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| jany198030. 08. 2011 22:50:59 |
Does anyone have any experience with encountering a snake in KSE?
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| ruševec30. 08. 2011 23:52:12 |
I don't know exactly what you meant by KSE. Maybe KSA - Kamnik-Savinja Alps? Anyway. On my paths I rarely encounter these legless muscular creatures. This year on the Košuta ridge I stop and photograph the panorama. When I want to continue the path, I spot a black stripe in the grass on the path. I look a bit closer and see it's a black adder. I nicely photograph it and go on. Last year on the path to Vrtaško Shelf a patterned adder with zigzag pattern hid from us under the scree. Still we photographed it. In Kamnik-Savinja Alps I saw the black variant of adder both on the path to Jakob above Preddvor, and during my wanderings off-trail in Kokra valley. The smooth snake crossed the road this year in Lom below Storžič. The nose-horned viper I saw only once in life namely on Jenko pasture above Jezersko. I was most scared of snakes when walking through tall grasses of Kobariški Stol on some hot June day. There I intentionally tapped with poles in front of me. Except one non-dangerous lizard, I saw no other snakes there. And my opinion on snakes in mountains. They are quite rare anyway (exception is Primorska). Most times they retreat themselves before us. If not, we just go around them. Never tease them with poles or similar. They are living beings with their place in ecosystem, in nature.
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| jany198031. 08. 2011 08:43:49 |
Sorry for the mistake-KSA -I missed the letter.
Since this year knee injury doesn't allow greater efforts I decided for easier walks and getting to know snakes in our mountains.
On Sunday in Robanov kot the largest adder I ever saw crawled across the path.
Nose-horned viper posed for me near Huda luknja and on its ridge venomous snakes abound.
I have no fear and catch some (of course without bad intentions). I don't forget that snakes are friendly to humans too as they remove rodents for us.
Ruševec-thanks for your answer! If more was written about snakes probably people would start thinking differently what to do when they spot a snake... Many cases where everyone panically looks for stone, stick just to beat the poor creature...
So far every one when I noticed and clapped retreated...
regards
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| kavscekm2. 09. 2011 12:46:27 |
I myself saw quite a few snakes in mountains because I searched for them on purpose (biologists anyway), and here I mention only the Laški aspis viper (Vipera aspis) on slope of Kobariški Stol! Hope there will be more
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| IgorZlodej3. 09. 2011 20:39:04 |
Black adder on Pihavec, end of July this year.
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| jany19808. 09. 2011 22:14:38 |
Igor, nice specimen
something similar crawled between my legs just during lunch two days ago on the Pohorje clearings...
Although on Pohorje "supposedly" there are no venomous snakes...
for the photo I was unfortunately too slow
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| urbancek8. 09. 2011 22:17:39 |
If Pihavec is not ideal terrain for such beauties, then I don't know where it would be
Nice, nice you caught it... Regards!
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| urbancek8. 09. 2011 22:27:39 |
And one more thing, earlier I read that supposedly there are no snakes in KSA... big nonsense... Namely, venomous snakes I see almost every year everywhere, in all 3 main mountain groups here... This year e.g. in the Kamniks twice saw a black adder, so these are just your personal experiences, know that snakes are there and there are relatively quite a lot of them...
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| skalar5021. 09. 2011 23:54:34 |
Adders - still - happily crawl also on slopes of Begunjščica.
Almost stepped on one, above "calvary", the other "met" near the Hut on Zelenica. Both on marked path...
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| Loni22. 09. 2011 07:33:25 |
I too have already encountered both a nose-horned viper and a black adder this year (the first time I've ever seen this one), and not just once. Well, I encounter venomous snakes around the house too, even a nose-horned viper can make it to the garage, but adders are fewer every year. Sad.
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| urbancek22. 09. 2011 10:28:19 |
There are still quite a few adders... Just that they are mainly above 1000m, even better above 1500m...
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| Lenko12. 11. 2011 16:22:26 |
If you want to avoid a snake bite, best not to be first in line
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| miri12. 11. 2011 18:46:32 |
That means... wife first
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| peter212. 11. 2011 18:50:43 |
Just so the snake doesn't die then ... 
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| samoa27. 03. 2012 12:26:10 |
Yesterday on the road above Čepovan on the gravel road I spotted a really nasty snake specimen: black, thick (I thought it was the shadow of the power pole), about three meters long. It was a bit below the Drnulk climbing crag.
I'm curious if anyone is local from around there, if they could tell me more about what this snake is called.
Too bad I didn't take a photo.
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| SilvestrO27. 03. 2012 12:42:48 |
Hey,... it's not April 1st yet 
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| samoa27. 03. 2012 13:01:03 |
I've met lots of snakes in the hills already, even in March, even on snow, and my friends too, so this isn't an April fool's joke yet, haha
But I'm really curious what was crawling on the road around there. Good I wasn't the only one who saw the snake.
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| SilvestrO27. 03. 2012 13:50:17 |
... the length of 3m is meant as an April fool's joke, fear has big eyes
The largest..., here the Aesculapian snake and smooth snake exceptionally reach 2.6m, usually 1.8m..., what color was it?
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| CarpeDiem24727. 03. 2012 14:17:26 |
It was surely non-venomous!
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| B227. 03. 2012 14:52:33 |
Yeah samoa, snakes have slithered up the mountain and we call those Črnica... Anyway this animal can be quite long and thick too, but three meters is too much... Črnica is not venomous, likes to hang around roads, has very strong muscles... No panic!
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