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If someone had asked me what subspecies Wes's Rosy is, I would have most likely guessed a Coastal from his pics. Part of the problem is very simple. Whitewater pass sits right smack in the middle of the intergrade zone between the Coastal and desert Rosies and the Rosy Boas that are found there are known to have huge variation in both color and pattern as a direct result of this. Some are dead ringers for Coastals (as witnessed in Wes's Boa), while there are others that are dead ringers for desert Rosy Boas as the other "otherguy" has seen in his experience. Still others are intermittent in appearance between the two subspecies. There is a lot of variation to that local, and that is one local that has no real distinctive look. One way to tell a true whitewater is to collect it there as Wes did.
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