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Old 03-08-2009, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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They're statewide!
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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They're statewide!
and big and will eat you alive (season and weather permiting). no joke.
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Over the Rainbow...
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and big and will eat you alive (season and weather permiting). no joke.
Any snakes we have found, well we just take them and put them in the barn with our pet mooses and they all get along real good.
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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Any snakes we have found, well we just take them and put them in the barn with our pet mooses and they all get along real good.

I was talking about mosquitos, but I admire the way you handle the snakes.....
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Rockford, IL
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What if I were to bring a basket of Diamondbacks with me when I come up?! haha they would not likely survive anyways
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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What if I were to bring a basket of Diamondbacks with me when I come up?! haha they would not likely survive anyways

they'll freeze their first winter.
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Old 03-08-2009, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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No snakes here at all, not the slithering kind anyway...the mossies (mosquitos) are so big I thought I was gonna have to watch my 2 year old get carried away by them...I never even saw 100% DEET until we moved up here, and I'm from the South
But really that's the only real pest (that we have noticed so far anyway). Anything else that's gonna kill you...well at least you can see it coming...usually
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Old 03-08-2009, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Alaska- On the Bering Sea
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Warpt,

Toksook is great.
Isolated and unpredictable, but an excellent place to live.

I'll be in Bethel in a few weeks, will give you a call.
(Still need to go to the Snack Shack...)
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Old 03-08-2009, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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They are all baiting you, we have the little known and dreaded "Snow Snakes" here that most that live here never see or know about them.

During the winter they travel under the snow, in the summer, they borough down under the ground to the Permafrost level where the ice makes the ground cooler.

In the summer, people camping will put a cooler full of ice on the ground and that cold from it will draw them up to it. You have to be really careful when you put a cold drink down on the ground, they will wrap around it and when you pick it up they will bite you... They have a really fine teeth pattern, but when they inject their venom, it is a mix of Glycol and ice where if not treated immediately, it will transgress in a case of frostbite...

The most advanced first response for treatment, is additional body heat from stripping down the victim and having others do the same and huddle to share the warmth, is the most effective way to fight the induced cold. If not treated immediately, the wound will turn black and the affected area will fall off in a few weeks.

You really don't want to see "Outhouse" related accidents...

Anyway, you normally won't see them in the city because of the constant noise and covered environment with concrete and pavement is pretty hard on them...
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Old 03-08-2009, 04:05 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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ohhh Starlite9 thanks!!!
snakes...smakes, ice snakes..well my goodness.... beware people...Alaska has Moon Bat and Guido that you should fear more than the snakes!!!
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