Posted on 05/16/2023 5:40:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 26-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital Saturday morning after she was bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking with her dog on Romero Canyon Trail near Santa Barbara.
The woman was about a mile and a half up the 6-mile loop trail when the snake bit her in the foot, Montecito Fire Protection District officials said. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff/Fire Air Support Unit responded and transported her to the hospital via helicopter by approximately 10:15 a.m. Meanwhile, firefighters hiked back down the trail with the woman’s dog and brought it to Santa Barbara County Animal Services, which will reunite the pair, officials said.
SFGATE reached out for additional details regarding the woman’s condition, but fire officials said they did not have more information at this time. Comments on social media from relatives appeared to say the woman has since been released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
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I bet I am correct.
Yep, extra potent.
My first concern.
In the spring baby rattle snakes are super potent.
You just need to careful. Make noise, walking stick, they’ll let you know they are there.
Pay attention, leave them alone and you should be fine.
I heard about the snake detection evolutionary theory, and found it plausibly interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory
There's also a cool theory that sugests that cobras developed the ability to spit specifically to defend against hominids.
https://ecologyandevolution.cornell.edu/news/study-did-cobras-first-spit-venom-scare-pre-humans
As an aside, in the brief interval between my last post and this one, I killed a fairly healthy copperhead on my front porch. Damn things are all over the place this year.
I hike a lot and rattlesnakes are not always easy to see. They are well camouflaged and blend in really well with the trail and weeds.
I nearly stepped on a six foot one a few years ago as it was crossing the trail. Fortunately I was able to stop and back up.
Kingman Arizona.
Walking in the desert.
One came after me...my dog alerted me to it’s presence
I don’t know wth you are talking about. I never said anything about barefoot.
Maybe actually read my comments first.
I hike with heavy leather Asolo boots. I was unaware that heavy snake gaiters even existed. Thanks for letting me know.
The hair on the back of your neck will stand strsight up regardless!
The hair on the back of your neck will stand strsight up regardless!
I stepped on a cottonmouth once. I was wearing waders. He struck me repeatedly in the ankle, but my waders protected me.
I was a trained zoologist, so I’m positive about the identity of the snake.
I whipped off the poncho that covered it bright and early, and rising up from underneath it was a huge King Cobra. I backed off and readied my M-14 to shoot it, but I was in the middle of several tents housing 120 artillerymen, about 150 infantry and another 80 or so Combat Engineers, so any direction I shot was dangerous to my fellow Marines. While I was trying to decide what to do, our battery commander, Capt. Fred Carr had just come out of his tent and saw that huge snake and said, "Shoot it, you dumb sonofabitch" - so I shot it.
A couple of decades later, Fred Carr had retired as an Illinois Superior Court judge and he brought up that morning with the big snake and that he had told me "Shoot that snake, Lance Corporal".
Not hardly: my memory's a lot better than his.
I was walking up a dirt road with a large group of people. I happened to be near the back of the procession, talking with someone. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that familiar disruptive color pattern on the other side of the person I was walking with. There was a large timber rattler that everyone had walked right past, well within striking distance.
Oh, yeah - you're the charitable Freeper that suggested that she was on her phone....Perhaps you ought to look at retracting some of your comments.
[As an aside, in the brief interval between my last post and this one, I killed a fairly healthy copperhead on my front porch. Damn things are all over the place this year. ]
Actually both: I shot it with .22 pellet rifle and then finished it with a long-handled shovel.
They can't help themselves.
I hate snakes.
Copperheads, black, king and garter, here. Timber rattlers and copperheads in the nearby mountains.
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