On my recent adventure to Snaketown, USA, I was putting in a second serious mission to a known rattlesnake hotspot to try and finally see a timber rattlesnake.
After 6 hours of round trip driving…
2.5 hours of climbing up and down the very rocky mountains of Pennsylvania in the hot sun…
And searching hundreds of rock piles…
I finally found this glorious specimen!
Things I learned during this rattlesnake encounter…
Timbers are absolutely beautiful snakes with a strikingly definitive pattern.
Maybe this individual snake had just burned a doobie, but it was completely mellow. It could have cared less about my gawking paparazzi routine. That infamous rattle didn’t shake once.
After dozens of hours of hard hiking over multiple missions to find this animal I can say with certainty that it was absolutely worth it. Would stalk again!
