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[pct-l] Snike bite Kit....!
- Subject: [pct-l] Snike bite Kit....!
- From: ironlegs at pacbell.net (Thatcher Koch)
- Date: Sat Mar 19 04:13:17 2005
- In-reply-to: 6667
in 37 years of hiking, never been bitten and never
been struck at. i did watch one next to me, frolic in
a creek while pumping water, though.
--- Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
> Okay, in order to assess the reality of the risk and
> danger of getting bit by
> a rattlesnake, let's take a poll of all of those
> hikers who have a huge
> collective of trail experience, and see how many
> have been bitten in all of the
> years of their backpacking, camping and hiking.
>
> I will be the first to speak up;
>
> In 45 years of camping, hiking, climbing, doing
> geologic field work over a
> huge amount of the southwestern U.S. I have NEVER
> been even struck at by a
> rattler and NEVER been bit.
>
> Have ANY of you?
>
> Greg
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