OUTDOOR CHEF KURT hates snakes with a passion.
They scare me to death. I was cooking for a youth group 2 day float down to the mouth of the mighty Deschutes. We stopped to let the brave ones jump from a high cliff and headed down the river . We stopped for a shore lunch and tipped one of the rafts over to make a table for the food.
We ate , the kids frolicked in the water, and on the beach.When it was time to go ,normally the guide would slide the raft in the water.This time we were all on the sides with our oar and we pulled the raft out. A horrible scream was yelled out, and to our surprise,a good sized WESTERN RATTLESNAKE was coiled up on the sand wher the guide would have stepped had we not pulled the raft out for him .
It was rattlin!! and starting to get aggressive so one of the guides dispatched it with an oar blade. It could have been a lot worse outcome, had that guide stepped on the Pit Viper and got bitten .That reminds me why
I HATE SNAKES, and when I hear that rattle it sends chills down to my very core.Being an outdoor chef, and cooking, and fishing ,and hunting, in a lot of different places and climates. I have found that when you least expect it things will happen .After a while you get a sense of watchfulness that comes with experience, and when you get that feeling that something is not right you back off and think for a minute, a lot of would be disasters can be avoided.
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