auntie | December 31, 2014
see part 1, here. and with no further ado, here is the rest of my best ofs. number 5—canonchet preserve, hopkinton, ri this is a brand-new set of trails that was added to the nature conservancy’s existing canonchet brook preserve. the fancy sign at the trailhead says it is part of the “dark skies borderlands trail […]
auntie | December 31, 2014
it’s that time of year again, and i guess that means it’s time to list my 10 favorite hikes of 2014. it was really very difficult to narrow this list down to only 10 hikes, as there were so many really great ones. oddly, all of the hikes i picked except for #3 and #10 were […]
auntie | December 29, 2014
6.28 miles; south kingstown, ri today was a long tour of the duval trail system. i hiked both the the whole blue-blazed trail, which is a 2-1/2 mile out-and-back, and then added in the yellow-blazed “lynn’s loop” and the red-blazed “polly’s rock loop,” which added another mile or so. i usually hike this by cutting […]
auntie | December 27, 2014
4 miles; thompson, ct a providence county hiking club hike again, and this time i kind of made up a loop from older hikes. we hiked 4 miles in 3 states. i kind of forgot what a bear that first mile up to the tri-state marker and then the midstate trail can be coming from ct, but it […]
auntie | December 26, 2014
4.2 miles; westerly and wakefield, ri hope everyone had a nice christmas/hanukkah/kwanza/festivus. today’s hike was a double providence county hiking club hike. the first part was on the westerly land trust’s riverwood property, and it was a great morning for hiking, if a little crisp. i’ve posted about riverwood before. it’s a really nice property […]
auntie | December 22, 2014
8 miles; charlestown, ri it was a truly lovely day to be outside today. not too cold, maybe in the 40’s, and sunny. i had a need to really burn up some calories, so i did the vin gormley as fast as i could, which, for me, was pretty fast. took me under 3 hours. […]
