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Back from my AZ trip!
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Posted by wayne_MO (My Page) on Thu, Aug 11, 05 at 0:33
| Monsoon season was late this year so it was pretty tough sledding for snakes the first days and then the monsoon rains flooded us out of some of the best herp spots later on but we still had some cool finds.
Our family did some herping together and some herping as smaller parties and thus two of the best finds I wasn't present for. My brother found a Gila Monster and my mom found a Green Rat Snake. I found a remarkably fiesty Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake that bit me five times as I tried to remove it from a gravel road and hold it for pictures. I suppose being that 11 of the 14 live snakes I saw were venomous, I chose the right one to get bitten by. Mojaves and Dimaondbacks were on the move most nights and we saw a couple of gorgeous blacktail rattlesnakes.
Full trip report and pictures will be forthcoming in a few days. |
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RE: Back from my AZ trip!
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| Sounds like a great trip. Looking forward to the pictures and report. |
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| I love that place. I went to Phoenix about five years ago in September thinking it would be cool enought to herp during the day. I was wrong. Every day was in the high 90s low 100s. I managed to find a tiger rattlesnake on the last night with only an hour of herping left. That was the only snake of the trip but was well worth it. I need to get back one day during the monsoons. |
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| Wayne(and Keith if you read this), are you guys still going to post a report on your trips. I'd sure like to see the pictures. |
RE: Back from my AZ trip!
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| Hey Mitchell, Trip reports are coming. Wayne is on another trip (work--not herp related) so he will probably post his report when he gets back. I only have a few digital photos, so my report will not be as visually appealing, but I will have a gila monster picture and some interesting stuff to share. I'll try to get it posted this week. |
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