Well, I sure thought I was snake food there for a second...
So, I convince my wife to go with me on a late afternoon trail ride on one of our town's single track trails. As we were heading down a slight downhill section, my eagle eye picks out a rather large snake in the middle of the trail about 5 feet in front of me...I slam on the juicy 7's, the AM1 takes a nose dive, the Nevegal's stick to the trail like glue, my rather large posterior goes up and I find myself going over the handlebars. As I'm falling, I am trying to warn my wife behind me that she should stop (not that the my big @#s in the air wasn't a big enough hint) while at the same time trying to look at the markings of the snake to see if its a rattle snake, while at the same time laughing at how ironic it is that I'm about to land face first on a snake after trying to convince my 7 year old just an hour earlier that we would not see a snake on the trail (he stayed at home, warning me that I will see a snake), while at the same time recognizing the familiar black diamond like spots on the body of the snake, while at the same time trying to look for rattles, while at the same time wondering why the dang thing hasn't moved so much as a tongue flicker, while at the same time wondering why this otherwise healthy looking snake is dead...boom, I land with my face on the tail and my hand an inch to an inch and a half away from the head...do my best to roll away, sit up and start laughing. My wife finally sees the snake and yells, and I try to reassure her that it is dead, its not a rattle snake, and it didnt try to eat me. The snake never moves, i inspect it a little closer...no tongue action, no breathing, nothing. I look for a stick and go to move it a little off the trail so as not to send anyone else over the bars, and the damn things strats slithering away...to which I jump, cuss, and laugh again. The big (to me anyway...about 3 feet in reality) guy, slithers off into the bushes and we hop on our bikes and onto the trails again...Not a bad way to end a saturday eh? :thumbsup:
FB
Sorry, no pics...left the camera at home! :madman:
So, I convince my wife to go with me on a late afternoon trail ride on one of our town's single track trails. As we were heading down a slight downhill section, my eagle eye picks out a rather large snake in the middle of the trail about 5 feet in front of me...I slam on the juicy 7's, the AM1 takes a nose dive, the Nevegal's stick to the trail like glue, my rather large posterior goes up and I find myself going over the handlebars. As I'm falling, I am trying to warn my wife behind me that she should stop (not that the my big @#s in the air wasn't a big enough hint) while at the same time trying to look at the markings of the snake to see if its a rattle snake, while at the same time laughing at how ironic it is that I'm about to land face first on a snake after trying to convince my 7 year old just an hour earlier that we would not see a snake on the trail (he stayed at home, warning me that I will see a snake), while at the same time recognizing the familiar black diamond like spots on the body of the snake, while at the same time trying to look for rattles, while at the same time wondering why the dang thing hasn't moved so much as a tongue flicker, while at the same time wondering why this otherwise healthy looking snake is dead...boom, I land with my face on the tail and my hand an inch to an inch and a half away from the head...do my best to roll away, sit up and start laughing. My wife finally sees the snake and yells, and I try to reassure her that it is dead, its not a rattle snake, and it didnt try to eat me. The snake never moves, i inspect it a little closer...no tongue action, no breathing, nothing. I look for a stick and go to move it a little off the trail so as not to send anyone else over the bars, and the damn things strats slithering away...to which I jump, cuss, and laugh again. The big (to me anyway...about 3 feet in reality) guy, slithers off into the bushes and we hop on our bikes and onto the trails again...Not a bad way to end a saturday eh? :thumbsup:
FB
Sorry, no pics...left the camera at home! :madman:
