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Has anyone successfully hunted the very start of transition zone in So Cal?
I was checking piles like these right beside the road. There was zero evidence of the flakes and rocks having been touched. Problem is, the oak and manzanita was quite dense between boulder piles. I couldn't help but get scratched up going from one pile to another. Obviously this area is not targeted by herpers.
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Mark
These pictures look familiar to what is in my general area, in Central foothills. I'd be really careful with the manzanita and other bushes; rattlesnakes like that, too. So far that is what I mainly find! LOL!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
I must admit that I was paying more attention to trying to not get heavily scratched by the oak and manzanita than I was watching where my feet were stepping. There were pine trees, just not nearly as many compared to oak. It was rough work getting around from rock pile to rock pile. But the piles were pristine, heavily cracked and some had an abundance of flakes all around the base.
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Mark
You do realize that zonata have been documented from Coulterville and other areas at or just under 2000 ft in the Sierras. Zonata go fairly low. Tough hunting there though as you have observed. Personally I have had way too many bouts of poison oak in my life so I try to stick to the higher elevations now. 
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Rick Staub
Heh! I am immune to poison oak but not to rattlesnake bites (although luckily I have never been bitten! LOL!) I guess I should go out and look for some zonata now. If it doesn't snow anymore.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
I can seemingly walk by poison oak and get it, lol.
I have been bitten by a rattlesnake, one fang only on the finger, and apparently it was a dry bite and more than likely did not penetrate far. I was young and of course assumed I was immune!
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Mark
They definitely have built-in protection from people in this lower elevation habitat.
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Mark
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