Impressive photo.
We encounter rattlesnakes pretty regularly hiking in the hills/mountains in San Diego county. Generally, they just go off when the sense someone approaching. Twice for us, they did not. Once there was a very large rattler sunning himself across a trail, so we just tiptoed behind him. Another time, we came upon one that was molting and could not see and coiled up loudly rattling on a very narrow trail. We just turned around and went back the way we came. I tried to scare him off, but he was having none of it.
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