[pct-l] snake bites

[mark v]

> From: "Eric Lee" 
> I've never heard any stories of PCT hikers
> actually being
> bitten.  Have there been any cases of thru-hikers or
> section hikers being
> bit by snakes that I missed?

Well obviously that's because all the hikers that are bit by snakes get eaten by mountain lions and bears before they make it off the trail and are able to report their snakebites.

:p

Snakebites statistically overwhelmingly occur among very young men, and surprisingly very often to the hand.  This must mean that snakebites happen most often to kids fooling around with snakes, which most hikers are too smart to do. (um, maybe)  Still, SOME hiker must have been bitten by now, you'd think.  Once in 40 years?  It has to have happened, right?