The rangers at the State Park visitors center over at Vantage keep a crook'd stick with which they pick up the rattlers that crawl into the people areas. They maintain that a snake's biggest fear is breaking its back, and that seems to be true. It's amazing to watch how the snake will "freeze" once picked up by its middle...the ranger just walks off with the snake hanging from the stick and deposits it out in the rocks where it belongs.
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It's a l-o-o-o-n-g stick- no sense taking any chances that the old boy will come to life mid-journey!:E!