Brown's Peak Photoset • JuanJaimeiii • 2015-05-13 • HikeArizona.COM

Brown's Peak, AZ

	2015-05-13
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Brown's Peak

Phoenix, AZ

Brown's Peak

Phoenix, AZ

Hiking	5.29 Miles	2,100 AEG

Hiking	5.29 Miles	2 Hrs 39 Mns	2.33 mph
	2,100 ft AEG	23 Mns Break

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One of my college neighbors and I still stay in contact. He hit me up to do a hike and Browns Peak came to mind.

It was a blast catching up and talking about the good ol' days. Crazy stuff went down back then. Anyway along the way up I was telling him how I had seen an unusually high amount of snakes this year. Just then I see a baby snake that looks like a gopher snake. I go to take a pic and it coils up and starts to shake his undeveloped tail. It was maybe 8 inches total. A baby Rattler!

Then on the way out we saw a couple large snakes on the road. Nothing new but one looked like it had just had a meal. I stopped and got out to take a look and snap a photo or two. All was going well until it coiled up and then hissed and lunged at me. Luckily he hit the camera as I jumped back about 5 feet.

After that it returned to it's coiled position, I got the message and left. On the way out we circled back thru Globe and stopped for lunch.

Great Hike and nice to catch up with an old friend.

Fauna

Fauna [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Arizona Black Rattlesnake Sonoran Gopher Snake

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