auntie | November 9, 2014
5.5 miles; sterling, ct today was a sunday, and with hunting season in full swing, i just didn’t want to venture into rhode island, so i decided to stay in connecticut. and i also wanted to scratch another trailhead itch. back in april of last year, when i hiked the pharisee rocks trail, i started from […]
auntie | October 24, 2014
9 miles; ledyard, ct the connecticut forest and park association maintains 825 miles of trails in 96 towns in connecticut. i can now proudly say i’ve knocked off two of those trails for [drumroll please] about 25-3/4 miles! yay me. although, to be fair, i’ve also hiked some blue-blazed trails in other parts of the […]
auntie | September 14, 2014
8.6 miles, voluntown, ct you may have noticed that my posting has not been as frequent as in the past. that’s because i am now working during the week, and can’t normally get out to hike. because of that, i’ve tried to do more mileage during the weekends. this hike was perhaps a bit of […]
auntie | August 19, 2014
4.69 miles, durham, ct this hike was great fun. it consists of a loop, part of which is the blue-blazed mattabesett trail, and a few side trails, including a red-and-blue-blazed trail named the lone pine trail. it starts from a parking area on route 77 in durham, and goes straight up the bluff. fortunately for me […]
auntie | August 6, 2014
2.5 miles, higganum, ct not having learned my lesson from the previous day’s foray on the mattabesett, i decided to visit another short section of the same trail on the way home. i could almost out-source this entire post to the blogger at boxingthenet. the trail head is at this small state park, the seven […]
auntie | August 5, 2014
3.5 miles, middletown, ct i’ve been wanting to do this hike ever since reading this blog post. it looked intriguing. and it was very scenic and very challenging. the blue-blazed mattabesett trail, maintained by the connecticut forest and park association, is part of the new england trail, which runs from the connecticut shore to the […]
