Idaho trip

[ssssnakeluvr]

I am back from Idaho, had a fun herping trip! saw my sister and brother-in-law (back from Iraq, 4th tour, retiring!!!!! did an awesome job too...won the Bronze Star award!!!!) will be posting some pics of the snakes I got later...saw only a few wandering garters....most common snake there
found tons of valley garters tho!!!!!!

[prattypus]

Wow- nice finds, but give your B-I-N a big congrats from me. I only went twice, and since it was USAF it was considerably shorter than the Army folks go through. Glad he's back safe and sound. I actually miss it more than I thought. The Reserves it is then!!!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

yea, definitely longer...he's a combat engineer, in the middle of the crap...all 4 tours were at least a year long, probably longer...glad he got out of there in 1 piece!!!

[prattypus]

See, and the other folks I was with, I am sure I did too, but I don't want to call myself out on it, were griping at the OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH 6 month tours.

[MasSalvaje]

Don, get those pics up of the Valley Garters already! And if you think you can't handle all of them I know someone relatively close to you that could take them off your hands.

Give my congrats and my deepest gratitude to you bro-in-law.

-Thomas

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's pics from the trip!





yeow!

[ssssnakeluvr]

woo hoo!!! Cascade....small town where I grew up



along the river where we found fence lizards



nice male....chewing on my thumb.....



male



female

[ssssnakeluvr]

found a few wanderings...





pond where we found lots of valley garters

[ssssnakeluvr]

and here's some valley garters

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's the group I collected...