My encounter with a snake...........

[Steph]

Yes, I screamed like the girl I am! I was going to unclip because I was coming up on a scary mound of dirt and I looked down and saw a snake striking at me! I don't know how I got unclipped, all I know is I dropped my bike on the snake and ran. My husband said he thought a bear was after me. We had to kill the snake because it kept going under my bike. It was very aggressive. I guess I would be too after getting ran over a couple of times. We were riding a neglected trail covered with leaves and rocks. Needless to say we hightailed it off of that trail! My husband was even freaked out and said every twig looked like a snake to him after that. I decided to do some research on snake bite first aid today. Believe it or not, I haven't really even thought about them in the two months we've been riding. The whole time I was praying for our safety and for me not to fall for a change. Well, I didn't fall off my bike and obtain a single bruise today and God protected me from getting bitten by an ankle eating reptile! BTW, we don't know what kind it is because it crawled away and died. Neither of us wanted to go pick it up or get close enough to see. It was gray with black diamond designs trimmed in a lighter color with no rattler. Very well camouflaged.