If not friend why friend shaped? /S

Seriously though keep your distance from critters, if you don't it's a fast way to turn an awesome day out into thousands (if not 10s of thousands) of dollars in emergency medical bills.

I'm from the PNW and people get way too close to critters on trails all the time.

I can't vouch for this, but I heard once from someone who claimed to be an expert that the majority of snake bites occur on the hand or lower arm, not the leg, and that the majority of snake bite victims were found to be intoxicated at the time.

I'm other words, most snake bites happen because drunk idiots try to pick the little fuckers up.