Ever get chased off from a cache?

[MouseFart]

And I was not going to argue with him one bit. Apparently he wanted the "Find" worse than I did.

 

[+Airmapper]

Cool! Is it a Mojave?

[MouseFart]

Cool! Is it a Mojave?

 

Western diamondback rattlesnake, common in Texas. He was around 4' and left the road headed for what the GPSr was telling me was the last 45' to the cache. I decided to just let him lay claim to it first....

Edited September 2, 2006 by MouseFart

[+Airmapper]

Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

 

I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, I would like to see one, but only before it sees me.

[+laughingcat]

And I was not going to argue with him one bit. Apparently he wanted the "Find" worse than I did.

 

 

uh.. where was that? I think I'll avoid it!

[+GEO.JOE]

Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

 

I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, I would like to see one, but only before it sees me.

 

Hey Airmapper

I saw my first timber rattler in KY last week at LBL after going to the Dead Fulks night cache. I have known there were around here since I was a kid but that was the first for me. However, I have never gone rattle snake hunting around here either Now I still have to find a pigmy rattler.

 

While on a backpacking trip in Canyonlands National Park a few years ago I saw 3 midget-faded rattlesnakes and heard 1. I was exploring an old cowboy camp when I stepped to the side and was squatting to take a picture of an old iron stove when I heard the first one(that I never did see) I was not sure if I heard it right until I saw a second one guarding the gap between an old fence and a rock. Later that day I went looking for more snakes because my friend had never seen one and I was able to find 2 more. We spoke to a guy that had made yearly trips to the area for 20 years and he had never seen one and a ranger that had worked there for 17 years and he had never seen one or had anyone report they had seen one. I felt real special.

 

I must say as venomousness snakes go I appreciate the rattle snake because it will let you know when you are getting too close and making it nervous.

GEO.JOE

[+freejam]

Not personally - but cachers looking for one of my caches 4' off a public footpath into open woods keep getting chased off by a landowner snake.

[+Airmapper]

Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

 

I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, I would like to see one, but only before it sees me.

 

Hey Airmapper

I saw my first timber rattler in KY last week at LBL after going to the Dead Fulks night cache. I have known there were around here since I was a kid but that was the first for me. However, I have never gone rattle snake hunting around here either Now I still have to find a pigmy rattler.

........

GEO.JOE

 

To think I was thrashing around there in the dark with a mini Mag light only a month or two ago.

[+chuckwagon101]

Yeah, I got chased away from the bedroom window of an attractive female once.

 

But I SWEAR by all the geo whatevers......the arrow was pointing right towards her outlined silhouette

on the partially drawn curtains! Really!

[+Cpt.Blackbeard]

Yeah, I got chased away from the bedroom window of an attractive female once.

 

But I SWEAR by all the geo whatevers......the arrow was pointing right towards her outlined silhouette

on the partially drawn curtains! Really!

 

Sounds like you had it set to nearby points of interest instead of geocaches.

[+Isonzo Karst]

I posted a DNF on this cache - I assumed it to be just above the cottonmouth. I didn't want the MEFF that badly.

 

[+wsgaskins]

I posted a DNF on this cache - I assumed it to be just above the cottonmouth. I didn't want the MEFF that badly.

 

 

I encountered cache guardian at a cache one day. It happened to be at the end of a 3 mile hike, and since I had come all that way, I really didn't want to leave with a DNF, so I just walked around and around hoping that the cache was somewhere else nearby, but no! He had crawled right back into the hole just 3 ft from the cache. Once I had exausted all the other hiding spots, I decided to poke that particular one with a *very* long stick. Picked a stick with a hooked end and extracted (and re-placed) the cache with that stick and everyone was happy.

 

[+JimmyEv]

I tried for a cache in Volant, PA that was being guarded by a nest of snakes. Everytime I went near one of the holes a big fat snake would come slithering out. But I don't think they were rattlers. I didn't get any closer though.

[+jimear1e]

Ran into this little guy on the only part of "Trail" that existed while chasing the final of a multi.

 

 

He was not interested in bushwhacking, so I did.

[Clan Riffster]

I was hanging reflectors for my Carpe Noctum night cache. It was hot, I was sweaty, stinky & tired. As I'm preparing the next reflector, I feel a thumping on my foot. I looked down and saw this lil guy going to town, trying his darndest to bite through my snake boots. She was 1 of three Pigmys I saw whilst putting that cache together.