My daughter and I were hiking on a Red Rocks trail a week prior to this on September 30 and were warned by a little Mexican guy that there was a rattlesnake on the trail at the top. And two ladies coming down the trail told us of a bullsnake they had seen.
I didn’t think people still died of rattlesnake bites.
Wait. How can it hurt to suck the poison out? I still have those old snake bite kits with the spring loaded syringe.
Rattlesnake bite isn’t usually fatal in an adult. Maybe all those psych drugs he was fooled into taking weakened his system.
Killed a small one Yesterday.
speaks to the dangers associated with an uncommonly late rattlesnake season.
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Goebbels Warming........../s
Herpetoligist friend of mine told me rattleless rattlesnakes have been observed in the Golden area (table mountain).
Similar to...
http://listen.sdpb.org/post/rattlesnakes-cant-rattle-being-found-black-hills
Natural Selection at work.
Dont give out these safety tips! Conservatives already know them and we dont want any big city slicker democrats to learn them.
When I was about 12, I was on a nature trail in Boiling Springs state park (OK) with my buddy, the preacher’s boy.
We were warned to take shovels, “There might be a snake or two.”
Of course we didn’t start to notice them until about the halfway point. There were snakes everywhere! All kinds of snakes, big ones, little ones, some with triangular heads; many were aggressive, one or two coiled around small trees, hissing at us but mostly crossing the path, coiled and acting like they might strike.
We came across a troop of terrified Brownies huddled in a clearing, as scared as we were. Walking point for them, we managed to make it back to the parking lot. We must have killed at least a dozen. (Snakes, not Brownies.)
Brought back a couple big rattlers and put them in large glass jars filled with isopropyl alcohol for Show and Tell.
Man, snakes. We hates `em Precious.
But lone hikers in the desert or mountains or woods may not be able to make it to a hospital in time.
What then?
Outdoor ping.
Tragic, and I don't mean to minimize that by pointing out the reporters comment
Most news reports about fatal rattlesnake attacks in the Denver area tend to arrive in the late spring or summertime. But this year along the foothills, things have been different
Fatal snake attacks in the US range from 5 to 10 a year. So if you're traveling to Denver, it's not a Denver problem.
Also, not to minimize, but there's little information about the bite. As others have pointed out, allergic reactions are an issue. And location, anecdotally I've been told some of the worst bites are to climbers, face and neck being within reach. Another thread which I'll ping separately