On 3/27/2014 9:27 PM, John Howard wrote: Turns out, it is a hoax... (my son was laughing his butt off at me...) http://www.hoax-slayer.com/rattle-snake-nest-pictures.shtml David Erbas-White
Is that for real???? With almost a half century of Jeeping and desert camping I've seen just a few lone snakes. Never anything like that.Ok you got me! But not real! Right? John Sent from my iPhoneOn Mar 27, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Chris J Kobel <Chris.J.Kobel@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Chris.J.Kobel@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:Forwarded by an off-roading friend of mine. Yikes!! Careful out there!Thought you would like to see what has just emerged in Red Rock Canyon. Just what we need ..... a nest of them. Mary Subject: Mojave Green Note the Hibernaculum (den, nest, burrow, basket) full of Crotalus Scutulatus (Mojave green).Which would be a group, gang, rumba, nest, bed of ... "snak-an-" which wasderived from the Proto-Indo-European word (s)neg-o- (to crawl/creep). Anyway you folksthat hike or ride motorcycles out in the desert be extra careful, these pics were taken lastweek in Red Rock Canyon. Watch it!!! <Mojave Green Red Rock Canyon CA.pptx>