My buddy Seth Cohen and I met up with the rest of the group on Saturday morning, we were there the whole day Saturday and part of Sunday before I had to take off. The weather wasn’t super cooperative, the high on Saturday was right around 68 with 100% cloud cover, wind, and intermittent rain showers. Sunday morning warmed up a bit more than the day before, but the wind continued, still the event was a major success. Here are my photos from the weekend.
Seth and I took off herping not long after we got there on Saturday morning, at about 9:00am and about 64 degrees we spotted this dark Speckled Rattlesnake out on the crawl.

Not long after that we found this Western Diamondback out on the crawl as well, as I came around a bend in the wash we both startled each other a bit and it went into angry atrox posing mode.

It quickly calmed down and went into “you can’t see me mode” and we moved on.

We headed down a different canyon and met up with Blake. We saw 5 more Speckled Rattlesnakes, I didn’t take photos of all of them, but here are a few.


Speck in a bush

Then came my favorite find of the day. We turned back up the canyon to head back towards camp, it was getting late in the day and we weren’t prepared for a night hike. On the way back up the canyon, between and large boulder and a bush, I noticed what at first glance looked like a red shoe string. My eyes quickly focused on a Regal Ringneck Snake out on the crawl.


The weather turned bad at sunset, it dumped rain on us and dropped in the 50’s. A few people tried to road cruise, but with the cold rainy conditions I don’t think anything was found. On Sunday morning Seth and I headed out again and found another Speckled Rattlesnake.

Another highlight was finding this pair of Coachwhips mating, we took a few photos and moved on.


We decided to check out a different area where met up with Jason Jones. We found this large Gophersnake out on the crawl.

Then just before it was time to leave Seth spotted this Gila Monster out cruising around. Turns out this was a repeat Gila Monster that had been found two days earlier on Friday, pretty cool.

Right after that I had to get on the road back to California and I think most others went their separate ways as well. Others saw some really cool stuff as well like: Desert Tortoises, Gila Monsters, Kingsnake, Groundsnake, Patch-nosed Snake, a few other things that I am missing.
Here is a photo of the Groundsnake that Mike found

Once again, it was great meeting everybody and I hope to see you guys in the future.
Devin