Oh, that's nice, It says that a likely place for the pictures to be taken was in Colorado.... where I live now.... I almost stepped on a rattler in lucerne valley on the north end of the lakebed by the power lines. Gave me quite a scare.. -Brian Barney On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:32 AM, jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK. So the myth is the location and the type of rattlesnakes. > > Not that there was a den of 50 of them. > > > > That makes me feel sooooo much better. > > Not! > > > > Jim > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *David Erbas-White > *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:34 PM > *To:* roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [roc-chat] Re: Fw: Mojave Green > > > > 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 iPhone > > > > > On Mar 27, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Chris J Kobel <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 was > derived from the > Proto-Indo-European word (s)neg-o- (to crawl/creep). Anyway you folks > that hike or ride motorcycles out in the desert be extra careful, these > pics were taken last > week in Red Rock Canyon. Watch it!!! > > > > > <Mojave Green Red Rock Canyon CA.pptx> > > >