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Found crawling on the cut near the bottom. This is the night we got kicked out of the Heucos by the constable, who told us that everything that wasn't paved was private property and that pedestrians with flashlights are illegal. He was full of it but we obeyed him anyways and headed towards Del Rio. We started running into rain around Van Horn. By the time we got to Alpine the weather was furious and we outran it(or hit a clearing) just at Sanderson. First we found a lep on a cut, then about 20 minutes later found this Blair's. After catching it me and Shannon continued with walking the cut but within less than 5 minutes we were getting drenched by the terrible storm. I think everywhere from Alpine to Del Rio just got hammered by the storm that night.

Here's the pic. Hey Shannon do you have any in situ pics you could post too?

pretty much the same picture just different angle.
L8r

oh yeah and this is a in situ in Langtry.LOL....

these things were all over the place up on 277 this year.

first copperhead that Aaron and or I have ever found or even heard of on 277.They are pretty common on juno but I had never seen one up there.Aaron found this guy on the Buffalo creek cut.crappy picture I was having issues with the camera and it wouldn't keep still.

pretty cool in situ of this black tail practically sliding off the cut in Sanderson.

cool scut on 385 north.

this viridis had just been clipped.also on 385 north.

pretty cool rainbow that stretched across the valley outside of van horn.

oh yeah, this was in situ actually.darn........

another in situ.I think we saw 3 or 4 of these this year.

this is were Aaron and I will live in a few years.LOL....

L8r
Shannon

Found crawling on the cut near the bottom. This is the night we got kicked out of the Heucos by the constable, who told us that everything that wasn't paved was private property and that pedestrians with flashlights are illegal. He was full of it but we obeyed him anyways and headed towards Del Rio.

He did the same thing to me, but I laughed at him and kept hunting at the time... Never saw him again.

Did you get his name at the time?
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I wrote his name down and I also took notes on his statement right in front of him. He didn't like that. I'm not sure if I still have the notes but I believe he is the only constable for Hudspeth county. At any rate I have since heard from others that he is all bluff. I just wonder why he is so protective of the area at night?

It will not make much diff in the end, I had a lawyer call up the sheriffs office the next day to let him know that these kind of threats were not going to be tolerated.... He lied and said that we never met.

The think to do will be to record his load of BS and then have him deny it.

But I would like to have a note of each incident this lying sack of ______ has done so far.

Lance
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Cool photos, both you and Shannon. I love seeing in-the-wild shots. I could do without any more DORs, though. It seems that most alterna and mexs that I have found DOR were all VERY nice ones! --HW

This was the first DOR alterna either one of us has found. It sucked big time but the effect was somewhat offset by the fact that we had already gotten the nice Blair's.
There were also like 8 to 10 other herper vehicles out there that night so in a way it shows they must be getting across the road unseen even when it's crowded.

....or a herper was not watching where he was going....

I thought of that and it's certainly possible but this was Hwy. 90 east of Sanderson, there was a literally dozens of semis passing through. Still one has to wonder.