Approaching a log

Anymouse

Anymouse

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I’ve been doing a lot of hiking lately and for some reason the trails I have been hiking have some fallen logs on the trail. If the trail is marked, and I’m hiking on that trail in good conditions, can I approach the log?
 
Do you have an AOA?
 
I'd invest in a portable log radar. They're built just for situations like this. The radar beam is designed to penetrate the log and detect whether a copperhead or other snake is waiting to bite your ass. Or ankle, yeah probably your ankle. Unless you tripped over the log, then the snake could bite you on your ass.
 
Welllllllll, if it's of the tree variety, approach away, but if it is of the animal or even worse, human variety, watch where you step or it will stick with you for the rest of your hike.
 
mscard88 said:
I'd invest in a portable log radar. They're built just for situations like this. The radar beam is designed to penetrate the log and detect whether a copperhead or other snake is waiting to bite your ass. Or ankle, yeah probably your ankle. Unless you tripped over the log, then the snake could bite you on your ass.
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I grew up in rural Tennessee, and I and my family used to do a lot of hiking in the woods near our house. No trails; we made our own. My Dad taught us never to step over a fallen tree or branch, because he did one time as a kid and put his foot right next to a copperhead snake hiding on the other side. He taught us to first step onto the log in the theory that if a snake were under the log, it would crush it, or at least scare it into alerting us as to its presense.




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Are you log rated? Everyone else has overlooked this important question.
 
Pilawt said:
<sigh> Do we have to go through this again? It's an endorsement, not a rating!
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Pedantry will get you nowhere. Picky bastard. You smell of elderberries and your mother dresses you funny.
 
If it is a bear log and looks fresh, back away slowly making mental notes of the nearest tall tree.
 
Can I log the approach to the log,if I step over it?
 
mscard88 said:
The radar beam is designed to penetrate the log and detect whether a copperhead or other snake is waiting to bite your ass. Or ankle, yeah probably your ankle.
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In Georgia we worried more about cottonmouths. That said, my Uncle got bit on the ankle by a copperhead while flipping the jon boat...he knew better but was in a hurry. Got the antivenom and sweet scars.
 
Radar Contact said:
In Georgia we worried more about cottonmouths. That said, my Uncle got bit on the ankle by a copperhead while flipping the jon boat...he knew better but was in a hurry. Got the antivenom and sweet scars.
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We have cotton mouths in Bama too, nasty aggressive bastards. Along with 4-5 types of rattle snakes, copperheads, and coral snakes.
 
How do you know it fell and wasn’t dropped?
 
Heck, you throw the log in the water and see where it stops. If it's an island and you're from Sweden, you call it Stockholm (Log Island in Swedish). Or so they claimed on the recorded information on the Hop On, Hop Off bus in Stockholm last week. :D
 
Is the log a result of a cropdust gone bad?
 
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