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#36934 - 05/08/08 02:36 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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Terrie
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Talk about snakes hunting.... Two years ago there was a fierce battle between a garter snake and a toad at the base of Moonlight!
First the toad had the snake ....They were wrestling and flinging themselves about and next thing the roles were reversed. Contact broke and they backed off, eying each other...slowly circling, a few psych out faux lunges.... and then WHAMMMMM, snakey grabs toad's leg and WON'T LET GO!!!!
It was brutal.
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#36942 - 05/08/08 07:00 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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Here's a pic of that epic struggle. Snake vs Toad (ok, it might not be the same one, but well it's a snake and a toad...)
And here's a really cool black snake encounter. Black Snake
Edited by quanto_the_mad (05/08/08 07:02 PM)
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#36943 - 05/08/08 09:32 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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Terrie
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Funny, those snakes must like to bite the behinds of Toads!
Here's another Black Snake encounter. This guy(the snake, not the man guy) was hanging under the bridge at Split Rock two summers ago. I knew my friend Max(the man guy) was into snakes and so I showed him....He picked that snake right up and let it go all over him. The snake actually did seemed as if he had been charmed.
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#36945 - 05/09/08 09:57 AM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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My most impressive snake encounter was about 30 years ago at Ragged Mountain on the small ciffs. There are a few crack type climbs near the "walk up" to the top which we were on. I was anchored at the top and hip belaying my buddy when he yelled up that I was in for a treat. He then pause and yelled up that a big snake was coming up the crack next to him. The largest black rat snake I've ever seen jammed his way up the 5.10 and topped out a few feet from my boots. It was so large I'm still not sure if it was a Rat snake. Perhaps time has influenced my memory, but this thing was about 9 feet long and as thick as my puny climber forearms were at the time. I could not move as H was half climbing/half hanging his way up the 5.9, and had to let it slide over, taste my boot, and slide along inches away from me over to the top of the cliff. I'm not bothered by most snakes but felt pretty much at the mercy of this big constrictor. I don't think I breathed for like 10 minutes.
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#36946 - 05/09/08 10:31 AM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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and I thought this thread was about aid climbing....
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#36948 - 05/09/08 03:34 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan if you need to place 'heads on TLSBF......
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#36955 - 05/10/08 03:11 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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greyalien
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Lol I thought people were talking about a COPPERHEAD, as in the gear. It seemed odd that someone would place one on that climb...
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#36958 - 05/11/08 05:05 PM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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BrianRI
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This copperhead hangs out under the rock just north of the stairmaster stairs. I see him/her there frequently.
Brian
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#36963 - 05/12/08 12:48 AM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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Ha, now I read this post!
I was just on "The Last Will Be First" today, it was my 11 year old daughter's first multi-pitch climb, and a snake encounter would have been pretty disastrous. Luckily, we didn't see (or notice) a snake on the route, and all went well. (Her first real outdoor rappel as well!)
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#36966 - 05/12/08 10:13 AM
Re: Copperhead on The Last Will Be First
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There was a copperhead on the Strolling on Jupiter rappel yesterday....near Last Will Be First.
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