Snakes for sale

[Kman34]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

I was out hiking the other day with the missus, about a four mile loop on a very narrow trail with tall grass on each side. About 3/4 finished we came across a full grown rattlesnake laying on the trail in the sun. He noticed us and backed up a couple of feet to the edge of the grass but was still on the trail more or less. He wasn't using his rattle or looked agitated in any way but he was keeping an eye on us. Taking a detour around the snake would have been impossible because of the tall grass and possibility of more snakes. Returning the way we came is a possibility but it's backtracking another three miles uphill basically.

My question to you snake experts, should I have tried and shooed it away into the grass? I could have waited it out but who knows how long it'll just sit there. What is the best course of action?

Send your wife first to draw the snake away from you... if she gets bit you can suck out the venom... at the very least you got by unharmed..