jahoadi and john

What cache is it in? Or the TB number? This isn't the time of year most of us go to the desert. Jahoadi and John

And I was bettin on Chuy! I bet Lindsey found it. It is hard to beat her to a cache.

I'm betting on Chuy! for FTF

James looks good steering!!

Are your Grandaughters going to be Nuns too????

Oh my.... Please nooooooooo.

Honk!!! Dave, better known as RocketMan

Honk....... Jodi of Jahoadi and John But you didn't hear it from me (John)

I posted my picture. You don't think I was going to make it easy for ya, did you? Seems like Photoshop has a "5 o'clock shadow" Filter... How come the bonnie lass doesn't have her face in the sun? I mean, apart from the fact that they don't have any sun there... James..... What were you doing up at 1 in the morning???? Photoshop training?????

Your cache almost ate me!!! John

Portolahiker, Jut a word of warning about Ole' Harmon. Do not send any pictures........ His boots were funny and lots of people got a kick out of them!! We have cached in the Lake Tahoe area including lots of hiking and really like the area (Both the California side and Nevada side). Cheers.

Saw this while doing maintenance on GC248R3. It was dead. This is in urban Spring Valley.

Huh? Where is that?? We haven't found a cache for 12 days (our longest dry streak ever...) so we haven't been anywhere to not place a cache....

Hmmm..bought off with baked goods huh? Just as soon as we're finished with this "little pile" I intend to get back in the kitchen and whip up something for that Ole geezer Harmon.....that's right before we head east with a wheelbarrow of caches......

I don't like it. Nope. I don't like this one little bit. I come here to be entertained by whatever trouble Harmon has managed to get hisself into and what do I find but some sort of mutual admiration society. I'm a startin' ta' think them Mayan calendar builders may have been right, after all. Not to worry James. it's just that Jodi hasn't spotted the photo I posted on "Harmon's Happy Hideout." Figured that I should build up a few sweety-points before I need 'em. Here, I'll share the photo with you butt for goodness sakes don't go telling Jodi about it. So how's that make y' feel ... all better? Poor ol' Harmon SD Rowdies Mr. Harmon, I told Jodi about this, but I don't think she saw the butt in it.... Just trying to help. I finally visited your hideaway yesterday. John

I love it! It's a must..take your picture when you pass this cache!

Hey Harmon, that's a clever touch on the poster.

Harmon has a new Victim:

Honk (I didn't see one yet). Part of Jodi and my very fun hike yesterday in the snow and flowing water. She almost talked me into climbing it. We also got to see some deer in the field behind this tree.

Honkety Honk Honk ~ Lulu & passed by this one yesterday and wondered why there wasn't a cache in it! We decided to cut bait instead of fish! Splashette:anicute: Funny Splashette, Ryan (Tombmaker) and I thought that very thing as we passed it doing Josh's new series!! Honk #2 John

Had a grand time today Harmon....thanks!

Honk if you know where this man-eating cache is...

Edit... Sooo... any clues if that was the cache??? Ok, really not that curious, this is more like a thread bump... J John, are you bored??? One of our caches still hasn't been found for over a year...... . John

Diadophis punctatus pulchellus - Coral-bellied Ring-necked Snake. Mildly Venomous Not considered dangerous to humans. With enlarged non-grooved teeth in the rear of the upper jaw and mild venom which may help to incapacitate small prey.Size8 - 34 inches long (20 - 87cm.) Most snakes of this subspecies are adult at about 11 - 16 inches (28 - 41 cm.) AppearanceA small, thin snake with smooth scales. Gray, blue-gray, blackish, or dark olive dorsal coloring, with a pinkish-red or coral-colored underside that is unmarked or lightly speckled with black markings. The underside of the tail is a bright reddish orange. An orange band around the neck.BehaviorSecretive - usually found under the cover of rocks, wood, bark, boards and other surface debris, but occasionally seen moving on the surface on cloudy days, at dusk, or at night. When disturbed, coils its tail like a corkscrew, exposing the underside which is usually bright red. It may also smear musk and cloacal contents.DietEats small salamanders, tadpoles, small frogs, small snakes, lizards, worms, slugs, and insects. The mild venom may help to incapacitate prey.ReproductionLays eggs in the summer, sometimes in a communal nest.RangeThis subspecies is endemic to California. Ranges along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where it intergrades with the Northwestern Ring-necked snake in the north, and the Monterey and San Bernardino Ring-necked snakes in the south. HabitatPrefers moist habitats, including wet meadows, rocky hillsides, gardens, farmland, grassland, chaparral, mixed coniferous forests, woodlands. Taxonomic NotesMany herpetologists no longer recognize the traditional morphologically-based subspecies of Diadophis punctatus, pending a thorough molecular study of the whole species. One ongoing study (Feldman and Spicer, 2006, Mol. Ecol. 15:2201-2222) has found all of the D. punctatus subspecies in California (except D. p. regalis) to be indistinguishable. It is likely that D. punctatus is composed of several distinct lineages that do not follow the geographic ranges of the subspecies. In a phylogeographic analysis of the species, Fontanella, et. al. (2008) identified fourteen lineages of Diadophis punctatus. They did not recognize these lineages as separate species, pending a full taxonomic review that will require further dna sampling and evaluation including Diadophis populations in Mexico. They recognized four distinct lineages in California, which loosely follow existing subspecies boundaries, but merge the seven subspecies into 4 groups: * A southern California lineage, which includes the San Diego and San Bernardino subspecies, D. p. similis, and D. p. modestus * An eastern California lineage, which includes the Coral-bellied subspecies, D. p. pulchellus, and some of the northern intergrades with D. p. occidentalis. * A Coastal California lineage, which includes the Monterey subspecies, D. p. vandenburghi, the Pacific subspcies, D. p. amabilis, the Northwestern subspecies, D. p. occidentalis, and snakes from one region of the western Sierra Nevada currently recognized as D. p. pulchellus, along with the southern intergrades in the Tehachapi mountains region. * A Great Basin lineage which presumably includes the Regal subspecies, D. p. regalis, found in isolated locations in the eastern Mojave.

What kind of snake is this?