Quote Originally Posted by Artista View Post
We encountered this cranky fella on trail this morning. People were trapped on either side of this guy and no one could safely pass.

It was a good thing that someone else saw him and stopped, which alerted my husband that something was up so he also stopped. I never would have seen him while I was riding. I was alerted to his presence while still many yards away, stopped about 20 ft. from him, and still had trouble distinguishing him from the rocks for a few seconds.

After unsuccessfully trying to shoo him off the trail by tossing rocks and sticks near him, two riders managed to nudge him off the trail by pushing their bikes beside him. He protested with a few strikes at tires but finally relented and moved on.


Yikes!! I should probably warn you...I am a snake magnet. I am not fond of snakes and I think that they know that because I seem to find them a lot when DH and I are out either hiking, biking, climbing..etc. I hope when we meet up to ride we don't run into one.