Rattle Snake greets us at Campground's by eirekay

Yosemite National Park - United States, California After 6 hours of hiking, the first thing to greet us as we reach the Back Packer's Campground is this rattle snake. I have seen lots of them over the years but this one was probably the largest one I have ever seen in the wild.

Uploaded: Aug, 18 2008 | Taken: Aug, 15 2008| Viewed: 24 times  | 6 votes Camera:  Canon PowerShot SD630 | Exposure 1/100s, f4.6 | FLength: 17mm

louis - Aug, 22 2008 10:08am Are those snakes danger for the people ? eirekay - Aug, 22 2008 10:08am Quite! They are poisonous. We hike with a snake bite kit. I have stayed in this campground 6 or 7 times and have seen one on every trip. You are not allowed to kill them either - while we were there some back packers had one in their campsite and killed it - they were fined $250 each by the Rangers. krisek - Aug, 22 2008 11:08am Nice one! I think it actually is looking at me!