auntie | April 11, 2015
6.8 miles; douglas, ma and pascoag, ri i never managed to finish the great north-south trail trek, either year i started it, so i’ve never been on this leg of the trail. the providence county hiking club has broken the trail into more and smaller legs than the “great north-south trail trek” people, and just […]
auntie | February 12, 2015
1.6 miles; westerly, ri i had some errands in westerly today, so i thought i’d check out wilcox park. after one circuit it was obvious i should have used my yak trax. it was an adventure, in that there were quite a few icy patches where snow melted and refroze. also there was an entire […]
auntie | January 17, 2015
4.76 miles; plainfield, ct naively thought i’d knock off another blue-blazed trail today, the quinnebaug. i’ve hiked most of it already, i just needed that last bit from flat rock road out to route 14a in sterling. it looked to be about 2-1/2 to 3 miles. “piece of cake,” i thought. “nice way to spend […]
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 28, 2014
1.85 miles; lincoln, ri i had to be in lincoln for personal reasons, so while i was there, i stopped in to visit the nature conservancy’s limerock preserve. i had been here once before on a rhode island wild plant society walk, but many many years ago. the main thing that stuck in my mind for […]
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 […]
