Snake!!!

I started out prospecting yesterday morning and started down a steep embankment carrying my gear when before reaching the bottom I spotted a snake about one step in front of me.Carrying all that weight and momentum threw me off balance when I tried to backpeddle and down I went!!!I twistwed my back out,the snake slithered away and my black lab(Platinum) stood on the hill behind me looking at me like" thats why I didn't go down there"......