I was recently up in the mountains and decided to look around a nearby lake for garter snakes. I didn't find anything and got ready to leave, but then spotted and pulled up a few old railroad ties. To my surprise, I found this very small snake. I'm almost 100% sure it's a young diamondback rattlesnake, but I've seen some very convincing gopher snakes around recently. The pupils tipped me off to this guy's ID.
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