“I couldn’t tell the head from the tail. It looked like it had two heads.” My friend Robert went on to describe how the snake coiled up into a ball but poked its head into the air as if it were trying ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of hikers got quite the surprise when they stumbled across a rubber boa. “He wasn’t threatening me,” said Karen Meier. Meier and several others were hiking along the Clackamas ...

Soon after I read the Field Guide about the rubber boa [Sept. 6], I ran into one. My buddy John Balbino and I were hiking back from Garnett Lake when John decided to stop to fly-fish. A brown snake ...