Warning: Don't run over sticks...unless you are sure!

[MillieNZ]

you girls are so brave............ I'd have pooped myself and never to be seen for dust .....

thankfully there are no snakes in New Zealand 6 months in rural Australia was enough for me

[teigyr]

Snakes are ok. I know on trails it's difficult to know which ones are dangerous and which aren't, granted.

Gopher snakes are good. Garter snakes are good I used to catch them (gopher snakes, that is) when I was young. I grew up with the potential of rattlers but I guess we learned how to tell who was who.

[crazycanuck]

Cool..I don't mind snakes & other wiggly creatures.

I just wish i could say coming accross a snake here in Western Australia is hunky dory. I can't because all of them are venemous. I just know if i'm bitten to not move & lie horizontally. Kind of hard when you're on your own

[beancounterbeth]

Here in Oklahoma I see snakes on the trail all the time. Usually if my husband is with me he is stopping to try to catch it. He loves snakes.

My snake story has nothing to do with my bike. Last summer I came home from work and opened the garage door to go into the house. Stretched out in my dining room facing me is a 5 foot long black snake. It doesn't flinch or move a muscle. At first I thought "haha funny". I thought my husband had left a fake snake on the floor to scare me. Then I decided I was too scared to find out if it was fake. I backed myself right back out of the house into the garage. By this time my house alarm is going off and the alarm company is calling. Luckily I have a phone in my garage so I answered and told the lady what was happening. In the meantime my husband is calling me on my cell phone which is in my hand and it starts to vibrate so needless to say I screamed in the poor lady's ear. Freaked me out! My husband sent over a friend and my brother-in-law to get the snake for me. By the time the guys got to my house it had hidden itself under my stove. The guys kept saying "where did you say it was?". I thought I was going to have to go to a hotel until it was caught. LOL Blacksnakes are harmless but I don't want ANY snake in my house.

I still think about it about 50% of the time when I'm the first one home and go walking through that door. We have no idea how a snake 5 feet long and about 1.5 inches diam. got into our house.

[OakLeaf]

I saw a big blacksnake crossing the road a couple of weeks ago but couldn't figure out how to get it home on my bike!

I'd rather have one snake than a whole extended family of mice thankyouverymuch.

I can definitely do without coming across poisonous snakes in my path though.

[babynoahsmom]

A friend of mine and I like to ride what we call the "flats" out near the fish ponds here in NEA. One day we were riding along and a snake darted (snakes don't really dart but this is the best word I could come up with) in her path. Thankfully the snake timed it right and lived to tell the tale. I am now hypervigilant that every stick I see could be a snake. We have lots of snakes in this part of the state which is why I stick to road biking! I too admire the posters that took the time to take the photos. SOmeday I will tell the tale of my encounter with the three ninja coons!

[Aggie_Ama]

Add me to the "better off never seeing a snake" group. I saw a black snake on a running path known for having water moccasins (cottonmouths) in the nearby creek. I almost threw up. Couldn't have been a cottonmouth, it was far too mellow. I can't even stand those cheesy little green snakes and poisonous ones are one of my biggest fears. I can go to the exhibit at the zoo though.