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>Hiking innaSonora
>Trail goes through a cholla forest
>Do my best to watch for dropped spikey balls on the trail because they can stick to your shoe and work their way up to your ankle
>A wild rattlesnake appears about six feet away and scares the shit out of me with a loud-ass rattle
>Flinch, leg goes into a cholla
>Flinch from getting leg stabbed, arm hits the same cholla
>Instinctively try to swat cholla off of arm
>Surprise, now there's cholla needles stuck in my hand too
>Snake still rattling
>Tell it to fuck off, it leaves after probably calling me a fag
>Stuck with a cholla ball in my leg, another in my left arm, and needles in my right hand
>Stab self a few times with hand needles trying to retrieve leatherman from pocket
>Spend the next half hour pulling spikes from my flesh
>Bleed everywhere
>Do what first aid I can and trudge back to the car
>Find one more spine stuck in my pant leg when I sit down in the driver's seat.
I still hold that poison oak is basically the worst plant in the country, but cholla are gunning hard for the title.
