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[pct-l] Snike bite Kit....!



Same here 40 years of hiking and camping, never even new anyboby who
knew anyone who was bit by a snake. Now bees that's a differant story.
                      Carl
  P.S. My 11 grandkids think my trail name should be Pappy what do you
all think ?


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:19:04 -0800, Monty Tam <metam01@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Good Idea, Greg
> 
> Including as a baby........50 years of camping, fishing........and other
> stuff.
> 
> Times bitten...................zero
> 
> Friends Bitten.................zero
> 
> Friends who have a friend who was bitten.......................zero
> 
> Friends who know of anyone being bitten........................zero
> 
> Zero except for some cows when I was a kid that were bitten by massasauga
> rattlesnakes (Michigan rattlers).
> 
> Warner Springs Monty
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <Bighummel@aol.com>
> > To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> > Date: 3/18/2005 8:48:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Snike bite Kit....!
> >
> > 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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