[roc-chat] Re: Fw: Mojave Green

  • From: Brian Barney <rocketbarney@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 05:26:30 -0600

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.
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> Not that there was a den of 50 of them.
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> That makes me feel sooooo much better.
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> Not!
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> Jim
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> *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
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> On 3/27/2014 9:27 PM, John Howard wrote:
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> Turns out, it is a hoax...  (my son was laughing his butt off at me...)
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> http://www.hoax-slayer.com/rattle-snake-nest-pictures.shtml
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> David Erbas-White
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>  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.
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> Ok you got me! But not real! Right?
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> John
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 27, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Chris J Kobel <Chris.J.Kobel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  Forwarded by an off-roading friend of mine.   Yikes!!   Careful out
> there!
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> Thought you would like to see what has just emerged in Red Rock Canyon.
> Just what we need ..... a nest of them.
> Mary
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> Subject: Mojave Green
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> 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!!!
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>    <Mojave Green Red Rock Canyon CA.pptx>
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