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| mmalok24. 09. 2009 07:25:43 |
21.9. met a viper on the path from the Hut at the Triglav Lakes to Tičarica (above the saddle)
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| John24. 09. 2009 07:52:29 |
Nothing unusual. In earlier summer months there are plenty.
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| Mate0713. 05. 2010 09:39:40 |
First picture is the common black viper or common gož, since hard to tell apart in nature?
Viper is venomous, gož is not.
Attach some of your own snake pics from our hills, where you met snake and which?
Second picture shows smooth snake, look well at the head. Third is viper.
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| marco13. 05. 2010 15:50:03 |
Quote:
"First picture is the common black viper or common gož, since hard to tell in nature?"
First picture is viper...distinguish by thickened body, tail narrows quickly and is quite short. Recognizable also by characteristic lance-shaped head form...can compare heads with third picture.
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| andymann13. 05. 2010 21:32:05 |
Or you can look a snake really close in the eye, if it has a vertical narrow pupil then it's venomous. If round then not. I think.
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| fpetel113. 05. 2010 21:42:07 |
Last year I saw quite a few snakes in the hills and valleys. I saw a viper also on such popular paths as Urh near Ljubljana or the path between Vodnik hut and Konjsko sedlo. They still spiced up the hike - I hope it stays that way. (of course I don't want to be surprised by some venomous one nnn )
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| Saten14. 05. 2010 11:28:06 |
You can practically run into a snake everywhere. I saw the last one this year when going over Grmada to Šmarna gora. Nice young smooth snake. Timid and fleeing.
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| panda14. 05. 2010 14:57:21 |
Last year around bivouac below Mrzli vrh quite a few smooth snakes. One got into open backpack during one-hour rest. Surprise at parking below Rinka was indescribable and luckily ended well without bite.
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| potepinka15. 05. 2010 11:48:50 |
I don't really want to meet them, but if I do, I prefer to leave them alone and usually we each take our own path (I have nothing against it staying that way). I've got a few in the "collection", though I prefer collecting flowers:
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| viharnik15. 05. 2010 12:33:08 |
Last year at Konjsko sedlo 1782m, on the way to Bohinjski Migovec, I met a snake by the path. I nicely told it I'm passing by; it understood me and slowly moved a bit higher above the path right away. If you're calm and positive, the snake senses it and behaves like all other non-dangerous animals.
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| elpadre15. 05. 2010 13:05:55 |
Regarding encounters with snakes, people make too much panic around them. If you meet one, please don't kill them like some hikers do, as they have the right to live too and are useful for the environment. No fatal case from snake bite in Slovenia yet, so boldly go on the mountain trails.
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| Mate0715. 05. 2010 15:37:18 |
From experience I tell you, a snake won't do anything to you unless you step on it, and snakes aren't hard to spot at all, adult ones are 60-80 cm long.
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| panda16. 05. 2010 21:03:17 |
Murglovc: Yes, to me.
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| benkjani6. 06. 2010 01:31:41 |
Me too, today I met two snakes on the way to Nanos!!! Yeah, not cool, right? Because if nothing else, you have to wait for it to move or, if possible, step somewhere else to pass by it
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| Mate076. 06. 2010 18:31:26 |
I met a viper today between Košutnikov Turn and Kladivo. I could hear it sksksksksk already before.
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| GregorC6. 06. 2010 18:39:24 |
Apparently yesterday afternoon on the way to Ratitovec a snake bit some female hiker who was then taken to hospital by helicopter.
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| Mate076. 06. 2010 18:41:42 |
Yeah apparently she stepped on the snake.
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