oh man, snakes don't bother me but one of my riding buddies get totally freaked out, even when they are smashed on the road snakes. Last year on our Owyhee uplands scenic byway ride a group of us rode over a cattle guard with a rattler coiled in the ditch below the guard. We did stop and go back and take pictures. I wrote Snake in the dirt of the road in huge letters. The DH was behind us and he thought it said Snack as the sag wagon was at the top of the hill after the snake - so much for trying to alert others