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Article: Snake encounters. (protection from poisonous snakes)
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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One warm spring day many years ago, while hiking alone along the rocky cliffs of the lower Salmon River in Idaho, I peered over a neck-high boulder for a better look at the water and found myself face-to-face with a rattlesnake. The snake seemed huge, sprawled endlessly atop the rock, apparently basking in the morning sun. Its thick, spade-shaped head was inches from my nose, its tongue flicking, eyes dark, beady and sinister. I suppose it would be amusing now to have a photo of my facial expression at that moment from the snake's angle of view. I gasped and flung myself backward. In a microsecond the snake had withdrawn its head and coiled into the classic defensive ...
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