Guesses on the genetics here?

LOL...well...sometimes what is red to one person may be orange to another. I think your snake would be redder, or even a more vivid orange, if it were not for the possibility/likelihood of it being het caramel.

I'm sure you know that a butter is just a homozygous amel snake...that is also homozygous for caramel. The yellow trumps (masks) red in the butter, sulfur, or golddust morphs.

It is definitely not motley or caramel but you are right in that it looks like a vanishing stripe normal and a very nice looker. Is it from someone here in Colorado?
John

Not from CO that I'm aware...

As Eric said, it is the overall look of an increased amount of yellow to the color that in some cases may indicate the presence of the caramel gene in het form.

I went through my photos to find ones on the same background of various snakes in my collection whose genetics I have proven. I know the background colors are off in some...old photos taken with an old camera. But trust me, the difference in the snakes' coloration is just as different from each other as the photos indicate. See if you can pick out the ones that are het caramel.

If you said all of them, you would be correct. I have just proven that not all het caramels show an increased amount of yellow, but many do. Het markers are strictly educated guesses, nothing more.

Too true. Below is my Amel Mot het Caramel Stripe. I got lucky though I know from the breeder that she is deffinitely these as one parent is a caramel stripe, actually I think it might have been butter stripe rather than a caramel stripe het amel. I would have to ask him again.