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Tan Slacks
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 5, 2008 - 12:59pm PT
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I have never seen this in the wild. These pictures were taken in the Morongo Basin last week. Should be an interesting summer.
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Did you shoot those pics?
Yikes.
Prod.
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F10 Climber F11 Drinker
Trad climber
medicated and flat on my back
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That scares the crap out of me,
Hope you were using a telephoto lens from a good distance
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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that is totally cool! thanks for the picks...
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L
climber
A place with rocks...lots and lots of rocks...
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Very cool photos! Always like seeing those guys...from a safe distance.:-)
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Wow, awesome pix!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Objective dangers of climbing
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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aaggghuuahh yuck Dan!!!! Please tell me that the photo was taken at a snake farm in Morongo!
That's exactly why we are walking the dogs on leashes right now. Little Nora likes to put her nose in holes while Russ & I yell at her not to. Cracker on the other hand has seen the snakes (sometimes right in the middle of the road in Indian Cove Campground). Cracker DOES NOT LIKE THEM and is pretty snake aware. Nora on the other hand is oblivious.
That photo is super creepy!
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apogee
climber
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TS-
How did you come across this? Where in the basin were you? Were they threatened by your presence?
I consider myself something of a wannabe herpetologist, but this gives me the willys!
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Russell or Blitzo. Post those photos of the snake>bunny>no bunny taken from the Sahara House.
This will gross you guys out too.
`S
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Double D
climber
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Didn't you read the thread about the "Rattler-sushi-fest?"
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Holy Shizzle Dan!
Yikes!!!
They look bionic!!!!
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Indianclimber
climber
Las Vegas
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Hmmmmmm...Now where did I put my shoes?
Yuk ,that gives me shivers!
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Tan Slacks
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2008 - 01:44pm PT
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No, I did not take the pictures, They were taken by a friend on his cell phone camera! To be be fair, the pictures was not taken in the Morongo Valley proper. The pictures were taken slightly north of Landers and discovered while hiking. He claims they are Mojave greens in there. I have to trust him on that. My guess is that the hole in the lower left of the first picture was their nest.
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Ouch!
climber
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I've seen this before. It's the leaving of the den or convention hole in the spring. They are receiving their assignments to the climbing routes they will guard until fall. They will scatter to the four winds and shed their skins and be blind for a short period. They have been observed raping garden hoses and climbing ropes while in this dim sighted state.
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apogee
climber
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Are you sure this is in Landers, CA? I passed the image on to a good friend of mine who is a serious herpetologist, and here's what he said:
"Thanks for the pics but they were not taken any place in California. Those are Great Basin Rattlesnakes at a den site most likely in Colorado or the mid-west plains states."
He says he is 100% sure they are not Mojave Greens, too.
This would sure make me feel better walking around JT...!
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spot
climber
Atascadero,Ca
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Got those pictures in an email from a buddy may 26 and the attached pictures say "mothers day 08" and the email claims they were taken somwhere in Wyoming.
might make sense that it's somewhere in that area with the short sagebrush in the photo's. Where ever this is, it's still amazing.
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Tan Slacks
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2008 - 04:32pm PT
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Apogee,,
You and your friend may be correct. I have no idea. This came to me in an email from a friend in Lucerne who claims to have taken them. I can't vouch for their origin. He works at the cement plant in Lucerne and has passed on some pretty wild stuff in the past. I tend to trust everything I get in my email:-) So I guess I would still watch my step.
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