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I'm currently on my first vacation of the year, in Northern California. There were a few days of cool weather and rain, but eventually things cleared up.

This little one was found in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Monday. The temperature was in the upper 40s. The snake was under a piece of artificial cover. It looks like one of last year's babies.

On Tuesday I found this one at Stevens Creek Reservoir:

Yesterday I was up on Mount Hamilton and I found this Gopher. It looks like it has virtually no black.

The final Gopher of the week was also found on Mount Hamilton as well. This one was about four feet long and longest snake found on my trip (a total of 23 snakes were caught, consisting of Gopher Snakes, Garter Snakes, Rattlesnakes, a Whipsnake and a Night Snake - all snakes were photographed and released at their point of capture).

How about one more photo of that last Gopher Snake?

Third Eye

Nice looking quartet of Pacifics. Any of them try to get pisyy w/ you? I like the faded yet colorful hints on the last snake's pattern. Gophers seem to be rather plentiful this year. I've found 5 annectens locally already.

reako45

These are some nice finds. I expect I will be seeing them around my area soon. The weather has been a real El Nino winter, very wet and cold, but the first decent weather out they come.

Nice finds, I am digging the last one, it has still been a bit cold for me to start walking/cruisng for them up north in NV. A week or two and all should be good. It has gone from cold to warm the last couple weeks, but the nights in th area are still chilly. Might be looking in northern AZ this week if all goes to plan. I just came back from Palm Springs and it was very warm (80's) today. No time for herping, was just visiting family for a day with the wife and kid.