Narcisse Dens

[ConcinusMan]

Just crawled in the house dragging the kids. We made back without any problems. It was a good weekend.
I'm not sure how those 200 red-sided garters snakes got in my van and how Customs missed them but I guess I'll have to make room for them
Post more later. Thanks for all your prayers.

200? Good lawd! Like you don't enough snakes. Geez!

You can't fool me. I know how they got there...

They climbed in when you weren't looking. They've heard about how good life is at the ranch and they were like "hey, that's him! let's go!"

[guidofatherof5]

200? Good lawd! Like you don't enough snakes. Geez!

You can't fool me. I know how they got there. They climbed in when you weren't looking. They've heard about how good life is at the radix ranch.

The funny thing is the attitudes I got from both sides of the border. Going into Canada, they wanted to know why I was visiting. I of course, said garter snakes. I gave the U.S. Customs officer the same reason for what I did while in Canada. Both officers gave me a weird look and asked "why". I was upfront and said "I like garter snakes" The U.S. officer went to the back of my 1 ton van, opened the door and asked one of my kids "where's the garter snakes". They replied "back in Iowa".
I'm guessing they don't get many people using the garter snake reason.

[ConcinusMan]

good answer! I guess he figured the kids would rat you out. They were honest though, gotta give 'em that.

[TheBeansprout]

Hi Steve, I went to the snake dens about 5 years ago. Kept checking the website for information on what was going on and made the flights and motel reservation accordingly. Flew into Winnipeg and drove up from there. Don't forget to check out the garter snake statue in the town square (picture from Jake's thread) http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/14755-post6.html

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It was kind of cold and rainy when I went, but there were thousands of snakes out and about nonetheless.

It's quite fascinating, a must-see, in my opinion anyways.

Have fun!

TheBeansprout

[TheBeansprout]

Hahaha, I just realized how old this thread is, for some reason, all the pages weren't showing until I rebooted my computer and browser. DOH!

[Faunaofthenorth]

i went there with my family and my buddy about 4 years ago and it was awesome, although the ranger there was a little bit too anal and would only let me hold one at a time and i HAD to support there neck by holding them with TWO hands the whole time, i told him that they arent twigs, they are supposed to bend they are a lot more flexible then you give credit to, and said that he could get me banned from there, **** but i guess he just didnt want the snakes to get injured. I of course decided to veer off the beaten path and find my own snake heep which i did and it was worth it. i have some pics from there ill post sometime but yea if you love garters do it for sure

[stripe&houdini]

Totally unrelated to the dens, but makes me think back to the road trips my dad would take with my brother and myself from Denver to Montana. Good times.

I live in Montana!

[Faunaofthenorth]

ive gone to montana for herping, it was definitely an interesting and beautiful place, we were high in the mountains, and i never found much other than the fact that i caught two female wanderings in the middle of the hotel, in an open pool area in the middle of it, i was like what the heck...as soon as i went down the stairs, BAM!! and it was at night, and then my brother said he saw three more on the path outside the hotel, so hmm...nocturnal...maybe, then next to a glacial deposit river, i caught a pretty big wandering as well, and also in the same area a thamnophis sirtalis fitchi, which was interesting, hmm....fun times

[guidofatherof5]

Here are some photos I thought I lost to a bad hard drive. I was able to recover some of it. Here are a few I didn't post last year.

[guidofatherof5]