RE: Hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains
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From everything I've read, her best solution to a rattlesnake bite is a radio transponder to call for medivac and get antivenin administered by professionals. The little suction doodads are worthless, at any rate.
Good boots and snake gaiters, on the other hand, are a good precaution. So are hiking poles, because they can poke before you step, and draw the ire of any potential nope rope to aluminum instead of flesh.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll certainly make sure she is equipped with a hiking pole and and snake gaiters if she ever goes on such a hike again. I didn't realize she would be rock climbing, but even so on the trail snakes can be encountered on a trail. I'll think she'll go for the pole.