This years summer vacation
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I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.
The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.
Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.
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I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.
The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.
Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.
@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:
bombard you with endless pictures
Please do!
We love them!
My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.
However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.
Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.
More pics, please?
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@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:
bombard you with endless pictures
Please do!
We love them!
My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.
However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.
Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.
More pics, please?
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Yosemite falls
El Capitan
Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb
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Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID
To me it looks like a gopher snake. Non venomous. Fairly common here in southern Alberta around Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Often mistaken for a rattler.
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Today was sequoia national forest day.
I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels
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Beautiful.
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Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah
This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley
Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?
Glen canyon dam
And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon
Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.
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Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.
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Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
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Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
The Brad
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@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
@LuFins-Dad said in This years summer vacation:
@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
Isn't that a dozen rattles on the tail?
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Really nice pics. Please post more!
Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south. -
Really nice pics. Please post more!
Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south.
