To a North Dakota boy like me, snipe-hunting still bears the smell of a hoax. To the Irish, they rank above ducks and ...

At cursory glance, which is all most people would take if they bothered to look at all, the reach of winter-browned coastal prairie appeared a mostly monotonous sweep of emptiness. Maybe they'd notice ...

In the record-keeping annals of life on Earth, make way for the great snipe – a small, stocky shorebird that takes the fastest long-distance, nonstop flights of any animal that's not in an airplane.

For more than 30 years, the Snipe—a hard-chine 15-footer almost a century old—has been my teacher. I first stepped into one as a newbie 20-something, as a crew for the most demanding skipper I’ve ever ...

A conspiracy of older Boy Scouts and Explorers corralled us younger Scouts just as the sun set behind New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains on a summer evening at Philmont Scout Ranch in 1965. The ...

A conspiracy of older Boy Scouts and Explorers corralled us younger Scouts just as the sun set behind New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains on a summer evening at Philmont Scout Ranch in 1965. The ...

Kathleen Tocke is curled up in the bottom of the Snipe, ­thinking she might die, fearful she might not. The supercrew had a bad reaction to seafood, and to say she is not at her best is to put it ...