[rwest]

This just might have been the warmest day we’ll see until spring, but MN weather never amazes me anymore.

I was sore from a gym day yesterday, but I couldn’t pass up low to mid 60’s with warm sunshine, so I did the rail to trail taking the Stillwater fork to the river and then the WI loop back around; about 36 miles.

Saw a red bellied brown snake on the trail in the perfect spot to get run over by bikers, so I turned around and tried to herd him off the trail- he wasn’t excited to leave and took a couple strikes at my shoe- head the size of an pencil eraser, so I just narrowly escaped death this afternoon! Finally got him to slither into the brush.

I don’t believe in handling wildlife unless completely necessary, so I just try and get them to move on their own... now turtles are a different story, just pick them up and carry them low in the direction they where heading- don’t want to be there all day.