20240516 Julian to I-10 (mile 209)

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever heard a rattlesnake use its rattle in anger? I have, and it is LOUD. It doesn’t sound like it does in films, like a delicate castanet, slow and threatening. It is a harsh whirring, a vibrating, oscillating, terrifying VRWRWRWRWRW sound that fills every empty inch of air. I have seen plenty of rattlesnakes by now, but all of them either juvenile or so sedate that I was never in any real fear of danger. Coming down the north side of the San Jacinto mountain though, having just sailed over the mile 200 marker, I did hear one. And it not only scared the life out of me, but I jumped so high that I lost an earbud.

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20240516 Julian to I-10 (mile 209)