Texas Sized Rattle Snake

[Lee]

I don't like snakes much but I respect them. I love to hike and have run accross a few Timber Rattlers in the last few years.

The scariest encounter was at a place called Crabtree Meadows. It's a beautiful spot in the George Washington National Forrest I think and a great camping spot. Green meadows, creeks running through it, etc.

We had a group of kids up there to hike the AT for a week a few years ago. These are the kids I work with in a residential treatment program. We set up camp and around dusk, we were walking a group down a path that had 3 foot tall grass on either side. I was leading and it was just about dark. As I was beginning to take a step I noticed what looked like a log lying on the trail. I stopped and it turned out to be a 4 foot rattler. Glad I was leading and not one of the hyper kids instead!!

We waited and watched and they learned how to respect the snake as we were just visiting!!

Beautiful snake though.........

Nice post MMM!

 

[Treamayne]

How did you get so close?

Well... it was dead. But that isn't the snake I saw, since I didn't ahve a camera, that's an internet pic I rustled up for everyone's enjoyment.

Just to threadjack a little, did you ever have any habu saki while on Oki? I had it once, it was a bottle that my friends father had given him before he went off to WWII. Had to be the nastiest stuff I have ever put in my mouth. I don't know if being 50 years old mellowed it or made it worse but it was really, really bad.

Probably was so bad because of the age. I've had Habu Sake and Baem Ju (Korean Adder in Soju with the venom) and while I wouldn't drink it all the time it wasn't turpentine or diesel fuel quality either. One of the big differences was the increase in controls in the 80s, so anything distilled and bottled over 20 yrs or so ago is distincly different from newer stuff (and generally much worse).

A Site with the Korean Viper - Salmosa

-K-

 

[moki]

Just to threadjack a little, did you ever have any habu saki while on Oki? I had it once, it was a bottle that my friends father had given him before he went off to WWII. Had to be the nastiest stuff I have ever put in my mouth. I don't know if being 50 years old mellowed it or made it worse but it was really, really bad.

Sake doesn't age the way wine does; I'm not shocked at all that a 50 year old sake was disgusting... I don't think it had anything to do with the snake whatever.