PE - camping in snake country

[Jennifer Hill]

This is great info.  Thank you!  I lived in TX in 72 about halfway between
San Antonio & Corpus Christi & the snakes really came out during a
hurricane.  Nasty.  Gwen
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From: "Cherie Nolan" <marguerite at ih2000.net>
To: <periodencampments at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: PE - camping in snake country


> In the area's of texas, we have a really bad time with copper heads and
rattle snakes. As well as cotton mouths. I have heard that some of these
area's use "snake rid" it
> something you put on the ground around the area you are camping and it
stops snakes from coming around. Not sure of where to get it or any of the
details. but have talk to
> a couple of chirurgeons that says it really works. You bite want to call a
local sporting goods store and ask them. there is also plants and flowers I
heard that runs them
> the other way as well.
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> Corun MacAnndra wrote:
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> > Gwen wrote:
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> > >Ok, ladies & lords...   Another question!  <G>  I don't live in rainy
> > >country, but in snake country.  What precautions do you take do keep
the
> > >snakes out of your bedding, etc.?  [#1... have a bed which is off the
> > >ground, right? <G>]
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> > I have heard that when sleeping on the ground in desert on would lay a
> > hempen rope (i.e. a very hairy type of rope like sisal) on the ground a
> > good distance around the sleeping bag. Snakes, who feel with their
tongues,
> > would encounter the harsh and hairy surface of the rope and not crawl
over
> > it, but instead go around.
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> > In service,
> > Corun
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