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Once while hiking, my wife and I explored a small cave. We were new to the area, and were rather shocked to find a rattlesnake inside. It rattled a lot, and really scared my wife who isn't the outdoorswoman or should I say outdoorsmen I am. I grabbed her arm tightly to keep her from panicking, and slowly backed away, holding my walking stick in front of me as we did. We got out unharmed and vowed never to go into that cave again. She was still shaking a bit so we sat down on the trail about 100 yards from the cave. Another couple of hikers came down the trail and seemed to be heading to the cave. I just smiled and let them go, I didn't want to color their experience with our bad one. We left after they went in so I do hope it was better for them than it was for us.