Yeah, they are awesome, Paul. My favorite out of all the Cal king morphs. I had the pleasure of herping with Don Huffman back in 2006 who is the only person, to this day, to find this morph in the wild. He found two females in the early 2000's. He collected a male from the same area and bred it to one of his females. Out of the clutch, 2 were Mud morphs, so the male must have been het. He gave one of those to Gary Keasler and gave me the other a few years later in 2009. That same year or early 2010 he ended up giving Gary the 2 wild caught females. You're the 4th person I know now that has got a pair from Gary and he gives them away free which is the cool part. For anyone into locality kings, this is the coolest morph to get because they are the newest thing right now and one of the rarest in the wild. Here's one of the original females Don found in 2003 out in the field. As you can see, it was in the blue at the time.
Hubbs has to get some credit for this morph because he was the one that showed Don where to lay his boards. The way it all fell together was really neat. Hubbs was working one day and got to talking to a near by resident about snakes. That guy told Brian his son had found a really dark brown banded king with a brown belly (Whittier morph) over by a certain street. A lot of us have searched that area since and have come up empty on that morph.
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