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Desert sunrises are hard to beat.

 

He’s starting to pedal...

Those things are no joke, don’t they have the most potent venom of all rattlesnakes? Neurotoxin too..

Isn’t there a picture of you holding one out there somewhere?

 

I can neither confirm nor deny that allegation.

 

Cool. Would that guy glow in the dark?

 

Yes.. all scorpions glow under a black light but don’t really glow in the dark. That one might actually be one of those that does glow at night though too. Scorpions are crazy, I have a funny story about them from a trip to Costa Rica.

 

My son's first turkey!

 

Gobble gobble!

 

Old habits die hard.

 

Seen in my buddy's garage near the reloading gear, won at a "redneck fair."

 

Want a new V4 Ripley and looking for the green light from your better half, just buy her some Dafeet unicorn socks...

 

You looking for one of these?

 

Dang it I'm not sure if I need blue or black...

 

Too many black/dark gray bikes... You know what to do.

 

Point taken, buy the blue frame and murder it out with black parts...

 

Scarecrow in the rice paddy

 

Nice form!

 

Unless it's just a myth propagated in the fishing circles I travel in, my understanding is one of the distinguishing traits of the Mojave Green is their propensity to give chase. I prefer my rattlesnakes not to do that.

 

You are not mistaken! In my experience they are extremely pissy and aggressive! My daughter was “chased” by one when she tried to catch it with a snake catcher

 

Yes, they are known to chase for a short distance. I feel that this is because they are territorial. The one I handled some years ago was far more mellow while it was in my hands than the Southern Pacific rattlers that I had handled many times before that. However, when I released it, it immediately chased me for several feet. Not a chance in hell that it was going to catch me (I was a fast sprinter) but it was funny and scary at the same time.

Yes, they do have neurotoxin which shuts down your respiratory system and you could suffocate. But that is unlikely with proper medical care. I still think being bitten by a Southern Pacific would be a worse experience because you would feel burning pain quickly, and it would only intensify as the minutes ticked away. That's the pain of your flesh and muscle melting away. Yikes! I would think that the bite from a Mojave rattler would be more of a numbing sensation than a painful one.

You will not run into a Mojave rattler in Los Angeles (proper) or Orange County. They are desert snakes. Common in the Antelope Valley/Mojave Desert and along the base of the mountain ranges that border it to the South. This (Los Angeles) is Southern Pacific territory and as you move South and East, you can encounter the Red Diamond and the Speckled as well.

 

The Pros look like Joes......

 

I rode my bike to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) conference today.

My goal is to make the cover page of the 2019 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy. I’d like to be the poster child, but @Runs with Scissors and @Voodoo Tom represent way better than I do these days.

 

Welcome back.....you have been missed.

 

@DangerDirtyD: What we need more of around here. TFPU, brother.

 

Doood!

 

Neurotoxin and somatic (muscle tissue breakdown like a meat tenderizer). I drove for 2 hours to get to work in the morning. Opened the truck door and dropped my steel toes. Right on both sides of one. It was cold so I put my boots on walked into the test center, grabbed a shovel from the USAF and threw it out into the open desert. Lucky for me it was not August, they are busy all night when it stays warm.