Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[ConcinusMan]

I won't be on the forum for most of next week. I know you'll all miss me very much. By monday evening, I will be here:

Nevada High Desert. Actual location where I will be.


Near Pyramid Lake, Washoe County Nevada. (Reno/Sparks area) I'll be staying a few days and while I'm there, I'm going to do some road cruising around sundown/dawn for Great Basin Rattlesnakes. I hope I find some!

I've been here before but never saw a single herp except road kill. But then again, I've only been out here at the wrong times of the day when it was blazing hot. There are no lizards to speak of, a few gopher snakes, and rattlesnakes are plentiful. The only way to find any is around sundown. It cools off fast here so the snakes come out on the roads to stay warm. It can be 90 degrees all day but within a couple of hours after sundown, the temperature can plummet to around freezing. One thing is for sure, no matter how hot it is, don't get caught out here after dark wearing nothing but a tee shirt. You'll freeze you butt off.

[RedSidedSPR]

Hope you find some cool stuff

Well... I guess I'll miss you... a little.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Good luck with your trip.

[ConcinusMan]

Still in Reno everyone. Having a great time. I will be flying home tomorrow evening. I have lots of pictures and stories to go with them. Didn't find any rattlesnakes but I did find a few lizards and got some great pics to share. I'll do that when I get home.

[RedSidedSPR]

Looking forward to pictures.

[HazAnga]

Hey all, me and my girlfriend are planing some state side travel plans, I have to go to Port Huron, Michigan for new tires for my car, but we plan on staying a whole weekend doing some shopping and maybe some sight seeing, I'm wanting to do some pet store looking and maybe shopping... maybe, but I'm thinking that's on the low side because I've been limited to one snake purchase this year and I kind of already have my sights on one. But if anyone could tell me things to do and shopping. Mostly sticking to Michigan but if there's an attraction around the bordering States it might bring us there. So things like pet stores, shopping plaza's (Were already planing on going to Birch Run) and anything else anyone could come up with.
Thanks all.

[RdubSnider]

Michigan is a pretty nice state. Should be a good time for you. Unfortunately if Your looking for a new garter snake the selection is often poor and alot of times there's not any at all

[PINJOHN]

thanks Richard for your photo of Reno spoilt just a little bit by the ugly bald guy who got in the way

[Sonya610]

I assume you know enough to avoid the "no go" sections of Detroit right?

I had a Swiss cousin that visited a couple of years back, he was going to spend the whole year backpacking around the US and did not tell anyone discovering inner city Detroit was on his agenda.

Fortunately as he was hiking into the outskirts of the city some guy mowing his lawn asked him what in the heck he was doing, and when he heard my cousin's insane plan he put him in his car and drove him to the other side of town with a stern warning.

Hopefully Canadians are a bit more aware of the US crime problem than the Swiss, but just in case!

[drache]

anybody know mushrooms?
do tell . . .



can we eat these?