03-08-2019, 01:12 PM
Wormandbobber, I think you got lost. You don’t need to hike more than a couple minutes to access any stretch of Diamond Fork and rattlesnakes aren’t super common. Where the football shaped fish rainbows? Did you notice fresh mountain lion tracks leading up steep brushy sections of the
Canyon? Sounds like you hit one of the numbered Waters- which are tributaries. My record rattlesnake count is 8 on 1 outing in there. That’s more than all my combined trips on Diamond Fork (probably around a hundred trips). The mountain lions are always up above watching but you have to cover at least 4 miles to encounter more than 1 adult. A decade or more ago DWR did some electroshock sampling on 5th Water above all the hot springs. They came up with a 10 lb Brown. But I’m sure that was a total fluke[
].Now pull out a good map so you don’t make the mistake of wandering up into a mountain lion and rattlesnake infested puny little stream again [shocked].
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Canyon? Sounds like you hit one of the numbered Waters- which are tributaries. My record rattlesnake count is 8 on 1 outing in there. That’s more than all my combined trips on Diamond Fork (probably around a hundred trips). The mountain lions are always up above watching but you have to cover at least 4 miles to encounter more than 1 adult. A decade or more ago DWR did some electroshock sampling on 5th Water above all the hot springs. They came up with a 10 lb Brown. But I’m sure that was a total fluke[
].Now pull out a good map so you don’t make the mistake of wandering up into a mountain lion and rattlesnake infested puny little stream again [shocked].[signature]