I read everything I could get my hands on, particularly about rattlesnakes. Snakes, never a previous concern, now became my obsession.
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This was rattlesnake country and every hiker needs to be prepared for how to avoid getting bitten, and then understand what actions to take in the event of a bite. After that, everything looked like a snake to me: a coiled wire discarded on the ground, a piece of string, a curvy stick near the sidewalk. Though, more likely, it was adrenaline that propelled me a distance I otherwise would not have managed to clear. Maybe I can credit this superhuman catapult to my former Parkour training. I realized after the fact that I had instinctively jumped over my shrubs in one gigantic leap. The snake slithered right next to my foot (I was in flip flops), which freaked me out. I moved my garbage can so I could pull a few weeds near the house, which trapped me in a small area bound by my house and shrubs on the non-garbage can sides. I’ve been fortunate never to have had a concrete fear… until a month before Black Mesa.įour weeks before this trip, I had a surprise encounter with a snake in my yard. Most people have some major fear – flying, heights, public speaking, spiders. I’ve held a few, seen countless varieties and sizes on hikes, and have never once been squeamish around them.
The months leading up to this hike were no big deal I wasn’t afraid of snakes. Nearly every source I read about hiking Black Mesa cautions hikers about rattlesnakes.
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