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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jul 10, 2012 - 08:57pm PT
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Interesting David Nelson - and welcome back. You've been missed. So do you think the snake I posted upthread was a rattler or gopher (or one of each)? As Reilly mentioned, I'm not going to get close enough to be sure. :)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 10, 2012 - 11:50pm PT
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Is the base of El Cap still that active in terms of Rattlesnakes??
Yes, up there in the summer time (which is rare for me) with Debbie and walked over one on the approach. Real polite guy who was diving for the cracks in the talus to get out of our way.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 11, 2012 - 12:58am PT
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I take issue with One Day's list. After all, it was compiled by Aussies who
can be excused for being homers. Other lists I've seen put the Mojave in
the lower end of the top ten worldwide. I don't wanna get bit by none of 'em!
I won't post my grossest pics. If you read Bruce Chatwin's Songlines
you'll read about his meeting a chap who got bit on his face by a Taipan
when he bent over to change a flat tire. The bugger was wrapped around
his axle! He survived but he didn't like to be seen in public.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 11, 2012 - 01:10am PT
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The ground squirrel heats up its tail then waves it in the snake's face - a form of harassment that confuses the rattler, which has an infrared sensing organ for detecting small mammals.
I will stop going any place with poisonous reptiles if I have to wave my fanny at them. It may have worked in Ireland, but I see no need to try the experiment here.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Jul 11, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
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Old news now, but when I was in Yosemite the second weekend of June one of my friends got hit by a rattler. Fortunately it didn't envenomate him, so no evac needed, just some tape for the decent size holes it left on his big toe, and the next day everyone was back to climbing (keeping a very sharp eye out!)
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jul 12, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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Gavin,
It looks like you were nicked by one fang, right? I know a guy who was nicked in the finger and didn't go to the hospital. Ever since then, the finger is permanently bent and immobile.
Tony Mayse posts here on occasion. About ten+ years ago, he was bouldering in the Wichita Mountains and got nailed big time. He was about 1 minute from his car, and then five more to the refuge headquarters. By the time he got to HQ he was in horrible full body pain.
Then it was a high speed drive to meed an Ambulance halfway to Lawton. I'm not sure if he was able to get antivenon from the Refuge HQ or not.
He ended up spending a while in Intensive Care. Around a week total in the hospital.
Tony is a tough MF, and he said it was the most horrible and intense pain that he could imagine. Way worse than breaking a leg.
Some bites are worse than others, for sure.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Jul 12, 2012 - 05:20pm PT
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Anders that is funny, I agree, I don't want to be waving my butt to some venomous reptile.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Jul 12, 2012 - 05:35pm PT
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HighTraverse, that link with all the North American Rattler's scared me!
The rattleing brings back a bad memory of stepping directly next to a rattler. Very very distinct sound. Still not used to Rattlers. I get shaken up when I hear one.
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Jul 12, 2012 - 05:45pm PT
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Wow!!! Yosar Rocks and... I am really happy that things are working out despite such a scare. Please let us know how the hand is doing. Plus, Thanks Werner for keeping us in the loop!
AFS
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jul 12, 2012 - 06:08pm PT
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snakes are scary, but that Mojave Green is beautiful.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Jul 12, 2012 - 07:12pm PT
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10b4me, yeah I do find snakes beautiful creatures in a way, but venomous or non-venomous I could never take to being near them. I am sure the Mojave Green is a beautiful snake, but as long (if I am ever back in that neck of the woods, and I hope to be someday) as the snake and I keep our distance, that's cool with me.
Maybe Fattrad is right, a honey badger as a pet (I don't think so).
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2012 - 08:46pm PT
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A lady in the town of Three Rivers here got bit a week or so ago.She was walking her daughter out to the car in the evening and had her bathrobe on. She stepped in a pile of leaves and there was a snake in it and it wrapped around her leg like a python and bit her 3 times in the ankle! It hit bone and only one of the bites went into the flesh luckily. She is recovering okay. This must have been scary as hell with it wrapping around her ankle! I can't wait to ask her how she got it off..........
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Sep 25, 2012 - 09:29pm PT
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Man o Man
the stuff (bad) dreams are made of
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