Snakes on the mx track

[Wino]

While riding at Sandusky Valley Riders 7-28-26, I jumped OVER a large snake in the track...I went back and it appeared to be a "blue racer". Quite large...I'm guessing 4 or 5 feet! It continued across the jump and slowly moved off. One of the biggest snakes I've seen recently (in the wild). What's the strangest "critter" you've had to deal with at the mx track?

 

[Mcaupp22]

Well if you ran over it hope it was dead

 

[Vet261]

I've never seen a snake that big in Ohio, that's pretty wild!

I was riding at Croom in Florida once in the trails, and we stopped for a minute to take a break.
Near where we stopped there was a web in a tree with one of those huge banana spiders in it. I was near passing out seeing that and then was freaked out the whole rest of the time riding.

 

[Romanyak256]

I've never seen a snake that big in Ohio, that's pretty wild!

I was riding at Croom in Florida once in the trails, and we stopped for a minute to take a break.
Near where we stopped there was a web in a tree with one of those huge banana spiders in it. I was near passing out seeing that and then was freaked out the whole rest of the time riding.

Pit, more than likely the spider you saw was a golden orb weaver, they’re commonly mistaken for banana spiders, and they’re no hard to humans. I have one right now in my garden.

I was racing the sprint enduro at Honda hills and there was a 6’ king snake that had gotten ran over and was hurt. I stopped and moved it off the trail into the thicket. The snake probably died but at least he wasn’t getting ran over again

 

[Vet261]

They are harmful. Heart attacks kill a lot of people every year.