> Schlichting mentions other risk factors, too, like hibernating rattlesnakes Ye...

dmoy · on Oct 27, 2022

The good news is that hibernating rattlesnakes are slower

The bad news is that hibernating rattlesnakes are still rattlesnakes. And as it turns out, rattlesnakes are not as slow as other snakes in the cold: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723143700.h...

tomcam · on Oct 28, 2022

tbh I am not interested in encountering even the slowest rattlesnakes

Weirdly I lived on the outskirts of Arizona for years and only encountered in one in the wild