FULLER RIDGE - APPROXIMATELYL TWO MILES BEFORE THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCENT BELOW FULLER RIDGE, BELOW CABAZON
This report was submitted to the PCT-L by Donna Saufley on 5-15-2006:
There is an unusually high number of rattle snakes, (described as a den) approximately two miles before the bottom of the descent below Fuller Ridge, before Cabazon. They were in an area of very tall grass, which made it difficult to see them. Ladybug, who I met at North Fork last night, indicated that she was surrounded by them, at all levels -- this was not a onesy, twosy kind of encounter -- there were dozens, and they were everywhere. She scrambled on top of a large boulder where she could clearly see what was around her, and used her cell phone to get airlifted out of the situation (she felt it was that dangerous).
For some context, Ladybug is an AT completer, and not at all a stranger to passing rattlesnakes on the trail, and also not the hysterical sort who might exaggerate a hazard. She is also moderately hearing impaired, which she thinks may have allowed her to not hear the snakes' warnings. Hikers using headphones could be in the same boat.
At minimum, hikers should use extra caution when going through the tall grass in this stretch, and pay close attention not only to the trail, but to the shelves at body level as well.

whats up with this geo.you like rattlers dont you