Those Mountain springs locale Kings are awesome probably one of the hardest snakes to find in that area. I love the Baja influence on them. Out of all the times I've been there I've never found one.



The S2 stripers are unique. Like Rainer said it's the only place you really get the true blk and wht phase which is even rare there when you do find a striper there. Out of the 30 nights I've herped that road in over 20 years I've only found two stripers. One was brown and wht and one was a fresh hit which was blk and wht. Tons of bandeds though with many color phases. My personal favorites are the nice chocolate brown and white ones from Santa Ysabel up the hill from there. I work with a pair of them I collected and they're one of my favorite Cal Kings. Very handsome snakes.



True Scissors stripers have a low side stripe. In the late 70's many S2 stripers were bred to coastal snakes with high yellow side stripes then bred back to each other to get the high white sides. This of coarse was way before locality breedings were important to most collectors. The market was flooded with them and you see that with many of the snakes out there these days. The true S2's were only being selectively breed in the past 10 years or less even. Neat stuff!



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