I picked up a small rock in a dry stream bed on Mount Tamalpais' Cataract Creek and found this young garter snake. Still torpid from its rest, it rema

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I picked up a small rock in a dry stream bed on Mount Tamalpais' Cataract Creek and found this young garter snake. Still torpid from its rest, it remained unable to slither away for about a minute.

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