auntie | July 23, 2014
6.1 miles, chester, ct the hubs and i took a mini camping vacation at hammonasset state park in madison, ct, and while we were there, i did a local hike. the connecticut forest and park association maintains over 800 miles of blue-blazed hiking trails, and the cockaponset trail makes up 7 of those miles. i did the […]
auntie | June 10, 2014
2 miles, north stonington, ct it seems nuts that this hike is practically in my backyard, yet i’ve never done it. or at least, i haven’t done it since i started this blog. i vaguely remember making the trip once, but that was quite a few years ago. sunday’s trip was a guided hike that was part of connecticut trails […]
auntie | May 21, 2014
4.57 miles; griswold, ct if you’re at all like me, you simply cannot continually pass a trail head without needing to see what’s there. i can’t count the number of times i passed this sign. it’s at the intersection of routes 138 and 201 in voluntown. i finally decided to satisfy my curiosity on tuesday […]
auntie | April 22, 2014
4.83 miles; danielson, ct if ever the expression “your mileage may vary” were true, this would be the time. this was, according to everything i could find, a 1-1/2 mile out-and-back. pfft. my final total for the hike on my iPhone gps was 4.83 miles. little bit different. and nothing mentioned two blazed hiking trails. there […]
auntie | April 21, 2013
5 miles 2.1 mph i wanted a loop hike, and since the pachaug trail doesn’t really lend itself to loop hikes, i added in various mountain bike paths and old woods roads to make it a loop, with predictably mixed results. the blue-blazed pachaug trail through here is rugged and beautiful, the rest not […]
auntie | April 13, 2013
3.89 miles 2.1 mph same kind of hike as the last one, as in moderate elevation changes; from maybe 150 feet to almost 500 feet and back. this was kind of a scruffy little state forest with a nice up and down loop and some decent views at the top and very well-marked trails. […]
