I found this pyro with Hunter Meakin and Brian Nielsen as we walked back to camp. This young adult male snake was active and on the crawl at 4:09pm in the afternoon, 73F, partly cloudy/sunny with a few small showers of rain in the region in the previous few days. It was a thin but healthy young adult snake. The animal was found moving away from us slowly under some sagebrush that I was about to walk right past.

This pyro was found within its known range, but I'm keenly interested in the other canyons within the range and the 2 other out-of-range mountain ranges to the north. I've been driving out here from Seattle for the last 4 years hoping to find a pyro and this animal was my first pyro ever! \o/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBN6GXj1CUg

Thanks to Bryan Hamilton, Alan St.John, Mark Hazel, Jimi Gragg, my trip companions Hunter Meakin/Brian Nielsen, and anybody else targetting snakes for science around the edges of their known ranges.