Originally Posted by
hrt4me
Wow, this afternoon I ran over a snake while cycling on the WO&D trail. I saw another one I didn't run over. I've seen cats and dogs, deer, groundhogs, squirrels and chipmunks on the trail, but I never imagined I'd see (much less run over) snakes. Both snakes were short (probably less than a foot long) and skinny (probably less than 3/8" in diameter).
A paved trail, especially darker colored sections in the sun, are magnets for snakes trying to warm up since they are cold blooded and have no other mechanism to gain the body heat required to ramp up their metabolism so that they can become active enough to hunt or digest a meal already consumed.