipod turned down low and didnt cross its path. And thank god I like cutting up the high side or I probably would of stepped right on it.
Needless to say we wont be going on the trails for awhile.. My luck that things still pissed and waiting for me. I'd be the first person to be chased down..
Sunday morning my wife and I took our morning walk in the hills 5minutes from our home here in southern cali. The trails we walk on range from 2' to 6' wide winding through the hills amongst the scrub brush and rocks.
As we walked along on the trail with our ipods on, turned down low to be able to hear things ( each other included ) I decided for some stupid reason when Run DMC Kings of rock came on my ipod to crank it up.
Now we come to this wide section of trail I always visualize going thru on a bike. It drops down into a gully and then back up the other side. Coming out the other side is a bit off camber to the left. There's little rain ruts coming down the left side.
I did my usual cut across the high side too braaaap my way up to the top when I finally hear my wife yelling at me. I stopped and turned back thinking maybe she hurt herself. I did a u-turn coming down the rain ruts. Now shes screaming at me too stop. so I stopped and she's yelling something else at me. Snake, there's a snake. I froze and coiled up 10' in front of me, about a foot out on the trail is one of these
I'm on a sandy/gravely off camber down hill with a 4 to 5 ft red diamond rattlesnake right where gravity wants to take me. After I cleaned my shorts. I realized that my wife and I were seperated by the serpent.
So I started picking up rocks and sticks and chucking them at Mr Snake, talk about hissing and rattleing. I actually hit it in the head and it just kept staring at me. I figured him to be pretty pissed off at this point. All I wanted was for Mr Snake to retreat back to the brush. Which it finally did and I ran back down.
Now all we can think about going back down is that there is a snake under every bush aside the trail. At one point on the way back down a good size lizard ran up the side of a rock a couple feet next to me making noise out of the brush, I can only imagine what my dance looked like to my wife.
On the way back to the house it hit me that I had just walked with in 3 feet of a full grown rattler oblivious too its presence. Thank god the wife had good ears and common sense to leave her ipod turned down low and didnt cross its path. And thank god I like cutting up the high side or I probably would of stepped right on it.
Needless to say we wont be going on the trails for awhile.. My luck that things still pissed and waiting for me. I'd be the first person to be chased down..
When I look at bootsie's pic, I cant but imagine him in that get up in the same situation with the snake..lol
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Glad you and your wife are okay.
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I rode up and asked WTF were you doing? and there was a nice rattler he had ran over while it was crossing.
If he reads this, he will know who he is.
I've walked over rattlers a hundred times, usually about stepping on them and then jumping back ten feet.
You shouldnt have pissed him off. Most that piss them off get bit. Back away, let them go about their business and you can go about yours. They really want nothing to do with you. Same with most wild animals.
I tell my girl to leave that shit at home as well. Funny thing is, she see's people about get plowed totally oblivious to whats going on around them, yet she still did the same thing.
She doesn't like to be wrong.
My old house in Bell Gardens is now a parking lot for the poker club.
When we run into a snake here around the house we catch and relocate. When my kids were young we got them each a snake to take care of so they would better understand snakes and be less likely to want to kill every snake they see.
I ve found the cottonmouth to a non aggressive snake also and I spent a year down in SE OK where they are very common.
I use to be a avid frog giger and have been around my fair share of cottonmouths.
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