[pct-l] Snake & Spider bites

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

A hiker named Jeff, who became known as "Spider Bite" wins the swollen prize here.  He was bitten on his calf, which swelled to epic proportions, requiring antibiotics, rest, and elevation for many days.  He recovered and went on to finish, I believe. 

-=Donna Saufley=-

-----Original Message-----
From: yogi <yogihikes@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Mar 19, 2005 10:31 AM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Snake bite in 03

I saw that guy at KM, too.  It was very strange.  
I had just arrived and was talking to Tin Cup, who 
I hadn't seen since Idyllwild.  Snake Bite (that 
became his trail name) walked up to us, introduced 
himself, showed us his hand and told his story, 
then he went to another group of hikers and repeated 
the scene.  He was pretty proud of his snake bite.  
I've never seen anything that swollen before.
 
yogi
www.pcthandbook.com
 
 
 
 


Scott Herriott <yetifan@yahoo.com> wrote:
Eckhert wrote:


> I found it! 
> http://members.cox.net/jwogulis/wall-pct/fish.html 
> Check 
> the entry dated 6/3/3-6/8/3
> Can any of you '03ers confirm or deny the bite
> story?


I can't confirm that story but, when I was shooting
"Walk" in '03, I met a guy at Kennedy Meadows who had
been bitten a few days earlier when he and his wife
had napped in some shady area and, when he awoke, he
reached over his pack and zoinks!...he got nailed. 
His finger was still very swollen.


Squatch
www.walkpct.com





--- Eckert wrote:
> I found it! 
> http://members.cox.net/jwogulis/wall-pct/fish.html 
> Check 
> the entry dated 6/3/3-6/8/3
> Can any of you '03ers confirm or deny the bite
> story?
> 
> Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >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. 
> > 
> >
> 
> 
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