When the weather cools a bit more, I want to wander the desert some night looking for scorpions with my black light. Since I've found all of Tamo's caches, I need something to do with it until either the Halloween event or he puts some more of those uber-micros out there. ;p Brian Team A.I. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bryon Culling To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:21 AM Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Critters near caches I was up on Squaw Peak a few years ago watching the Sunset with a girlfriend. on our way down, we ran accross a small rattler just off the trail. she was clueless and walked right past the thing and never even noticed it. How could you not. I heard it and started looking for it with the flashlight before moving again. It was only about 3 feet off the trail on the up hill side of a switch back but that was close enough. I let it find it's way under a bush before I left. I thought it was kid of cool. I haddent seen one in town before. They are out there. I know South mountain is just full of scorpions. I was up there when I was a kid at night and it seemed like they were everywhere you looked. My folks freaked out and we left. Trisha wrote: Hi all, I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind everyone to be careful around any caches that are in areas that could be good habitat for rattlesnakes (and I guess you should be careful of scorpions, black widows, etc....some of these "urban micros" require reaching into likely critter spots). This fall/wet weather seems to bring them out in the daytime. I recently had a face-to-face with a LARGE Western Diamondback Rattlesnake up on the Agua Fria near Black Canyon City. See GCGK5D. I imagine there are areas in the metro Phoenix area where you could find pit-vipers, but take special care in the boonies. It was kinda funny....I'm not afraid of snakes and, having quite a bit of reptile and walking-in-the-middle-of-nowhere experience, I walk carefully, and noisily. Luckily! It gave this big guy time to rattle and move! off to hide. I was innocently following the GPS to the cache while hubby was taking a pic of a pretty cactus about 20 feet behind me when he heard the rattle (cicadas were in the trees, but this was louder) and then heard me calmly say, "Um, we have a rattlesnake in the way, right there...a big one." By the time he walked to where I was stopped in my tracks and watching the snake, he wasn't able to get a pic (it went under a rock). I pick up non-poisonous snakes, Steve Irwin style, just for fun, but rattlers deserve a respectful distance. The other humorous part was that we were on the way to the DBacks game...and ran into a Diamondback, and we did NOT want this one's autograph!! Have fun and BE SAFE OUT THERE!! Trisha "Lightning1996YCJP" Prescott ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software