Tag: Snake
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Is it a Rattlesnake if it doesn’t “Rattle”?
For those of us that hike in the desert, we spend a good amount of time scanning the ground as we move forward (or we should be). And as I rounded the blind corner, my eyes went directly to the black and white stripes near the tail. I honestly don’t know if this is true…
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Glamour Ssssssssshots!
It doesn’t happen as often as many think, but if you are a frequent hiker in Arizona, you will likely encounter a rattlesnake from time to time – even on the most public of trails. And as I am often wandering around somewhere, the odds are pretty good I will meet up with one. And…
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Rim to Rim Hiking the Grand Canyon – What I “Knew”
“Why am I doing this?” definitely crossed my mind. It crossed my mind, let’s say, only about every other step on the way up the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. A mere 15 hours after we started! I never set out to break any records. I succeed at that. But I (we) finished! And that…
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The Things You Come Across
With a Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hike coming up fast, I look to hike every night as part of training. One of the things I’ve noticed was that the saguaro seem to have more blossoms than usual this year – which I find odd, as we have had a lot less rain than normal this spring…
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I love when the unusal happens!
Golfing today with one of my buddies and bull snake decided to crash the party on thr 12th hole. He didn’t care one bit we were there. This is a pressure putt….. But he managed to do more than that. While we finished the hole and were walking back to the carts, it thought it…