SsssNAKE SeasoN ......,(merged threads)

[pinoy7]

This guy was hanging out in a tricky rock garden at our local trails in Murrieta. Right in the line one would take!

 

[SpeedStarr]

I saw one about that same size on Sunday on Racetrack in Chula. It caught me by surprise and I bounced off a tree avoiding it.

 

[shudder]

I assume you are talking about the snake, because that creepy-faced guy hiding under the rock on the bottom left does not look pleased.

That is WICKED!! Good find. Wow.

- shud

 

[badgas]

Huge gopher snake at the fully loop tonight. One of the biggest snakes I have ever seen at the loop 6 foot easily

 

[abuck55]

Good size snake. Looks like he could use a meal!

 

[amrider04]

My first snake encounter this year. Saw this little guy on Dana Point hills this afternoon around 2:30pm.



I made sure this little guy is off the trail before I continued my ride. Ride safe guys!

 

[Andy]

My first snake encounter of the year at LCWP along Bommer Ridge, just before the top of Emerald Canyon, around midday

 

[Crazygramma]

snakes on the trail is better than SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!

Many years ago on a flight to Chicago a snake got loose and slithered around the plane! When it was announced, everyone quickly lifted their feet off the floor! I never saw it, but heard screaming coming from various areas. A man got up and just happened to have a snake cage and caught it, but insisted it wasn't his snake. Yeah, right.

 

[mtnbikej]

Have been seeing a few snakes lately....a great King snake and a gopher snake a couple of days ago.

Ran into this guy today....he was a bit pissed off:

 

[McG715]

I find myself looking so hard lately everywhere after seeing a couple earlier than usual and I am almost getting paranoid.. especially in tighter singletrack with limited clearance.. I'm usually not too concerned but this season it's on my mind more.. where was this one?

 

[Rumpled]

Out near Desert Hot Springs on Sunday I saw what look kinda like sidewinder tracks.
Just can't post from my phone with pic right now.

 

[cyclotourist]

Ran into this bad boy today! On Strada Rossa course!

 

[da big hills]

2 foot southern pacific diamondback in my driveway yesterday. It starts

 

[socal_eric]

Ran into this bad boy today! On Strada Rossa course!

Great. So the climbing and 7k elevation gain isn't enough and now you're adding snake obstacles to the course.

 

[surftime]

Am I the only one that hates ticks more than snakes? I love seeing snakes. Except for one time a rattler scared the cap out of me. But I'm getting ticks left and right at laguna wilderness.

 

[cyclotourist]

Great. So the climbing and 7k elevation gain isn't enough and now you're adding snake obstacles to the course.

Sharing is caring!!!

 

[abuck55]

Am I the only one that hates ticks more than snakes? I love seeing snakes. Except for one time a rattler scared the cap out of me. But I'm getting ticks left and right at laguna wilderness.

Ticks are Vile little bugs! Everyone hates them. You are not the only one.

 

[ridinrox]

I find myself looking so hard lately everywhere after seeing a couple earlier than usual and I am almost getting paranoid.. especially in tighter singletrack with limited clearance.. I'm usually not too concerned but this season it's on my mind more.. where was this one?

Jim, don't worry if you're the first person to pass a rattler, it's the second or third person that will encounter the strike; this is why I always descend first this time of year...heh heh heh

 

[dirtLizard]

Nearly ran over this little guy last week at San Clemente singletracks (climbing Holeshot); just hanging out in the sun:

 

[moto knight]

just out of oakley parking lot.