Snakes On a Trail
I am by no means ophidiophobic, but being from Maine, I have no experience with larger snakes. So when I came around the corner on my bike and saw this in the trail, it definitely got my attention!
Fellow Trail User
The pic doesn’t really do it justice, but it was about 5 feet long.
Pio, from the IRC channel #linuxn00b, helped identify it as a bull or gopher snake, so not venomous, but apparently they can be aggressive.
I gave this one a WIDE berth and went on my way. Hopefully it got where it was going …and stayed there!
Tags: Bike Commuting, Cycling
[...] Most of my daily bike commute runs along a multi-use trail system, which means that, as a cyclist, I must yield to equestrians, dogs, pedestrians, prairie dogs and snakes. [...]