[pct-l] Snake marks

[Eugene]

I like the idea, but I don't think it'd work in practice...too many snake spottings already this year among myself and other section/thru hikers I've met.  I think the whole trail would be a big pattern of "S"'s.

 

Also, I don't hike with glasses, so every snake I see is treated like a rattler even if it doesn't rattle.  Anyway, my last snake sighting was yesterday, although I met a Swiss hiker today that said he spotted 6 snakes between Barrel Spring and the hills before Warner Springs.

 

Eugene
 
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:19:41 -0700
> From: aslive at sbcglobal.net
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Snake marks
> 
> I liked the idea of marking the trail to indicate that a rattlesnake has been spotted near by.  If the squiggly line that was being used last year was misread as just being the result of someone dragging their trekking pole, why not make the mark clearer?  Lets make something that looks more like the letter "S", maybe even two letter long, a sort of S on top of an S with a little intentionality.  In this way it would be more recognizable and just as easily erasable.  Just a thought.
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> Shepherd.
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