r/herping

I'm planning a trip to the Olympic peninsula in August. I typically will camp nearby and do day hikes of 5-10 miles. Hiking 5 miles takes a lot longer when you're wandering and flipping. I am still in the fence about backpacking vs camping but I will probably be in the sol duc/hoh area. My targets would be rubber boas and salamanders, but pretty much anything out there will be a lifer for me. Any advice is welcome.

It's gonna be a goddamn walmart. Been using this grassy field with a small (seasonal) pond in at as convienent neighborhood herping spot since we moved out here a year ago.

Got bulldozed this week, and there's a coming soon sign.

Had seen Western ratsnakes, eastern copperheads, western ribbon snakes, yellowbelly racers, cricket frogs, bullfrogs, rio grande chirping frogs, spotted chorus frogs, red eared sliders, green anoles, spiny lizards, broad headed and five lined skinks, little brown skinks. A huge variety of birds from great blues to painted buntings to brown creepers.

Now it's gonna be a fucking parking lot and a walmart. Nothing left.

I just needed to vent; I've been pissed off and wanting a drink since the bulldozers leveled it. It was one of the few good things about this place.

I moved to kern county California about 3 years ago from Washington state, back home I would herp almost everyday during the spring and summer and I would almost never go home without finding several snakes, but over the 3 years I've been here Ive seen 2 snakes not DOR I've gone flipping, road cruising, hiking, anything I can think of during all times of year and cannot seem to have any success at all. Am I just going to the wrong places what am I doing wrong?