[pct-l] snake bites

[Afishnamedcarl]

You would think. I had plenty of close encounters this year. One that  
involved me jumping over a rattler and using my trekking pole to keep  
it from striking at me.

I am sure plenty have been biten.  Although it does seem hard to do.   
I assume the snake really has to be provoked.  As I have been  
surprised by quite a few who were in bushes just on the trail but did  
not strike.

Edan

On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:54 PM, mark v <allemande6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
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>> 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?
>
>
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