auntie | July 11, 2016
3.4 miles; Redding, CT Our last stop on our odyssey out to the far western reaches of Connecticut took us to the Collis P. Huntington State Park. This leaves us with only 4 more hikes to go to complete the Sky’s the Limit Challenge. I am so psyched! This isn’t a long trail, as you can […]
auntie | July 11, 2016
4.3 miles; Barkhamsted, CT As I mentioned in the previous post, I inadvertently did this Challenge hike about 3 weeks earlier, so it came as no surprise. But then again, it was kind of fun to see it again so soon and to show it to my hiking partner Stacy. Do I look sheepish here? […]
auntie | July 10, 2016
5.5 miles; Windsor Locks, CT Although I now live in Connecticut, I grew up in Rhode Island, and as a Rhode Islander, I have this ingrained idea that any trip longer than about 20 minutes, you should pack a lunch. Anything over 2 hours, plan to stay overnight. Some of the DEEP hikes are pretty […]
auntie | June 27, 2016
7 miles; Mansfield, CT We are officially half-way through the 14-hike DEEP Challenge! This was a great hike on a very interesting property. We started from the same place I started from the last time I hiked here, back in October 0f 2014. But this time I didn’t get lost and my cellphone didn’t die, both […]
auntie | June 20, 2016
4.7 miles; Barkhamsted, CT So the hubs and I decided to give car camping a trial run. Neither of us grew up camping, although I was a Girl Scout and I guess his days as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne might sort of count… Anyway, we’re trying to plan a longer camping trip to Nova […]
auntie | June 8, 2016
6 miles; Voluntown, CT I know I have kind of badmouthed the Pachaug Trail. It tends towards rocky and eroded in a lot of places because of motorized vehicle traffic, and that just does not make for a pleasant hiking experience. But I have to say that today’s hike was wonderful. I started off from […]
