Snakes
Anyone come across snakes hiking in the southwest? Being from Michigan I have never seen them, but now in the southwest they are out and they scare me when hiking. I came within a few feet face to fac...
Forum Discussion
2gypsies wrote:
We are big hikers in the southwestern states - Arizona, Utah, etc. We've never encountered a snake on the trail. Not to say they're not there. We have seen snakes in the roads absorbing the heat.
The main thing is to watch where you sit to have a snack/lunch break. Check around that boulder carefully.
We also geocache a lot but in snake season we don't look for one that we'd have to put our hands in a hole to find the cache. :) That's a winter pastime in the southwest.
By the way, where did you see a copperhead? I've seen them in Missouri but not the southwest.
I was hiking through the Wichitaw Mountain Reserve in Lawton, Oklahoma. I almost walked right into it. It was in the middle of the trail and blended in with the reddish orange sand.
